1 00:00:04,755 --> 00:00:10,678 (Woman) Ugh! I got mosquito bites. I got blisters. I hate those new boots. 2 00:00:10,761 --> 00:00:14,932 Honey, why are you so po'd? I thought we had a good time. 3 00:00:15,016 --> 00:00:16,559 You had a good time. 4 00:00:16,642 --> 00:00:20,646 You had a fine time tromping around and leaving me a half a mile behind. 5 00:00:20,730 --> 00:00:24,567 For future reference, me running through the woods after you for a day 6 00:00:24,650 --> 00:00:27,653 is not my idea of a good time. 7 00:00:27,737 --> 00:00:30,072 I'm sorry. 8 00:00:30,156 --> 00:00:33,242 I've got longer legs. 9 00:00:33,326 --> 00:00:35,912 I was excited, you know? 10 00:00:35,995 --> 00:00:40,208 The great outdoors, communing with nature. 11 00:00:40,291 --> 00:00:44,045 - Your head hurt? - Yeah. 12 00:00:44,128 --> 00:00:49,217 You can hit me in the head with a rock if it'll make you feel better. 13 00:00:49,300 --> 00:00:51,886 Fine. Go get one. 14 00:00:53,804 --> 00:00:56,015 I'm taking a shower. 15 00:01:41,602 --> 00:01:43,604 Argh! 16 00:01:56,617 --> 00:02:01,414 - You still mad at me? - No. I'm not mad. 17 00:02:03,374 --> 00:02:05,459 Come here. 18 00:02:11,048 --> 00:02:16,887 So I guess we're never going hiking again. It's indoors for ever from now on. 19 00:02:19,265 --> 00:02:21,517 Angie, honey, what's up? 20 00:02:22,768 --> 00:02:25,021 Just hold me. 21 00:03:42,348 --> 00:03:44,642 (Mulder) Oh. Whoo. 22 00:03:44,725 --> 00:03:48,020 I don't know what they did with the screen for this thing. 23 00:03:48,104 --> 00:03:50,106 This is Angela and Wallace schiff, 24 00:03:50,189 --> 00:03:54,652 a young married couple last seen hiking near brown mountain, north Carolina. 25 00:03:54,735 --> 00:03:59,532 That's Angie on the right. This is the condition in which their bodies were found 26 00:03:59,615 --> 00:04:03,702 after being missing for only three days in temperatures below 70 degrees. 27 00:04:03,786 --> 00:04:09,125 Which rules out decomposition. I'd say predation, but the bones would be scattered. 28 00:04:09,208 --> 00:04:13,045 Not to mention that these skeletons are not wearing any clothes. 29 00:04:13,129 --> 00:04:18,467 Right. I'd say it looks like a double murder, possibly one with ritualistic overtones. 30 00:04:18,551 --> 00:04:22,346 The bodies may have been stripped, then skeletonised, 31 00:04:22,430 --> 00:04:26,642 possibly by boiling or by the use of some kind of acid solution. 32 00:04:26,725 --> 00:04:31,397 Maybe the arrangement of the bodies has some meaning for the killer or killers. 33 00:04:31,480 --> 00:04:35,025 - At any rate, I'd term it ritualistic. - That's a big operation. 34 00:04:35,109 --> 00:04:39,447 There was no evidence at the scene. No tyre tracks, no footprints, nothing. 35 00:04:40,281 --> 00:04:44,535 - What do you think this is? - Brown mountain doesn't ring a bell? 36 00:04:44,618 --> 00:04:46,370 Brown mountain lights? 37 00:04:46,454 --> 00:04:49,748 It's a famous atmospheric phenomenon dating back 700 years, 38 00:04:49,832 --> 00:04:53,586 witnessed by thousands of people, back to the cherokee Indians. 39 00:04:53,669 --> 00:04:57,047 Strange coloured lights are seen to dance above the mountain. 40 00:04:57,131 --> 00:05:01,093 There's been no geological or scientific credible explanation at all. 41 00:05:01,177 --> 00:05:03,179 What does that have to do with this? 42 00:05:03,262 --> 00:05:06,182 There's been no scientific credible explanation, 43 00:05:06,265 --> 00:05:09,351 but there are those of us who believe these lights are... 44 00:05:09,435 --> 00:05:11,103 Ufos? 45 00:05:11,187 --> 00:05:15,566 Extraterrestrial visitors from beyond who have nothing better to do 46 00:05:15,649 --> 00:05:19,612 than buzz one mountain over and over again for 700 years. 47 00:05:19,695 --> 00:05:24,617 Sounds like crap when you say it. I'm just wondering if there's a connection, Scully. 48 00:05:24,700 --> 00:05:28,537 The conditions of these bodies are reminiscent of cattle mutilations. 49 00:05:28,621 --> 00:05:33,334 Those cases have no physical evidence. They've been associated with ufo activity. 