1 00:00:17,185 --> 00:00:19,270 (Umpire) Play ball! 2 00:00:29,697 --> 00:00:32,283 Ball four! Take your base! 3 00:00:36,370 --> 00:00:38,456 That's it, moose! You're gettin' close! 4 00:00:38,539 --> 00:00:41,167 He couldn't find the plate if you nailed it to his ass. 5 00:00:41,292 --> 00:00:43,878 Shut your pie hole, piney. The kid's gotta learn. 6 00:00:43,961 --> 00:00:48,299 Come straight over the top, moose! Straight over the top! Come on! 7 00:00:48,382 --> 00:00:51,469 Hot damn. Exley's up. 8 00:00:52,178 --> 00:00:54,597 Back up! Exley's up! Back up! 9 00:01:00,811 --> 00:01:03,522 He got the right prescription in those spectacles? 10 00:01:03,606 --> 00:01:06,067 Don't worry, ex. See, I told him to throw it 11 00:01:06,150 --> 00:01:09,195 right at your big nappy home-run hittin' head. 12 00:01:09,320 --> 00:01:13,324 So you can bet 100 clams that ball's goin' anywhere but there. 13 00:01:19,872 --> 00:01:22,166 Foul! Foul ball! Foul! 14 00:01:59,954 --> 00:02:01,956 Ball! 15 00:02:02,957 --> 00:02:05,459 Moose! Straight over the top! 16 00:02:06,877 --> 00:02:09,922 Hey, ex, I heard the Yankees been calling ya. 17 00:02:10,047 --> 00:02:14,051 I'm fine playing here in the cactus league. It's nice and quiet. 18 00:02:20,141 --> 00:02:23,060 Ball! Leave the cactus alone, son! 19 00:02:24,228 --> 00:02:27,940 I don't know, ex. The yanks could use those 60 home runs a year. 20 00:02:28,065 --> 00:02:32,570 Now Jackie Robinson's up there in the bigs, people are sayin' you're gonna be next. 21 00:02:32,653 --> 00:02:36,240 The first black negro man of colour in the American league. 22 00:02:36,324 --> 00:02:38,284 Shoot, ex. You'll be famous, man. 23 00:02:38,367 --> 00:02:41,787 I don't want to be no famous man. I just wanna be a man. 24 00:02:43,247 --> 00:02:45,958 Over the top! Over the top! 25 00:02:58,596 --> 00:03:00,890 Fair ball! Home run! Home run! 26 00:03:38,636 --> 00:03:41,555 What do you boys want? We're just playing baseball. 27 00:03:41,639 --> 00:03:47,061 We got no beef with you, sir. It's that black babe Ruth hiding behind you, Josh exley. 28 00:03:47,144 --> 00:03:50,648 - That's all we come for. - Well, you can't have him. 29 00:03:50,773 --> 00:03:54,068 We heard the Yankees wanna let a little nigger play ball! 30 00:03:54,151 --> 00:03:58,364 So we just figure we gotta play with him a little bit some first! 31 00:03:58,447 --> 00:04:04,161 And all you niggers and nigger lovers can go home! 32 00:04:04,245 --> 00:04:06,539 It's ex we want. 33 00:04:09,166 --> 00:04:13,754 That's what I'm talking about, moose. Straight over the top with it. 34 00:04:20,845 --> 00:04:23,097 Get the guns. Get the guns. 35 00:04:24,306 --> 00:04:28,811 You boys ain't so tough without your shotguns, are you, fellas? 36 00:04:28,894 --> 00:04:31,522 You ain't nothing but a coward... 37 00:04:31,605 --> 00:04:35,192 Hiding behind your mama's bedsheet. Let's see your face. 38 00:04:39,071 --> 00:04:40,614 Holy mother... 39 00:05:18,861 --> 00:05:22,156 It's a gorgeous day for baseball here in the city of the angels. 40 00:05:22,239 --> 00:05:26,577 And I'm told it's a gorgeous day all over our republic today. 41 00:05:26,660 --> 00:05:30,372 From bangor to bel/flower. From amarillo to Anchorage. 42 00:05:30,456 --> 00:05:35,169 The sun is shining and it's a perfect day to play baseball. 43 00:05:35,252 --> 00:05:38,380 Eddie Perez will start it off... 44 00:05:51,268 --> 00:05:55,481 Mulder, it is such a gorgeous day outside. 45 00:05:55,564 --> 00:05:59,276 You ever entertained the idea of trying to find life on this planet? 46 00:05:59,360 --> 00:06:03,489 I've seen the life on this planet. That is exactly why I'm looking elsewhere. 47 00:06:11,288 --> 00:06:14,083 Did you bring enough ice cream to share with the class? 48 00:06:14,166 --> 00:06:18,879 It's not ice cream. It's a nonfat tofutti rice dreamsicle. 49 00:06:20,172 --> 00:06:23,133 I bet the air in my mouth tastes better than that. 50 00:06:23,217 --> 00:06:26,887 - You sure know how to live it up, Scully. - You're mr live it up. 51 00:06:26,971 --> 00:06:32,643 You're really... mr squeeze every last drop out of this sweet life, aren't you? 52 00:06:32,726 --> 00:06:36,939 On this precious Saturday, you've got us grabbing life by the testes. 53 00:06:37,022 --> 00:06:40,317 Stealing books from the FBI library in order to go through 54 00:06:40,401 --> 00:06:45,489 new Mexico newspaper obituaries for the years 1940 to 1949. 55 00:06:45,573 --> 00:06:48,826 - And for what joyful purpose? - Looking for anomalies. 56 00:06:48,909 --> 00:06:53,497 Do you know how many flying-disc reports there were in new Mexico in the 1940s? 57 00:06:53,581 --> 00:06:56,125 I don't care. This is a needle in a haystack. 58 00:06:56,208 --> 00:07:00,296 These poor souls have been dead for 50 years. Let them rest in peace. 