1 00:00:07,091 --> 00:00:09,969 - They were to check in at midnight. - You try every band? 2 00:00:10,094 --> 00:00:14,265 - All audiovisual seemed to be down. - Maybe it's just a satellite glitch. 3 00:00:14,348 --> 00:00:19,437 We thought so too, until we received this... From a tracking station in bend, Oregon. 4 00:00:19,520 --> 00:00:22,190 They picked it up on an emergency frequency. 5 00:00:25,610 --> 00:00:28,279 What are those guys doing? 6 00:00:30,656 --> 00:00:33,951 We did manage to uplink firewalker's video camera. 7 00:00:34,035 --> 00:00:38,206 It's at base camp, so we hope it can give us a picture, tell us what's going on. 8 00:00:38,497 --> 00:00:41,000 Data feed's coming in now. 9 00:00:47,506 --> 00:00:50,676 - What's the robot doing in the volcano? - I don't know. 10 00:00:50,801 --> 00:00:52,845 There's no descent scheduled. 11 00:00:52,970 --> 00:00:56,682 Firewalker's not responding. I can't get control. 12 00:00:56,807 --> 00:01:00,853 - Someone's overriding it. - Lock camera remote and pan left. 13 00:01:05,983 --> 00:01:07,652 Stop. Stop! 14 00:01:07,818 --> 00:01:09,904 Go back. 15 00:01:11,822 --> 00:01:14,242 Tilt up and zoom in. 16 00:01:18,496 --> 00:01:20,539 Edkson. 17 00:01:21,082 --> 00:01:23,334 What the hell...? Give me that! 18 00:01:28,506 --> 00:01:32,718 There it is again. Did you see that? You saw that shadow, didn't you? 19 00:01:32,843 --> 00:01:36,347 Yeah, but what could be moving around in that kind of heat? 20 00:01:36,430 --> 00:01:38,057 I don't know. 21 00:01:39,600 --> 00:01:44,855 Maybe it was, uh, just a ghost signal. I mean, it wouldn't be the first time that... 22 00:01:45,940 --> 00:01:48,776 (High-pitched distortion) 23 00:01:55,741 --> 00:01:57,868 What's going on up there? 24 00:02:55,426 --> 00:03:01,182 (TV) Let's go to our science editor Eric Parker in mountava/on, Washington. Eric? 25 00:03:01,265 --> 00:03:04,143 I'm standing here with a group of scientists... 26 00:03:04,268 --> 00:03:08,856 Who are excited about this device, which looks like a large titanium bug. 27 00:03:08,939 --> 00:03:13,486 Firewalker will next week make its first descent into an active volcano. 28 00:03:13,611 --> 00:03:17,031 This robot is the brainchild of volcano/ogist Daniel trepkos. 29 00:03:17,114 --> 00:03:19,408 It will gather samples from the crater... 30 00:03:19,492 --> 00:03:22,828 Which may hold scientific data about the earth's core. 31 00:03:22,953 --> 00:03:25,373 Scientific data? 32 00:03:25,456 --> 00:03:28,918 We 're talking about revisiting the very origin of the earth. 33 00:03:29,001 --> 00:03:31,629 Peering into the fire where it all began. 34 00:03:32,546 --> 00:03:37,468 A human endeavour more important even than man's exploration of space. 35 00:03:40,221 --> 00:03:42,223 That's no mean claim. 36 00:03:42,306 --> 00:03:45,142 Daniel always had a flair for self-dramatisation. 37 00:03:45,309 --> 00:03:49,980 - I'd always heard that he was brilliant. - Brilliant doesn't go quite far enough. 38 00:03:50,064 --> 00:03:52,691 He occupies a rare place among scientists... 39 00:03:52,817 --> 00:03:56,946 Where dreams, ambition and... Great luck converge. 40 00:03:57,029 --> 00:03:58,781 You think his luckjust ran out. 41 00:03:58,864 --> 00:04:04,787 The team sent a distress signal yesterday after failing to make a status report. 42 00:04:04,870 --> 00:04:07,581 They haven't responded to any of our calls. 43 00:04:07,665 --> 00:04:12,294 But by using remote telemetry, we were able to activate firewalker's camera. 44 00:04:12,378 --> 00:04:14,505 This is what we found. 45 00:04:14,588 --> 00:04:17,550 You're looking at the floor of the volcano. 46 00:04:18,217 --> 00:04:21,846 But this is the last thing we expected to discover. 47 00:04:21,929 --> 00:04:26,183 The dead man is, uh, Phil Erikson... Chief seismologist. 48 00:04:27,768 --> 00:04:30,104 Now, look at this. 49 00:04:31,272 --> 00:04:34,859 Whoa! What the hell is that? 50 00:04:36,026 --> 00:04:38,237 (Sighs) We don't know. 51 00:04:38,529 --> 00:04:40,698 Whatever it was disabled the camera. 52 00:04:40,781 --> 00:04:45,161 The temperature readings are upwards of 130° at this depth. 53 00:04:45,244 --> 00:04:47,663 - But that was alive. - Why weren't you there? 54 00:04:47,746 --> 00:04:52,418 (Sighs) I left the project six weeks ago. Trepkos and I nearly came to blows. 