50 00:05:33,417 --> 00:05:39,340 Can't you just for once, just for the novelty of it, come up with the simplest explanation, 51 00:05:39,423 --> 00:05:44,428 the most logical one, instead of automatically jumping to ufos or big foot? 52 00:05:44,512 --> 00:05:47,598 Scully, in six years, how often have I been wrong? 53 00:05:48,641 --> 00:05:53,062 No, seriously. Every time I bring you a new case, we go through this dance. 54 00:05:53,145 --> 00:05:56,774 You tell me I'm not scientifically rigorous and that I'm off my nut. 55 00:05:56,857 --> 00:06:01,445 And then, in the end, who turns out to be right 98.9 per cent of the time? 56 00:06:02,863 --> 00:06:06,367 I just think I've earned the benefit of the doubt here. 57 00:06:17,920 --> 00:06:21,966 We gave 'em adjoining suites. I was ready to send them on to chapel hill. 58 00:06:22,049 --> 00:06:24,718 The state medical examiner should have a look. 59 00:06:24,802 --> 00:06:27,054 We appreciate you holding off. 60 00:06:27,137 --> 00:06:29,515 The connective tissue is intact. 61 00:06:29,598 --> 00:06:34,645 Unlike everything else. I'm not sure what to make of it considering the time frame. 62 00:06:34,728 --> 00:06:40,025 If you'll pardon an obvious question, are you sure that these are the right two bodies 63 00:06:40,109 --> 00:06:43,404 and not two others that have lain out for six months? 64 00:06:45,739 --> 00:06:49,660 We triple-checked the dental records. Angela and Wallace schiff. 65 00:06:49,743 --> 00:06:51,829 No doubt about it. 66 00:06:59,628 --> 00:07:03,465 And they were both found near brown mountain, right? 67 00:07:03,549 --> 00:07:07,636 - Where exactly? - Well, I could write you some directions. 68 00:07:09,680 --> 00:07:12,683 Would you... happen to know what this is? 69 00:07:13,434 --> 00:07:16,020 The remains were found in a swampy area. 70 00:07:16,103 --> 00:07:20,816 Some sort of organic material relating to that. It's bog sludge. 71 00:07:20,899 --> 00:07:24,153 I'm gonna go check out where the bodies were found. 72 00:07:27,823 --> 00:07:31,118 - You coming? - No. You go ahead. 73 00:08:28,884 --> 00:08:31,136 Wallace schiff? 74 00:09:07,297 --> 00:09:09,299 Wallace schiff? 75 00:09:15,723 --> 00:09:18,100 We got your gas spectrometer results. 76 00:09:18,183 --> 00:09:21,770 That stuff on the bones I said was bog sludge - it isn't. 77 00:09:23,772 --> 00:09:28,986 "Water, hydrochloric acid, electrolytes, pepsins and trypsins." 78 00:09:29,069 --> 00:09:32,906 - It's a digestive secretion. - Stomach juices, pretty much. 79 00:09:32,990 --> 00:09:35,617 Pretty damn close to it, except for this. 80 00:09:36,410 --> 00:09:37,745 Chitinase? 81 00:09:37,828 --> 00:09:42,916 It's a digestive enzyme as well. But it's strictly plant, not animal. 82 00:10:00,976 --> 00:10:02,436 Hello? 83 00:10:17,701 --> 00:10:22,372 I told you I'd seen this before. These are the two I remember, anyway. 84 00:10:28,212 --> 00:10:30,756 Both were discovered as skeletal remains. 85 00:10:30,839 --> 00:10:34,551 Right. But we saw nothing odd in that. 86 00:10:34,635 --> 00:10:39,181 Both were lost hikers found months or years later, whatever it says there. 87 00:10:39,264 --> 00:10:44,770 The bodies were found not far from where Angela and Wallace schiff turned up. 88 00:10:51,360 --> 00:10:53,445 (Ringing tone) 89 00:10:55,864 --> 00:10:58,700 Mulder, answer your phone. 90 00:10:58,784 --> 00:11:01,036 The customer you are trying... 91 00:11:01,119 --> 00:11:06,041 Do me a favour. Fonnard a sample of that secretion over to the FBI lab at Quantico. 92 00:11:06,124 --> 00:11:09,336 - I want them to run a complete analysis. - You got it. 93 00:11:09,419 --> 00:11:12,965 And, in the meantime, can I borrow your truck? 94 00:11:24,017 --> 00:11:27,563 Please... don't take me. 95 00:11:28,272 --> 00:11:31,817 Hey, come out here. Step closer. I won't hurt you. 96 00:11:35,195 --> 00:11:37,948 - You're not one of them? - One of who? 97 00:11:40,659 --> 00:11:43,161 Are you Wallace schiff? 