1 00:00:04,756 --> 00:00:10,679 (woman) Ugh! I got mosquito bites. I got blisters. I hate those new boots. 2 00:00:10,762 --> 00:00:14,933 Honey, why are you so PO'd? I thought we had a good time. 3 00:00:15,017 --> 00:00:16,560 You had a good time. 4 00:00:16,643 --> 00:00:20,647 You had a fine time tromping around and leaving me a half a mile behind. 5 00:00:20,731 --> 00:00:24,568 For future reference, me running through the woods after you for a day 6 00:00:24,651 --> 00:00:27,654 is not my idea of a good time. 7 00:00:27,738 --> 00:00:30,073 I'm sorry. 8 00:00:30,157 --> 00:00:33,243 I've got longer legs. 9 00:00:33,327 --> 00:00:35,913 I was excited, you know? 10 00:00:35,996 --> 00:00:40,209 The great outdoors, communing with nature. 11 00:00:40,292 --> 00:00:44,046 - Your head hurt? - Yeah. 12 00:00:44,129 --> 00:00:49,218 You can hit me in the head with a rock if it'll make you feel better. 13 00:00:49,301 --> 00:00:51,887 Fine. Go get one. 14 00:00:53,805 --> 00:00:56,016 I'm taking a shower. 15 00:01:41,603 --> 00:01:43,605 Argh! 16 00:01:56,618 --> 00:02:01,415 - You still mad at me? - No. I'm not mad. 17 00:02:03,375 --> 00:02:05,460 Come here. 18 00:02:11,049 --> 00:02:16,888 So I guess we're never going hiking again. It's indoors for ever from now on. 19 00:02:19,266 --> 00:02:21,518 Angie, honey, what's up? 20 00:02:22,769 --> 00:02:25,022 Just hold me. 21 00:03:42,349 --> 00:03:44,643 (Mulder) Oh. Whoo. 22 00:03:44,726 --> 00:03:48,021 I don't know what they did with the screen for this thing. 23 00:03:48,105 --> 00:03:50,107 This is Angela and Wallace Schiff, 24 00:03:50,190 --> 00:03:54,653 a young married couple last seen hiking near Brown Mountain, North Carolina. 25 00:03:54,736 --> 00:03:59,533 That's Angie on the right. This is the condition in which their bodies were found 26 00:03:59,616 --> 00:04:03,703 after being missing for only three days in temperatures below 70 degrees. 27 00:04:03,787 --> 00:04:09,126 Which rules out decomposition. I'd say predation, but the bones would be scattered. 28 00:04:09,209 --> 00:04:13,046 Not to mention that these skeletons are not wearing any clothes. 29 00:04:13,130 --> 00:04:18,468 Right. I'd say it looks like a double murder, possibly one with ritualistic overtones. 30 00:04:18,552 --> 00:04:22,347 The bodies may have been stripped, then skeletonised, 31 00:04:22,431 --> 00:04:26,643 possibly by boiling or by the use of some kind of acid solution. 32 00:04:26,726 --> 00:04:31,398 Maybe the arrangement of the bodies has some meaning for the killer or killers. 33 00:04:31,481 --> 00:04:35,026 - At any rate, I'd term it ritualistic. - That's a big operation. 34 00:04:35,110 --> 00:04:39,448 There was no evidence at the scene. No tyre tracks, no footprints, nothing. 35 00:04:40,282 --> 00:04:44,536 - What do you think this is? - Brown Mountain doesn't ring a bell? 36 00:04:44,619 --> 00:04:46,371 Brown Mountain lights? 37 00:04:46,455 --> 00:04:49,749 It's a famous atmospheric phenomenon dating back 700 years, 38 00:04:49,833 --> 00:04:53,587 witnessed by thousands of people, back to the Cherokee Indians. 39 00:04:53,670 --> 00:04:57,048 Strange coloured lights are seen to dance above the mountain. 40 00:04:57,132 --> 00:05:01,094 There's been no geological or scientific credible explanation at all. 41 00:05:01,178 --> 00:05:03,180 What does that have to do with this? 42 00:05:03,263 --> 00:05:06,183 There's been no scientific credible explanation, 43 00:05:06,266 --> 00:05:09,352 but there are those of us who believe these lights are... 44 00:05:09,436 --> 00:05:11,104 UFOs? 45 00:05:11,188 --> 00:05:15,567 Extraterrestrial visitors from beyond who have nothing better to do 46 00:05:15,650 --> 00:05:19,613 than buzz one mountain over and over again for 700 years. 47 00:05:19,696 --> 00:05:24,618 Sounds like crap when you say it. I'm just wondering if there's a connection, Scully. 48 00:05:24,701 --> 00:05:28,538 The conditions of these bodies are reminiscent of cattle mutilations. 49 00:05:28,622 --> 00:05:33,335 Those cases have no physical evidence. They've been associated with UFO activity. 