1 00:00:07,092 --> 00:00:09,970 - They were to check in at midnight. - You try every band? 2 00:00:10,095 --> 00:00:14,266 - All audiovisual seemed to be down. - Maybe it's just a satellite glitch. 3 00:00:14,349 --> 00:00:19,438 We thought so too, until we received this... from a tracking station in Bend, Oregon. 4 00:00:19,521 --> 00:00:22,191 They picked it up on an emergency frequency. 5 00:00:25,611 --> 00:00:28,280 What are those guys doing? 6 00:00:30,657 --> 00:00:33,952 We did manage to uplink Firewalker's video camera. 7 00:00:34,036 --> 00:00:38,207 It's at base camp, so we hope it can give us a picture, tell us what's going on. 8 00:00:38,498 --> 00:00:41,001 Data feed's coming in now. 9 00:00:47,507 --> 00:00:50,677 - What's the robot doing in the volcano? - I don't know. 10 00:00:50,802 --> 00:00:52,846 There's no descent scheduled. 11 00:00:52,971 --> 00:00:56,683 Firewalker's not responding. I can't get control. 12 00:00:56,808 --> 00:01:00,854 - Someone's overriding it. - Lock camera remote and pan left. 13 00:01:05,984 --> 00:01:07,653 Stop. Stop! 14 00:01:07,819 --> 00:01:09,905 Go back. 15 00:01:11,823 --> 00:01:14,243 Tilt up and zoom in. 16 00:01:18,497 --> 00:01:20,540 Eflkson. 17 00:01:21,083 --> 00:01:23,335 What the hell...? Give me that! 18 00:01:28,507 --> 00:01:32,719 There it is again. Did you see that? You saw that shadow, didn't you? 19 00:01:32,844 --> 00:01:36,348 Yeah, but what could be moving around in that kind of heat? 20 00:01:36,431 --> 00:01:38,058 I don't know. 21 00:01:39,601 --> 00:01:44,856 Maybe it was, uh, just a ghost signal. I mean, it wouldn't be the first time that... 22 00:01:45,941 --> 00:01:48,777 (high-pitched distortion) 23 00:01:55,742 --> 00:01:57,869 What's going on up there? 24 00:02:55,427 --> 00:03:01,183 (TV) Let's go to our science editor Eric Parker in Mount Avalon, Washington. Eric? 25 00:03:01,266 --> 00:03:04,144 I'm standing here with a group of scientists... 26 00:03:04,269 --> 00:03:08,857 ...who are excited about this device, which looks like a large titanium bug. 27 00:03:08,940 --> 00:03:13,487 Firewalker will next week make its first descent into an active volcano. 28 00:03:13,612 --> 00:03:17,032 This robot is the brainchild of volcanologist Daniel Trepkos. 29 00:03:17,115 --> 00:03:19,409 It will gather samples from the crater... 30 00:03:19,493 --> 00:03:22,829 ...which may hold scientific data about the Earth's core. 31 00:03:22,954 --> 00:03:25,374 Scientific data? 32 00:03:25,457 --> 00:03:28,919 We're talking about revisiting the very origin of the Earth. 33 00:03:29,002 --> 00:03:31,630 Peering into the fire where it all began. 34 00:03:32,547 --> 00:03:37,469 A human endeavour more important even than man's exploration of space. 35 00:03:40,222 --> 00:03:42,224 That's no mean claim. 36 00:03:42,307 --> 00:03:45,143 Daniel always had a flair for self-dramatisation. 37 00:03:45,310 --> 00:03:49,981 - I'd always heard that he was brilliant. - Brilliant doesn't go quite far enough. 38 00:03:50,065 --> 00:03:52,692 He occupies a rare place among scientists... 39 00:03:52,818 --> 00:03:56,947 ...where dreams, ambition and... great luck converge. 40 00:03:57,030 --> 00:03:58,782 You think his luck just ran out. 41 00:03:58,865 --> 00:04:04,788 The team sent a distress signal yesterday after failing to make a status report. 42 00:04:04,871 --> 00:04:07,582 They haven't responded to any of our calls. 43 00:04:07,666 --> 00:04:12,295 But by using remote telemetry, we were able to activate Firewalker's camera. 