59 00:07:00,379 --> 00:07:04,383 - Let sleeping dogs lie. - I won't sit by as you hurl clichés at me. 60 00:07:04,466 --> 00:07:07,761 - Preparation is the father of inspiration. - Necessity is the mother of invention. 61 00:07:07,845 --> 00:07:09,847 The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. 62 00:07:09,972 --> 00:07:11,932 Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we may die. 63 00:07:11,974 --> 00:07:16,812 Ice cream, you scream, we all scream for nonfat tofutti rice dreamsicles! 64 00:07:19,565 --> 00:07:21,650 Mulder. 65 00:07:22,610 --> 00:07:25,154 Mulder! 66 00:07:25,237 --> 00:07:30,200 You cheat! I can't believe it. You've been reading about baseball this whole time. 67 00:07:30,284 --> 00:07:34,705 I'm reading the box scores. It's like the pythagorean theorem forjocks. 68 00:07:34,788 --> 00:07:38,959 It distils all the chaos and action of any game in the history of all games 69 00:07:39,043 --> 00:07:41,754 into one perfect rectangular sequence of numbers. 70 00:07:41,837 --> 00:07:45,549 I can look at this box and I can recreate exactly what happened 71 00:07:45,633 --> 00:07:50,971 on some sunny summer day back in 1947. The numbers talk to me. They comfort me. 72 00:07:51,055 --> 00:07:55,601 They tell me even though things can change, some things do remain the same. It's... 73 00:07:55,684 --> 00:07:56,894 Bodng. 74 00:07:58,395 --> 00:08:01,106 Mulder, can I ask you a personal question? 75 00:08:02,232 --> 00:08:03,317 Of course not. 76 00:08:03,400 --> 00:08:07,655 Did your mother ever tell you to go outside and play? 77 00:08:08,781 --> 00:08:11,492 - Is that Arthur dales? - Mulder? 78 00:08:12,743 --> 00:08:14,828 (Fakes sneeze) 79 00:08:17,081 --> 00:08:20,626 You just defaced property of the us government. 80 00:08:23,087 --> 00:08:24,088 You rebel. 81 00:08:35,724 --> 00:08:40,312 - What in the he” took you so long? - I'm sorry, sir. I'm looking for Arthur dales. 82 00:08:40,437 --> 00:08:43,857 - I'm Arthur dales. - No, you're not. 83 00:08:43,941 --> 00:08:48,028 - Don't be a wise-ass, son. - No. I'm sorry, sir. I know Arthur dales. 84 00:08:48,112 --> 00:08:51,949 - And you're not Arthur dales. - Arthur dales is my brother. 85 00:08:52,074 --> 00:08:55,953 My name also happens to be Arthur dales. The same name, different guy. 86 00:08:56,078 --> 00:08:59,373 The other Arthur, he moved to Florida. Lucky bastard. 87 00:08:59,456 --> 00:09:04,461 Our parents weren't big in the imagination department when it came to names. 88 00:09:04,545 --> 00:09:08,465 If it'll help you wrapping your head around this stupefying mystery, 89 00:09:08,549 --> 00:09:14,304 agent mulder, we had a sister named Arthur, too. And a goldfish. 90 00:09:15,097 --> 00:09:18,726 - How do you know my name? - My brother told me all about you. 91 00:09:18,809 --> 00:09:23,522 He said you were the biggestjackass in the bureau since he retired. 92 00:09:23,605 --> 00:09:25,774 Yeah, we're big fans. 93 00:09:25,858 --> 00:09:30,612 Sometimes we'd stay awake for hours at night just talking about you. 94 00:09:30,696 --> 00:09:32,448 Just fascinating. 95 00:09:32,531 --> 00:09:36,660 Now unless you're hiding some Chinese food, let's call it a day. 96 00:09:41,915 --> 00:09:46,545 Mr dales, I have a, uh... I have a photo here of your brother. 97 00:09:46,628 --> 00:09:51,216 Maybe it's you. It's from many years ago. You're standing in roswell, new Mexico. 98 00:09:51,341 --> 00:09:55,846 (Dales) Roswell. That's me. I was a cop once in roswell. 99 00:09:55,929 --> 00:09:58,849 You're standing with negro league legend Josh exley, 100 00:09:58,932 --> 00:10:02,644 who disappeared during a season in which he hit 60 home runs. 101 00:10:02,728 --> 00:10:06,106 - 61! - 61 home runs in 1948. 102 00:10:08,150 --> 00:10:11,028 Whatever. I don't care about the baseball so much. 103 00:10:11,111 --> 00:10:15,491 What I care about is this man in the picture who I believe to be an alien bounty hunter. 104 00:10:15,574 --> 00:10:19,244 Of course you don't care about the baseball, mr mulder. 105 00:10:19,369 --> 00:10:23,248 You only bothered my brother about things like government conspiracies, 106 00:10:23,373 --> 00:10:26,585 and alien bounty hunters, and the truth with a capital "".T 107 00:10:26,668 --> 00:10:29,713 - wait a minute. I like baseball. - You like baseball? 108 00:10:29,797 --> 00:10:32,424 How many home runs did Mickey mantle hit? 109 00:10:35,260 --> 00:10:37,846 163... 110 00:10:38,680 --> 00:10:40,724 Righty, 373 lefty. 111 00:10:40,808 --> 00:10:43,268 536 total. 112 00:10:45,020 --> 00:10:49,149 (Dales) Now what you fail to understand in yourjoerss myopia 113 00:10:49,233 --> 00:10:52,569 is that baseball is the key to life. 114 00:10:52,653 --> 00:10:54,988 The rosetta stone, if you will. 115 00:10:55,072 --> 00:10:59,701 If you just understood baseball better, all your other questions, your... 116 00:10:59,785 --> 00:11:02,704 The, uh... the aliens, the conspiracies, 117 00:11:02,788 --> 00:11:06,083 they would all in their way be answered by the baseball gods. 118 00:11:06,208 --> 00:11:11,588 Yes, sir. That may be true. Your experience in roswell could be germane to a conspiracy 119 00:11:11,672 --> 00:11:14,925 between men in our government and shapeshifting alien beings. 