98 00:11:46,540 --> 00:11:50,794 I hate to tell you this, Wallace, but you're supposed to be dead. 99 00:11:50,878 --> 00:11:54,172 They found your skeleton not 200 yards from here. 100 00:11:54,256 --> 00:11:58,218 - It's fake. They put it there. - Who put it there? 101 00:12:00,762 --> 00:12:04,474 - You know who. - The brown mountain lights. 102 00:12:05,350 --> 00:12:11,773 They abducted us. Me and my wife Angela. They took us on board their... oh, god... 103 00:12:12,274 --> 00:12:14,192 Wallace? Wallace? 104 00:12:15,235 --> 00:12:20,574 They found your wife Angela, too. Lying right alongside your skeleton. 105 00:12:21,700 --> 00:12:24,369 No! Don't you get it? 106 00:12:24,453 --> 00:12:28,165 They faked our deaths. They have that kind of technology. 107 00:12:28,665 --> 00:12:33,378 Who the hell would be looking for us if they thought they'd already found our bodies? 108 00:12:33,462 --> 00:12:39,217 They returned me, but Angela's still up there being experimented on and I can't... 109 00:12:39,301 --> 00:12:41,136 I don't know what to... 110 00:12:41,219 --> 00:12:43,639 What do I do? 111 00:13:15,837 --> 00:13:17,464 Mulder? 112 00:13:42,406 --> 00:13:45,951 First things first. We gotta find a way outta here. 113 00:13:47,411 --> 00:13:49,913 Right behind you. 114 00:13:53,458 --> 00:13:55,794 What the hell is going on? 115 00:13:55,877 --> 00:13:58,463 That was solid rock. Now there's nothing there. 116 00:13:58,547 --> 00:14:03,051 Oh, god. It's them. They're affecting your head. 117 00:14:03,927 --> 00:14:06,763 Maybe mine, too. What if I can't even tell what's real? 118 00:14:06,847 --> 00:14:08,932 Wallace, let's get outta here. 119 00:14:10,851 --> 00:14:14,146 - Come on, Wallace! - They're out there, man. 120 00:14:14,229 --> 00:14:16,314 (Rumbling) 121 00:14:25,240 --> 00:14:27,325 It's them. 122 00:14:28,076 --> 00:14:29,536 Wallace. 123 00:14:36,960 --> 00:14:38,628 Mulder? 124 00:14:48,805 --> 00:14:50,265 Mulder! 125 00:15:03,779 --> 00:15:05,864 (Rumbling) 126 00:15:08,325 --> 00:15:10,786 (Wallace) Don't let them see you. 127 00:15:19,961 --> 00:15:23,507 - They're gone. - Yeah. For now. 128 00:15:24,382 --> 00:15:27,636 - Thank god they didn't find us. - They should have. 129 00:15:29,262 --> 00:15:32,474 Maybe they came for something else. 130 00:15:44,820 --> 00:15:46,905 (Wallace) Oh, my god. 131 00:15:49,074 --> 00:15:51,159 Oh, my god. Angie. 132 00:15:52,994 --> 00:15:55,080 They brought her back. 133 00:16:01,002 --> 00:16:05,882 (Mulder) Angie, can you talk to me? Do you remember what happened? Can you tell me? 134 00:16:05,966 --> 00:16:08,260 It's all fuzzy and... 135 00:16:08,343 --> 00:16:11,721 You were with your husband. You were with Wallace. 136 00:16:11,805 --> 00:16:15,308 There was a light. A bright light. 137 00:16:16,560 --> 00:16:19,563 Where was that light coming from? From the mountain? 138 00:16:19,646 --> 00:16:25,026 Over brown mountain. There were strange lights dancing over the peak. 139 00:16:25,110 --> 00:16:28,780 And... they took me. 140 00:16:28,864 --> 00:16:31,992 And Wallace, too. 141 00:16:34,035 --> 00:16:38,456 - And then what happened? - It just... it all went black. 142 00:16:38,540 --> 00:16:41,835 And when I woke up, I didn't know where I was. 143 00:16:41,918 --> 00:16:45,088 And I couldn't see Wallace any more. 144 00:16:45,172 --> 00:16:47,966 They returned me first. 145 00:16:48,758 --> 00:16:54,139 This place that they took you to, can you describe it to me, tell me what it looked like? 146 00:16:54,222 --> 00:16:56,600 It was white. 147 00:16:56,683 --> 00:16:59,769 A white place. It was featureless. 148 00:16:59,853 --> 00:17:04,983 I was lying on a table and I couldn't get up. 149 00:17:05,066 --> 00:17:09,070 Nothing was holding me down, but I couldn't move. 150 00:17:09,154 --> 00:17:11,656 Were there men there? 151 00:17:12,324 --> 00:17:13,575 Yes. 152 00:17:13,658 --> 00:17:20,081 There were men standing over me, but I couldn't see their faces. 153 00:17:20,498 --> 00:17:23,835 Did they perform tests on you? 154 00:17:23,919 --> 00:17:26,796 Yes, they did tests. 155 00:17:28,256 --> 00:17:30,967 Terrible tests. 