50 00:05:33,418 --> 00:05:39,341 Can't you just for once, just for the novelty of it, come up with the simplest explanation, 51 00:05:39,424 --> 00:05:44,429 the most logical one, instead of automatically jumping to UFOs or Big Foot? 52 00:05:44,513 --> 00:05:47,599 Scully, in six years, how often have I been wrong? 53 00:05:48,642 --> 00:05:53,063 No, seriously. Every time I bring you a new case, we go through this dance. 54 00:05:53,146 --> 00:05:56,775 You tell me I'm not scientifically rigorous and that I'm off my nut. 55 00:05:56,858 --> 00:06:01,446 And then, in the end, who turns out to be right 98.9 per cent of the time? 56 00:06:02,864 --> 00:06:06,368 I just think I've earned the benefit of the doubt here. 57 00:06:17,921 --> 00:06:21,967 We gave 'em adjoining suites. I was ready to send them on to Chapel Hill. 58 00:06:22,050 --> 00:06:24,719 The state medical examiner should have a look. 59 00:06:24,803 --> 00:06:27,055 We appreciate you holding off. 60 00:06:27,138 --> 00:06:29,516 The connective tissue is intact. 61 00:06:29,599 --> 00:06:34,646 Unlike everything else. I'm not sure what to make of it considering the time frame. 62 00:06:34,729 --> 00:06:40,026 If you'll pardon an obvious question, are you sure that these are the right two bodies 63 00:06:40,110 --> 00:06:43,405 and not two others that have lain out for six months? 64 00:06:45,740 --> 00:06:49,661 We triple-checked the dental records. Angela and Wallace Schiff. 65 00:06:49,744 --> 00:06:51,830 No doubt about it. 66 00:06:59,629 --> 00:07:03,466 And they were both found near Brown Mountain, right? 67 00:07:03,550 --> 00:07:07,637 - Where exactly? - Well, I could write you some directions. 68 00:07:09,681 --> 00:07:12,684 Would you... happen to know what this is? 69 00:07:13,435 --> 00:07:16,021 The remains were found in a swampy area. 70 00:07:16,104 --> 00:07:20,817 Some sort of organic material relating to that. It's bog sludge. 71 00:07:20,900 --> 00:07:24,154 I'm gonna go check out where the bodies were found. 72 00:07:27,824 --> 00:07:31,119 - You coming? - No. You go ahead. 73 00:08:28,885 --> 00:08:31,137 Wallace Schiff? 74 00:09:07,298 --> 00:09:09,300 Wallace Schiff? 75 00:09:15,724 --> 00:09:18,101 We got your gas spectrometer results. 76 00:09:18,184 --> 00:09:21,771 That stuff on the bones I said was bog sludge - it isn't. 77 00:09:23,773 --> 00:09:28,987 "Water, hydrochloric acid, electrolytes, pepsins and trypsins." 78 00:09:29,070 --> 00:09:32,907 - It's a digestive secretion. - Stomach juices, pretty much. 79 00:09:32,991 --> 00:09:35,618 Pretty damn close to it, except for this. 80 00:09:36,411 --> 00:09:37,746 Chitinase? 81 00:09:37,829 --> 00:09:42,917 It's a digestive enzyme as well. But it's strictly plant, not animal. 82 00:10:00,977 --> 00:10:02,437 Hello? 83 00:10:17,702 --> 00:10:22,373 I told you I'd seen this before. These are the two I remember, anyway. 84 00:10:28,213 --> 00:10:30,757 Both were discovered as skeletal remains. 85 00:10:30,840 --> 00:10:34,552 Right. But we saw nothing odd in that. 86 00:10:34,636 --> 00:10:39,182 Both were lost hikers found months or years later, whatever it says there. 87 00:10:39,265 --> 00:10:44,771 The bodies were found not far from where Angela and Wallace Schiff turned up. 88 00:10:51,361 --> 00:10:53,446 (ringing tone) 89 00:10:55,865 --> 00:10:58,701 Mulder, answer your phone. 90 00:10:58,785 --> 00:11:01,037 The customer you are trying... 91 00:11:01,120 --> 00:11:06,042 Do me a favour. Forward a sample of that secretion over to the FBI lab at Quantico. 92 00:11:06,125 --> 00:11:09,337 - I want them to run a complete analysis. - You got it. 93 00:11:09,420 --> 00:11:12,966 And, in the meantime, can I borrow your truck? 94 00:11:24,018 --> 00:11:27,564 Please... don't take me. 95 00:11:28,273 --> 00:11:31,818 Hey, come out here. Step closer. I won't hurt you. 96 00:11:35,196 --> 00:11:37,949 - You're not one of them? - One of who? 97 00:11:40,660 --> 00:11:43,162 Are you Wallace Schiff? 98 00:11:46,541 --> 00:11:50,795 I hate to tell you this, Wallace, but you're supposed to be dead. 99 00:11:50,879 --> 00:11:54,173 They found your skeleton not 200 yards from here. 100 00:11:54,257 --> 00:11:58,219 - It's fake. They put it there. - Who put it there? 