Before the exploration of space, of the moon and planets,
man held that the heavens were the home and province of powerful gods,
who controlled not just the vast firmament, but the earthly fate of man himself,
and that the pantheon of powerful warring deities
was the cause or reason for the human condition, for the past and the future,
and for which great monuments would be created, on earth as in heaven.
But in time man replaced these gods with new gods and new religions
that provided no more certain answers
than those worshipped by his Greek or Roman or Egyptian ancestors.
And while we've chosen now our monolithic and benevolent gods
and found our certainties in science,
believers all, we wait for a sign, a revelation.
Our eyes turn skyward, ready to accept the truly incredible,
to find our destiny written in the stars.
But how do we best look to see? With new eyes or old?
Mama! Papa!
Papa!
Too bad for you.
It's like the flesh is cooked...
All the way through.
Your authority isn't recognised here. Only your lies.
These are UN peacekeepers. This is a mission of mercy.
This is a mission of fear.
- Yours and the men you work for. - I don't know what you mean.
You go back and you tell them what you've seen here, what you've found.
My name is marita covarrubias.
I am a special representative to the United Nations.
I know who you are. I know who you work for.
- You go back and tell them... - Tell them what? What happened here?
Tell them it's all going to hell.
Uiditye.
Does the boy know?
- Did he see? - You tell them to kiss my American ass.
During my last several abductions,
I have experienced no fear whatsoever.
It was the absence of fear that allowed me
to communicate with them, and them with me.
They've told me that I am an apostle,
here to spread the word of a dawning of a new age of supernatural enlightenment.
Sensibly, it's not a question of truth versus fiction,
but of truths which are incomprehensible,
because we have no physics, no real language for explaining patient x's story,
much less the existence of extraterrestrials.
Nothing to prepare us for the ontological shock that is bound to follow...
We quibble and we jaw about the need for proof, for evidence,
as if it would serve some purpose, as if it would make a difference,
when what we should be seeking is exactly what this woman is describing.
Not if they are here, but why, and what their business is.
In my conversations with her,
she believes this business - the abductions and the experiments -
are due to their plans for us.
We are not simply breeding cows for them, as some have suggested,
but subjects, much like we think of our relationship with god.
There are sites - what she calls lighthouses - around which will be great activity.
All this conjecture, the ontological shock you speak of,
for which we're so ill-equipped,
is in my opinion not only false but dangerous. This woman...
This woman presents no good or credible testimony
apart from her feel-good message.
- You think she's lying? - No.
I don't think she's lying. I think...
That if you prepare people enough to believe a lie, they will believe it as if it were true.
If you tell them a really big lie, like
"there are aliens from outer space", they will believe it.
And if you suggest that these aliens are doing bad things to them,
this suggestion will make certain people believe
that certain psychopathologies and neuroses
they suffer from can be attributed to that.
Mr mulder... agent mulder, she has physical ailments.
Are you discounting any belief in the existence of extraterrestrials?
No, I just question mindless belief.
But you've cited evidence, made claims yourself.
What I have seen, I've seen because I wanted to believe. I...
If you look too hard, you can go mad. But if you continue to look,
you become liberated and you come awake, as if from a dream,
realising that the lies simply protect what they're advertising:
A government which knows that its greatest strength is not in defence, but in attack.
It's strongly held by believers in ufo phenomena
that there is military complicity in abductions.
But what if there is no complicity? What if there is just the military
seeking to develop weapons against which there is no defence?
Biological warfare - which justifies, in their eyes,
making an ass out of the nation with stories of little green men.
A conspiracy, wrapped in a plot, inside a government agenda.
Dr werber?
- It's been some time. - Almost five years.
I came down expecting to hear how your work had progressed.
I'm surprised, to say the least.
A lot has changed.
You've abandoned something you believed so completely,
in spite of what I know about you from our work,
the memories I helped you recover about the experience with your sister.
Well, I've come to distrust a lot of things. I've come to distrust those memories.
- I'm sorry. - For what?
I've taken a lot of criticism for my work with alien abductees, and in the field itself.