55 00:04:53,252 --> 00:04:56,839 - Over what? - Well, I wish I could explain. 56 00:04:56,922 --> 00:04:59,300 Daniel and I, uh... 57 00:05:00,718 --> 00:05:06,474 I always played salieri to his Mozart. I was never quite on his plane of intellect. 58 00:05:06,557 --> 00:05:08,767 But this time I found him slipping. 59 00:05:09,143 --> 00:05:11,228 Into madness. 60 00:05:12,062 --> 00:05:15,816 - He controlled the others... - You think he's responsible for this? 61 00:05:15,900 --> 00:05:19,069 Whatever there is between me and him, I pray that he isn't. 62 00:05:19,153 --> 00:05:24,116 We've got 20 million tax dollars in this project. If word of it were to get out... 63 00:05:24,241 --> 00:05:28,287 It could destroy years of work. I'm afraid to go through proper channels. 64 00:05:28,412 --> 00:05:31,499 Yeah. We're not exactly proper channels. 65 00:05:32,958 --> 00:05:37,129 - How soon can we get up there? - There's a flight waiting to take us to Seattle. 66 00:05:37,254 --> 00:05:40,758 From there, a helicopter will fly us to mount avalon. 67 00:05:42,301 --> 00:05:44,220 Scully? 68 00:05:44,303 --> 00:05:49,099 - I don't think it's a good idea for you to go. - Mulder, I appreciate your concern... 69 00:05:49,183 --> 00:05:52,478 But I'm ready - I wanna work. 70 00:05:53,145 --> 00:05:55,981 Well, maybe you should take some time off. 71 00:05:56,649 --> 00:05:59,276 I've already lost too much time. 72 00:06:14,208 --> 00:06:16,293 There it is! 73 00:07:23,068 --> 00:07:25,904 This was firewalker's satellite relay. 74 00:07:26,739 --> 00:07:30,951 We installed field instruments here. Seismographs, tiltmeters... 75 00:07:31,035 --> 00:07:33,495 We'll look here after we've checked inside. 76 00:07:33,579 --> 00:07:38,959 The instruments are worth millions of project dollars. I'm accountable to the usgs for 'em. 77 00:07:39,043 --> 00:07:43,756 - Shouldn't we find the descent team first? - I just wanna take a quick damage survey. 78 00:07:43,881 --> 00:07:46,383 I'll catch up with you in a few minutes. 79 00:08:05,235 --> 00:08:07,321 Hello? 80 00:08:08,113 --> 00:08:10,240 (Flicks light switch) 81 00:08:40,521 --> 00:08:45,359 Looks like somebody wanted to put this operation permanently out of commission. 82 00:10:03,270 --> 00:10:05,189 (Grunts) 83 00:10:11,195 --> 00:10:13,030 Mulder! 84 00:10:13,113 --> 00:10:16,200 - Wait! Wait! - What's going on? 85 00:10:16,283 --> 00:10:19,953 - This isn't what it looks like! - He just about took my head off. 86 00:10:20,704 --> 00:10:24,082 I told you, I made a mistake, ok? I'm sorry, all right? 87 00:10:24,208 --> 00:10:27,961 - Who the hell are you? - I'm... I'm Ludwig. I'm Jason Ludwig. 88 00:10:28,045 --> 00:10:31,840 - I'm the robotics engineer. - Do you always greet people this way? 89 00:10:31,924 --> 00:10:35,385 I heard a noise. I thought it was him. I was protecting myself. 90 00:10:35,469 --> 00:10:37,262 You know, self-preservation? 91 00:10:37,387 --> 00:10:41,517 Who did you think I was that you thought you had to protect yourself? 92 00:10:41,600 --> 00:10:43,727 Trepkos. 93 00:10:50,400 --> 00:10:56,782 Sometimes he wouldn't talk to us for days. Then, boom! You couldn't get him to shut up. 94 00:10:56,907 --> 00:10:58,951 Don't get me wrong, ok? 95 00:10:59,076 --> 00:11:01,829 No one revered the man more than me. 96 00:11:01,912 --> 00:11:04,915 I mean... he was a prophet... 97 00:11:05,916 --> 00:11:07,501 An oracle. 98 00:11:07,584 --> 00:11:09,294 He saw things. 99 00:11:09,419 --> 00:11:13,006 H... I mean, he... He saw things that you and me... 100 00:11:14,007 --> 00:11:16,218 We only dream about... 101 00:11:16,301 --> 00:11:19,429 And then forget when we wake up. 102 00:11:27,437 --> 00:11:31,817 Well, it's ok, you can come out now. The cavalry's here. 103 00:11:36,530 --> 00:11:39,825 This is Peter Tanaka, our systems analyst. 104 00:11:40,492 --> 00:11:42,703 (Tanaka coughs) 105 00:11:45,122 --> 00:11:48,458 And, uh, this is Jesse o'Neil. 106 00:11:50,335 --> 00:11:52,296 Are you the rescue team? 107 00:11:52,379 --> 00:11:55,215 - No, we're with the FBI. - FBI? 108 00:11:56,133 --> 00:11:58,218 But you're taking us back, right? 109 00:11:58,510 --> 00:12:02,389 - After we've investigated what happened. - Trepkos is what happened. 