156 00:17:32,552 --> 00:17:34,012 What? 157 00:17:35,597 --> 00:17:39,184 You have a scar back here on the back of your neck. 158 00:17:39,267 --> 00:17:42,896 - What? What scar? - It's fresh. 159 00:17:42,979 --> 00:17:46,358 - What is that? - It's an implant. I've seen this before. 160 00:17:46,441 --> 00:17:51,112 Yes, the drill. I remember the drill. I couldn't see it at first. 161 00:17:51,196 --> 00:17:57,244 That was the worst part. But I could hear it spinning, and it was coming out of the light! 162 00:17:57,327 --> 00:17:59,621 - What did they put in me? - Is there one in me? 163 00:17:59,704 --> 00:18:05,877 Male abductions don't usually report this. Everything is textbook except for one detail. 164 00:18:06,419 --> 00:18:07,462 What? 165 00:18:07,545 --> 00:18:12,384 Two skeletons we found were identified as yours and Angie's. It doesn't make any sense. 166 00:18:12,467 --> 00:18:17,180 Maybe they're like those cattle mutilations. Maybe they're related or part of their tests. 167 00:18:17,264 --> 00:18:21,977 I had that thought, but there's no precedent for it. It's in none of the literature. 168 00:18:22,060 --> 00:18:27,774 They didn't want anybody to find us. I guess they didn't want you to know the truth. 169 00:18:30,110 --> 00:18:33,530 - We gotta get outta here right now. - No way. 170 00:18:33,613 --> 00:18:36,700 They're out there. They're always watching. 171 00:18:36,783 --> 00:18:40,120 If they find us, if we leave, they'll take us again. 172 00:18:40,203 --> 00:18:44,624 We're leaving right now. Gather your things. Angie, I'll help you up. 173 00:18:44,708 --> 00:18:47,460 They're coming. I can feel it. 174 00:18:47,544 --> 00:18:49,004 (Rumbling) 175 00:18:50,922 --> 00:18:53,591 - They're here! - Hide. They'll take you, too. 176 00:18:54,009 --> 00:18:56,720 - We've got to hide! - No. 177 00:19:24,456 --> 00:19:26,166 - Scully. - Mulder... 178 00:19:26,249 --> 00:19:29,169 Why did you leave north Carolina without telling me? 179 00:19:29,252 --> 00:19:30,337 Long story. 180 00:19:30,420 --> 00:19:33,465 You disappear and then I get a furtive call that you're in DC? 181 00:19:33,590 --> 00:19:37,385 - I'm sorry. Does anyone know you're here? - No. 182 00:19:41,348 --> 00:19:44,893 - Scully, this is... - Angela and Wallace schiff. 183 00:19:46,811 --> 00:19:50,982 - But, mulder, it can't be. - This is my partner. Agent Scully. 184 00:19:53,568 --> 00:19:58,114 - Mulder, I ID'd their remains myself. - Yeah, I think you were meant to. 185 00:19:58,198 --> 00:20:02,660 Agent Scully, the aliens planted decoys so you would think we were dead. 186 00:20:04,621 --> 00:20:06,706 The aliens? 187 00:20:11,503 --> 00:20:15,965 Scully, I want you to put aside your scientific bias for a moment. 188 00:20:17,300 --> 00:20:21,513 Because what I'm about to tell you is gonna change your life for ever. 189 00:20:21,596 --> 00:20:26,476 Your life, my life, the life of everybody on this planet. 190 00:20:27,811 --> 00:20:31,106 - Mulder? - It was out there. 191 00:20:31,189 --> 00:20:33,691 And I found it. 192 00:20:35,193 --> 00:20:37,028 - What? - The truth. 193 00:20:37,112 --> 00:20:42,033 This couple... they were abducted by a ufo. 194 00:20:42,117 --> 00:20:44,411 Brown mountain lights. 195 00:20:45,745 --> 00:20:51,376 They took me to a white place. There were men there. They put an implant in my neck. 196 00:20:52,669 --> 00:20:54,754 Just like what happened to you. 197 00:20:56,589 --> 00:21:02,637 From what very little I understand about this case, this is not what happened to me. 198 00:21:02,720 --> 00:21:04,889 There's more. 199 00:21:13,398 --> 00:21:15,900 He doesn't like the light. 200 00:21:16,651 --> 00:21:18,111 Who? 201 00:21:33,543 --> 00:21:35,753 I abducted him. 202 00:21:37,547 --> 00:21:39,632 It's a grey. 203 00:21:41,050 --> 00:21:43,136 It speaks to me. 204 00:21:44,220 --> 00:21:46,723 We communicate telepathically. 205 00:21:47,682 --> 00:21:50,101 He told me everything. 206 00:21:52,187 --> 00:21:54,564 I... I can hear him. 207 00:21:54,647 --> 00:21:56,191 Yeah. 208 00:21:58,234 --> 00:22:01,029 Oh, my god. 209 00:22:20,298 --> 00:22:24,844 I don't know what to say, mulder, where to begin. 