1 00:01:17,119 --> 00:01:18,829 (Turns water on) 2 00:01:22,667 --> 00:01:26,003 (Small noises above) 3 00:01:26,170 --> 00:01:27,171 (Screams) 4 00:01:36,472 --> 00:01:41,185 (Pa) We are now beginning our descent into jfk international airport. 5 00:01:41,310 --> 00:01:43,688 We should be on the ground in 15 minutes. 6 00:01:43,813 --> 00:01:48,693 Any passenger needing help with customs forms or any other form... 7 00:01:56,909 --> 00:01:59,203 (Announcement in French) 8 00:02:39,243 --> 00:02:41,120 Monsieur? 9 00:02:44,457 --> 00:02:46,417 Monsieur? 10 00:02:47,877 --> 00:02:49,628 (Screams) 11 00:03:56,237 --> 00:03:58,239 (Skinner) Come in. 12 00:04:00,950 --> 00:04:05,204 - Thank you for getting here so quickly. - There's not much traffic at this hour. 13 00:04:05,287 --> 00:04:10,084 This is dr Simon bruin with the Philadelphia office of the centers for disease control. 14 00:04:10,167 --> 00:04:12,795 A pleasure, dr Scully. 15 00:04:15,297 --> 00:04:19,135 How familiar are you with the kidnappings in Philadelphia? 16 00:04:19,218 --> 00:04:24,557 Only what I've read: That four young men have gone missing in the past three months. 17 00:04:24,640 --> 00:04:26,225 All African-American. 18 00:04:26,308 --> 00:04:30,563 A joint FBI-Philadelphia pd task force has been working around the clock. 19 00:04:30,646 --> 00:04:34,233 But there have been no leads to speak of. Until last night. 20 00:04:34,316 --> 00:04:36,152 What happened last night? 21 00:04:36,235 --> 00:04:40,573 Owen Sanders, the last to go missing, was found dead near a construction site. 22 00:04:40,656 --> 00:04:44,952 - How was he killed? - That's just it, agent Scully. He wasn't. 23 00:04:45,035 --> 00:04:47,079 No evidence indicates homicide. 24 00:04:47,163 --> 00:04:49,331 Has a cause of death been determined? 25 00:04:49,415 --> 00:04:52,960 No. But I'll let dr bruin give you his thoughts on that. 26 00:04:55,254 --> 00:04:59,842 This was taken last night, less than an hour after Sanders' body was found. 27 00:04:59,925 --> 00:05:04,263 - I thought you said Owen Sanders was black. - He was. 28 00:05:05,264 --> 00:05:07,349 I'm not sure I follow. 29 00:05:07,850 --> 00:05:10,394 See for yourself. 30 00:05:10,478 --> 00:05:13,189 Owen Sanders was a normal young black man. 31 00:05:13,272 --> 00:05:16,108 I assume you're going somewhere with this. 32 00:05:16,192 --> 00:05:20,863 The depigmentation may actually be characteristic of a disease. 33 00:05:20,946 --> 00:05:22,907 An apparently fatal one. 34 00:05:24,867 --> 00:05:27,786 So you don't think they're victims of a crime at all. 35 00:05:27,870 --> 00:05:33,042 It's my opinion, dr Scully, this investigation should begin and end under a microscope. 36 00:05:33,876 --> 00:05:37,129 Dr bruin hopes someone with a solid medical background... 37 00:05:37,213 --> 00:05:39,215 Can make a quick and decisive analysis. 38 00:05:41,258 --> 00:05:45,429 Case number 2139318537. 39 00:05:45,846 --> 00:05:48,849 Subject is a black male, 19 years old. 40 00:05:48,933 --> 00:05:52,061 Cause and time of death unknown. 41 00:05:52,144 --> 00:05:56,815 Note: Total lack of pigment in the skin, hair and eyes. 42 00:05:57,650 --> 00:06:01,570 This suggests albinism, though the bleaching of the irises... 43 00:06:01,654 --> 00:06:06,784 Indicates a violent and unexplained cellular reaction to a vector or an environment... 44 00:06:06,867 --> 00:06:08,244 (Door opens) 45 00:06:08,327 --> 00:06:13,123 Hey. I heard you were down here slicing and dicing. Who's the lucky stiff? 46 00:06:13,207 --> 00:06:15,251 His name is Owen Sanders. 47 00:06:15,334 --> 00:06:18,379 Reported as the fourth kidnap victim in Philadelphia... 48 00:06:18,462 --> 00:06:21,382 Until he turned up last night like this. 49 00:06:21,465 --> 00:06:25,261 There's a Michael Jackson joke in here, but I can't quite find it. 50 00:06:25,344 --> 00:06:29,306 I've been requested to determine what leached the pigment from his body. 51 00:06:29,390 --> 00:06:32,351 - Requested by whom? - The centers for disease control. 52 00:06:32,434 --> 00:06:34,353 The CDC in a kidnap case? 53 00:06:34,436 --> 00:06:37,439 They believe the case has been mislabelled. 