The regression hypnosis...
I'm not questioning your methods, dr werber. I'm questioning myself,
how I was led to believe through elaborate staging that my sister had been abducted.
A man with faith can indulge in scepticism...
You don't understand. There's just too much evidence that it's all a lie.
The conspiracy is not to hide the existence of extraterrestrials.
It's to make people believe in it so completely that they question nothing.
So you and I have just been advocates of insanity all along?
Is this the extreme possibility you believe in now?
Is patient x any more credible?
I hope so. I'm her doctor.
I think you should meet her.
I think you might change your mind.
Cassandra?
- Fox mulder. - Hi.
I'm so glad to finally meet you. You are a hero of mine.
I am?
I read about you in the news, about three years ago.
How you helped that man who escaped from the hospital... Duane Barry.
How he had held those people hostage at the travel agency
because he was being called by aliens.
You were the only one who believed him.
You may not like me as much as you like that story.
That story saved my life.
How's that?
I have been a multiple abductee for over 30 years.
I had been afraid to seek help.
Nobody would ever believe me really...
Until I read about you.
- That's how I met dr werber. - Cassandra...
He told me that you had been through hypnotic regression.
That's how you discovered that your sister was abducted.
- Cassandra... - Yes?
Are you here voluntarily?
Um... yes, under doctor's supervision.
Whatever it is that you're afraid of,
I suggest that you check yourself out of here as soon as you can and start living your life.
Uh... now's not a good time.
Cassandra has the sensation that she's about to be called.
Now is a time of war and stress among the alien nations.
The different races, they're in upheaval.
I will be summoned to a place, just like Duane Barry.
The man you're talking about died because of what he believed in.
He died after I'd been interrogating him,
after a visit from some men from our government.
The government's involved. They don't want us to know about it.
Cassandra...
There was a time when I would have believed what you say, without a doubt.
There is no doubt, mr mulder.
I know what I've experienced. I...
I have been through the terror and tests more times than I can count.
I have had an unborn foetus taken from me.
But they're not here for the reasons that you might think.
They're here to deliver a message.
Except something has gone wrong. There are...
There are other forces at work.
They're going to be calling me. I can feel it.
You of all people need to know about this,
because you're the one that can do something.
I'm not.
I'm gonna take good care of you.
Agent Scully, my name's Jeffrey spender. Special agent spender.
Is there something I can help you with?
I feel kinda funny approaching you like this.
I just haven't been able to reach agent mulder.
- About what? - About somebody he's been talking to.
Somebody who claims to be an alien abductee,
who I'd prefer he weren't talking to.
You gonna tell me who this is?
This is going to sound weird. Uh...
It's my mother.
- Your mother? - It's a very long story. Uh...
She's an exceptional person,
but for kind of obvious reasons I'd rather this didn't get out.
Appearances being what they are.
- Is this part of a case? - No.
- Then why is he talking to her? - I don't know.
She just called me and she's... She's a very disturbed woman.
This is something that caused a lot of pain about 20 years ago.
I'm just trying to save myself any extra humiliation.
I'd like to build a reputation here, not be given one.
I think I understand.
What happened in Kazakhstan,
there was no one left to give an accurate account.
- How many bodies were there? - 41.
All burned beyond recognition.
The result of some kind of intense biochemical reaction
none of the UN medics had ever seen.
Not in the Gulf, or in any battlefield.
The corpses were literally carbonised from the heat.
- A new weapon being tested? - There's no intelligence on that.
There's no clear data on the victims or their relationship,
but I found at least two of these among the dead.
I think it's fairly certain that all the victims had them,
that what was taking place was a staging for a group abduction.
What the hell is that?
In the final phases before it begins, there will most likely be assemblies.
- We're years away from that. - If we're to believe their timetable.
- Unless it's already begun. - We're 15 years away.
I don't think this was planned.
I think something or someone set this in motion.
An act of war... against us and our plans.
Krycek was at the burn site with a unit of Russian soldiers.
- Alex krycek did this? - He was there.