101 00:12:00,763 --> 00:12:04,475 - You know who. - The Brown Mountain lights. 102 00:12:05,351 --> 00:12:11,774 They abducted us. Me and my wife Angela. They took us on board their... Oh, God... 103 00:12:12,275 --> 00:12:14,193 Wallace? Wallace? 104 00:12:15,236 --> 00:12:20,575 They found your wife Angela, too. Lying right alongside your skeleton. 105 00:12:21,701 --> 00:12:24,370 No! Don't you get it? 106 00:12:24,454 --> 00:12:28,166 They faked our deaths. They have that kind of technology. 107 00:12:28,666 --> 00:12:33,379 Who the hell would be looking for us if they thought they'd already found our bodies? 108 00:12:33,463 --> 00:12:39,218 They returned me, but Angela's still up there being experimented on and I can't... 109 00:12:39,302 --> 00:12:41,137 I don't know what to... 110 00:12:41,220 --> 00:12:43,640 What do I do? 111 00:13:15,838 --> 00:13:17,465 Mulder? 112 00:13:42,407 --> 00:13:45,952 First things first. We gotta find a way outta here. 113 00:13:47,412 --> 00:13:49,914 Right behind you. 114 00:13:53,459 --> 00:13:55,795 What the hell is going on? 115 00:13:55,878 --> 00:13:58,464 That was solid rock. Now there's nothing there. 116 00:13:58,548 --> 00:14:03,052 Oh, God. It's them. They're affecting your head. 117 00:14:03,928 --> 00:14:06,764 Maybe mine, too. What if I can't even tell what's real? 118 00:14:06,848 --> 00:14:08,933 Wallace, let's get outta here. 119 00:14:10,852 --> 00:14:14,147 - Come on, Wallace! - They're out there, man. 120 00:14:14,230 --> 00:14:16,315 (rumbling) 121 00:14:25,241 --> 00:14:27,326 It's them. 122 00:14:28,077 --> 00:14:29,537 Wallace. 123 00:14:36,961 --> 00:14:38,629 Mulder? 124 00:14:48,806 --> 00:14:50,266 Mulder! 125 00:15:03,780 --> 00:15:05,865 (rumbling) 126 00:15:08,326 --> 00:15:10,787 (Wallace) Don't let them see you. 127 00:15:19,962 --> 00:15:23,508 - They're gone. - Yeah. For now. 128 00:15:24,383 --> 00:15:27,637 - Thank God they didn't find us. - They should have. 129 00:15:29,263 --> 00:15:32,475 Maybe they came for something else. 130 00:15:44,821 --> 00:15:46,906 (Wallace) Oh, my God. 131 00:15:49,075 --> 00:15:51,160 Oh, my God. Angie. 132 00:15:52,995 --> 00:15:55,081 They brought her back. 133 00:16:01,003 --> 00:16:05,883 (Mulder) Angie, can you talk to me? Do you remember what happened? Can you tell me? 134 00:16:05,967 --> 00:16:08,261 It's all fuzzy and... 135 00:16:08,344 --> 00:16:11,722 You were with your husband. You were with Wallace. 136 00:16:11,806 --> 00:16:15,309 There was a light. A bright light. 137 00:16:16,561 --> 00:16:19,564 Where was that light coming from? From the mountain? 138 00:16:19,647 --> 00:16:25,027 Over Brown Mountain. There were strange lights dancing over the peak. 139 00:16:25,111 --> 00:16:28,781 And... they took me. 140 00:16:28,865 --> 00:16:31,993 And Wallace, too. 141 00:16:34,036 --> 00:16:38,457 - And then what happened? - It just... it all went black. 142 00:16:38,541 --> 00:16:41,836 And when I woke up, I didn't know where I was. 143 00:16:41,919 --> 00:16:45,089 And I couldn't see Wallace any more. 144 00:16:45,173 --> 00:16:47,967 They returned me first. 145 00:16:48,759 --> 00:16:54,140 This place that they took you to, can you describe it to me, tell me what it looked like? 146 00:16:54,223 --> 00:16:56,601 It was white. 147 00:16:56,684 --> 00:16:59,770 A white place. It was featureless. 148 00:16:59,854 --> 00:17:04,984 I was lying on a table and I couldn't get up. 149 00:17:05,067 --> 00:17:09,071 Nothing was holding me down, but I couldn't move. 150 00:17:09,155 --> 00:17:11,657 Were there men there? 151 00:17:12,325 --> 00:17:13,576 Yes. 152 00:17:13,659 --> 00:17:20,082 There were men standing over me, but I couldn't see their faces. 153 00:17:20,499 --> 00:17:23,836 Did they perform tests on you? 154 00:17:23,920 --> 00:17:26,797 Yes, they did tests. 155 00:17:28,257 --> 00:17:30,968 Terrible tests. 156 00:17:32,553 --> 00:17:34,013 What? 157 00:17:35,598 --> 00:17:39,185 You have a scar back here on the back of your neck. 158 00:17:39,268 --> 00:17:42,897 - What? What scar? - It's fresh. 