54 00:06:37,690 --> 00:06:41,402 That this man and the others may have fallen prey to a disease or a pathogen. 55 00:06:41,485 --> 00:06:43,362 Based on what other evidence? 56 00:06:43,445 --> 00:06:48,867 There were no signs of trauma or defence wounds, and his wallet was still full of cash. 57 00:06:49,743 --> 00:06:51,870 That's interesting. 58 00:06:53,038 --> 00:06:56,834 What, uh, what sort of disease is this? 59 00:06:56,917 --> 00:07:01,130 I don't know. There are conditions like vitiligo which attack melanocytes... 60 00:07:01,213 --> 00:07:03,966 And prevent the manufacture of melanin in the skin... 61 00:07:04,049 --> 00:07:06,594 Autoimmune disorders, not yet understood. 62 00:07:06,677 --> 00:07:08,971 So this man died of a disorder? 63 00:07:09,054 --> 00:07:11,974 He and four other young black men contracted the disease... 64 00:07:12,057 --> 00:07:15,436 And then disappeared without any explanation whatsoever. 65 00:07:15,519 --> 00:07:19,648 It's possible they've already turned up, but because of the depigmentation... 66 00:07:19,732 --> 00:07:21,942 There may be a problem with identification. 67 00:07:22,026 --> 00:07:25,779 So I have reissued descriptions of John does to area morgues and ers. 68 00:07:25,863 --> 00:07:30,117 Scully, has it occurred to you that this mightjust be a PR exercise? 69 00:07:30,200 --> 00:07:30,993 I'm sorry? 70 00:07:31,076 --> 00:07:35,789 To divert attention from the fact that young black men are dying and there's no suspect? 71 00:07:35,873 --> 00:07:40,169 - The perception being that nobody cares. - Not everything is a conspiracy... 72 00:07:40,252 --> 00:07:45,049 And not everybody is plotting to deceive, inveigle and obfuscate. 73 00:07:46,675 --> 00:07:48,761 Did you lift any forensic evidence? 74 00:07:48,844 --> 00:07:52,431 Yes. Hair, skin and fibre. Behind you on the counter. 75 00:07:57,645 --> 00:07:58,771 What are you doing? 76 00:07:58,854 --> 00:08:04,068 I'm gonna join the snipe hunt, if you don't mind. Before the body count rises. 77 00:08:13,327 --> 00:08:15,037 (Knocking) 78 00:08:16,914 --> 00:08:18,916 (Man) Mr aboah? 79 00:08:27,591 --> 00:08:29,760 Anyone home? 80 00:08:37,059 --> 00:08:39,061 Samuel aboah? 81 00:08:40,187 --> 00:08:41,480 Yes. 82 00:08:42,189 --> 00:08:45,234 I'm Marcus duff. Remember me? 83 00:08:46,318 --> 00:08:48,153 Your immigration counsellor. 84 00:08:48,237 --> 00:08:52,616 We have an appointment to go over your naturalisation petition. 85 00:08:52,700 --> 00:08:54,326 Um, please. 86 00:08:54,410 --> 00:08:56,328 Thank you. 87 00:09:10,676 --> 00:09:14,138 We could use a little light to fill out the petition. 88 00:09:14,221 --> 00:09:17,224 Maybe you can open a window or something. 89 00:09:28,360 --> 00:09:30,988 Yeah... I guess that works. 90 00:09:31,572 --> 00:09:34,992 Have a seat, Samuel. This is a little complicated. 91 00:09:43,417 --> 00:09:45,627 You ok? You look ill. 92 00:09:45,711 --> 00:09:48,130 You got a fever or something? 93 00:09:53,552 --> 00:09:57,347 I know how lonely it is, believe me. 94 00:09:58,265 --> 00:10:01,769 Being in a strange place far from your family. 95 00:10:01,852 --> 00:10:05,856 But once you become a us citizen... 96 00:10:06,565 --> 00:10:11,153 I can help you bring over every brother, sister... 97 00:10:11,236 --> 00:10:13,322 Aunt, uncle and cousin. 98 00:10:15,532 --> 00:10:18,494 It all starts today, Samuel. 99 00:10:19,036 --> 00:10:21,747 Know what I'm saying? 100 00:10:23,707 --> 00:10:25,709 Thank you. 101 00:10:30,506 --> 00:10:35,552 Agent pendrell. Thanks for turning this materials analysis around on short notice. 102 00:10:35,636 --> 00:10:38,222 Shouldn't we wait for agent Scully? 103 00:10:38,305 --> 00:10:40,224 - She's not coming. - Why not? 104 00:10:40,307 --> 00:10:42,726 She had a date. 105 00:10:42,810 --> 00:10:45,896 Breathe! It's with a dead man. She's doing an autopsy. 106 00:10:45,979 --> 00:10:50,609 - You said you found something? - Yeah. Asbestos fibres. Not much there. 107 00:10:50,692 --> 00:10:56,156 And I didn't think there was anything among the vegetable debris - local soils, pollens, etc. 108 00:10:56,240 --> 00:10:58,450 Till I came across this. 109 00:10:58,700 --> 00:11:03,413 I had to go on-line with a botanist at uvn to determine what it was. 110 00:11:03,497 --> 00:11:05,457 It looks like some kind of Thorn. 