110 00:12:02,514 --> 00:12:05,809 - Did he kill Erikson? - He flipped out. 111 00:12:06,977 --> 00:12:10,272 Right after the descent, he just flipped out. 112 00:12:10,355 --> 00:12:14,776 Can you think of anything that might've caused or contributed to his behaviour? 113 00:12:14,860 --> 00:12:18,363 - You're asking me? - Daniel was sick. 114 00:12:19,156 --> 00:12:23,785 He had a bipolar disorder. I think that's what it was. 115 00:12:23,869 --> 00:12:28,290 It wasn't a secret, but it's not something he advertised either. 116 00:12:28,373 --> 00:12:31,084 But with his medication he was just fine. 117 00:12:32,002 --> 00:12:35,672 Well, I think Erikson's wife might disagree with that. 118 00:12:37,841 --> 00:12:40,385 You're part of the team, Jesse? 119 00:12:41,428 --> 00:12:46,058 Daniel was my thesis advisor at the university. 120 00:12:46,725 --> 00:12:49,353 He asked me to assist him on this project. 121 00:12:51,229 --> 00:12:54,775 - Are these his notes? - Oh... yeah. 122 00:12:55,567 --> 00:12:57,945 Well, whatever's left of 'em. 123 00:12:59,446 --> 00:13:01,990 First thing he did was destroy all his own work. 124 00:13:02,074 --> 00:13:05,452 You know, his field journals, his computer disks. 125 00:13:06,703 --> 00:13:09,289 We salvaged what we could, but... 126 00:13:09,373 --> 00:13:12,417 I don't really think you'll find much in there. 127 00:13:12,542 --> 00:13:14,878 Of use, anyway. 128 00:13:41,613 --> 00:13:44,241 - (Bird takes flight) - Hello? 129 00:13:45,450 --> 00:13:47,953 Anyone there? 130 00:14:01,425 --> 00:14:03,510 Scully. 131 00:14:09,433 --> 00:14:12,394 What do you make of mr trepkos's neighbourhood? 132 00:14:12,477 --> 00:14:16,857 - What do you mean? - Isn't their behaviour bizarre? Paranoid? 133 00:14:16,940 --> 00:14:21,570 - After what they've been through, no. - They're practically climbing the walls. 134 00:14:21,653 --> 00:14:24,614 They've been living in the middle of nowhere for a year. 135 00:14:24,698 --> 00:14:27,409 One is dead, probably at the hands of another. 136 00:14:27,492 --> 00:14:31,038 You have to expect some heightened level of emotional distress. 137 00:14:31,121 --> 00:14:34,541 It's more than that. There's something they're not telling us. 138 00:14:34,624 --> 00:14:36,918 Based on what? 139 00:14:37,002 --> 00:14:40,464 Based on when Ludwig tried to play t-ball with my head. 140 00:14:40,547 --> 00:14:43,008 He knew I wasn't trepkos. 141 00:14:43,884 --> 00:14:48,430 - Now mulder, you're sounding paranoid. - Pierce knows these people. 142 00:14:48,513 --> 00:14:51,516 Let's find out what he thinks. 143 00:15:19,169 --> 00:15:22,005 No one... can leave. 144 00:15:24,508 --> 00:15:26,593 (Bones crack) 145 00:15:27,552 --> 00:15:29,679 (Thud) 146 00:15:34,518 --> 00:15:35,936 (Ludwig) Pierce! 147 00:15:36,019 --> 00:15:38,605 - (Mulder) He's not here. - Pierce! 148 00:15:38,688 --> 00:15:42,317 - (O'Neil) Something's happened! - (Tanaka) Oh, my god! 149 00:15:42,400 --> 00:15:47,239 Get over here. He's over here! I've found him! I've found him! 150 00:15:48,073 --> 00:15:50,200 I've found him! 151 00:15:55,372 --> 00:15:58,416 - That should do it. - What shall we do with the body? 152 00:15:58,542 --> 00:16:00,210 - Do you have a freezer? - Yeah. 153 00:16:00,293 --> 00:16:03,964 - Radio for the helicopter. I'm almost done. - Let me help you. 154 00:16:04,047 --> 00:16:06,466 No, that's ok, we got him. 155 00:16:12,389 --> 00:16:14,850 - We can't leave, Scully. Not yet. - Why not? 156 00:16:14,933 --> 00:16:18,436 - Trepkos is still out there. - He killed Pierce and probably Erikson. 157 00:16:18,562 --> 00:16:21,481 - We should come back with a larger party. - No. 158 00:16:22,149 --> 00:16:27,487 I've been going over trepkos's work. I found references to a subterranean organism. 159 00:16:27,571 --> 00:16:30,323 - What? - An organism existing within the volcano. 160 00:16:30,407 --> 00:16:32,659 No specific description... 161 00:16:32,742 --> 00:16:35,537 Mulder, nothing can live in a volcanic interior. 162 00:16:35,620 --> 00:16:39,416 Not only because of the intense heat, but the gasses would be toxic. 163 00:16:39,499 --> 00:16:41,918 What does this say? 164 00:16:42,794 --> 00:16:47,716 It describes the metabolism from hydrogen sulphide into silicon dioxide. 165 00:16:47,799 --> 00:16:49,718 A silicon-based life form? 166 00:16:49,801 --> 00:16:53,471 The basic building block for every organism known to man is carbon. 