210 00:22:24,928 --> 00:22:28,306 I mean, you... you were right. 211 00:22:30,767 --> 00:22:33,144 All these years, you were right. 212 00:22:33,228 --> 00:22:35,855 You think so? 213 00:22:35,939 --> 00:22:41,819 You were right about the greys, about the abductions, about the ufos, 214 00:22:41,903 --> 00:22:43,988 the brown mountain lights. 215 00:22:44,072 --> 00:22:47,116 What about the skeletons? 216 00:22:47,825 --> 00:22:52,163 - They were fake. They were decoys. - You're buying that decoy theory? 217 00:22:53,706 --> 00:22:58,586 What about that organic substance we found, that goo you were so interested in? 218 00:22:58,670 --> 00:23:01,172 It was nothing. It was bog sludge. 219 00:23:04,175 --> 00:23:07,887 That... doesn't sound like you, Scully. 220 00:23:07,971 --> 00:23:11,391 It... god, I can't believe you're buying that. 221 00:23:14,352 --> 00:23:17,480 Mulder, I'm admitting that I was wrong. 222 00:23:20,233 --> 00:23:22,110 Are you all right? 223 00:23:54,225 --> 00:23:56,311 How are you feeling? 224 00:23:58,646 --> 00:24:00,732 - This doesn't make any sense. - What? 225 00:24:00,815 --> 00:24:04,068 These two, their story, their skeletons. 226 00:24:04,152 --> 00:24:08,364 Mulder, if I of all people can believe this, then why can't you? 227 00:24:46,903 --> 00:24:50,698 - (Coroner) Did you go inside the cave? - (Soul/y) I looked. It's empty. 228 00:24:50,782 --> 00:24:53,451 It's as if he just vanished. 229 00:24:55,453 --> 00:24:57,872 He's gotta be around. 230 00:24:57,955 --> 00:25:01,376 We'll catch up to him. I know this area pretty well. 231 00:25:01,459 --> 00:25:02,919 Doctor. 232 00:25:04,754 --> 00:25:10,051 It's more of that digestive material. Looks like it's coming up from out of the ground. 233 00:25:24,148 --> 00:25:26,234 Agent Scully? 234 00:25:28,986 --> 00:25:31,989 I got tracks going in and out. 235 00:25:32,073 --> 00:25:34,909 They were only going in before. 236 00:25:34,992 --> 00:25:37,662 - I guess you missed him. - How? 237 00:25:37,745 --> 00:25:41,749 This cave's not much more than a hole in the rock. 238 00:25:41,833 --> 00:25:43,918 Agent Scully? 239 00:26:24,751 --> 00:26:28,838 The courierjust arrived. He brought your partner's charts. 240 00:26:48,691 --> 00:26:51,402 I'm sorry. 241 00:26:51,486 --> 00:26:53,988 I know it's difficult. 242 00:27:08,753 --> 00:27:10,213 That... 243 00:27:12,131 --> 00:27:17,804 That digestive secretion that we keep finding - could it have done this to him? 244 00:27:17,887 --> 00:27:20,473 I'm not sure I follow. 245 00:27:20,556 --> 00:27:25,102 It's chemically similar to gastricjuices, right? Maybe he fell in it. 246 00:27:25,186 --> 00:27:30,733 Or maybe it's a product of a particular vegetation that grows in the area. 247 00:27:31,317 --> 00:27:36,239 That all sounds plausible, I guess. Except for one thing. 248 00:27:38,950 --> 00:27:41,661 There's no sign of it on these remains. 249 00:28:03,891 --> 00:28:06,394 It was on the schiffs. 250 00:28:07,228 --> 00:28:10,982 I just think we need to look for the simplest explanation. 251 00:28:13,150 --> 00:28:15,653 The most logical. 252 00:28:17,029 --> 00:28:19,740 What is the most logical explanation? 253 00:28:21,158 --> 00:28:26,622 I'd say we're looking at a murder, one with ritualistic overtones. 254 00:28:27,665 --> 00:28:30,960 I think his body was stripped and then skeletonised, 255 00:28:31,043 --> 00:28:34,630 possibly by boiling or use of an acid solution. 256 00:28:38,175 --> 00:28:42,972 Don't worry, agent. We'll take care of the arrangements. 257 00:28:44,974 --> 00:28:47,059 What arrangements? 258 00:28:47,143 --> 00:28:50,021 We'll have the remains sent on to Washington. 259 00:28:54,609 --> 00:28:58,613 I appreciate the thoroughness of your report, 260 00:28:58,696 --> 00:29:01,782 especially given the circumstances. 261 00:29:01,866 --> 00:29:05,077 It might be best if you took some time off, some shore leave. 262 00:29:09,415 --> 00:29:12,043 Agent? 263 00:29:12,126 --> 00:29:14,211 Sir... 264 00:29:15,129 --> 00:29:18,049 You're satisfied with my conclusions in this case? 265 00:29:18,132 --> 00:29:20,217 Absolutely. 