159 00:17:42,980 --> 00:17:46,359 - What is that? - It's an implant. I've seen this before. 160 00:17:46,442 --> 00:17:51,113 Yes, the drill. I remember the drill. I couldn't see it at first. 161 00:17:51,197 --> 00:17:57,245 That was the worst part. But I could hear it spinning, and it was coming out of the light! 162 00:17:57,328 --> 00:17:59,622 - What did they put in me? - Is there one in me? 163 00:17:59,705 --> 00:18:05,878 Male abductions don't usually report this. Everything is textbook except for one detail. 164 00:18:06,420 --> 00:18:07,463 What? 165 00:18:07,546 --> 00:18:12,385 Two skeletons we found were identified as yours and Angie's. It doesn't make any sense. 166 00:18:12,468 --> 00:18:17,181 Maybe they're like those cattle mutilations. Maybe they're related or part of their tests. 167 00:18:17,265 --> 00:18:21,978 I had that thought, but there's no precedent for it. It's in none of the literature. 168 00:18:22,061 --> 00:18:27,775 They didn't want anybody to find us. I guess they didn't want you to know the truth. 169 00:18:30,111 --> 00:18:33,531 - We gotta get outta here right now. - No way. 170 00:18:33,614 --> 00:18:36,701 They're out there. They're always watching. 171 00:18:36,784 --> 00:18:40,121 If they find us, if we leave, they'll take us again. 172 00:18:40,204 --> 00:18:44,625 We're leaving right now. Gather your things. Angie, I'll help you up. 173 00:18:44,709 --> 00:18:47,461 They're coming. I can feel it. 174 00:18:47,545 --> 00:18:49,005 (rumbling) 175 00:18:50,923 --> 00:18:53,592 - They're here! - Hide. They'll take you, too. 176 00:18:54,010 --> 00:18:56,721 - We've got to hide! - No. 177 00:19:00,641 --> 00:19:02,101 No! 178 00:19:24,457 --> 00:19:26,167 - Scully. - Mulder... 179 00:19:26,250 --> 00:19:29,170 Why did you leave North Carolina without telling me? 180 00:19:29,253 --> 00:19:30,338 Long story. 181 00:19:30,421 --> 00:19:33,466 You disappear and then I get a furtive call that you're in DC? 182 00:19:33,591 --> 00:19:37,386 - I'm sorry. Does anyone know you're here? - No. 183 00:19:41,349 --> 00:19:44,894 - Scully, this is... - Angela and Wallace Schiff. 184 00:19:46,812 --> 00:19:50,983 - But, Mulder, it can't be. - This is my partner. Agent Scully. 185 00:19:53,569 --> 00:19:58,115 - Mulder, I lD'd their remains myself. - Yeah, I think you were meant to. 186 00:19:58,199 --> 00:20:02,661 Agent Scully, the aliens planted decoys so you would think we were dead. 187 00:20:04,622 --> 00:20:06,707 The aliens? 188 00:20:11,504 --> 00:20:15,966 Scully, I want you to put aside your scientific bias for a moment. 189 00:20:17,301 --> 00:20:21,514 Because what I'm about to tell you is gonna change your life for ever. 190 00:20:21,597 --> 00:20:26,477 Your life, my life, the life of everybody on this planet. 191 00:20:27,812 --> 00:20:31,107 - Mulder? - It was out there. 192 00:20:31,190 --> 00:20:33,692 And I found it. 193 00:20:35,194 --> 00:20:37,029 - What? - The truth. 194 00:20:37,113 --> 00:20:42,034 This couple... they were abducted by a UFO. 195 00:20:42,118 --> 00:20:44,412 Brown Mountain lights. 196 00:20:45,746 --> 00:20:51,377 They took me to a white place. There were men there. They put an implant in my neck. 197 00:20:52,670 --> 00:20:54,755 Just like what happened to you. 198 00:20:56,590 --> 00:21:02,638 From what very little I understand about this case, this is not what happened to me. 199 00:21:02,721 --> 00:21:04,890 There's more. 200 00:21:13,399 --> 00:21:15,901 He doesn't like the light. 201 00:21:16,652 --> 00:21:18,112 Who? 202 00:21:33,544 --> 00:21:35,754 I abducted him. 203 00:21:37,548 --> 00:21:39,633 [f5 a QTGY. 204 00:21:41,051 --> 00:21:43,137 It speaks to me. 205 00:21:44,221 --> 00:21:46,724 We communicate telepathically. 206 00:21:47,683 --> 00:21:50,102 He told me everything. 207 00:21:52,188 --> 00:21:54,565 I... I can hear him. 208 00:21:54,648 --> 00:21:56,192 Yeah. 209 00:21:58,235 --> 00:22:01,030 Oh, my God. 210 00:22:18,047 --> 00:22:20,216 L.- 211 00:22:20,299 --> 00:22:24,845 I don't know what to say, Mulder, where to begin. 