44 00:04:12,379 --> 00:04:14,506 This is what we found. 45 00:04:14,589 --> 00:04:17,551 You're looking at the floor of the volcano. 46 00:04:18,218 --> 00:04:21,847 But this is the last thing we expected to discover. 47 00:04:21,930 --> 00:04:26,184 The dead man is, uh, Phil Erikson... chief seismologist. 48 00:04:27,769 --> 00:04:30,105 Now, look at this. 49 00:04:31,273 --> 00:04:34,860 Whoa! What the hell is that? 50 00:04:36,027 --> 00:04:38,238 (sighs) We don't know. 51 00:04:38,530 --> 00:04:40,699 Whatever it was disabled the camera. 52 00:04:40,782 --> 00:04:45,162 The temperature readings are upwards of 130° at this depth. 53 00:04:45,245 --> 00:04:47,664 - But that was alive. - Why weren't you there? 54 00:04:47,747 --> 00:04:52,419 (sighs) I left the project six weeks ago. Trepkos and I nearly came to blows. 55 00:04:53,253 --> 00:04:56,840 - Over what? - Well, I wish I could explain. 56 00:04:56,923 --> 00:04:59,301 Daniel and I, uh... 57 00:05:00,719 --> 00:05:06,475 I always played Salieri to his Mozart. I was never quite on his plane of intellect. 58 00:05:06,558 --> 00:05:08,768 But this time I found him slipping. 59 00:05:09,144 --> 00:05:11,229 Into madness. 60 00:05:12,063 --> 00:05:15,817 - He controlled the others... - You think he's responsible for this? 61 00:05:15,901 --> 00:05:19,070 Whatever there is between me and him, I pray that he isn't. 62 00:05:19,154 --> 00:05:24,117 We've got 20 million tax dollars in this project. If word of it were to get out... 63 00:05:24,242 --> 00:05:28,288 ...it could destroy years of work. I'm afraid to go through proper channels. 64 00:05:28,413 --> 00:05:31,500 Yeah. We're not exactly proper channels. 65 00:05:32,959 --> 00:05:37,130 - How soon can we get up there? - There's a flight waiting to take us to Seattle. 66 00:05:37,255 --> 00:05:40,759 From there, a helicopter will fly us to Mount Avalon. 67 00:05:42,302 --> 00:05:44,221 Scully? 68 00:05:44,304 --> 00:05:49,100 - I don't think it's a good idea for you to go. - Mulder, I appreciate your concern... 69 00:05:49,184 --> 00:05:52,479 ...but I'm ready - I wanna work. 70 00:05:53,146 --> 00:05:55,982 Well, maybe you should take some time off. 71 00:05:56,650 --> 00:05:59,277 I've already lost too much time. 72 00:06:14,209 --> 00:06:16,294 There it is! 73 00:07:23,069 --> 00:07:25,905 This was Firewalker's satellite relay. 74 00:07:26,740 --> 00:07:30,952 We installed field instruments here. Seismographs, tiltmeters... 75 00:07:31,036 --> 00:07:33,496 We'll look here after we've checked inside. 76 00:07:33,580 --> 00:07:38,960 The instruments are worth millions of project dollars. I'm accountable to the USGS for 'em. 77 00:07:39,044 --> 00:07:43,757 - Shouldn't we find the descent team first? - I just wanna take a quick damage survey. 78 00:07:43,882 --> 00:07:46,384 I'll catch up with you in a few minutes. 79 00:08:05,236 --> 00:08:07,322 Hello? 80 00:08:08,114 --> 00:08:10,241 (flicks light switch) 81 00:08:40,522 --> 00:08:45,360 Looks like somebody wanted to put this operation permanently out of commission. 82 00:10:03,271 --> 00:10:05,190 (grunts) 83 00:10:11,196 --> 00:10:13,031 Mulder! 84 00:10:13,114 --> 00:10:16,201 - Wait! Wait! - What's going on? 85 00:10:16,284 --> 00:10:19,954 - This isn't what it looks like! - He just about took my head off. 86 00:10:20,705 --> 00:10:24,083 I told you, I made a mistake, OK? I'm sorry, all right? 87 00:10:24,209 --> 00:10:27,962 - Who the hell are you? - I'm... I'm Ludwig. I'm Jason Ludwig. 