120 00:11:15,008 --> 00:11:19,805 Don't bore me, son. My brother Arthur started the x-files, 121 00:11:19,888 --> 00:11:23,642 at the federal bureau of obfuscation, before you were born. 122 00:11:23,725 --> 00:11:26,562 He was working for the FBI, hunting for aliens, 123 00:11:26,645 --> 00:11:29,690 when you were watching my best friend's martians. 124 00:11:29,773 --> 00:11:32,276 You say "shapeshifting". 125 00:11:32,401 --> 00:11:38,657 Agent mulder, do you believe that love can make a man shapeshift? 126 00:11:42,035 --> 00:11:45,664 I guess... women change men all the time. 127 00:11:45,747 --> 00:11:49,251 I'm not talking about women. I'm talking about love, passion. 128 00:11:49,334 --> 00:11:52,629 Like the passion you have for proving extraterrestrial life. 129 00:11:52,713 --> 00:11:57,801 Do you believe that that passion can change your very nature? 130 00:11:57,885 --> 00:12:03,682 Can make you shapeshift from a man into something other than a man? 131 00:12:04,558 --> 00:12:08,145 What exactly has your brother told you about me? 132 00:12:11,064 --> 00:12:14,443 If you and your brother have known about this bounty hunter 133 00:12:14,526 --> 00:12:18,238 and plans for colonisation for 50 years, why haven't you told anybody? 134 00:12:18,322 --> 00:12:20,490 - Nobody'd believe me. - I would've. 135 00:12:20,574 --> 00:12:24,661 - You weren't ripe. - Not ripe? 136 00:12:24,745 --> 00:12:26,955 I've been ripe for years. 137 00:12:27,039 --> 00:12:29,833 I am way past ripe. I'm so ripe, I'm rotten! 138 00:12:29,917 --> 00:12:33,795 This cuts to the heart of the mystery of what I've been doing for ten years. 139 00:12:33,879 --> 00:12:37,883 The heart of the mystery. The heart of the mystery. 140 00:12:37,966 --> 00:12:41,511 Ah, there you are. 141 00:12:42,346 --> 00:12:48,852 Mr mulder, maybe you'd better start paying a little less attention to the heart of the mystery 142 00:12:48,936 --> 00:12:53,106 and a little more attention to the mystery of the heart. 143 00:12:53,190 --> 00:12:55,067 - You got a dime? - What is this? 144 00:12:55,150 --> 00:12:57,903 This little fella goes by the name of Pete rosebud. 145 00:12:57,986 --> 00:13:02,741 If you keep pumping coffee money into him, he'll tell you a story about baseball, 146 00:13:02,824 --> 00:13:04,910 and aliens and bounty hunters. 147 00:13:04,993 --> 00:13:07,871 - You're making me feel like a child. - Perfect. 148 00:13:07,955 --> 00:13:10,791 That's the right place to start from, isn't it? 149 00:13:10,874 --> 00:13:16,880 Now the first thing you gotta know about baseball is... it keeps you for ever young. 150 00:13:34,231 --> 00:13:37,776 Mr exley? Mr exley, my name's Arthur dales. 151 00:13:37,859 --> 00:13:41,238 I'm an employee of the roswell police department. 152 00:13:42,990 --> 00:13:45,826 - Have I broken a law? - You stole... 153 00:13:45,909 --> 00:13:50,080 Second base in the third inning. I'm a witness. Officer, I seen ex steal. 154 00:13:50,163 --> 00:13:54,334 - At least 50 bases this year. - No, sir. You haven't broken any laws. 155 00:13:54,418 --> 00:13:59,006 I've been assigned by my superiors to protect you against certain parties. 156 00:13:59,089 --> 00:14:04,970 I'm the one that need protection from certain parties. Ex, he in bed by eight every night. 157 00:14:05,053 --> 00:14:08,557 I appreciate your concern, sir, but I can protect myself. 158 00:14:08,640 --> 00:14:12,853 I'm not a big sports hero like yourself, and I don't have an opinion on negroes. 159 00:14:12,936 --> 00:14:16,773 Or Jews, or communists, or even Canadians and vegetarians. 160 00:14:16,857 --> 00:14:20,569 But I cannot stomach the murder of a man of any persuasion or any colour 161 00:14:20,652 --> 00:14:23,822 being flaunted and solicited in my town. Not on my watch. 162 00:14:23,905 --> 00:14:28,827 So you can be safe with me in a cell or you can be safe with me here on the bus. 163 00:14:28,910 --> 00:14:32,789 Seeing as how this is still america, you're free to choose, sir. 164 00:14:40,297 --> 00:14:42,382 (Dales speaking French) 165 00:14:49,890 --> 00:14:54,311 - Officer dales. You a decent man, ain't you? - I try to be. 166 00:14:54,394 --> 00:14:59,983 Umps would treat us better if you got us eight more uniforms like these to play in. 167 00:15:00,067 --> 00:15:05,280 You could change your name from roswell grays to the roswell black and blues. 168 00:15:48,657 --> 00:15:50,742 (Thunder) 169 00:16:20,605 --> 00:16:26,570 What's the matter, Arthur? You look like you ain't never seen a black man before. 