212 00:22:24,929 --> 00:22:28,307 I mean, you... you were right. 213 00:22:30,768 --> 00:22:33,145 All these years, you were right. 214 00:22:33,229 --> 00:22:35,856 You think so? 215 00:22:35,940 --> 00:22:41,820 You were right about the greys, about the abductions, about the UFOs, 216 00:22:41,904 --> 00:22:43,989 the Brown Mountain lights. 217 00:22:44,073 --> 00:22:47,117 What about the skeletons? 218 00:22:47,826 --> 00:22:52,164 - They were fake. They were decoys. - You're buying that decoy theory? 219 00:22:53,707 --> 00:22:58,587 What about that organic substance we found, that goo you were so interested in? 220 00:22:58,671 --> 00:23:01,173 It was nothing. It was bog sludge. 221 00:23:04,176 --> 00:23:07,888 That... doesn't sound like you, Scully. 222 00:23:07,972 --> 00:23:11,392 It... God, I can't believe you're buying that. 223 00:23:14,353 --> 00:23:17,481 Mulder, I'm admitting that I was wrong. 224 00:23:20,234 --> 00:23:22,111 Are you all right? 225 00:23:54,226 --> 00:23:56,312 How are you feeling? 226 00:23:58,647 --> 00:24:00,733 - This doesn't make any sense. - What? 227 00:24:00,816 --> 00:24:04,069 These two, their story, their skeletons. 228 00:24:04,153 --> 00:24:08,365 Mulder, if I of all people can believe this, then why can't you? 229 00:24:46,904 --> 00:24:50,699 - (coroner) Did you go inside the cave? - (Scully) I looked. It's empty. 230 00:24:50,783 --> 00:24:53,452 It's as if he just vanished. 231 00:24:55,454 --> 00:24:57,873 He's gotta be around. 232 00:24:57,956 --> 00:25:01,377 We'll catch up to him. I know this area pretty well. 233 00:25:01,460 --> 00:25:02,920 Doctor. 234 00:25:04,755 --> 00:25:10,052 It's more of that digestive material. Looks like it's coming up from out of the ground. 235 00:25:24,149 --> 00:25:26,235 Agent Scully? 236 00:25:28,987 --> 00:25:31,990 I got tracks going in and out. 237 00:25:32,074 --> 00:25:34,910 They were only going in before. 238 00:25:34,993 --> 00:25:37,663 - I guess you missed him. - How? 239 00:25:37,746 --> 00:25:41,750 This cave's not much more than a hole in the rock. 240 00:25:41,834 --> 00:25:43,919 Agent Scully? 241 00:26:24,752 --> 00:26:28,839 The courierjust arrived. He brought your partner's charts. 242 00:26:48,692 --> 00:26:51,403 I'm sorry. 243 00:26:51,487 --> 00:26:53,989 I know it's difficult. 244 00:27:08,754 --> 00:27:10,214 That... 245 00:27:12,132 --> 00:27:17,805 That digestive secretion that we keep finding - could it have done this to him? 246 00:27:17,888 --> 00:27:20,474 I'm not sure I follow. 247 00:27:20,557 --> 00:27:25,103 It's chemically similar to gastric juices, right? Maybe he fell in it. 248 00:27:25,187 --> 00:27:30,734 Or maybe it's a product of a particular vegetation that grows in the area. 249 00:27:31,318 --> 00:27:36,240 That all sounds plausible, I guess. Except for one thing. 250 00:27:38,951 --> 00:27:41,662 There's no sign of it on these remains. 251 00:28:01,515 --> 00:28:02,975 It... 252 00:28:03,892 --> 00:28:06,395 It was on the Schiffs. 253 00:28:07,229 --> 00:28:10,983 I just think we need to look for the simplest explanation. 254 00:28:13,151 --> 00:28:15,654 The most logical. 255 00:28:17,030 --> 00:28:19,741 What is the most logical explanation? 256 00:28:21,159 --> 00:28:26,623 I'd say we're looking at a murder, one with ritualistic overtones. 257 00:28:27,666 --> 00:28:30,961 I think his body was stripped and then skeletonised, 258 00:28:31,044 --> 00:28:34,631 possibly by boiling or use of an acid solution. 259 00:28:38,176 --> 00:28:42,973 Don't worry, Agent. We'll take care of the arrangements. 260 00:28:44,975 --> 00:28:47,060 What arrangements? 261 00:28:47,144 --> 00:28:50,022 We'll have the remains sent on to Washington. 262 00:28:54,610 --> 00:28:58,614 I appreciate the thoroughness of your report, 263 00:28:58,697 --> 00:29:01,783 especially given the circumstances. 264 00:29:01,867 --> 00:29:05,078 It might be best if you took some time off, some shore leave. 265 00:29:09,416 --> 00:29:12,044 Agent? 266 00:29:12,127 --> 00:29:14,212 Sir... 267 00:29:15,130 --> 00:29:18,050 You're satisfied with my conclusions in this case? 268 00:29:18,133 --> 00:29:20,218 Absolutely. 