111 00:11:05,541 --> 00:11:10,295 No, it's a seed, actually. But nothing you'll find at your local nursery. 112 00:11:12,297 --> 00:11:14,842 Adenia volkensii. 113 00:11:15,592 --> 00:11:18,470 - Help me out. - From a rare species of passionflower. 114 00:11:18,554 --> 00:11:23,600 It's a rare, night-blooming plant indigenous only to certain parts of west Africa. 115 00:11:25,686 --> 00:11:30,899 How could this travel 5,000 miles around the world and wind up on Owen Sanders? 116 00:11:30,983 --> 00:11:32,901 That I couldn't tell you. 117 00:11:32,985 --> 00:11:36,363 It contains a cerebropathic glycoside. Mean anything to you? 118 00:11:36,446 --> 00:11:40,951 If I'm correct, it's a cortical depressant that works on the higher centres of the brain. 119 00:11:41,034 --> 00:11:43,787 - Is it lethal? - In large enough quantities it might be. 120 00:11:43,871 --> 00:11:46,623 Larger than anything contained in a single seed. 121 00:11:46,832 --> 00:11:50,586 Did the toxicology screen detect any of it in Sanders' blood? 122 00:11:50,669 --> 00:11:53,630 No, the tox screen was clean. 123 00:11:53,714 --> 00:11:55,841 Could his body have metabolised it? 124 00:11:57,467 --> 00:12:00,637 Only if the victim hadn't expired immediately. 125 00:12:01,179 --> 00:12:05,434 - Does that tell you anything about anything? - No, but... 126 00:12:05,684 --> 00:12:09,730 I think I found something that could explain the depigmentation. 127 00:12:09,813 --> 00:12:13,984 - His pituitary gland was necrotised. - His pituitary gland? 128 00:12:14,067 --> 00:12:17,696 The pituitary gland secretes all of the regulatory hormones in the body... 129 00:12:17,779 --> 00:12:20,908 And it controls the production of melanin in the skin cells. 130 00:12:20,991 --> 00:12:23,410 So you found evidence that this is a disease? 131 00:12:23,493 --> 00:12:28,415 No. I have identified the effect. I am still looking for the cause. 132 00:12:28,498 --> 00:12:31,251 Ok, let me know as soon as you find anything out. 133 00:12:31,335 --> 00:12:36,131 - Where are you, mulder? - Off to water the seeds of doubt. Bye-bye. 134 00:13:12,668 --> 00:13:14,670 Ms covarrubias? 135 00:13:16,129 --> 00:13:20,342 - Who are you? - Agent mulder. Fox mulder. 136 00:13:20,842 --> 00:13:23,804 - What are you doing? - I'm sorry I frightened you. 137 00:13:23,887 --> 00:13:25,180 What do you want? 138 00:13:25,263 --> 00:13:29,017 I'm not sure why, but I thought you might be in a position to help me. 139 00:13:29,101 --> 00:13:30,602 Help you? 140 00:13:30,686 --> 00:13:35,190 Four young men are missing in Philadelphia. One of the men was found dead last night. 141 00:13:35,273 --> 00:13:37,651 This seed was recovered from his body. 142 00:13:37,734 --> 00:13:42,072 It's from a rare species of plant found only in west Africa. 143 00:13:42,155 --> 00:13:45,117 Do you know anything about this case? 144 00:13:46,243 --> 00:13:50,247 Is there any way you could find something out about it? 145 00:13:51,415 --> 00:13:56,294 Thousands of exotic species cross into us soil every day undetected. 146 00:13:57,087 --> 00:14:01,425 Bilge water is emptied into harbours, produce sent through the mail. 147 00:14:01,508 --> 00:14:06,263 In practical terms, borders are little more than lines on maps. 148 00:14:07,305 --> 00:14:09,307 Is that a yes or a no? 149 00:14:10,058 --> 00:14:13,311 - I can't help you. - You can't or you won't? 150 00:14:13,729 --> 00:14:16,773 You made an overture to me. You left an opening. 151 00:14:16,857 --> 00:14:21,445 Tell me I'm wrong. Tell me there's nothing here, and I'll just walk away. 152 00:14:21,778 --> 00:14:23,780 Either way, I need to know. 153 00:15:29,012 --> 00:15:30,972 (Distorted) Hey, I got a schedule. 154 00:15:34,976 --> 00:15:36,895 You gettin' on or not? 155 00:15:39,064 --> 00:15:42,067 What's your problem? You on drugs or something? 156 00:15:42,901 --> 00:15:46,822 Ah, the hell with you. You can walk for all I care. 157 00:15:46,905 --> 00:15:48,865 Damned drugs. 