170 00:16:34,619 --> 00:16:39,749 I gotta give it to you. Calling a negro league team from roswell the grays, is pretty clever. 171 00:16:39,833 --> 00:16:42,502 (Mimicking et) Et steal home. 172 00:16:42,586 --> 00:16:44,754 I didn't make that up. 173 00:16:44,838 --> 00:16:49,176 You want me to believe that Josh exley, the great ball player, was an alien? 174 00:16:49,259 --> 00:16:52,429 They're all aliens, agent mulder. All the great ones. 175 00:16:52,512 --> 00:16:55,348 - Babe Ruth was an alien? - Yeah. 176 00:16:55,432 --> 00:16:57,434 - Joe DiMaggio? - Sure. 177 00:16:57,517 --> 00:16:59,352 - Willie mays? - Obviously. 178 00:16:59,436 --> 00:17:01,104 Mantle? Koufax? 179 00:17:01,188 --> 00:17:03,565 - Gibson? - Bob or kirk? 180 00:17:03,648 --> 00:17:09,446 See, none of the great ones fit in. Not in this world. Not in any other world. 181 00:17:09,571 --> 00:17:11,615 (Knock at door) 182 00:17:11,740 --> 00:17:16,953 They're all aliens, mulder. Till they step between the white chalk lines. 183 00:17:17,037 --> 00:17:19,206 Until they step on the outfield grass. 184 00:17:19,289 --> 00:17:22,751 Like clockwork. Poorboy with my medicine. 185 00:17:23,960 --> 00:17:26,546 Give the kid a tip, will you? 186 00:17:28,632 --> 00:17:32,010 So I assume you're speaking metaphorically. 187 00:17:32,594 --> 00:17:36,473 Speaking metaphorically is for young men like you, agent MacGyver. 188 00:17:36,556 --> 00:17:41,019 I don't have time for that. I only have time to speak the truth. 189 00:17:43,355 --> 00:17:45,982 You're a regular rockefeller, ain't ya? 190 00:17:56,243 --> 00:17:59,412 If ex hits a couple of dingers, that ties the babe! 191 00:17:59,496 --> 00:18:03,625 That ball's worth nothin'. Ex ain't a major-ieaguer, so the record don't count. 192 00:18:03,708 --> 00:18:05,085 - Does too. - Does not. 193 00:18:05,168 --> 00:18:06,628 - Does too. - Does not. 194 00:18:06,920 --> 00:18:08,171 - Does too. - Does not. 195 00:18:08,255 --> 00:18:09,464 - Does. - Not. 196 00:19:05,854 --> 00:19:07,939 (Vomits) 197 00:19:08,732 --> 00:19:10,859 Perfect day for a ball game. 198 00:20:02,035 --> 00:20:06,539 - There, uh... there was a bee on you. - Must've been a real big one. 199 00:20:06,623 --> 00:20:08,750 Could've ripped your head off. 200 00:20:10,543 --> 00:20:12,629 Hey, Arthur... 201 00:20:14,464 --> 00:20:15,590 Thanks. 202 00:20:17,634 --> 00:20:22,430 Officer Arthur dales, making the world safe for baseball and negroes. 203 00:20:26,643 --> 00:20:27,852 (Crowd cheering) 204 00:20:39,823 --> 00:20:41,950 Play ball! 205 00:20:58,883 --> 00:21:03,847 Do you know your name, son? Josh, do you know where you are? 206 00:21:03,972 --> 00:21:06,015 (Speaks gibberish) 207 00:21:06,099 --> 00:21:07,851 Josh, man, wake up! 208 00:21:09,853 --> 00:21:11,813 Do you know where you're from? 209 00:21:13,815 --> 00:21:15,859 Macon. 210 00:21:16,818 --> 00:21:18,862 Macon, Georgia? 211 00:21:22,782 --> 00:21:24,868 (Crowd cheering) 212 00:21:44,721 --> 00:21:46,806 (Phone rings) 213 00:21:47,724 --> 00:21:50,185 Macon police department. Can I help you? 214 00:21:50,268 --> 00:21:53,646 My name is Arthur dales. I'm with the roswell police department. 215 00:21:53,730 --> 00:21:58,318 I'm doing a background check on a gentleman from your area: Josh exley. 216 00:21:58,401 --> 00:22:02,155 You want information on a Josh exley? 217 00:22:05,742 --> 00:22:10,747 Yeah. The name rings a bell. Yeah. I got a Josh exley. 218 00:22:10,830 --> 00:22:15,543 A six-year-old coloured boy disappeared, oh, maybe five years ago. 219 00:22:15,627 --> 00:22:19,255 Have you got a read on this Josh exley's whereabouts? 220 00:22:19,339 --> 00:22:21,424 Six years old? 221 00:22:22,050 --> 00:22:24,761 - You want me to run some chemical tests? - Hold on. 222 00:22:24,844 --> 00:22:28,556 That would make him 11 now? No, that can't... can't be the one. 223 00:22:30,308 --> 00:22:32,393 I... I love my job. 224 00:22:34,187 --> 00:22:38,191 - Is that all you have? Are you certain? - Certain as the sunrise. 225 00:22:38,274 --> 00:22:40,360 I'm sorry, son. 226 00:22:42,570 --> 00:22:44,447 Where are you calling from? 227 00:22:44,822 --> 00:22:48,493 - Roswell. Roswell, new Mexico. - Roswell. 228 00:22:50,870 --> 00:22:54,082 - Hey. Morning, poorboy. - Morning, ex. How's the melon? 229 00:22:54,165 --> 00:22:56,709 My melon's fine. That boy throws like a lady. 230 00:22:56,793 --> 00:23:00,296 I hear the yankee scouts are here. Gonna hit numero 6-0? 231 00:23:00,380 --> 00:23:04,425 - There ain't no scouts here today. - Sure there are. Look. 232 00:23:06,970 --> 00:23:09,097 Over there. 233 00:23:10,557 --> 00:23:12,725 I'll be damned. 234 00:23:14,394 --> 00:23:16,479 Hey, kids. 235 00:23:16,563 --> 00:23:19,899 - So how's it going? - Ex is stinking up the diamond. 236 00:23:19,983 --> 00:23:21,359 - Oh, yeah? - Yeah. 237 00:23:21,442 --> 00:23:25,822 - Well, anybody can have a bad day. - The yankee scouts are in attendance today. 