269 00:29:21,511 --> 00:29:23,597 I take it you're not? 270 00:29:26,141 --> 00:29:29,645 I was unable to determine a clear cause of death. 271 00:29:30,479 --> 00:29:34,524 Nor was I able to fully account for the condition of Agent Mulder's body. 272 00:29:34,608 --> 00:29:37,778 You concluded he was a victim of a ritual killing. 273 00:29:37,861 --> 00:29:39,655 No. 274 00:29:39,738 --> 00:29:44,451 I mean, that was one possible scenario that I mentioned. 275 00:29:44,534 --> 00:29:49,164 But, in my mind, it was the least plausible. 276 00:29:49,247 --> 00:29:53,210 Not only is it plausible, it's likely. 277 00:29:54,836 --> 00:29:58,715 Why are you questioning your own findings? 278 00:29:58,799 --> 00:30:02,344 My role in the X-Files has always been to provide... 279 00:30:02,427 --> 00:30:07,766 a rational, scientific perspective to cases that would seem to defy explanation. 280 00:30:07,849 --> 00:30:11,603 - A counterpoint to Agent Mulder. - And you have done that. 281 00:30:11,687 --> 00:30:14,856 - You have performed admirably. - Have I? 282 00:30:15,524 --> 00:30:22,239 How many X-Files has my scientific approach fully and satisfactorily explained? 283 00:30:23,281 --> 00:30:26,618 Your reports have consistently made sense of his conclusions. 284 00:30:26,702 --> 00:30:29,454 Sir, this one makes no sense at all. 285 00:30:31,581 --> 00:30:35,627 Are you suggesting this is anything other than a murder? 286 00:30:35,711 --> 00:30:38,672 That's what Agent Mulder would have thought. 287 00:30:41,133 --> 00:30:43,635 And you think he would've been right? 288 00:30:48,515 --> 00:30:52,644 Given his life work, it's tempting to attribute his death to the paranormal, 289 00:30:52,728 --> 00:30:56,565 the unexplained, the unknown, but that's simply not the case here. 290 00:30:56,648 --> 00:30:59,651 We need to see this for what it is. 291 00:30:59,735 --> 00:31:05,157 And given that... I promise you we'll get the bastard who did this. 292 00:32:08,845 --> 00:32:10,931 I'm sorry. 293 00:32:27,739 --> 00:32:31,368 Agent Scully, how are you holding up? 294 00:32:31,451 --> 00:32:33,578 L.- 295 00:32:34,287 --> 00:32:37,165 - I still can't believe it. - Neither can we. 296 00:32:37,249 --> 00:32:40,418 I half expect Mulder to come knocking at that door. 297 00:32:40,502 --> 00:32:42,879 "Surprise." 298 00:32:42,963 --> 00:32:45,757 - This'll dull the pain. - No, thank you. 299 00:32:51,555 --> 00:32:54,057 Just so you know... 300 00:32:55,934 --> 00:33:00,147 we've launched our own investigation. 301 00:33:00,230 --> 00:33:03,733 I was beginning to think that I was the only one who was suspicious. 302 00:33:03,817 --> 00:33:07,571 We'll find him. We'll find him and we'll make him pay. 303 00:33:07,654 --> 00:33:10,907 - Find who? - The son of a bitch who killed Mulder. 304 00:33:10,991 --> 00:33:15,120 I hope you're not offended, but we managed to get ahold of your report. 305 00:33:15,203 --> 00:33:18,039 We were impressed by the thoroughness of it. 306 00:33:18,123 --> 00:33:21,543 - Especially given the circumstances. - I don't understand. 307 00:33:21,626 --> 00:33:26,590 We concur with your findings. Clearly, this was a ritualistic murder. 308 00:33:26,673 --> 00:33:29,050 Those are not my findings. 309 00:33:29,134 --> 00:33:32,345 You guys believe that too, that Mulder was murdered? 310 00:33:32,429 --> 00:33:36,057 - It's the obvious answer. - No, it is not the obvious answer! 311 00:33:38,185 --> 00:33:43,815 We believe his body was stripped, then skeletonised by boiling or an acid solution. 312 00:33:43,899 --> 00:33:48,278 - We'll make that monkey pay. - What the hell is wrong with everybody? 313 00:33:48,361 --> 00:33:53,408 There are unanswered questions here. Am I the only one that's asking them? 314 00:33:57,245 --> 00:33:59,331 I could use a drink. 315 00:34:00,790 --> 00:34:06,338 You three of all people, you should be all over this, not buying the party line. 316 00:34:06,421 --> 00:34:11,092 Something else is going on here. Am I the only one who thinks that? 317 00:34:12,802 --> 00:34:14,888 Are you all right? 