266 00:29:21,510 --> 00:29:23,596 I take it you're not? 267 00:29:26,140 --> 00:29:29,644 I was unable to determine a clear cause of death. 268 00:29:30,478 --> 00:29:34,523 Nor was I able to fully account for the condition of agent mulder's body. 269 00:29:34,607 --> 00:29:37,777 You concluded he was a victim of a ritual killing. 270 00:29:39,737 --> 00:29:44,450 I mean, that was one possible scenario that I mentioned. 271 00:29:44,533 --> 00:29:49,163 But, in my mind, it was the least plausible. 272 00:29:49,246 --> 00:29:53,209 Not only is it plausible, it's likely. 273 00:29:54,835 --> 00:29:58,714 Why are you questioning your own findings? 274 00:29:58,798 --> 00:30:02,343 My role in the x-files has always been to provide... 275 00:30:02,426 --> 00:30:07,765 A rational, scientific perspective to cases that would seem to defy explanation. 276 00:30:07,848 --> 00:30:11,602 - A counterpoint to agent mulder. - And you have done that. 277 00:30:11,686 --> 00:30:14,855 - You have performed admirably. - Have I? 278 00:30:15,523 --> 00:30:22,238 How many x-files has my scientific approach fully and satisfactorily explained? 279 00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:26,617 Your reports have consistently made sense of his conclusions. 280 00:30:26,701 --> 00:30:29,453 Sir, this one makes no sense at all. 281 00:30:31,580 --> 00:30:35,626 Are you suggesting this is anything other than a murder? 282 00:30:35,710 --> 00:30:38,671 That's what agent mulder would have thought. 283 00:30:41,132 --> 00:30:43,634 And you think he would've been right? 284 00:30:48,514 --> 00:30:52,643 Given his life work, it's tempting to attribute his death to the paranormal, 285 00:30:52,727 --> 00:30:56,564 the unexplained, the unknown, but that's simply not the case here. 286 00:30:56,647 --> 00:30:59,650 We need to see this for what it is. 287 00:30:59,734 --> 00:31:05,156 And given that... I promise you we'll get the bastard who did this. 288 00:32:08,844 --> 00:32:10,930 I'm sorry. 289 00:32:27,738 --> 00:32:31,367 Agent Scully, how are you holding up? 290 00:32:34,286 --> 00:32:37,164 - I still can't believe it. - Neither can we. 291 00:32:37,248 --> 00:32:40,417 I half expect mulder to come knocking at that door. 292 00:32:40,501 --> 00:32:42,878 "Surprise." 293 00:32:42,962 --> 00:32:45,756 - This'll dull the pain. - No, thank you. 294 00:32:51,554 --> 00:32:54,056 Just so you know... 295 00:32:55,933 --> 00:33:00,146 We've launched our own investigation. 296 00:33:00,229 --> 00:33:03,732 I was beginning to think that I was the only one who was suspicious. 297 00:33:03,816 --> 00:33:07,570 We'll find him. We'll find him and we'll make him pay. 298 00:33:07,653 --> 00:33:10,906 - Find who? - The son of a bitch who killed mulder. 299 00:33:10,990 --> 00:33:15,119 I hope you're not offended, but we managed to get a hold of your report. 300 00:33:15,202 --> 00:33:18,038 We were impressed by the thoroughness of it. 301 00:33:18,122 --> 00:33:21,542 - Especially given the circumstances. - I don't understand. 302 00:33:21,625 --> 00:33:26,589 We concur with your findings. Clearly, this was a ritualistic murder. 303 00:33:26,672 --> 00:33:29,049 Those are not my findings. 304 00:33:29,133 --> 00:33:32,344 You guys believe that too, that mulder was murdered? 305 00:33:32,428 --> 00:33:36,056 - It's the obvious answer. - No, it is not the obvious answer! 306 00:33:38,184 --> 00:33:43,814 We believe his body was stripped, then skeletonised by boiling or an acid solution. 307 00:33:43,898 --> 00:33:48,277 - We'll make that monkey pay. - What the hell is wrong with everybody? 308 00:33:48,360 --> 00:33:53,407 There are unanswered questions here. Am I the only one that's asking them? 309 00:33:57,244 --> 00:33:59,330 I could use a drink. 310 00:34:00,789 --> 00:34:06,337 You three of all people, you should be all over this, not buying the party line. 311 00:34:06,420 --> 00:34:11,091 Something else is going on here. Am I the only one who thinks that? 312 00:34:12,801 --> 00:34:14,887 Are you all right? 