167 00:16:53,597 --> 00:16:58,226 - From bacterium to redwood trees. - Silicon is the closest element to carbon. 168 00:16:58,310 --> 00:17:02,731 It reacts identically with other elements - it combines to form complex molecules. 169 00:17:02,814 --> 00:17:06,484 A silicon-based life form is one of the holy grails of modern science. 170 00:17:06,610 --> 00:17:07,903 Maybe trepkos found it. 171 00:17:07,986 --> 00:17:13,283 Mulder, that is science fiction. It's... an elaborate construct from a delusional mind. 172 00:17:13,366 --> 00:17:15,577 This doesn't prove anything. 173 00:17:15,660 --> 00:17:19,331 Trepkos said he had evidence. It's gotta be here somewhere. 174 00:17:19,456 --> 00:17:25,212 - Whatever evidence he had, he destroyed. - Maybe it wasn't trepkos who destroyed it. 175 00:17:25,295 --> 00:17:29,049 - What if it was one of the others? - Why would they do that? 176 00:17:29,799 --> 00:17:34,346 All of these people are suffering to varying degrees from post-traumatic stress. 177 00:17:34,471 --> 00:17:40,185 And from a medical point of view, we have to get them out of here sooner rather than later. 178 00:17:48,735 --> 00:17:51,238 (Knock at door) 179 00:17:52,030 --> 00:17:54,157 Jesse? 180 00:17:55,367 --> 00:17:57,494 Can I talk to you? 181 00:18:03,583 --> 00:18:05,669 Are you ok? 182 00:18:07,879 --> 00:18:10,590 I hate this place. 183 00:18:11,174 --> 00:18:13,843 What happened here, Jesse? 184 00:18:16,096 --> 00:18:18,515 You can trust me. 185 00:18:20,600 --> 00:18:23,103 After the first descent... 186 00:18:23,186 --> 00:18:25,272 Daniel changed. 187 00:18:25,355 --> 00:18:27,649 He became withdrawn and paranoid. 188 00:18:27,732 --> 00:18:31,945 He locked himself in the lab for three days and wouldn't let any of us in. 189 00:18:32,028 --> 00:18:34,823 Do you think the descent triggered his breakdown? 190 00:18:34,906 --> 00:18:37,117 Well, that's what I thought. 191 00:18:37,200 --> 00:18:40,036 And then... I found out... 192 00:18:41,538 --> 00:18:44,291 That he's not taking his pills. 193 00:18:46,042 --> 00:18:48,378 Lithium carbonate. 194 00:18:48,461 --> 00:18:51,589 Yeah, he said that they were polluting his brain. 195 00:18:51,715 --> 00:18:54,634 And... he said I was polluting his body. 196 00:18:59,055 --> 00:19:01,433 I'm scared. 197 00:19:01,558 --> 00:19:05,228 - I don't wanna die here. - What are you so afraid of, Jesse? 198 00:19:05,437 --> 00:19:07,564 Daniel. 199 00:19:10,442 --> 00:19:14,321 The only reason I even came here was because of him. 200 00:19:16,114 --> 00:19:19,909 He promised me that this would be an adventure. 201 00:19:22,162 --> 00:19:24,622 That it would change my life. 202 00:19:29,252 --> 00:19:34,674 But eight months is a long time, and I just wanna go home now. 203 00:19:35,008 --> 00:19:36,843 Where's home? 204 00:19:37,510 --> 00:19:39,846 Anywhere but here. 205 00:19:44,601 --> 00:19:50,357 (Trepkos on tape) Samples 7, 12 and 22 also contain trace evidence of the organism. 206 00:19:50,440 --> 00:19:55,653 The possibility of this new, or perhaps unfathomably old, life form... 207 00:19:55,779 --> 00:20:01,159 Has left me sleepless, wondering if! Haven't lost all perspective. 208 00:20:02,118 --> 00:20:08,291 If my intense desire to find the truth hasn't finally eclipsed the truth itself. 209 00:20:08,375 --> 00:20:13,630 Our meddling intellect misshapes the beauteous forms of things. 210 00:20:13,713 --> 00:20:15,799 We murder to dissect. 211 00:20:17,217 --> 00:20:21,221 My mind is a tangled knot I can no longer untie. 212 00:20:21,388 --> 00:20:26,059 Daily, 1 fight the urge to sever it completely to stop this descent. 213 00:20:38,321 --> 00:20:40,365 (Tremor) 214 00:20:45,578 --> 00:20:47,872 What caused that tremor? 215 00:20:48,665 --> 00:20:52,335 There's been a lot of seismic activity in the northeast rift zone. 216 00:20:52,419 --> 00:20:57,340 If trepkos hadn't destroyed our instruments, we might have learned something from it. 217 00:20:57,424 --> 00:20:59,926 - (Coughs) - You feeling all right? 218 00:21:03,221 --> 00:21:04,431 Yeah. 219 00:21:04,514 --> 00:21:07,809 Agent Scully's a medical doctor. Let her take a look at you. 220 00:21:07,892 --> 00:21:10,103 - I'm fine. - Just let her take a look... 221 00:21:15,400 --> 00:21:18,361 I'll go get Scully. 