318 00:34:22,229 --> 00:34:24,648 You need to go home and get some rest. 319 00:34:24,731 --> 00:34:27,817 - I'll call you a cab. - What have you done with him? 320 00:34:27,901 --> 00:34:30,946 You're emotionally distraught. You need to calm down. 321 00:34:31,029 --> 00:34:34,741 Where is Mulder? Where is he? What have you done with him? 322 00:34:34,824 --> 00:34:37,786 Listen to me. He's gone. You need to accept that. 323 00:34:37,869 --> 00:34:42,832 Something else is going on here. Where is he? Where's Mulder? 324 00:34:44,668 --> 00:34:46,753 (knock at door) 325 00:34:53,718 --> 00:34:55,804 (knocking continues) 326 00:35:18,868 --> 00:35:20,328 Scully. 327 00:35:30,714 --> 00:35:35,844 We were in the cave when the light came. 328 00:35:35,927 --> 00:35:40,557 It was a blinding blue-white light. 329 00:35:41,933 --> 00:35:44,894 And then they took me. 330 00:35:44,978 --> 00:35:47,314 I was abducted. 331 00:35:47,397 --> 00:35:53,486 I found myself in some kind of medical bay. It was a white, featureless... 332 00:35:53,570 --> 00:35:56,740 - It was just as the Schiffs had described it. - They're dead. 333 00:35:56,823 --> 00:35:58,867 No, actually, they're not. 334 00:35:58,950 --> 00:36:04,205 Mulder, their remains were discovered in a field. 335 00:36:04,289 --> 00:36:08,251 That's what brought us to this case in the first place. 336 00:36:08,335 --> 00:36:11,296 I found your remains in that same field. 337 00:36:11,379 --> 00:36:14,341 Me... I'm here. 338 00:36:15,050 --> 00:36:19,596 - How did you get here? - The aliens brought me back here. 339 00:36:20,138 --> 00:36:24,100 From North Carolina direct to your apartment door? 340 00:36:26,978 --> 00:36:30,231 Mulder, you don't remember getting here, do you? 341 00:36:32,442 --> 00:36:34,527 Neither do I. 342 00:36:35,111 --> 00:36:37,655 It doesn't change what happened. 343 00:36:37,739 --> 00:36:41,826 Mulder, why did you knock? This is your apartment. 344 00:36:41,910 --> 00:36:46,164 And you don't seem the least bit surprised to find me here. 345 00:36:46,247 --> 00:36:48,458 And what about the Schiffs? 346 00:36:48,541 --> 00:36:52,837 If they're alive, as you say, then... 347 00:36:54,339 --> 00:36:57,384 Then where are they? Where'd they go? 348 00:36:57,467 --> 00:37:03,640 Mulder, five minutes ago this room was filled with people attending your wake. 349 00:37:03,723 --> 00:37:06,643 What can I say, Scully? I'm here. I'm real. 350 00:37:06,726 --> 00:37:11,564 Mulder, this is not reality. This is a hallucination. It has to be. 351 00:37:11,648 --> 00:37:15,485 Either I am having it, or you are having it or we are having it together. 352 00:37:15,568 --> 00:37:18,905 - Brought on by what? - Something that we found in that field, 353 00:37:18,988 --> 00:37:21,491 because that's where it began. 354 00:37:24,035 --> 00:37:26,579 Wild mushrooms. 355 00:37:26,663 --> 00:37:31,626 Wild mushrooms. They were growing there. I stepped on one and it gave off spores. 356 00:37:32,252 --> 00:37:36,714 Several varieties of mushrooms are known for their hallucinogenic properties. 357 00:37:36,798 --> 00:37:40,301 - If we inhaled it... - What about the most logical explanation? 358 00:37:40,385 --> 00:37:47,434 This is it, Mulder. What if we're still there, if we're still in that cave in North Carolina? 359 00:37:47,517 --> 00:37:50,687 That we're not here in this apartment right now. 360 00:37:50,770 --> 00:37:52,605 Oh, Scully... 361 00:37:52,689 --> 00:37:55,316 Bear with me. I think this is making sense. 362 00:37:55,400 --> 00:37:57,861 I think that Angela and Wallace Schiff 363 00:37:57,944 --> 00:38:01,614 were digested by that substance that I found all over that field, 364 00:38:01,698 --> 00:38:05,827 that they were dissolved and then expelled up out of the ground. 365 00:38:05,910 --> 00:38:11,040 What if that substance and this hallucinogen are from one and the same organism? 366 00:38:11,124 --> 00:38:12,625 A giant mushroom? 367 00:38:12,709 --> 00:38:16,045 A giant fungal organism. We already know that they exist. 