158 00:16:11,429 --> 00:16:16,810 He was sitting right here, staring at me with these glassy eyes. Pretty much out of it. 159 00:16:16,893 --> 00:16:18,979 You mean he looked sick? 160 00:16:19,062 --> 00:16:21,106 Yeah, now that you mention it. 161 00:16:21,189 --> 00:16:25,026 I mean, I asked him if he needed help, but he didn't say squat. 162 00:16:25,318 --> 00:16:28,613 Don't forget to put down I had a schedule to keep. 163 00:16:28,697 --> 00:16:31,199 Did you observe anybody else in the area? 164 00:16:31,283 --> 00:16:35,704 Not that I saw. I already told the police pretty much everything I know. 165 00:16:35,787 --> 00:16:38,123 - (Car approaches) - Excuse me. 166 00:16:40,208 --> 00:16:42,878 - What happened? - We have another missing young man. 167 00:16:42,961 --> 00:16:48,300 Alfred kittel, 17 years old, African-American. His mother called the police around 3am. 168 00:16:48,383 --> 00:16:51,720 - How does she know he's missing? - He works down the street. 169 00:16:51,803 --> 00:16:55,098 He takes this bus every night, and last night he never made it home. 170 00:16:55,182 --> 00:16:57,851 They found his knapsack on the bench here. 171 00:16:57,934 --> 00:17:00,312 The police are out canvassing. 172 00:17:00,395 --> 00:17:05,066 I talked to a bus driver who said that he seemed disoriented, nonresponsive. 173 00:17:05,150 --> 00:17:08,445 It might be some kind of pre-symptomatic dementia. 174 00:17:08,695 --> 00:17:11,656 Or a reaction to a powerful cortical depressant. 175 00:17:11,865 --> 00:17:13,325 What are you suggesting? 176 00:17:13,408 --> 00:17:17,537 Find Alfred kittel and you find another one of those rare African seeds. 177 00:17:17,621 --> 00:17:18,872 What makes you so sure? 178 00:17:18,955 --> 00:17:22,167 A week before the first person was reported missing... 179 00:17:22,250 --> 00:17:25,587 The New York port authority filed that with the faa. 180 00:17:25,670 --> 00:17:28,173 Like Owen Sanders, this man wasn't an albino either. 181 00:17:28,256 --> 00:17:32,886 Not until he was found dead on a charter flight from west Africa, from Burkina Faso. 182 00:17:33,094 --> 00:17:37,224 The embassy demanded the body's return before an autopsy could be performed. 183 00:17:37,307 --> 00:17:39,768 It says cause of death was undetermined. 184 00:17:39,851 --> 00:17:43,855 Yeah, undetermined, Scully, but not necessarily unknown. 185 00:17:54,115 --> 00:17:57,285 "Aboah"? What the hell kind of name is that? 186 00:18:05,168 --> 00:18:06,461 Mr aboah? 187 00:18:07,754 --> 00:18:10,674 - Yes. - Philadelphia pd. 188 00:18:10,757 --> 00:18:14,177 We're canvassing the building in regard to a missing person. 189 00:18:14,261 --> 00:18:18,473 This is the young man we're looking for. Have you seen him? 190 00:18:21,893 --> 00:18:26,231 Well, if you hear from anyone who has, or come across any information at all... 191 00:18:26,314 --> 00:18:31,319 You can reach us at this number. That's a hot line. You can call 24 hours a day. 192 00:18:31,611 --> 00:18:34,030 (Laboured breathing) 193 00:18:36,157 --> 00:18:37,951 - Thank you. - Thank you. 194 00:19:21,745 --> 00:19:25,749 - I am really quite busy. - We won't take up much of your time. 195 00:19:25,832 --> 00:19:28,877 You're in charge of most of the casework... 196 00:19:28,960 --> 00:19:31,671 For aliens immigrating from Africa and the Caribbean? 197 00:19:31,755 --> 00:19:35,675 I assist people from that part of the world where I came from 15 years ago. 198 00:19:35,759 --> 00:19:40,722 We're looking for somebody that came more recently. On a flight from Burkina Faso. 199 00:19:40,805 --> 00:19:44,893 This is the passenger manifest from the charter company. 200 00:19:44,976 --> 00:19:48,146 And... you want me to do what, exactly? 201 00:19:48,313 --> 00:19:52,484 Cross-reference the names with anyone applying for permanent resident status... 202 00:19:52,567 --> 00:19:54,778 Or a work visa in the last three months. 203 00:19:54,861 --> 00:20:00,200 I am a social worker, not a police officer. My business is not chasing down illegals. 204 00:20:00,283 --> 00:20:02,369 Sir, we're not here to arrest anybody. 205 00:20:02,452 --> 00:20:05,830 But you are FBI agents, are you not? 206 00:20:05,914 --> 00:20:09,417 Yes. Investigating a possible public health crisis. 207 00:20:14,047 --> 00:20:16,341 What kind of crisis? 