Probably acting on the same data we got.
Whether he had any direct involvement in what happened, he knows what caused it.
Knows how?
He captured a boy at the site, a survivor. Someone who saw.
What does krycek want?
- I don't know. - Well, how do we find out?
- Yes? - Well, look who's answering the batphone.
Alex krycek.
Are those guys too cheap to offer you a pension plan?
- Where are you? - I'm in town actually. New York City.
Just tell us what you want.
You've been working on a vaccine against the black oil.
Unsuccessfully, you know.
Yeah, well, I figured you and your buddies must have been busy while I've been gone.
Our research continues.
- I'll take everything you've got. - In exchange for...?
- The boy. - Why is that in our interest?
Without what he knows, you ain't gonna need any vaccine.
What does he know?
That's my opening offer. The longer you wait, the skinnier this kid gets.
Shouldn't that be my picture?
Or is that just you having a little fun?
- Do I look like I'm having fun, Scully? - You look constipated, actually.
That would make sense. I've had my head up my rear end for the last five years.
Has this anything to do with Cassandra spender?
Cassandra spender is living proof that the truth I've been seeking for the last five years
- is the truth of a madman. - How is that?
One more anal-probing, gyro-pyro, levitating-ecoplasm, alien-antimatter story
and I'm gonna shoot somebody.
Well, I guess I'm done here.
You seem to have invalidated your own work. Have a nice life.
- How do you know about Cassandra? - Her son accosted me in the hallway.
He's an FBI agent.
Great.
He's of the same opinion as you, by the way. That she's not well.
You try to reveal what's hidden, to incite people with the facts,
but they'd rather believe some nonsense,
refusing to believe what our government is capable of.
- You've come a long way, mulder. - Yeah, and still nobody believes me.
What?
Cassandra spender was abducted at skyland mountain.
That's where I was taken, where Duane Barry took me.
The woman is a nut, Scully.
It says here that she has an implant, in the base of her neck.
Where the government no doubt removed her brain.
Isn't that what her son stopped you to say, Scully?
No. He asked if you would please not talk about this with anyone.
Wish granted.
Hi. I'm lookin' for... I'm lookin' for, uh...
- You're lookin' for what? - A mountain, I think.
You and everybody else.
- How's that? - Well, you're a little late to the party.
Six dollars.
I hope you find some parking.
Cassandra?
- Ms spender? - Oh. Yes?
Do I know you? Of course I do.
I don't think so.
No. No, I'm sure of it.
Are you a doctor?
Uh, yes. But not a practising one.
My name is Dana Scully, and, uh... I'd like to ask you some questions.
Questions about what?
May I?
I think you should know that I, uh... I learned about you from your son.
- Jeffrey? - Yes.
I'm an FBI agent, and he asked that I protect against your story getting out.
I guess I'm betraying that by coming here.
But, um... I don't...
I'm here for more personal reasons actually.
I took the Liberty of reading your medical file.
You're feeling it too, aren't you?
Here.
You wake up at night knowing you need to be somewhere,
but you don't know where it is.
Like you forgot an appointment you didn't know you had.
That's not why I'm here.
I'm here because I, uh...
Because I wanted to tell you that you should...
That you should not remove the thing that you have in your neck.
Not without possible consequences. Um...
I became very ill.
I'd never dream of removing it.
I want to go.
Wherever it is.
Oh, they have so much to teach us.
You, being a doctor, would want to know that they are great healers.
Maybe that's why you were chosen.
Oh, my god.
Help me!
Help me. Help me, please!
- Are there any survivors? - No. Not as of this moment.
The smell.
They've all been burned. There are plenty more who are still being bagged.
Any preliminary theories?
Well, it appears they all came by car.
Most of the dead are congregated in a wooded area a short distance off the road.
- Self-immolation? - There's no evidence of that right now.
There's no accelerants, no incendiary device.
What was their relationship to each other?
There's no way to ID their bodies right now.
It's going to be a painstaking dental process.
Mulder, why are you tiptoeing around the obvious fact here?