222 00:21:21,698 --> 00:21:25,160 - Come on, get up. She'll help you. - I don't want her to! 223 00:21:25,243 --> 00:21:28,121 Of course you do! It's for the best. 224 00:21:28,621 --> 00:21:30,874 We have to get out of here. 225 00:21:31,624 --> 00:21:35,920 He just collapsed after the tremor. He seems pretty bad. 226 00:21:38,298 --> 00:21:40,967 - He's burning up. - What is it? 227 00:21:41,050 --> 00:21:44,929 An infection or a toxic reaction. We've gotta get him to a hospital. 228 00:21:45,054 --> 00:21:48,475 - I'll get a stretcher. - We can't just leave trepkos. 229 00:21:48,558 --> 00:21:50,977 Give me the shortwave. 230 00:21:54,272 --> 00:21:59,486 This is agent Scully with the firewalker team. Come in, search and rescue. 231 00:22:00,737 --> 00:22:03,781 I'll get o'Neil and meet you at the landing site. 232 00:22:03,907 --> 00:22:05,533 This is search and rescue. 233 00:22:05,617 --> 00:22:08,703 Request dispatch of medevac immediately. 234 00:22:08,786 --> 00:22:12,790 We have an Asian male, mid-thirties, spiking a high-grade fever. 235 00:22:16,669 --> 00:22:18,588 (Choking) 236 00:22:32,268 --> 00:22:34,437 (Knock at door) 237 00:22:34,521 --> 00:22:37,315 Tanaka's collapsed. We're getting him out. 238 00:22:50,119 --> 00:22:51,704 (Groans) 239 00:22:52,539 --> 00:22:54,999 - Tanaka! - Peter! 240 00:22:55,124 --> 00:22:57,669 Peter, come on, get back here! 241 00:23:33,746 --> 00:23:35,665 There. 242 00:23:38,084 --> 00:23:40,420 (Choking) 243 00:23:40,503 --> 00:23:42,672 - Come on. - Don't go down there! 244 00:23:42,755 --> 00:23:46,509 - Let me go! What're you doing? Let go of me! - Don't go down there. 245 00:23:46,593 --> 00:23:49,178 For god's sakes, he needs our help! 246 00:24:19,542 --> 00:24:22,587 So what is it, Scully? What are we dealing with? 247 00:24:22,712 --> 00:24:25,923 Without better imaging equipment, I can't say for sure. 248 00:24:26,049 --> 00:24:28,509 I'll take any theory you've got. 249 00:24:28,593 --> 00:24:33,139 - It appears to be some kind of a fungus. - Anything you recognise? 250 00:24:33,222 --> 00:24:38,394 Well, I'm not a botanist, but I think it's fair to guess that it's an unknown genus. 251 00:24:39,228 --> 00:24:41,356 - What am I looking at here? - Spores. 252 00:24:41,439 --> 00:24:44,400 I scraped them off the tip of the fungus. 253 00:24:45,401 --> 00:24:51,282 It appears as if one of the spores grew inside Tanaka until it reached reproductive maturity. 254 00:24:51,407 --> 00:24:53,451 Essentially outgrowing its host. 255 00:24:53,576 --> 00:24:58,790 But by then it had caused massive tissue damage, particularly to the respiratory tract. 256 00:24:58,915 --> 00:25:02,669 - That accounts for the sand in his lungs. - You found sand in his lungs? 257 00:25:02,752 --> 00:25:06,964 Silicon dioxide. The waste product of a silicon-based organism. 258 00:25:07,131 --> 00:25:12,637 Wait a second. There... there's no such thing as a silicon-based organism. 259 00:25:12,762 --> 00:25:15,098 Maybe now there is. 260 00:25:15,431 --> 00:25:19,602 But we won't have proof until we determine its molecular structure. 261 00:25:19,686 --> 00:25:22,605 Come on. How else do you explain the sand in his lungs? 262 00:25:22,689 --> 00:25:26,984 It's the best trace evidence we could ask for. Trepkos was right. 263 00:25:27,527 --> 00:25:29,987 Daniel knew about this? 264 00:25:30,113 --> 00:25:33,658 He discovered a spore in the samples firewalker brought up. 265 00:25:33,783 --> 00:25:35,159 He would've told us. 266 00:25:35,326 --> 00:25:39,914 Not if what he discovered was too disturbing even for him to understand. 267 00:25:39,997 --> 00:25:44,794 This might explain something else. The spore could explain trepkos's dementia. 268 00:25:44,877 --> 00:25:47,880 Fungi contain alkaloids that affect the nervous system. 269 00:25:47,964 --> 00:25:51,759 Yeah, but what about us? I mean... we weren't exposed. 270 00:25:51,843 --> 00:25:56,556 We don't know that. If it was an airborne microbe, any of us could've inhaled a spore. 271 00:25:56,806 --> 00:25:58,975 So we're not going home, right? 272 00:25:59,058 --> 00:26:02,395 Not until we know how it's transmitted, how it incubates. 273 00:26:02,478 --> 00:26:07,650 If even one of us is infected, we could risk infecting a much larger population. 274 00:26:15,241 --> 00:26:18,119 Search and rescue, this is agent mulder. Do you copy? 275 00:26:18,202 --> 00:26:21,372 This is search and rescue. We're in a holding pattern. Over. 276 00:26:21,497 --> 00:26:27,462 Notify FBI district hq in spokane that we're in quarantine due to possible contagion. 