88 00:10:28,046 --> 00:10:31,841 - I'm the robotics engineer. - Do you always greet people this way? 89 00:10:31,925 --> 00:10:35,386 I heard a noise. I thought it was him. I was protecting myself. 90 00:10:35,470 --> 00:10:37,263 You know, self-preservation? 91 00:10:37,388 --> 00:10:41,518 Who did you think I was that you thought you had to protect yourself? 92 00:10:41,601 --> 00:10:43,728 Trepkos. 93 00:10:50,401 --> 00:10:56,783 Sometimes he wouldn't talk to us for days. Then, boom! You couldn't get him to shut up. 94 00:10:56,908 --> 00:10:58,952 Don't get me wrong, OK? 95 00:10:59,077 --> 00:11:01,830 No one revered the man more than me. 96 00:11:01,913 --> 00:11:04,916 I mean... he was a prophet... 97 00:11:05,917 --> 00:11:07,502 ...an oracle. 98 00:11:07,585 --> 00:11:09,295 He saw things. 99 00:11:09,420 --> 00:11:13,007 L-I... I mean, he... he saw things that you and me... 100 00:11:14,008 --> 00:11:16,219 ...we only dream about... 101 00:11:16,302 --> 00:11:19,430 ...and then forget when we wake up. 102 00:11:27,438 --> 00:11:31,818 Well, it's OK, you can come out now. The cavalry's here. 103 00:11:36,531 --> 00:11:39,826 This is Peter Tanaka, our systems analyst. 104 00:11:40,493 --> 00:11:42,704 (Tanaka coughs) 105 00:11:45,123 --> 00:11:48,459 And, uh, this is Jesse O'Neil. 106 00:11:50,336 --> 00:11:52,297 Are you the rescue team? 107 00:11:52,380 --> 00:11:55,216 - No, we're With the FBI. - FBI? 108 00:11:56,134 --> 00:11:58,219 But you're taking us back, right? 109 00:11:58,511 --> 00:12:02,390 - After we've investigated what happened. - Trepkos is what happened. 110 00:12:02,515 --> 00:12:05,810 - Did he kill Erikson? - He flipped out. 111 00:12:06,978 --> 00:12:10,273 Right after the descent, he just flipped out. 112 00:12:10,356 --> 00:12:14,777 Can you think of anything that might've caused or contributed to his behaviour? 113 00:12:14,861 --> 00:12:18,364 - You're asking me? - Daniel was sick. 114 00:12:19,157 --> 00:12:23,786 He had a bipolar disorder. I think that's what it was. 115 00:12:23,870 --> 00:12:28,291 It wasn't a secret, but it's not something he advertised either. 116 00:12:28,374 --> 00:12:31,085 But with his medication he was just fine. 117 00:12:32,003 --> 00:12:35,673 Well, I think Erikson's wife might disagree with that. 118 00:12:37,842 --> 00:12:40,386 You're part of the team, Jesse? 119 00:12:41,429 --> 00:12:46,059 Daniel was my thesis advisor at the university. 120 00:12:46,726 --> 00:12:49,354 He asked me to assist him on this project. 121 00:12:51,230 --> 00:12:54,776 - Are these his notes? - Oh... yeah. 122 00:12:55,568 --> 00:12:57,946 Well, whatever's left of 'em. 123 00:12:59,447 --> 00:13:01,991 First thing he did was destroy all his own work. 124 00:13:02,075 --> 00:13:05,453 You know, his field journals, his computer disks. 125 00:13:06,704 --> 00:13:09,290 We salvaged what we could, but... 126 00:13:09,374 --> 00:13:12,418 ...I don't really think you'll find much in there. 127 00:13:12,543 --> 00:13:14,879 Of use, anyway. 128 00:13:41,614 --> 00:13:44,242 - (bird takes flight) - Hello? 129 00:13:45,451 --> 00:13:47,954 Anyone there? 130 00:14:01,426 --> 00:14:03,511 Scully. 131 00:14:09,434 --> 00:14:12,395 What d'you make of Mr Trepkos's neighbourhood? 132 00:14:12,478 --> 00:14:16,858 - What d'you mean? - Isn't their behaviour bizarre? Paranoid? 133 00:14:16,941 --> 00:14:21,571 - After what they've been through, no. - They're practically climbing the walls. 