238 00:23:25,905 --> 00:23:31,786 They won't relish the idea of him being in the majors after such a piss-poor inning as this. 239 00:23:32,620 --> 00:23:34,497 Strike two! 240 00:23:34,581 --> 00:23:36,499 (Crowd jeering) 241 00:23:49,929 --> 00:23:52,181 (Umpire) Two balls, two strikes now! 242 00:24:06,779 --> 00:24:08,865 (Thunder) 243 00:24:12,452 --> 00:24:16,039 Hey, ex... why'd you tank that game today? 244 00:24:16,164 --> 00:24:19,500 - I won that game today. - You tanked the game today. 245 00:24:20,543 --> 00:24:25,214 You want me to tell you why? Because your name's not Josh exley. 246 00:24:25,298 --> 00:24:28,217 Josh exley is a kid who disappeared from macon, Georgia, 247 00:24:28,301 --> 00:24:30,470 the same time you showed up in roswell. 248 00:24:30,553 --> 00:24:31,888 I ain't been to macon. 249 00:24:31,971 --> 00:24:34,474 When you got beaned, you said you were from macon. 250 00:24:34,557 --> 00:24:38,186 I also spoke tongues like I did when I was a little boy in church. 251 00:24:38,269 --> 00:24:39,896 (Speaks gibberish) 252 00:24:42,565 --> 00:24:44,734 I was joking, Arthur. Relax. 253 00:24:45,818 --> 00:24:51,741 I'm relaxed. You're hiding something. That's why you don't dare get into the major leagues 254 00:24:51,824 --> 00:24:57,413 cos those sportswriters'd be digging around and they'd find out what it is, right? 255 00:24:57,497 --> 00:25:03,044 So you tanked the game in front of those scouts today, disappointing those kids. 256 00:25:03,127 --> 00:25:06,547 Disappointing your teammates. Disappointing your race. 257 00:25:06,631 --> 00:25:09,509 Don't go talking about my race. You know nothing. 258 00:25:09,592 --> 00:25:13,805 I know that liars come in all colours. 259 00:25:15,473 --> 00:25:19,560 You got a secret. Famous or not, I'm gonna find out what it is. 260 00:25:19,644 --> 00:25:24,315 While you're out chasing secrets, you make sure you chasing the right ones. 261 00:25:39,914 --> 00:25:41,958 (Thud) 262 00:25:43,626 --> 00:25:45,712 (Man grunts) 263 00:26:02,478 --> 00:26:04,522 Ex? 264 00:26:05,690 --> 00:26:07,775 (Man grunts) 265 00:26:14,323 --> 00:26:16,325 (Man grunts) 266 00:26:23,082 --> 00:26:25,168 (Mumbling) 267 00:26:36,179 --> 00:26:38,181 - (Gasps) - (Screams) 268 00:26:54,614 --> 00:26:56,699 (Mumbles) 269 00:27:00,328 --> 00:27:01,871 (Gasps) 270 00:27:07,794 --> 00:27:09,837 Oh... oh, thank you. 271 00:27:09,921 --> 00:27:12,006 (Gasps) 272 00:27:14,133 --> 00:27:19,013 This is ridiculous. You're supposed to be a big bad policeman. 273 00:27:21,015 --> 00:27:25,269 Now hold up, Arthur. Now before you go fainting again, listen to me. 274 00:27:25,394 --> 00:27:30,233 - It's me, Arthur. It's ex. - This is an interesting dream. 275 00:27:30,358 --> 00:27:32,777 Wake up. Come on, Artie. 276 00:27:33,694 --> 00:27:37,490 Man, you ain't dreaming. This is what I really look like. 277 00:27:37,573 --> 00:27:39,492 This is the real me. 278 00:27:41,494 --> 00:27:43,579 Ex? 279 00:27:48,251 --> 00:27:50,878 That's really you under there, ex? 280 00:27:50,962 --> 00:27:54,507 - Ow! - I ain't under anything, Arthur. 281 00:27:54,590 --> 00:27:58,177 I'm trying not to be insulted by your reaction to my true face. 282 00:27:58,261 --> 00:28:02,056 Look, would it be easier if! Looked like this? 283 00:28:06,686 --> 00:28:09,397 Would this be easier for you to handle? 284 00:28:15,528 --> 00:28:18,990 - No. That's even weirder. - Bus leaves in five... ooh. 285 00:28:21,701 --> 00:28:27,832 So why did you... leave your family in, uh... in Georgia? 286 00:28:28,916 --> 00:28:33,337 - My people guard their privacy zealously. - I can understand that. 287 00:28:33,462 --> 00:28:37,466 They don't like for us to intermingle with your people. 288 00:28:37,550 --> 00:28:43,973 Their philosophy is we stick to ourselves, you stick to yourselves, everybody's happy. 289 00:28:44,056 --> 00:28:47,685 - So what happened? - You know what happened. 290 00:28:47,768 --> 00:28:50,479 You fell in love with an earth woman. 291 00:28:52,523 --> 00:28:55,067 - What? - No. 292 00:28:55,151 --> 00:28:57,486 - I saw a baseball game. - Oh... 293 00:28:57,570 --> 00:29:00,740 There's something you gotta understand about my race. 294 00:29:00,823 --> 00:29:05,494 We don't have a word for laughter. We don't laugh. 295 00:29:05,578 --> 00:29:09,874 I don't know if you noticed in between all that fainting you was doing... 296 00:29:09,957 --> 00:29:15,671 But we have very tiny mouths, so no smiling even. 297 00:29:15,755 --> 00:29:19,926 But I tell you, when I saw that baseball game being played, 298 00:29:20,009 --> 00:29:23,971 this iaughterjust... Just rolls up out of me. 299 00:29:24,972 --> 00:29:29,185 Know the sound the ball makes when it hits the bat? It was like music to me. 300 00:29:29,268 --> 00:29:31,687 The smell of the grass, the leather mitt. 301 00:29:31,771 --> 00:29:36,859 The first unnecessary thing I ever done in my life, and I fell in love. 302 00:29:36,943 --> 00:29:40,196 I didn't know the unnecessary could feel so good. 303 00:29:40,279 --> 00:29:45,826 You know, the game was meaningless, but it seemed to mean everything to me. 304 00:29:45,910 --> 00:29:50,498 It was... useless but perfect. 