208 00:20:31,981 --> 00:20:35,193 He's not at home. We might as well get comfortable. 209 00:20:36,319 --> 00:20:41,324 It has to be here, mulder. There has to be some evidence of a virus or bacterium. 210 00:20:42,033 --> 00:20:46,371 If you looked up from the microscope, you'd see that what's missing is a motive. 211 00:20:46,454 --> 00:20:49,874 The motive of any pathogen is to reproduce itself. 212 00:20:49,958 --> 00:20:53,670 My job as a doctor is to find out ifand how it is being transmitted. 213 00:20:53,753 --> 00:20:57,757 - If this is a health crisis. - Death is a health crisis. 214 00:20:57,841 --> 00:21:00,385 Something caused Sanders' pituitary to fail... 215 00:21:00,468 --> 00:21:06,182 Which caused his metabolism to drop, resulting in coma and, finally, in death. 216 00:21:06,933 --> 00:21:09,769 Sometimes you have to start at the end to find the beginning. 217 00:21:09,853 --> 00:21:13,690 I just hope we don't have to find another dead body to discover what that is. 218 00:21:13,773 --> 00:21:15,859 Maybe we won't have to wait. 219 00:21:19,195 --> 00:21:22,198 Mr aboah? Can I talk to you a minute? 220 00:21:36,463 --> 00:21:39,466 - Boy, this guy can move. - He's not here. 221 00:21:40,133 --> 00:21:42,135 He has to be. 222 00:22:03,072 --> 00:22:06,534 Mulder, I think I know where he went. 223 00:22:16,753 --> 00:22:19,839 Come on, mulder. Let's go. We've lost him. 224 00:22:30,975 --> 00:22:33,978 Hey, Scully, look at this. 225 00:22:38,358 --> 00:22:40,693 Oh, my god. 226 00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:22,986 From outward signs, this man is asymptomatic. 227 00:23:23,069 --> 00:23:27,448 I appreciate the connection you've tried to make, but it's a dead end. 228 00:23:28,491 --> 00:23:33,580 With your permission, I'd like to examine him more. I'd like to run a suppression test... 229 00:23:33,663 --> 00:23:37,166 Do a tsh screen, take a history. 230 00:23:37,250 --> 00:23:39,669 It would help if we could talk to him. 231 00:23:40,003 --> 00:23:42,338 I'm working on that. 232 00:23:47,010 --> 00:23:48,678 - Nothing? - Not yet. 233 00:23:48,803 --> 00:23:51,931 That doesn't mean he isn't a carrier, or even the index case. 234 00:23:52,015 --> 00:23:54,934 He's some kind of case, the way he disappeared down that drainpipe. 235 00:23:55,018 --> 00:23:58,521 Why has Samuel aboah been arrested? 236 00:23:59,772 --> 00:24:03,484 You said his health was in danger. Why have I been lied to? 237 00:24:03,860 --> 00:24:05,778 Nobody has lied to you, sir. 238 00:24:05,862 --> 00:24:08,531 Then, please, release him immediately. 239 00:24:08,656 --> 00:24:10,617 We would like to do some more tests. 240 00:24:10,700 --> 00:24:14,871 We have to be sure his health hasn't been endangered and he isn't endangering others. 241 00:24:14,996 --> 00:24:18,041 - Then why have you called me? - As a translator. 242 00:24:18,166 --> 00:24:20,877 We'd like to be able to ask him some questions. 243 00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:23,379 - About what? - About Alfred kittel... 244 00:24:23,504 --> 00:24:28,635 And several other men who've gone missing since his arrival in Philadelphia. 245 00:24:28,718 --> 00:24:33,056 - Then this is about a criminal charge. - There are no charges against mr aboah. 246 00:24:33,181 --> 00:24:37,143 We arrested him because he ran when we tried to question him. I wanna know why. 247 00:24:37,226 --> 00:24:41,648 Sir, if you had ever been beaten by the police... 248 00:24:42,231 --> 00:24:45,818 Or had your home burned for no other reason than being born... 249 00:24:45,902 --> 00:24:49,405 Then, maybe, you would understand why he ran. 250 00:24:49,530 --> 00:24:51,240 And why you would run too. 251 00:24:52,325 --> 00:24:56,496 He ran because he's hiding something. And no amount of tests you run on him... 252 00:24:56,579 --> 00:24:59,999 - No science is gonna find that. Excuse me. - Where are you going? 253 00:25:00,083 --> 00:25:04,837 To find someone who I know plotted to deceive, inveigle and obfuscate. 254 00:25:16,099 --> 00:25:19,686 Minister, this is agent mulder with the FBI. 255 00:25:19,769 --> 00:25:24,941 - Thank you for seeing me at such a late hour. - I did not have much choice in this matter. 