368 00:38:16,129 --> 00:38:21,968 Biologists have found specimens that range dozens of acres, that weigh hundreds of tons. 369 00:38:22,051 --> 00:38:24,762 What if this one needs to feed on living tissue? 370 00:38:24,846 --> 00:38:30,226 There is carnivorous plant life. There's the Venus flytrap and the pitcher plant. 371 00:38:30,310 --> 00:38:35,732 - What if this one puts off an hallucinogen... - To lure its prey into the cave? 372 00:38:36,691 --> 00:38:41,029 To make it complacent, to keep it still while it devours it. 373 00:38:42,989 --> 00:38:48,328 What if we're still underground, Mulder? What if we're moving deeper into the cave? 374 00:38:48,411 --> 00:38:51,039 Or being moved? 375 00:38:51,122 --> 00:38:53,666 Mulder, what if we're being digested... 376 00:38:57,045 --> 00:38:59,130 right now? 377 00:39:55,770 --> 00:39:59,190 The exact size of this organism is yet to be determined? 378 00:39:59,274 --> 00:40:01,359 That's correct, sir. 379 00:40:03,111 --> 00:40:07,031 We know that the organism extends for at least ten acres, 380 00:40:07,115 --> 00:40:10,577 though it's mostly subterranean, so it may be far larger. 381 00:40:10,660 --> 00:40:12,662 We've contacted Fish and Wildlife. 382 00:40:12,745 --> 00:40:18,751 We've contacted the North Carolina Health Department and the FBI office in Raleigh. 383 00:40:18,835 --> 00:40:23,965 And we've contacted mycologists at the Smithsonian. We have our bases covered. 384 00:40:24,048 --> 00:40:29,345 The lab results determined that the spores we were exposed to 385 00:40:29,429 --> 00:40:32,765 have a chemical structure similar to LSD. 386 00:40:32,849 --> 00:40:38,396 They also contain an alkaloid which induces a state of narcosis. 387 00:40:39,981 --> 00:40:44,277 It's a rare day when the two of you sign off on the same report. 388 00:40:49,741 --> 00:40:51,117 Agent Mulder? 389 00:40:52,619 --> 00:40:55,747 I'm just thinking. 390 00:40:55,830 --> 00:40:58,708 I'm not exactly clear on how we escaped. 391 00:40:58,791 --> 00:41:01,294 What's not clear? 392 00:41:01,419 --> 00:41:08,092 Once you recognised that we were under a chemical influence, then it broke its spell? 393 00:41:08,635 --> 00:41:09,719 That's right. 394 00:41:09,802 --> 00:41:14,974 Scully, how could we simply will ourselves out of a chemical hallucination? 395 00:41:15,058 --> 00:41:17,977 - The fact remains, we did. - Did we? 396 00:41:18,811 --> 00:41:23,316 Can you name one drug that loses its effect once the user realises it's in his system? 397 00:41:23,399 --> 00:41:26,611 I assume the effects wore off and you were both able to escape. 398 00:41:26,694 --> 00:41:30,073 How long were we underground? Hours? Half a day? 399 00:41:30,156 --> 00:41:33,868 Our bodies don't show effects of being burned by the digestive fluids. 400 00:41:33,951 --> 00:41:37,622 We were covered in hydrochloric acid, yet look at our skin. Nothing. 401 00:41:37,705 --> 00:41:39,999 Mulder, where are you going with this? 402 00:41:40,083 --> 00:41:43,586 Scully, we never escaped. 403 00:41:45,088 --> 00:41:48,508 We're still trapped underground. 404 00:41:48,883 --> 00:41:51,094 Mulder, we did escape. 405 00:41:52,637 --> 00:41:55,515 You're suffering from post-traumatic stress. 406 00:41:55,598 --> 00:41:57,684 No, I'm not. 407 00:41:57,767 --> 00:42:00,561 This is not real. You, you're not real. 408 00:42:02,021 --> 00:42:03,147 Mulder... 409 00:42:03,231 --> 00:42:05,692 I'll prove it, Scully. I'll prove it. 410 00:42:06,818 --> 00:42:07,985 Mulder! 411 00:42:56,576 --> 00:42:58,661 (man) Over here. 412 00:43:02,623 --> 00:43:04,083 (man) Hey! 413 00:43:07,795 --> 00:43:09,881 (man) Come on! 414 00:43:14,802 --> 00:43:16,971 He's alive. 415 00:43:17,054 --> 00:43:19,474 Hurry UP- 416 00:43:19,557 --> 00:43:22,059 Get him out. Get him out! 417 00:43:30,401 --> 00:43:32,904 Keep digging. She's down here. 418 00:43:34,822 --> 00:43:36,908 Pull her out! 419 00:43:49,962 --> 00:43:52,465 - Mushroom... - We found it. 420 00:43:54,884 --> 00:43:56,552 Just take it easy. 421 00:44:54,110 --> 00:44:56,112 Visiontext Subtitles: Yasmin Rammohan 422 00:45:17,091 --> 00:45:18,718 (Child) I made this!