305 00:29:51,082 --> 00:29:54,126 Yeah. Like... like a Rose. 306 00:29:54,210 --> 00:29:58,756 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like a Rose. Yeah. See? You get it, Arthur. You're a fan. 307 00:29:58,839 --> 00:30:04,762 Well, I tell you, from that moment on... I just couldn't fix myself to go home. 308 00:30:06,305 --> 00:30:09,141 Come up here, ex. Let's hear that beautiful voice. 309 00:30:09,225 --> 00:30:12,728 O..together in that land 310 00:30:12,812 --> 00:30:16,732 o..we'll all be together in that land 311 00:30:17,233 --> 00:30:21,570 o..we'll all be together in that land 312 00:30:21,654 --> 00:30:26,158 - 6 where I'm bound - 6 oh, lord! 313 00:30:26,242 --> 00:30:30,037 O we'll all be together in that land 314 00:30:30,371 --> 00:30:34,458 o we'll all be together in that land 315 00:30:35,001 --> 00:30:37,336 o we'll all be together... 316 00:30:37,420 --> 00:30:42,091 (Man on TV) Gray bus lines. You can go home again. 317 00:30:42,174 --> 00:30:45,428 (Mulder) A free-spirited alien fell in love with baseball 318 00:30:45,553 --> 00:30:48,180 and ran away from the other non-fun-having aliens 319 00:30:48,264 --> 00:30:51,267 and made himself black to prevent him getting to the majors 320 00:30:51,392 --> 00:30:56,731 where his secret might be discovered by press and public. You're also implying... 321 00:30:56,814 --> 00:31:01,610 You certainly have a knack for turning chicken salad into chicken spit. 322 00:31:01,694 --> 00:31:05,281 You're also implying that this alien has something to do 323 00:31:05,364 --> 00:31:09,035 with the famous roswell ufo crash of July '47, aren't you? 324 00:31:09,118 --> 00:31:12,371 You're just dying to connect the dots, aren't you, son? 325 00:31:12,455 --> 00:31:18,085 Look, I gave you some wood, I asked you for a cabinet, you build me a cathedral. 326 00:31:18,169 --> 00:31:20,755 I don't want a cathedral. I like where I live. 327 00:31:20,838 --> 00:31:26,844 I just want a place to put my TV. Understand my drift? 328 00:31:28,888 --> 00:31:30,306 Drift it is, sir. 329 00:31:30,389 --> 00:31:34,602 Trust the tale, agent MacGyver, not the teller. 330 00:31:34,685 --> 00:31:38,731 That which fascinates us is, by definition, true. 331 00:31:38,814 --> 00:31:42,026 Speaking metaphorically, of course. 332 00:31:42,109 --> 00:31:44,695 So is ex a man who is metaphorically an alien? 333 00:31:44,820 --> 00:31:46,822 An alien who is metaphorically a man? 334 00:31:46,906 --> 00:31:51,744 Or a something in between that was literally an alien-human hybrid? 335 00:31:59,752 --> 00:32:03,339 It's official. I am a horse's ass. 336 00:32:04,924 --> 00:32:09,261 What is it to be human, fox? Is it to have the chemistry of a man? 337 00:32:09,345 --> 00:32:11,430 In the universal scheme of things, 338 00:32:11,514 --> 00:32:15,059 a dog's chemistry is nearly identical to that of a man. 339 00:32:15,142 --> 00:32:17,269 But is a dog like a man? 340 00:32:17,353 --> 00:32:22,483 (Mulder) I've noticed that, over time, a man and his dog will start to look like one another. 341 00:32:22,566 --> 00:32:28,197 (Dales) To be a man is to have the heart of a man. Integrity, decency, sympathy. 342 00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:32,535 These are the things that make a man a man. And ex had them all. 343 00:32:32,660 --> 00:32:35,913 Had them all more than you or I. 344 00:32:48,050 --> 00:32:50,177 - (Phone rings) - Dales. 345 00:32:50,261 --> 00:32:51,762 - (Mumbling) - Ted? 346 00:32:51,887 --> 00:32:53,722 Calm down. What is it? 347 00:32:53,806 --> 00:32:56,892 This goo on the glove you gave me. Is this a joke? 348 00:32:56,976 --> 00:32:58,227 Why? 349 00:32:58,310 --> 00:33:00,729 It's not like any chemical compound I've seen. 350 00:33:00,813 --> 00:33:05,860 It's from a life form which doesn't seem to be carbon based, which by the way is impossible. 351 00:33:05,943 --> 00:33:10,865 This is way out of my league. I called the FBI and the communicable disease center. 352 00:33:10,948 --> 00:33:13,993 Oh, no, Ted, you didn't. Nobody was supposed to know. 353 00:33:14,076 --> 00:33:18,122 - Can you get the glove back to me? - Sure. As soon as I finish up here. 354 00:33:29,717 --> 00:33:32,094 I didn't mean to startle you. I'm Josh. 355 00:33:32,178 --> 00:33:35,514 I know who you are. Only the best ball player west of the Bronx. 356 00:33:35,598 --> 00:33:40,519 Thank you. Arthur sent me here to explain the substance. That's my mitt it ruined. 