256 00:25:25,858 --> 00:25:29,779 Someone from the United Nations spoke to the ambassador. 257 00:25:31,447 --> 00:25:33,574 What's so important that it can't wait? 258 00:25:33,741 --> 00:25:36,452 With all due respect, sir, I think you already know. 259 00:25:36,953 --> 00:25:38,705 Do I? 260 00:25:38,788 --> 00:25:42,458 Something happened on a flight from your country three months ago. 261 00:25:42,542 --> 00:25:46,879 Something that you felt compelled to hide, even from your own ambassador. 262 00:25:46,963 --> 00:25:51,467 The request to stop investigating this man's death came from you. 263 00:25:55,221 --> 00:26:00,893 I understand the need to protect your diplomatic position, but more men are dying. 264 00:26:05,231 --> 00:26:07,942 Even if I tell you what I know... 265 00:26:09,569 --> 00:26:11,904 You would never believe it. 266 00:26:11,988 --> 00:26:14,657 You'd be surprised at what I believe, sir. 267 00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:19,829 I had hoped, if I closed my eyes... 268 00:26:20,163 --> 00:26:22,999 It would go away this time. 269 00:26:23,124 --> 00:26:25,126 This time? 270 00:26:26,502 --> 00:26:28,504 My people... 271 00:26:30,590 --> 00:26:33,342 The bambara, are farmers. 272 00:26:34,093 --> 00:26:36,929 I grew up hearing the old stories... 273 00:26:38,014 --> 00:26:41,642 Believing them as only a child can believe. 274 00:26:42,185 --> 00:26:44,604 What kinds of stories? 275 00:26:46,522 --> 00:26:48,524 The teliko. 276 00:26:50,777 --> 00:26:52,779 Spirits... 277 00:26:53,529 --> 00:26:55,531 Of the air. 278 00:26:56,866 --> 00:26:59,952 It was said they rested by day... 279 00:27:00,036 --> 00:27:02,371 In closed, dark places... 280 00:27:02,455 --> 00:27:05,208 Deep inside tree hollows... 281 00:27:05,333 --> 00:27:08,044 And in holes beneath the ground... 282 00:27:08,336 --> 00:27:12,381 Too small even for a child to hide himself. 283 00:27:13,841 --> 00:27:14,884 Mr aboah? 284 00:27:16,719 --> 00:27:19,722 Only when the sun fell... 285 00:27:19,806 --> 00:27:22,975 When the rest of the world was sleeping... 286 00:27:23,059 --> 00:27:25,228 Would they come out. 287 00:27:25,895 --> 00:27:28,481 Come out to do what, sir? 288 00:27:29,398 --> 00:27:31,859 I was seven years old. 289 00:27:32,151 --> 00:27:34,862 Lying awake one night, I saw him. 290 00:27:36,864 --> 00:27:39,075 He was standing over me. 291 00:27:39,700 --> 00:27:42,411 His hair was like straw... 292 00:27:42,495 --> 00:27:45,248 His eyes like water... 293 00:27:45,915 --> 00:27:48,543 Staring down at me. 294 00:27:48,751 --> 00:27:52,213 I closed my eyes and screamed... 295 00:27:52,755 --> 00:27:56,259 And felt myself being swept up into the air. 296 00:27:59,262 --> 00:28:02,223 But when I opened my eyes... 297 00:28:02,849 --> 00:28:04,851 I saw my father... 298 00:28:04,934 --> 00:28:06,686 Holding me. 299 00:28:06,769 --> 00:28:10,356 - Then it was a nightmare. - That's what my father said. 300 00:28:10,606 --> 00:28:12,733 And I believed him. 301 00:28:13,276 --> 00:28:15,528 Until the next day... 302 00:28:16,445 --> 00:28:18,781 When they found my cousin... 303 00:28:18,865 --> 00:28:21,200 Dead among his cattle. 304 00:28:24,912 --> 00:28:28,124 Looking exactly like this man. 305 00:28:36,549 --> 00:28:38,050 Which is why... 306 00:28:38,134 --> 00:28:42,430 When this photograph came across my desk three months ago... 307 00:28:43,806 --> 00:28:48,477 I knew the teliko was more than just a children's story. 308 00:28:48,769 --> 00:28:51,105 I knew it was real. 309 00:28:52,940 --> 00:28:55,151 I knew he was here! 310 00:29:05,995 --> 00:29:10,333 This patient has something in his throat, some kind of aberrant bone growth... 311 00:29:10,458 --> 00:29:13,586 Or maybe something foreign lodged in his oesophagus. 312 00:29:13,669 --> 00:29:16,172 Hm. Could be a lot of things. 313 00:29:16,631 --> 00:29:21,260 You'd be amazed what I've seen removed from people's throats in ers. 314 00:29:21,344 --> 00:29:23,179 That's only part of it. 315 00:29:23,262 --> 00:29:28,100 I discovered something even more disturbing when his pet series came back. 316 00:29:29,143 --> 00:29:33,856 Look right here on the sagittal section, right below the hypothalamus. 