277 00:26:27,545 --> 00:26:30,840 Have CDC send up an evacuation unit on high alert. 278 00:26:30,923 --> 00:26:33,426 What's the nature of the contagion? 279 00:26:35,553 --> 00:26:37,805 Agent mulder? 280 00:26:37,889 --> 00:26:42,643 Tell them it's a biological agent... Of unknown origin. 281 00:26:42,727 --> 00:26:45,021 That's affirmative. Standing by. 282 00:26:47,023 --> 00:26:49,776 Maybe you should go check up on o'Neil. 283 00:27:08,961 --> 00:27:11,464 I'm gonna go find trepkos. 284 00:27:14,467 --> 00:27:19,430 - What if he's already dead? - He'll find it tough answering my questions. 285 00:27:19,555 --> 00:27:21,891 I've gotta find out what he knows. 286 00:27:21,974 --> 00:27:25,770 It could change our understanding of the origin and evolution of life. 287 00:27:25,895 --> 00:27:29,315 He's dangerous, mulder. He's already killed two men. 288 00:27:29,398 --> 00:27:33,236 - Then I have to find out why. - Will you at least let me go with you? 289 00:27:34,737 --> 00:27:39,158 Look, I know what you're thinking, but you have to get past that. We both do. 290 00:27:39,242 --> 00:27:42,662 I'm back... and I'm not going anywhere. 291 00:27:43,621 --> 00:27:46,791 You have to finish the autopsy on Tanaka. 292 00:27:46,916 --> 00:27:52,255 Hopefully that'll give us a better idea of what we're dealing with - whatever it is. 293 00:27:52,338 --> 00:27:56,467 I'm counting on you to keep us all from ending up on that slab. 294 00:28:18,781 --> 00:28:21,868 - Do like we said, ok? - Mm-hm. Mm-hm. 295 00:28:21,951 --> 00:28:24,120 You know what to say, right? 296 00:28:26,330 --> 00:28:28,624 I could use a little help. 297 00:28:29,375 --> 00:28:31,460 Excuse me. 298 00:28:33,379 --> 00:28:37,758 - So what do you need? - Directions, a contour map, usgs survey. 299 00:28:37,842 --> 00:28:40,344 Anything that can help me get here. 300 00:28:45,641 --> 00:28:48,311 These are the steam caves. 301 00:28:49,520 --> 00:28:53,357 They feed into the sherman crater. That's how we access the caldera. 302 00:28:53,482 --> 00:28:56,068 - How did you get these? - Firewalker. 303 00:28:56,152 --> 00:29:01,157 They were transmitted right before trepkos destroyed his camera. 304 00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:02,783 Oh! 305 00:29:02,867 --> 00:29:05,703 So you're finally gonna go after trepkos? 306 00:29:08,497 --> 00:29:10,875 Well, I'll tell you one thing. 307 00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:13,920 You won't find him with those. 308 00:29:14,003 --> 00:29:18,215 - And you won't find him with any map either. - How will I find him? 309 00:29:18,341 --> 00:29:20,384 You won't. 310 00:29:22,345 --> 00:29:25,348 - Not without a guide. - A guide? 311 00:29:25,431 --> 00:29:28,601 Yeah, a guide. I've been up here for almost a year. 312 00:29:28,684 --> 00:29:31,103 I spent months in those caves... 313 00:29:31,187 --> 00:29:35,608 Charting every fissure, every crevice, so firewalker wouldn't trip. 314 00:29:35,691 --> 00:29:38,694 If trepkos is there, I can find him. 315 00:29:38,778 --> 00:29:42,531 - Why are you so eager to help me find him? - Oh, I'm... I'm not eager. 316 00:29:42,615 --> 00:29:48,871 I just don't want to wait around for trepkos to do to me what he did to Pierce and Erikson. 317 00:29:48,955 --> 00:29:51,290 Plus, you've got the gun. 318 00:29:53,042 --> 00:29:56,587 You're the only one who can get us out of this place. 319 00:30:16,107 --> 00:30:18,609 Whatever I'm smelling, is it toxic? 320 00:30:18,734 --> 00:30:24,115 Between the heat and the sulphur, it can get pretty nasty in here. But it won't hurt you. 321 00:30:24,240 --> 00:30:26,575 You'll get used to it. 322 00:30:27,618 --> 00:30:33,624 - How far does the cave extend? - Three quarters of a mile, to the crater rim. 323 00:30:35,084 --> 00:30:37,586 Let's head in. 324 00:30:38,587 --> 00:30:43,175 It twists around quite a bit till you get there. Lots of dead ends... 325 00:30:44,593 --> 00:30:46,679 And blind drops. 