134 00:14:21,654 --> 00:14:24,615 They've been living in the middle of nowhere for a year. 135 00:14:24,699 --> 00:14:27,410 One is dead, probably at the hands of another. 136 00:14:27,493 --> 00:14:31,039 You have to expect some heightened level of emotional distress. 137 00:14:31,122 --> 00:14:34,542 It's more than that. There's something they're not telling us. 138 00:14:34,625 --> 00:14:36,919 Based on what? 139 00:14:37,003 --> 00:14:40,465 Based on when Ludwig tried to play T-ball with my head. 140 00:14:40,548 --> 00:14:43,009 He knew I wasn't Trepkos. 141 00:14:43,885 --> 00:14:48,431 - Now Mulder, you're sounding paranoid. - Pierce knows these people. 142 00:14:48,514 --> 00:14:51,517 Let's find out what he thinks. 143 00:14:51,642 --> 00:14:53,519 OK. 144 00:15:19,170 --> 00:15:22,006 No one... can leave. 145 00:15:24,509 --> 00:15:26,594 (bones crack) 146 00:15:27,553 --> 00:15:29,680 (thud) 147 00:15:34,519 --> 00:15:35,937 (Ludwig) Pierce! 148 00:15:36,020 --> 00:15:38,606 - (Mulder) He's not here. - Pierce! 149 00:15:38,689 --> 00:15:42,318 - (O'Neil) Something's happened! - (Tanaka) Oh, my God! 150 00:15:42,401 --> 00:15:47,240 Get over here. He's over here! I've found him! I've found him! 151 00:15:48,074 --> 00:15:50,201 I've found him! 152 00:15:55,373 --> 00:15:58,417 - That should do it. - What shall we do with the body? 153 00:15:58,543 --> 00:16:00,211 - Do you have a freezer? - Yeah. 154 00:16:00,294 --> 00:16:03,965 - Radio for the helicopter. I'm almost done. - Let me help you. 155 00:16:04,048 --> 00:16:06,467 No, that's OK, we got him. 156 00:16:12,390 --> 00:16:14,851 - We can't leave, Scully. Not yet. - Why not? 157 00:16:14,934 --> 00:16:18,437 - Trepkos is still out there. - He killed Pierce and probably Erikson. 158 00:16:18,563 --> 00:16:21,482 - We should come back with a larger party. - No. 159 00:16:22,150 --> 00:16:27,488 I've been going over Trepkos's work. I found references to a subterranean organism. 160 00:16:27,572 --> 00:16:30,324 - What? - An organism existing within the volcano. 161 00:16:30,408 --> 00:16:32,660 No specific description... 162 00:16:32,743 --> 00:16:35,538 Mulder, nothing can live in a volcanic interior. 163 00:16:35,621 --> 00:16:39,417 Not only because of the intense heat, but the gasses would be toxic. 164 00:16:39,500 --> 00:16:41,919 What does this say? 165 00:16:42,795 --> 00:16:47,717 It describes the metabolism from hydrogen sulphide into silicon dioxide. 166 00:16:47,800 --> 00:16:49,719 A silicon-based life form? 167 00:16:49,802 --> 00:16:53,472 The basic building block for every organism known to man is carbon. 168 00:16:53,598 --> 00:16:58,227 - From bacterium to redwood trees. - Silicon is the closest element to carbon. 169 00:16:58,311 --> 00:17:02,732 It reacts identically with other elements - it combines to form complex molecules. 170 00:17:02,815 --> 00:17:06,485 A silicon-based life form is one of the holy grails of modern science. 171 00:17:06,611 --> 00:17:07,904 Maybe Trepkos found it. 172 00:17:07,987 --> 00:17:13,284 Mulder, that is science fiction. It's... an elaborate construct from a delusional mind. 173 00:17:13,367 --> 00:17:15,578 This doesn't prove anything. 174 00:17:15,661 --> 00:17:19,332 Trepkos said he had evidence. It's gotta be here somewhere. 175 00:17:19,457 --> 00:17:25,213 - Whatever evidence he had, he destroyed. - Maybe it wasn't Trepkos who destroyed it. 176 00:17:25,296 --> 00:17:29,050 - What if it was one of the others? - Why would they do that? 177 00:17:29,800 --> 00:17:34,347 All of these people are suffering to varying degrees from post-traumatic stress. 