313 00:34:22,228 --> 00:34:24,647 You need to go home and get some rest. 314 00:34:24,730 --> 00:34:27,816 - I'll call you a cab. - What have you done with him? 315 00:34:27,900 --> 00:34:30,945 You're emotionally distraught. You need to calm down. 316 00:34:31,028 --> 00:34:34,740 Where is mulder? Where is he? What have you done with him? 317 00:34:34,823 --> 00:34:37,785 Listen to me. He's gone. You need to accept that. 318 00:34:37,868 --> 00:34:42,831 Something else is going on here. Where is he? Where's mulder? 319 00:34:44,667 --> 00:34:46,752 (Knock at door) 320 00:34:53,717 --> 00:34:55,803 (Knocking continues) 321 00:35:18,867 --> 00:35:20,327 Scully. 322 00:35:30,713 --> 00:35:35,843 We were in the cave when the light came. 323 00:35:35,926 --> 00:35:40,556 It was a blinding blue-white light. 324 00:35:41,932 --> 00:35:44,893 And then they took me. 325 00:35:44,977 --> 00:35:47,313 I was abducted. 326 00:35:47,396 --> 00:35:53,485 I found myself in some kind of medical bay. It was a white, featureless... 327 00:35:53,569 --> 00:35:56,739 - It was just as the schiffs had described it. - They're dead. 328 00:35:56,822 --> 00:35:58,866 No, actually, they're not. 329 00:35:58,949 --> 00:36:04,204 Mulder, their remains were discovered in a field. 330 00:36:04,288 --> 00:36:08,250 That's what brought us to this case in the first place. 331 00:36:08,334 --> 00:36:11,295 I found your remains in that same field. 332 00:36:11,378 --> 00:36:14,340 Me... I'm here. 333 00:36:15,049 --> 00:36:19,595 - How did you get here? - The aliens brought me back here. 334 00:36:20,137 --> 00:36:24,099 From north Carolina direct to your apartment door? 335 00:36:26,977 --> 00:36:30,230 Mulder, you don't remember getting here, do you? 336 00:36:32,441 --> 00:36:34,526 Neither do I. 337 00:36:35,110 --> 00:36:37,654 It doesn't change what happened. 338 00:36:37,738 --> 00:36:41,825 Mulder, why did you knock? This is your apartment. 339 00:36:41,909 --> 00:36:46,163 And you don't seem the least bit surprised to find me here. 340 00:36:46,246 --> 00:36:48,457 And what about the schiffs? 341 00:36:48,540 --> 00:36:52,836 If they're alive, as you say, then... 342 00:36:54,338 --> 00:36:57,383 Then where are they? Where'd they go? 343 00:36:57,466 --> 00:37:03,639 Mulder, five minutes ago this room was filled with people attending your wake. 344 00:37:03,722 --> 00:37:06,642 What can I say, Scully? I'm here. I'm real. 345 00:37:06,725 --> 00:37:11,563 Mulder, this is not reality. This is a hallucination. It has to be. 346 00:37:11,647 --> 00:37:15,484 Either I am having it, or you are having it or we are having it together. 347 00:37:15,567 --> 00:37:18,904 - Brought on by what? - Something that we found in that field, 348 00:37:18,987 --> 00:37:21,490 because that's where it began. 349 00:37:24,034 --> 00:37:26,578 Wild mushrooms. 350 00:37:26,662 --> 00:37:31,625 Wild mushrooms. They were growing there. I stepped on one and it gave off spores. 351 00:37:32,251 --> 00:37:36,713 Several varieties of mushrooms are known for their hallucinogenic properties. 352 00:37:36,797 --> 00:37:40,300 - If we inhaled it... - What about the most logical explanation? 353 00:37:40,384 --> 00:37:47,433 This is it, mulder. What if we're still there, if we're still in that cave in north Carolina? 354 00:37:47,516 --> 00:37:50,686 That we're not here in this apartment right now. 355 00:37:50,769 --> 00:37:52,604 Oh, Scully... 356 00:37:52,688 --> 00:37:55,315 Bear with me. I think this is making sense. 357 00:37:55,399 --> 00:37:57,860 I think that Angela and Wallace schiff 358 00:37:57,943 --> 00:38:01,613 were digested by that substance that I found all over that field, 359 00:38:01,697 --> 00:38:05,826 that they were dissolved and then expelled up out of the ground. 360 00:38:05,909 --> 00:38:11,039 What if that substance and this hallucinogen are from one and the same organism? 361 00:38:11,123 --> 00:38:12,624 A giant mushroom? 362 00:38:12,708 --> 00:38:16,044 A giant fungal organism. We already know that they exist. 