326 00:30:46,762 --> 00:30:51,600 Unless you know where you're going, you're... like a rat in a maze. 327 00:31:00,776 --> 00:31:03,029 Argh! Argh! 328 00:31:03,362 --> 00:31:05,448 Argh! 329 00:31:34,351 --> 00:31:36,479 Your gun. 330 00:31:40,232 --> 00:31:42,485 Back. Get back. 331 00:31:49,492 --> 00:31:52,620 Why are you doing this, trepkos? He's already dead. 332 00:31:52,703 --> 00:31:55,998 How many times do you have to kill him? 333 00:32:02,088 --> 00:32:04,757 It's not him I'm trying to kill. 334 00:32:39,792 --> 00:32:44,755 I have attempted to culture the spore, using temperatures ranging from human basal... 335 00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:48,259 To those approximating the volcanic interior. 336 00:32:48,384 --> 00:32:51,804 I have used nutritive mediums containing... 337 00:32:52,555 --> 00:32:56,725 Human tissue, blood and saliva. Even sulphur. 338 00:32:56,809 --> 00:32:59,311 However, none of the seven trials... 339 00:32:59,395 --> 00:33:03,607 Have successfully grown the fungus that killed Tanaka. 340 00:33:03,732 --> 00:33:09,071 Based on this preliminary data, I have come to the following hypothesis: 341 00:33:10,656 --> 00:33:14,994 That unless the spores are ingested or inhaled by the host organism... 342 00:33:15,077 --> 00:33:17,997 Immediately upon their release... 343 00:33:18,080 --> 00:33:20,374 They become harmless... 344 00:33:20,457 --> 00:33:22,668 Effectively dead. 345 00:33:29,466 --> 00:33:31,594 Jesse? 346 00:33:36,849 --> 00:33:39,143 (Jesse) What is it? 347 00:33:39,268 --> 00:33:43,606 I thought you'd like to know - the chances are good that none of us were infected. 348 00:33:43,689 --> 00:33:45,482 (Choking) 349 00:33:45,608 --> 00:33:51,280 We were a safe distance from Tanaka. When mulder and Ludwig come back, we can leave. 350 00:33:51,363 --> 00:33:55,618 I... I just need to run a few more tests, but I think we're gonna be ok. 351 00:33:58,996 --> 00:34:01,123 Ow. Oooh. 352 00:34:02,666 --> 00:34:05,044 Ok, Jesse? Jesse? 353 00:34:09,798 --> 00:34:12,301 (Mulder) What went wrong, trepkos? 354 00:34:15,054 --> 00:34:18,682 Firewalker carried something back to the surface. 355 00:34:19,975 --> 00:34:22,645 Firewalker brought up an elephant. 356 00:34:24,647 --> 00:34:26,774 The truth... 357 00:34:26,857 --> 00:34:30,402 Is an elephant described by three blind men. 358 00:34:32,029 --> 00:34:35,658 The first man touches the tail and says it's a rope. 359 00:34:36,575 --> 00:34:40,996 The second man feels the rough leg and says it's a tree. 360 00:34:42,831 --> 00:34:45,834 The third man feels the trunk and says it's a snake. 361 00:34:46,043 --> 00:34:49,171 What about you? What do you say it is? 362 00:34:51,090 --> 00:34:55,344 I say the earth holds some truths best left buried. 363 00:34:55,761 --> 00:34:58,180 Like the spore? 364 00:35:02,059 --> 00:35:06,522 - Who are you? - I'm special agent mulder. I'm with the FBI. 365 00:35:07,439 --> 00:35:09,316 You don't look like a policeman. 366 00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:12,486 I came down here to investigate Erikson's death. 367 00:35:12,569 --> 00:35:15,072 That's not why you're here. 368 00:35:16,615 --> 00:35:22,204 You still believe you can petition heaven and get some penetrating answer. 369 00:35:23,539 --> 00:35:26,041 If you found that answer... 370 00:35:28,544 --> 00:35:30,879 What would you do with it? 371 00:35:34,758 --> 00:35:38,637 I just wanna know what happened after the first descent. 372 00:35:40,723 --> 00:35:42,975 What did you find? 373 00:35:47,813 --> 00:35:50,107 It was porous... 374 00:35:53,235 --> 00:35:55,321 Obsidian. 375 00:35:56,238 --> 00:36:01,535 Erikson thought it was some sort of rock, so I told him to pulverise it for analysis. 376 00:36:01,618 --> 00:36:05,289 - Erikson released the spore? - He discovered a new life form. 377 00:36:05,414 --> 00:36:09,877 In a single moment, all that science held sacred suddenly turned on its head. 378 00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:16,008 - What about Erikson? If... if he was infected... - I was too immersed in the work to notice. 379 00:36:17,009 --> 00:36:22,139 I'd been alone in the lab for three days... When I heard their screams. 380 00:36:25,601 --> 00:36:28,103 They were all gathered around him. 381 00:36:29,021 --> 00:36:34,026 By the time I realised what was happening, they were already changing. 382 00:36:34,109 --> 00:36:38,655 The spore... grew in each of them until it became... 383 00:36:38,781 --> 00:36:41,158 What do you mean? 384 00:36:42,201 --> 00:36:44,578 It's a parasite. 