178 00:17:34,472 --> 00:17:40,186 And from a medical point of view, we have to get them out of here sooner rather than later. 179 00:17:48,736 --> 00:17:51,239 (knock at door) 180 00:17:52,031 --> 00:17:54,158 Jesse? 181 00:17:55,368 --> 00:17:57,495 Can I talk to you? 182 00:18:03,584 --> 00:18:05,670 Are you OK? 183 00:18:07,880 --> 00:18:10,591 I hate this place. 184 00:18:11,175 --> 00:18:13,844 What happened here, Jesse? 185 00:18:16,097 --> 00:18:18,516 You can trust me. 186 00:18:20,601 --> 00:18:23,104 After the first descent... 187 00:18:23,187 --> 00:18:25,273 ...Daniel changed. 188 00:18:25,356 --> 00:18:27,650 He became withdrawn and paranoid. 189 00:18:27,733 --> 00:18:31,946 He locked himself in the lab for three days and wouldn't let any of us in. 190 00:18:32,029 --> 00:18:34,824 Do you think the descent triggered his breakdown? 191 00:18:34,907 --> 00:18:37,118 Well, that's what I thought. 192 00:18:37,201 --> 00:18:40,037 And then... I found out... 193 00:18:41,539 --> 00:18:44,292 ...that he's not taking his pills. 194 00:18:46,043 --> 00:18:48,379 Lithium carbonate. 195 00:18:48,462 --> 00:18:51,590 Yeah, he said that they were polluting his brain. 196 00:18:51,716 --> 00:18:54,635 And... he said I was polluting his body. 197 00:18:59,056 --> 00:19:01,434 I'm scared. 198 00:19:01,559 --> 00:19:05,229 - I don't wanna die here. - What are you so afraid of, Jesse? 199 00:19:05,438 --> 00:19:07,565 Daniel. 200 00:19:10,443 --> 00:19:14,322 The only reason I even came here was because of him. 201 00:19:16,115 --> 00:19:19,910 He promised me that this would be an adventure. 202 00:19:22,163 --> 00:19:24,623 That it would change my life. 203 00:19:29,253 --> 00:19:34,675 But eight months is a long time, and I just wanna go home now. 204 00:19:35,009 --> 00:19:36,844 Where's home? 205 00:19:37,511 --> 00:19:39,847 Anywhere but here. 206 00:19:44,602 --> 00:19:50,358 (Trepkos on tape) Samples 7, 12 and 22 also contain trace evidence of the organism. 207 00:19:50,441 --> 00:19:55,654 The possibility of this new, or perhaps unfathomably old, life form... 208 00:19:55,780 --> 00:20:01,160 ...has left me sleepless, wondering if I haven't lost all perspective. 209 00:20:02,119 --> 00:20:08,292 If my intense desire to find the truth hasn't finally eclipsed the truth itself. 210 00:20:08,376 --> 00:20:13,631 Our meddling intellect misshapes the beauteous forms of things. 211 00:20:13,714 --> 00:20:15,800 We murder to dissect. 212 00:20:17,218 --> 00:20:21,222 My mind is a tangled knot I can no longer untie. 213 00:20:21,389 --> 00:20:26,060 Daily, I fight the urge to sever it completely to stop this descent. 214 00:20:38,322 --> 00:20:40,366 (tremor) 215 00:20:45,579 --> 00:20:47,873 What caused that tremor? 216 00:20:48,666 --> 00:20:52,336 There's been a lot of seismic activity in the northeast rift zone. 217 00:20:52,420 --> 00:20:57,341 If Trepkos hadn't destroyed our instruments, we might have learned something from it. 218 00:20:57,425 --> 00:20:59,927 - (coughs) - You feeling all right? 219 00:21:03,222 --> 00:21:04,432 Yeah. 220 00:21:04,515 --> 00:21:07,810 Agent Scully's a medical doctor. Let her take a look at you. 221 00:21:07,893 --> 00:21:10,104 - I'm fine. - Just let her take a look... 222 00:21:10,187 --> 00:21:11,605 No! 223 00:21:15,401 --> 00:21:18,362 I'll go get Scully. 