This is skyland mountain. We're right back here on skyland mountain.
And you think it's related to your abduction from the same place?
- Well, you can't deny the connection. - This is some kind of abduction scenario?
- I'm not saying that. - Do you have any evidence of that?
- What do you mean by evidence? - That's what I'm asking you.
Well, are you gonna give me your theory, then?
I'm gonna give you an explanation.
This is the same scene we saw in Kazakhstan.
What is going on? This is our own back yard.
This is no good. I don't like being kept in the dark.
Someone's going to great lengths to sabotage our work.
- Who? - One way or another, we'd better find out,
before it's determined we're unable to handle this ourselves,
to put a stop to it, before the colonists intervene.
More on our top story this hour: In the northern part of the state,
last night's mass death in the forest
just inside the national park at skyland mountain.
Again, authorities have now released a fairly complete list of the dead
gathered from vehicle registrations,
hoping relatives or friends will come fon/vard
and help to explain the cause or reason for this bizarre tragedy here in rural Virginia.
At this time, details of the disaster at skyland mountain are sketchy.
Cassandra?
You called us?
This is not supposed to be happening.
I knew these people.
- You knew them? - They were friends of mine.
Friends from where?
From a long time ago.
It's not supposed to be happening. Not like this.
You have to do something about it.
What would you like me to do?
You have to stop it.
Stop who?
I don't know.
- Agent mulder, my name's Jeffrey spender. - Oh, son of... the prophet.
I asked you to leave her alone.
Your mother called us about the incident in Virginia.
- She said that she knew some of the dead. - Of course she did.
They were in the same ridiculous cult that she was.
There you have it.
- She was in a cult? - A ufo cult
who believed they would be carried to immortality in some flying "mother wheel".
I'm sorry.
We won't be bothering you or your mother any more.
You think you can pull this off, don't you?
If they give me what I want, I'm gonna rule the world.
We've got them on their knees, Alex.
Yeah.
Let's get out of this hole.
Well...
Where's the boy?
Are you ready for this?
I've gone over the initial forensics and pathology reports from skyland mountain.
While the event itself remains unexplained, it's less than a mystery who's involved.
At least for me. Certainly for you.
Our pathologists here haven't finalised their reports,
but I was able to have three victims selected at random for x-rays.
That's how I found these. Small pieces of what looks like metal in the cervical tissue
here, here, and here.
Implants.
I followed up with the families of the three victims.
None had any cult associations,
but two out of the three belonged to the local mutual ufo networks.
Both claimed abduction experiences.
Both were being treated by a medical practitioner over recent months.
- For what? - Take a look.
"Major depressive disorder characterised by periods of sustained anxiety and paranoia."
"Patient believes he will be called to a place where he will be abducted by aliens."
The implants triggered those responses. Those people were led to skyland mountain.
By whom?
By the same government that put the implant in you,
to function as a homing mechanism.
- Mulder, that doesn't make sense. - Why not?
A tracking system using military app satellite technology
to monitor test subjects,
or to stage what people might believe are alien abductions.
But they weren't abducted. They were led to their deaths.
And for what purpose?
I don't know that yet.
You know, mulder...
Maybe you shouldn't be so quick...
To rule out what Cassandra spender has to say.
Mulder.
- Agent mulder? - Yes.
This is marita covarrubias. Is this a secure line we're on?
- Yes. - You were at skyland mountain.
Are you aware of a UN report on a similar incident in the former Soviet union?
I was in Kazakhstan, agent mulder. There is a connection.
I have someone who knows it. I have him with me now.
- Where are you? - At a payphone on skodal road, off the 1-90.
Come here. Wait for my call, for directions.
Marita?
- Hello? - Who's this?
- This is special agent spender. Who's this? - This is fox mulder.
- Why are you calling here? - I'm looking for agent Scully.
- I haven't been able to reach her and... - She's not here. Nor is my mother.
- What are you talking about? - She's gone from her room.
- Gone where? - Look, she'sjust gone.
Don't you get it? She's got nowhere to go.
Look!
There! There it is!
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