385 00:36:44,661 --> 00:36:47,539 It lives to find a host. 386 00:36:47,623 --> 00:36:50,376 - But you weren't infected? - No. 387 00:36:51,710 --> 00:36:54,254 You destroyed your work, the equipment. 388 00:36:54,338 --> 00:36:57,383 You killed Pierce... so no one could leave. 389 00:36:58,008 --> 00:37:00,302 No one can leave. 390 00:37:06,016 --> 00:37:08,644 What about o'Neil? 391 00:37:08,727 --> 00:37:10,521 Jesse? 392 00:37:10,646 --> 00:37:15,025 - Was she exposed to the spore? - They were all exposed. 393 00:37:17,653 --> 00:37:21,657 - All of them. - I have a colleague, a friend... 394 00:37:22,324 --> 00:37:24,993 Who's with o'Neil right now. 395 00:37:25,077 --> 00:37:29,164 - Let me go to her. - She may already be infected. 396 00:37:35,671 --> 00:37:37,840 I can't let you leave. 397 00:37:39,174 --> 00:37:41,760 Then you're gonna have to shoot me. 398 00:37:42,594 --> 00:37:45,097 Because I'm walking outta here. 399 00:38:29,558 --> 00:38:31,602 Jesse? 400 00:38:48,076 --> 00:38:49,745 Oh! 401 00:38:50,496 --> 00:38:53,248 God, you scared me! 402 00:38:53,624 --> 00:38:56,877 - (Laboured breathing) - Jesse? 403 00:38:56,960 --> 00:38:59,880 - Are you ok? - (Choking) 404 00:38:59,963 --> 00:39:02,966 Jesse, what's wrong? Jesse? 405 00:39:05,302 --> 00:39:07,804 Jesse, what are you doing? 406 00:39:09,598 --> 00:39:11,433 (Choking) 407 00:39:22,819 --> 00:39:24,947 (Laboured breathing) 408 00:39:29,034 --> 00:39:30,827 (Choking) 409 00:40:46,862 --> 00:40:48,280 Scully? 410 00:40:49,906 --> 00:40:51,825 Scully? 411 00:40:51,908 --> 00:40:54,036 I'm ok. I'm ok. 412 00:40:58,540 --> 00:41:00,959 - You all right? - I'm ok. 413 00:41:17,309 --> 00:41:18,560 Yeah. 414 00:41:21,772 --> 00:41:24,107 Mulder, look... 415 00:41:24,900 --> 00:41:28,612 She was infected. I don't know how. 416 00:41:28,737 --> 00:41:31,073 Erikson was the original host. 417 00:41:31,156 --> 00:41:35,577 When the fungus shed its spores, everyone was at ground zero, except for trepkos. 418 00:41:35,661 --> 00:41:37,996 Did you find him? 419 00:42:04,272 --> 00:42:08,276 I told her... it would change her life. 420 00:42:20,872 --> 00:42:23,834 Search and rescue, this is agent mulder. Do you copy? 421 00:42:23,959 --> 00:42:27,462 This is army biohazard. How many are in your party? 422 00:42:34,803 --> 00:42:37,806 We have two survivors - agent Scully and myself. 423 00:42:37,889 --> 00:42:41,476 Copy that. Our eta is seven minutes. 424 00:42:42,561 --> 00:42:46,356 Mulder, what are you doing? They're gonna wanna question him. 425 00:42:47,566 --> 00:42:49,985 It's all over, Scully. 426 00:42:50,819 --> 00:42:53,155 He won't talk. 427 00:43:07,085 --> 00:43:10,130 Scully and I are in the third day of a month's quarantine... 428 00:43:10,213 --> 00:43:13,133 Undergoing level four decon procedures. 429 00:43:13,216 --> 00:43:17,387 We are, so far, without symptoms of fungal contamination. 430 00:43:20,557 --> 00:43:27,105 Our specimens and field notes were taken by the biohazard corps prior to our evacuation. 431 00:43:27,189 --> 00:43:33,028 Their presence is delayed indefinitely for the arrival of the usgs data retrieval team. 432 00:43:33,111 --> 00:43:38,033 Isuspect, though, there will be little left for them to retrieve. 433 00:43:38,116 --> 00:43:44,289 There are no plans to explore the volcanically active mountains in the cascade range... 434 00:43:44,372 --> 00:43:46,750 Including mount a valon. 435 00:43:48,627 --> 00:43:53,465 All access points to that volcano have been sealed off by army engineers. 436 00:43:55,634 --> 00:43:58,678 Of the members of the firewalker descent team... 437 00:43:58,762 --> 00:44:02,015 Only trepkos and o'Neil remain unaccounted for. 438 00:44:02,098 --> 00:44:06,228 They are presumed dead, and the search for them has been abandoned. 439 00:44:07,646 --> 00:44:10,065 Firewalker, however, was recovered... 440 00:44:10,148 --> 00:44:15,654 Though its sensory and locomotive systems were found to be irreparably damaged. 441 00:44:15,737 --> 00:44:19,866 The data it collected from the earth's interior will never be known. 442 00:44:19,950 --> 00:44:25,580 And of the events that occurred at mount avalon between 11 and 13 November 1994... 443 00:44:27,624 --> 00:44:30,502 Mine stands as the only record. 444 00:44:40,762 --> 00:44:43,974 Visiontext subtitles: Claire bates 445 00:45:05,871 --> 00:45:07,622 (Child) I made this!