357 00:33:40,603 --> 00:33:42,730 Where is this stuff from? 358 00:33:42,813 --> 00:33:43,856 Mars. 359 00:33:45,774 --> 00:33:48,527 Actually just to the left of Mars. 360 00:33:50,362 --> 00:33:53,073 What do you think you're doing?! 361 00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:22,811 A fella at the precinct is willing to swear on his life 362 00:34:22,895 --> 00:34:25,564 that you killed a man this afternoon. 363 00:34:25,648 --> 00:34:31,111 Now I'm not sure what's going on here. But I... I do know that you're no murderer. 364 00:34:31,195 --> 00:34:33,989 You're gonna have to get out of town, ex. 365 00:34:49,380 --> 00:34:53,342 - Life ain't like baseball, is it? - No. No, it's not. 366 00:34:55,052 --> 00:34:58,389 I had a talk with my relative. A good talk. 367 00:34:58,472 --> 00:35:03,060 He made me understand reason, Arthur. Family's more important than a game. 368 00:35:03,143 --> 00:35:05,437 So... I gotta go home. 369 00:35:05,521 --> 00:35:08,524 You still consider them to be your family? 370 00:35:08,649 --> 00:35:11,193 Of course I do. Who you think my family is? 371 00:35:12,236 --> 00:35:14,321 I don't know. Your team? 372 00:35:15,155 --> 00:35:20,077 Next thing you're gonna tell me is I owe it to the kids to break the home-run record. 373 00:35:20,160 --> 00:35:23,622 Or I owe it to the black folks to make it to the majors. 374 00:35:23,706 --> 00:35:27,167 Or I should keep playing out of some meaningless human concept 375 00:35:27,251 --> 00:35:29,712 of pride or loyalty. 376 00:35:30,754 --> 00:35:33,966 - I don't know, ex. - We don't think like that, man. 377 00:35:34,925 --> 00:35:39,054 We may be able to look like y'all, but we ain't y'all. 378 00:35:39,138 --> 00:35:43,058 - Know the big thing that separates us? - What's that? 379 00:35:43,142 --> 00:35:45,686 We got rhythm. 380 00:35:52,359 --> 00:35:54,486 (Siren in distance) 381 00:36:00,784 --> 00:36:02,870 - I better go. - Yeah. 382 00:36:02,953 --> 00:36:05,497 Hey, will you do me a favour? 383 00:36:06,332 --> 00:36:10,419 Will you tell people what I did on the field? 384 00:36:10,502 --> 00:36:14,214 - Will you tell your kids how I played? - You know I will, ex. 385 00:36:16,008 --> 00:36:19,511 Hey, man, uh... one more thing. 386 00:36:19,595 --> 00:36:21,889 What? 387 00:36:22,973 --> 00:36:25,893 You got a pretty good arm on you, boy. 388 00:36:32,316 --> 00:36:34,401 (Siren) 389 00:36:37,738 --> 00:36:41,116 You may think you know the man but, believe me, you do not. 390 00:36:41,200 --> 00:36:44,912 You don't know what I know. And you don't know what I don't know. 391 00:36:44,995 --> 00:36:47,956 This is no minor-league new Mexico cowboy cop crap. 392 00:36:48,040 --> 00:36:52,044 If I told you what was really going on, you'd stare at me in wild-eyed wonder 393 00:36:52,127 --> 00:36:54,713 and pee your pants like a baby. 394 00:36:54,797 --> 00:36:57,007 Tell me what I wanna know. Where's exley? 395 00:36:57,132 --> 00:36:59,718 I told you. He told me he was going home. 396 00:36:59,802 --> 00:37:01,970 (Umpire) Play ball! 397 00:37:02,054 --> 00:37:06,475 You sure your boy got the right prescription in those spectacles? 398 00:37:10,437 --> 00:37:12,064 (Umpire) Home run! 399 00:37:12,564 --> 00:37:14,858 A witness puts him at the murder scene. 400 00:37:14,983 --> 00:37:19,655 Now I know they look alike, but unless he's got a guy running around looks identical, 401 00:37:19,738 --> 00:37:22,157 he is a murderer, you could be an accomplice, 402 00:37:22,241 --> 00:37:26,787 and the two of you are sliding down a giant razor blade into a big old glass of lemonade. 403 00:37:34,753 --> 00:37:41,135 But you hand him over... you can wear your big hat and pretty badge as long as you want. 404 00:37:41,218 --> 00:37:43,178 Are we finished? 405 00:37:44,888 --> 00:37:48,517 No, mr dales. You're finished. 406 00:38:10,122 --> 00:38:12,124 Home. 407 00:38:14,293 --> 00:38:16,086 God. 408 00:38:31,477 --> 00:38:33,562 Come on. 409 00:38:41,612 --> 00:38:43,572 It's over. 410 00:38:44,823 --> 00:38:48,368 - I know. - I warned you. You didn't listen. 411 00:38:53,749 --> 00:38:54,958 Now you die. 412 00:38:57,920 --> 00:38:59,838 It's the right thing to do. 413 00:38:59,922 --> 00:39:02,382 What do you know of the right thing to do? 414 00:39:02,466 --> 00:39:06,512 You who would risk exposing the entire project for a game? 415 00:39:06,595 --> 00:39:08,680 A game. 416 00:39:09,348 --> 00:39:13,060 - I hit a home run tonight. - A home run? 417 00:39:13,602 --> 00:39:17,314 Number 61. I set a record. 418 00:39:17,397 --> 00:39:20,442 Show me your true face so you can die with dignity. 419 00:39:23,570 --> 00:39:28,200 As your executioner, I show you my true face before I kill you. 420 00:39:39,962 --> 00:39:45,342 Show me your true face or you will die without honour. 