224 00:21:21,699 --> 00:21:25,161 - Come on, get up. She'll help you. - I don't want her to! 225 00:21:25,244 --> 00:21:28,122 Of course you do! It's for the best. 226 00:21:28,622 --> 00:21:30,875 We have to get out of here. 227 00:21:31,625 --> 00:21:35,921 He just collapsed after the tremor. He seems pretty bad. 228 00:21:38,299 --> 00:21:40,968 - He's burning up. - What is it? 229 00:21:41,051 --> 00:21:44,930 An infection or a toxic reaction. We've gotta get him to a hospital. 230 00:21:45,055 --> 00:21:48,476 - I'll get a stretcher. - We can't just leave Trepkos. 231 00:21:48,559 --> 00:21:50,978 Give me the shortwave. 232 00:21:54,273 --> 00:21:59,487 This is Agent Scully with the Firewalker team. Come in, Search and Rescue. 233 00:22:00,738 --> 00:22:03,782 I'll get O'Neil and meet you at the landing site. 234 00:22:03,908 --> 00:22:05,534 This is Search and Rescue. 235 00:22:05,618 --> 00:22:08,704 Request dispatch of medevac immediately. 236 00:22:08,787 --> 00:22:12,791 We have an Asian male, mid-thirties, spiking a high-grade fever. 237 00:22:16,670 --> 00:22:18,589 (choking) 238 00:22:32,269 --> 00:22:34,438 (knock at door) 239 00:22:34,522 --> 00:22:37,316 Tanaka's collapsed. We're getting him out. 240 00:22:50,120 --> 00:22:51,705 (groans) 241 00:22:52,540 --> 00:22:55,000 - Tanaka! - Peter! 242 00:22:55,125 --> 00:22:57,670 Peter, come on, get back here! 243 00:23:33,747 --> 00:23:35,666 There. 244 00:23:38,085 --> 00:23:40,421 (choking) 245 00:23:40,504 --> 00:23:42,673 - Come on. - Don't go down there! 246 00:23:42,756 --> 00:23:46,510 - Let me go! What're you doing? Let go of me! - Don't go down there. 247 00:23:46,594 --> 00:23:49,179 For God's sakes, he needs our help! 248 00:24:19,543 --> 00:24:22,588 So what is it, Scully? What are we dealing with? 249 00:24:22,713 --> 00:24:25,924 Without better imaging equipment, I can't say for sure. 250 00:24:26,050 --> 00:24:28,510 I'll take any theory you've got. 251 00:24:28,594 --> 00:24:33,140 - It appears to be some kind of a fungus. - Anything you recognise? 252 00:24:33,223 --> 00:24:38,395 Well, I'm not a botanist, but I think it's fair to guess that it's an unknown genus. 253 00:24:39,229 --> 00:24:41,357 - What am I looking at here? - Spores. 254 00:24:41,440 --> 00:24:44,401 I scraped them off the tip of the fungus. 255 00:24:45,402 --> 00:24:51,283 It appears as if one of the spores grew inside Tanaka until it reached reproductive maturity. 256 00:24:51,408 --> 00:24:53,452 Essentially outgrowing its host. 257 00:24:53,577 --> 00:24:58,791 But by then it had caused massive tissue damage, particularly to the respiratory tract. 258 00:24:58,916 --> 00:25:02,670 - That accounts for the sand in his lungs. - You found sand in his lungs? 259 00:25:02,753 --> 00:25:06,965 Silicon dioxide. The waste product of a silicon-based organism. 260 00:25:07,132 --> 00:25:12,638 Wait a second. There... there's no such thing as a silicon-based organism. 261 00:25:12,763 --> 00:25:15,099 Maybe now there is. 262 00:25:15,432 --> 00:25:19,603 But we won't have proof until we determine its molecular structure. 263 00:25:19,687 --> 00:25:22,606 Come on. How else do you explain the sand in his lungs? 264 00:25:22,690 --> 00:25:26,985 It's the best trace evidence we could ask for. Trepkos was right. 265 00:25:27,528 --> 00:25:29,988 Daniel knew about this? 266 00:25:30,114 --> 00:25:33,659 He discovered a spore in the samples Firewalker brought up. 267 00:25:33,784 --> 00:25:35,160 He would've told us. 268 00:25:35,327 --> 00:25:39,915 Not if what he discovered was too disturbing even for him to understand. 