317 00:29:34,523 --> 00:29:37,944 - There must be some mistake. - There's no mistake. 318 00:29:38,027 --> 00:29:40,821 This patient has no pituitary gland. 319 00:29:41,656 --> 00:29:42,782 That's not possible. 320 00:29:42,865 --> 00:29:46,702 I can't even begin to explain what we're seeing here, sir. 321 00:29:46,786 --> 00:29:49,622 I just hope this patient can provide some answers. 322 00:29:49,705 --> 00:29:52,291 You'll have to find him first. 323 00:29:52,375 --> 00:29:55,461 - What are you talking about? - I was looking for you in quarantine. 324 00:29:55,544 --> 00:29:58,214 Samuel aboah is gone, disappeared. 325 00:30:28,703 --> 00:30:30,079 (Gasps) 326 00:30:32,498 --> 00:30:33,833 Samuel? 327 00:30:36,377 --> 00:30:38,379 You scared me. 328 00:30:42,091 --> 00:30:44,760 They let you out of the hospital? 329 00:30:45,386 --> 00:30:46,429 Yes. 330 00:30:47,430 --> 00:30:49,765 Everything is fine? 331 00:30:50,349 --> 00:30:51,684 Samuel? 332 00:30:52,518 --> 00:30:55,062 Did you want to see me about something? 333 00:30:57,940 --> 00:31:02,695 Well, come on. Let me give you a ride home. We can talk about it on the way. 334 00:31:03,112 --> 00:31:06,198 Lucky for you I was working late. 335 00:31:06,282 --> 00:31:08,367 Yes. Lucky. 336 00:31:08,617 --> 00:31:10,619 Come, let's go. 337 00:31:22,882 --> 00:31:25,259 (Scully) When did this happen? 338 00:31:26,552 --> 00:31:29,555 Thank you, lieutenant. I appreciate it. 339 00:31:30,973 --> 00:31:33,976 I think this was his getaway vehicle. 340 00:31:34,310 --> 00:31:37,146 He didn't even touch his jell-o. 341 00:31:37,271 --> 00:31:40,816 Let's go. Marcus duff's car turned up abandoned... 342 00:31:40,900 --> 00:31:44,445 With the keys in the ignition and the hood still hot. 343 00:32:23,275 --> 00:32:28,531 6834, requesting ambulance in alley behind 1163 west cherry. 344 00:32:28,656 --> 00:32:31,867 Man down. Victim: African-American male, aged 35... 345 00:32:35,287 --> 00:32:39,542 - Do you know what happened to him? - I won't even try to guess, but he's alive. 346 00:32:39,667 --> 00:32:42,378 What about aboah? Any indication of where he might be? 347 00:32:42,461 --> 00:32:45,881 We're still sweeping the area. I'll keep you posted. 348 00:32:46,132 --> 00:32:48,968 He's gotta be around here. He can't have gotten far. 349 00:32:49,051 --> 00:32:51,971 He can squeeze into a coffee can. He could be anywhere. 350 00:32:52,054 --> 00:32:54,557 - They'll find him. - They'll find another victim. 351 00:32:54,640 --> 00:32:58,561 - We interrupted him before he could finish. - Interrupted his killing duff? 352 00:32:58,644 --> 00:33:02,898 The killing is just incidental, I think, to a far more basic need. 353 00:33:03,232 --> 00:33:04,233 What need? 354 00:33:04,316 --> 00:33:09,321 If aboah has no pituitary, then his body couldn't produce melanin itself, right? 355 00:33:09,405 --> 00:33:10,823 Theoretically, yes. 356 00:33:10,906 --> 00:33:14,994 Well, when you examined him you didn't observe one single albino trait. 357 00:33:15,077 --> 00:33:19,582 Considering his pet scan results, I don't even know how he managed to stay alive. 358 00:33:19,665 --> 00:33:22,835 That's what I'm talking about: Survival. And notjustaboah's. 359 00:33:22,918 --> 00:33:28,007 I think the anomaly you observed is not just physiological. I think it may be evolutionary. 360 00:33:28,090 --> 00:33:32,595 - What are you talking about? - A lost tribe, a clan of sub-saharan albinos... 361 00:33:32,678 --> 00:33:37,183 Linked by a common congenital deficit, who've adapted over generations by... 362 00:33:37,266 --> 00:33:42,104 - By stealing other people's hormones? - Somehow, aboah has managed to survive. 363 00:33:45,024 --> 00:33:49,862 However he's managed to survive, what makes you think he's not an isolated case? 364 00:33:49,945 --> 00:33:53,407 Because of something somebody told me last night. 365 00:33:56,035 --> 00:33:58,037 An African folk tale. 366 00:33:58,412 --> 00:34:00,456 You're basing this theory on a folk tale? 367 00:34:00,539 --> 00:34:03,042 It's just another way of describing the same truth. 368 00:34:03,125 --> 00:34:07,046 All new truths begin as heresies and end as superstitions. We fear the unknown... 