421 00:39:48,804 --> 00:39:51,139 This is my true face. 422 00:39:51,223 --> 00:39:52,349 So be it. 423 00:39:58,689 --> 00:40:00,941 No! Stop! 424 00:40:08,740 --> 00:40:11,660 No! Let me be! Let me be! 425 00:40:15,998 --> 00:40:19,418 Arthur, get off of me. Our blood is like acid to you people. 426 00:40:19,501 --> 00:40:22,045 Arthur, get away. Don't touch it. 427 00:40:22,170 --> 00:40:26,008 It's just blood, ex. Look. It's just blood. 428 00:40:32,431 --> 00:40:33,974 Wow. 429 00:40:55,871 --> 00:41:00,000 (Baseball players) 6 come and go with me to that land 430 00:41:00,584 --> 00:41:04,713 6 come and go with me to that land 431 00:41:05,213 --> 00:41:09,801 6 come and go with me to that land 432 00:41:09,885 --> 00:41:13,805 6 where I'm bound 433 00:41:13,889 --> 00:41:17,893 6 I got a brother in that land 434 00:41:18,393 --> 00:41:22,272 6 I got a brother in that land 435 00:41:22,773 --> 00:41:27,319 6 I got a brother in that land 436 00:41:27,402 --> 00:41:31,740 6 where I'm bound, where I'm bound 437 00:41:31,823 --> 00:41:35,744 6 I got a brother in that land 438 00:41:36,244 --> 00:41:39,289 6 I got a brother in that land 439 00:41:41,291 --> 00:41:45,087 6 I got a brother in that land 440 00:41:45,212 --> 00:41:47,631 6 where I'm bound 441 00:41:49,758 --> 00:41:51,885 (baseball players humming) 442 00:41:57,224 --> 00:42:03,063 So, uh, I get this message marked "urgent" 443 00:42:03,146 --> 00:42:06,400 on my answering service from one fox mantle, 444 00:42:06,483 --> 00:42:10,153 telling me to come down to the park for a very special, 445 00:42:10,278 --> 00:42:14,366 very early or very late birthday present. 446 00:42:14,449 --> 00:42:20,122 And mulder... I don't see any nicely wrapped presents lying around, so what gives? 447 00:42:21,164 --> 00:42:25,293 - You've never hit a baseball, have you? - No. I guess I have, uh... 448 00:42:25,377 --> 00:42:29,881 Found more necessary things to do with my time than... 449 00:42:29,965 --> 00:42:33,135 Slap a piece of horsehide with a stick. 450 00:42:34,261 --> 00:42:35,595 Get over here. 451 00:42:35,679 --> 00:42:39,725 (Baseball players) 6 I got a sister in that 452 00:42:39,808 --> 00:42:44,187 6 where I'm bound, where I'm bound 453 00:42:44,312 --> 00:42:46,440 6 I got a sister... 454 00:42:46,523 --> 00:42:50,652 Is this my birthday present, mulder? You shouldn't have. 455 00:42:50,736 --> 00:42:56,199 This ain't cheap. I'm paying that kid ten bucks an hour to shag balls. 456 00:42:57,284 --> 00:43:00,203 It's not a bad piece of ash, huh? 457 00:43:00,328 --> 00:43:02,706 The bat. I'm talking about the bat. 458 00:43:02,789 --> 00:43:06,334 Don't strangle it. You wanna shake hands with it. Hello, mr bat. 459 00:43:06,418 --> 00:43:11,339 It's a pleasure to make your acquaintance. No, miss Scully. The pleasure's all mine. 460 00:43:11,423 --> 00:43:14,885 Ok, now we wanna... We wanna go hips before hands, ok? 461 00:43:14,968 --> 00:43:18,472 We wanna stride fonnard and turn. That's what we're thinking. 462 00:43:18,555 --> 00:43:21,850 - So we go hips... before hands. All right? - Ok. 463 00:43:21,933 --> 00:43:25,312 One more time. Hips before hands. 464 00:43:25,395 --> 00:43:28,482 - All right? What is it? - Hips before hands. 465 00:43:28,565 --> 00:43:32,736 We're gonna keep our eye on the ball and then we're just gonna make contact. 466 00:43:32,819 --> 00:43:36,698 We're not gonna think. We're just gonna let it fly, scullly, ok? 467 00:43:38,033 --> 00:43:41,036 - Ready? - I'm in the middle. 468 00:43:42,370 --> 00:43:44,790 All right, fire away, poorboy. 469 00:43:45,040 --> 00:43:46,082 Ooh! 470 00:43:46,166 --> 00:43:52,172 That's good. What you may find, as you're concentrating on hitting that little ball... 471 00:43:52,255 --> 00:43:56,051 The rest of the world fades away. Your everyday nagging concerns. 472 00:43:56,134 --> 00:43:58,178 The ticking of your biological clock. 473 00:43:58,261 --> 00:44:02,682 How you probably couldn't afford that nice new suede coat on a g-woman's salary. 474 00:44:02,766 --> 00:44:05,852 How you threw away a promising career in medicine 475 00:44:05,936 --> 00:44:10,065 to hunt aliens with your crackpot, albeit brilliant, partner. 476 00:44:10,148 --> 00:44:13,068 Getting to the heart of a global conspiracy. 477 00:44:13,860 --> 00:44:16,988 Your obscenely overdue triple-x bill. 478 00:44:17,072 --> 00:44:21,076 Oh, I'm sorry, Scully. Those last two problems are mine, not yours. 479 00:44:21,159 --> 00:44:24,079 Shut up, mulder. I'm playing baseball. 480 00:44:24,996 --> 00:44:29,584 (Baseball players) 6 where I'm bound, where I'm bound 481 00:44:29,668 --> 00:44:33,296 6 come and go with me to that land 482 00:44:33,839 --> 00:44:38,176 6 come and go with me to that land 483 00:44:38,677 --> 00:44:43,682 6 come and go with me to that land 484 00:44:43,765 --> 00:44:46,768 6 where I'm bound 485 00:44:58,822 --> 00:45:00,323 Visiontext subtitles: Yasmin rammohan 486 00:45:19,926 --> 00:45:21,511 (Child) I made this!