269 00:25:39,998 --> 00:25:44,795 This might explain something else. The spore could explain Trepkos's dementia. 270 00:25:44,878 --> 00:25:47,881 Fungi contain alkaloids that affect the nervous system. 271 00:25:47,965 --> 00:25:51,760 Yeah, but what about us? I mean... we weren't exposed. 272 00:25:51,844 --> 00:25:56,557 We don't know that. If it was an airborne microbe, any of us could've inhaled a spore. 273 00:25:56,807 --> 00:25:58,976 So we're not going home, right? 274 00:25:59,059 --> 00:26:02,396 Not until we know how it's transmitted, how it incubates. 275 00:26:02,479 --> 00:26:07,651 If even one of us is infected, we could risk infecting a much larger population. 276 00:26:15,242 --> 00:26:18,120 Search and Rescue, this is Agent Mulder. Do you copy? 277 00:26:18,203 --> 00:26:21,373 This is Search and Rescue. We're in a holding pattern. Over. 278 00:26:21,498 --> 00:26:27,463 Notify FBI District HQ in Spokane that we're in quarantine due to possible contagion. 279 00:26:27,546 --> 00:26:30,841 Have CDC send up an evacuation unit on high alert. 280 00:26:30,924 --> 00:26:33,427 What's the nature of the contagion? 281 00:26:35,554 --> 00:26:37,806 Agent Mulder? 282 00:26:37,890 --> 00:26:42,644 Tell them it's a biological agent... of unknown origin. 283 00:26:42,728 --> 00:26:45,022 That's affirmative. Standing by. 284 00:26:47,024 --> 00:26:49,777 Maybe you should go check up on O'Neil. 285 00:27:08,962 --> 00:27:11,465 I'm gonna go find Trepkos. 286 00:27:14,468 --> 00:27:19,431 - What if he's already dead? - He'll find it tough answering my questions. 287 00:27:19,556 --> 00:27:21,892 I've gotta find out what he knows. 288 00:27:21,975 --> 00:27:25,771 It could change our understanding of the origin and evolution of life. 289 00:27:25,896 --> 00:27:29,316 He's dangerous, Mulder. He's already killed two men. 290 00:27:29,399 --> 00:27:33,237 - Then I have to find out why. - Will you at least let me go with you? 291 00:27:33,320 --> 00:27:34,613 No. 292 00:27:34,738 --> 00:27:39,159 Look, I know what you're thinking, but you have to get past that. We both do. 293 00:27:39,243 --> 00:27:42,663 I'm back... and I'm not going anywhere. 294 00:27:43,622 --> 00:27:46,792 You have to finish the autopsy on Tanaka. 295 00:27:46,917 --> 00:27:52,256 Hopefully that'll give us a better idea of what we're dealing with - whatever it is. 296 00:27:52,339 --> 00:27:56,468 I'm counting on you to keep us all from ending up on that slab. 297 00:28:18,782 --> 00:28:21,869 - Do like we said, OK? - Mm-hm. Mm-hm. 298 00:28:21,952 --> 00:28:24,121 You know what to say, right? 299 00:28:26,331 --> 00:28:28,625 I could use a little help. 300 00:28:29,376 --> 00:28:31,461 Excuse me. 301 00:28:33,380 --> 00:28:37,759 - So what do you need? - Directions, a contour map, USGS survey. 302 00:28:37,843 --> 00:28:40,345 Anything that can help me get here. 303 00:28:41,555 --> 00:28:43,640 Oh. 304 00:28:45,642 --> 00:28:48,312 These are the steam caves. 305 00:28:49,521 --> 00:28:53,358 They feed into the Sherman Crater. That's how we access the caldera. 306 00:28:53,483 --> 00:28:56,069 - How did you get these? - Firewalker. 307 00:28:56,153 --> 00:29:01,158 They were transmitted right before Trepkos destroyed his camera. 308 00:29:01,241 --> 00:29:02,784 Oh! 309 00:29:02,868 --> 00:29:05,704 So you're finally gonna go after Trepkos? 310 00:29:08,498 --> 00:29:10,876 Well, I'll tell you one thing. 311 00:29:11,001 --> 00:29:13,921 You won't find him with those. 