363 00:38:16,128 --> 00:38:21,967 Biologists have found specimens that range dozens of acres, that weigh hundreds of tons. 364 00:38:22,050 --> 00:38:24,761 What if this one needs to feed on living tissue? 365 00:38:24,845 --> 00:38:30,225 There is carnivorous plant life. There's the Venus flytrap and the pitcher plant. 366 00:38:30,309 --> 00:38:35,731 - What if this one puts off an hallucinogen... - To lure its prey into the cave? 367 00:38:36,690 --> 00:38:41,028 To make it complacent, to keep it still while it devours it. 368 00:38:42,988 --> 00:38:48,327 What if we're still underground, mulder? What if we're moving deeper into the cave? 369 00:38:48,410 --> 00:38:51,038 Or being moved? 370 00:38:51,121 --> 00:38:53,665 Mulder, what if we're being digested... 371 00:38:57,044 --> 00:38:59,129 Right now? 372 00:39:55,769 --> 00:39:59,189 The exact size of this organism is yet to be determined? 373 00:39:59,273 --> 00:40:01,358 That's correct, sir. 374 00:40:03,110 --> 00:40:07,030 We know that the organism extends for at least ten acres, 375 00:40:07,114 --> 00:40:10,576 though it's mostly subterranean, so it may be far larger. 376 00:40:10,659 --> 00:40:12,661 We've contacted fish and wildlife. 377 00:40:12,744 --> 00:40:18,750 We've contacted the north Carolina health department and the FBI office in Raleigh. 378 00:40:18,834 --> 00:40:23,964 And we've contacted mycologists at the Smithsonian. We have our bases covered. 379 00:40:24,047 --> 00:40:29,344 The lab results determined that the spores we were exposed to 380 00:40:29,428 --> 00:40:32,764 have a chemical structure similar to LSD. 381 00:40:32,848 --> 00:40:38,395 They also contain an alkaloid which induces a state of narcosis. 382 00:40:39,980 --> 00:40:44,276 It's a rare day when the two of you sign off on the same report. 383 00:40:49,740 --> 00:40:51,116 Agent mulder? 384 00:40:52,618 --> 00:40:55,746 I'm just thinking. 385 00:40:55,829 --> 00:40:58,707 I'm not exactly clear on how we escaped. 386 00:40:58,790 --> 00:41:01,293 What's not clear? 387 00:41:01,418 --> 00:41:08,091 Once you recognised that we were under a chemical influence, then it broke its spell? 388 00:41:08,634 --> 00:41:09,718 That's right. 389 00:41:09,801 --> 00:41:14,973 Scully, how could we simply will ourselves out of a chemical hallucination? 390 00:41:15,057 --> 00:41:17,976 - The fact remains, we did. - Did we? 391 00:41:18,810 --> 00:41:23,315 Can you name one drug that loses its effect once the user realises it's in his system? 392 00:41:23,398 --> 00:41:26,610 I assume the effects wore off and you were both able to escape. 393 00:41:26,693 --> 00:41:30,072 How long were we underground? Hours? Half a day? 394 00:41:30,155 --> 00:41:33,867 Our bodies don't show effects of being burned by the digestive fluids. 395 00:41:33,950 --> 00:41:37,621 We were covered in hydrochloric acid, yet look at our skin. Nothing. 396 00:41:37,704 --> 00:41:39,998 Mulder, where are you going with this? 397 00:41:40,082 --> 00:41:43,585 Scully, we never escaped. 398 00:41:45,087 --> 00:41:48,507 We're still trapped underground. 399 00:41:48,882 --> 00:41:51,093 Mulder, we did escape. 400 00:41:52,636 --> 00:41:55,514 You're suffering from post-traumatic stress. 401 00:41:55,597 --> 00:41:57,683 No, I'm not. 402 00:41:57,766 --> 00:42:00,560 This is not real. You, you're not real. 403 00:42:02,020 --> 00:42:03,146 Mulder... 404 00:42:03,230 --> 00:42:05,691 I'll prove it, Scully. I'll prove it. 405 00:42:06,817 --> 00:42:07,984 Mulder! 406 00:42:56,575 --> 00:42:58,660 (Man) Over here. 407 00:43:02,622 --> 00:43:04,082 (Man) Hey! 408 00:43:07,794 --> 00:43:09,880 (Man) Come on! 409 00:43:14,801 --> 00:43:16,970 He's alive. 410 00:43:17,053 --> 00:43:19,473 Hurry up. 411 00:43:19,556 --> 00:43:22,058 Get him out. Get him out! 412 00:43:30,400 --> 00:43:32,903 Keep digging. She's down here. 413 00:43:34,821 --> 00:43:36,907 Pull her out! 414 00:43:49,961 --> 00:43:52,464 - Mushroom... - We found it. 415 00:43:54,883 --> 00:43:56,551 Just take it easy. 416 00:44:54,109 --> 00:44:56,111 Visiontext subtitles: Yasmin rammohan 417 00:45:17,090 --> 00:45:18,717 (Child) I made this!