369 00:34:07,129 --> 00:34:13,093 So we reduce it to terms that are familiar, whether that's a folk tale or a disease or... 370 00:34:13,802 --> 00:34:15,596 A conspiracy. 371 00:34:18,265 --> 00:34:21,810 Even if you're right, especially if you're right... 372 00:34:21,894 --> 00:34:24,146 Why would he leave his country to come here? 373 00:34:24,271 --> 00:34:25,898 Free cable. 374 00:34:26,440 --> 00:34:28,567 The same reasons anybody comes here. 375 00:34:28,651 --> 00:34:31,737 Liberty, the freedom to pursue your own interests... 376 00:34:32,446 --> 00:34:34,406 Look at that. 377 00:34:34,490 --> 00:34:37,076 - What are you doing? - It's a demolition site. 378 00:34:38,244 --> 00:34:40,454 Why are we here, mulder? 379 00:34:40,955 --> 00:34:44,333 Pendrell found asbestos fibres on Owen Sanders' body. 380 00:34:44,458 --> 00:34:48,587 You remove asbestos from an old building before you tear it down. 381 00:34:50,005 --> 00:34:52,508 It had to come from somewhere. 382 00:35:32,006 --> 00:35:33,215 (Clang) 383 00:36:13,922 --> 00:36:15,257 Scully? 384 00:36:18,677 --> 00:36:20,054 Scullyl 385 00:36:22,598 --> 00:36:23,932 mulder? 386 00:36:34,026 --> 00:36:35,277 Mulder? 387 00:36:40,741 --> 00:36:42,034 Mulder? 388 00:37:05,766 --> 00:37:07,101 Mulder? 389 00:37:27,454 --> 00:37:29,665 (Thudding) 390 00:37:38,757 --> 00:37:40,092 Mulder? 391 00:38:59,046 --> 00:39:00,422 Mulder! 392 00:39:07,179 --> 00:39:09,515 Mulder, are you ok? 393 00:39:09,598 --> 00:39:12,100 (Running footsteps) 394 00:39:21,735 --> 00:39:23,737 (Footsteps continue) 395 00:39:24,112 --> 00:39:25,447 (Panting) 396 00:39:41,880 --> 00:39:43,882 (Groans weakly) 397 00:39:45,634 --> 00:39:49,304 It's ok, mulder. I'm here. Ok? 398 00:40:24,756 --> 00:40:26,758 Sorry, mulder. 399 00:40:33,515 --> 00:40:34,850 (Groans) 400 00:40:42,441 --> 00:40:43,525 911. Operator. 401 00:40:43,609 --> 00:40:48,947 This is agent Dana Scully, FBI, requesting immediate ems and police assistance. 402 00:40:49,031 --> 00:40:52,951 - I'm in Liberty Plaza. - May I have your badge number? 403 00:40:53,327 --> 00:40:55,370 My badge number? 404 00:40:55,454 --> 00:40:58,165 Jtto331613. 405 00:40:59,207 --> 00:41:00,959 (Grunts) 406 00:41:01,209 --> 00:41:03,629 (Operator talking indistinctly) 407 00:41:06,381 --> 00:41:07,799 (Groans weakly) 408 00:41:07,883 --> 00:41:12,012 Liberty Plaza. There's a demolition site on the north side of the street. 409 00:41:41,083 --> 00:41:45,587 Special agent Dana Scully, field journal entry number 74. 410 00:41:46,672 --> 00:41:49,591 Despite acute trauma to his pituitary gland... 411 00:41:49,675 --> 00:41:54,846 Marcus duff was discharged early this morning from mount Zion medical center. 412 00:41:55,430 --> 00:42:01,019 He is expected to testify before a grand jury in the capital case against Samuel aboah... 413 00:42:01,103 --> 00:42:04,439 Who is being charged with five counts of murder. 414 00:42:05,107 --> 00:42:07,359 It remains uncertain, however... 415 00:42:07,442 --> 00:42:10,779 Whetheraboah will live long enough to stand trial. 416 00:42:10,862 --> 00:42:14,032 His response to hormone therapy has been poor... 417 00:42:14,116 --> 00:42:17,077 His deterioration progressive. 418 00:42:17,452 --> 00:42:19,705 My conviction remains intact: 419 00:42:19,788 --> 00:42:23,792 That the mechanism by which aboah killed and, in turn, survived... 420 00:42:23,875 --> 00:42:26,712 Can only be explained by medical science. 421 00:42:26,795 --> 00:42:32,634 And that science will eventually discover his place in the broader context of evolution. 422 00:42:33,552 --> 00:42:36,555 But what science may never be able to explain... 423 00:42:36,638 --> 00:42:40,058 Is our ineffable fear of the alien among us. 424 00:42:40,434 --> 00:42:44,646 A fear which often drives us not to search for understanding... 425 00:42:44,730 --> 00:42:48,150 But to deceive, inveigle and obfuscate. 426 00:42:49,067 --> 00:42:52,571 To obscure the truth, not only from others... 427 00:42:52,654 --> 00:42:54,656 But from ourselves. 428 00:43:15,343 --> 00:43:17,304 Subtitles by visiontext 429 00:43:34,696 --> 00:43:36,281 (Child) I made this!