312 00:29:14,004 --> 00:29:18,216 - And you won't find him with any map either. - How will I find him? 313 00:29:18,342 --> 00:29:20,385 You won't. 314 00:29:22,346 --> 00:29:25,349 - Not without a guide. - A guide? 315 00:29:25,432 --> 00:29:28,602 Yeah, a guide. I've been up here for almost a year. 316 00:29:28,685 --> 00:29:31,104 I spent months in those caves... 317 00:29:31,188 --> 00:29:35,609 ...charting every fissure, every crevice, so Firewalker wouldn't trip. 318 00:29:35,692 --> 00:29:38,695 If Trepkos is there, I can find him. 319 00:29:38,779 --> 00:29:42,532 - Why are you so eager to help me find him? - Oh, I'm... I'm not eager. 320 00:29:42,616 --> 00:29:48,872 I just don't want to wait around for Trepkos to do to me what he did to Pierce and Erikson. 321 00:29:48,956 --> 00:29:51,291 Plus, you've got the gun. 322 00:29:53,043 --> 00:29:56,588 You're the only one who can get us out of this place. 323 00:30:16,108 --> 00:30:18,610 Whatever I'm smelling, is it toxic? 324 00:30:18,735 --> 00:30:24,116 Between the heat and the sulphur, it can get pretty nasty in here. But it won't hurt you. 325 00:30:24,241 --> 00:30:26,576 You'll get used to it. 326 00:30:27,619 --> 00:30:33,625 - How far does the cave extend? - Three quarters of a mile, to the crater rim. 327 00:30:35,085 --> 00:30:37,587 Let's head in. 328 00:30:38,588 --> 00:30:43,176 It twists around quite a bit till you get there. Lots of dead ends... 329 00:30:44,594 --> 00:30:46,680 ...and blind drops. 330 00:30:46,763 --> 00:30:51,601 Unless you know where you're going, you're... like a rat in a maze. 331 00:31:00,777 --> 00:31:03,030 Argh! Argh! 332 00:31:03,363 --> 00:31:05,449 Argh! 333 00:31:34,352 --> 00:31:36,480 Your gun. 334 00:31:40,233 --> 00:31:42,486 Back. Get back. 335 00:31:49,493 --> 00:31:52,621 Why are you doing this, Trepkos? He's already dead. 336 00:31:52,704 --> 00:31:55,999 How many times do you have to kill him? 337 00:32:02,089 --> 00:32:04,758 It's not him I'm trying to kill. 338 00:32:39,793 --> 00:32:44,756 I have attempted to culture the spore, using temperatures ranging from human basal... 339 00:32:44,881 --> 00:32:48,260 ...to those approximating the volcanic interior. 340 00:32:48,385 --> 00:32:51,805 I have used nutritive mediums containing... 341 00:32:52,556 --> 00:32:56,726 ...human tissue, blood and saliva. Even sulphur. 342 00:32:56,810 --> 00:32:59,312 However, none of the seven trials... 343 00:32:59,396 --> 00:33:03,608 ...have successfully grown the fungus that killed Tanaka. 344 00:33:03,733 --> 00:33:09,072 Based on this preliminary data, I have come to the following hypothesis: 345 00:33:10,657 --> 00:33:14,995 ...That unless the spores are ingested or inhaled by the host organism... 346 00:33:15,078 --> 00:33:17,998 ...immediately upon their release... 347 00:33:18,081 --> 00:33:20,375 ...they become harmless... 348 00:33:20,458 --> 00:33:22,669 ...effectively dead. 349 00:33:29,467 --> 00:33:31,595 Jesse? 350 00:33:36,850 --> 00:33:39,144 (Jesse) What is it? 351 00:33:39,269 --> 00:33:43,607 I thought you'd like to know - the chances are good that none of us were infected. 352 00:33:43,690 --> 00:33:45,483 (choking) 353 00:33:45,609 --> 00:33:51,281 We were a safe distance from Tanaka. When Mulder and Ludwig come back, we can leave. 354 00:33:51,364 --> 00:33:55,619 I... I just need to run a few more tests, but I think we're gonna be OK. 355 00:33:58,997 --> 00:34:01,124 Ow. Oooh. 356 00:34:02,667 --> 00:34:05,045 OK, Jesse? Jesse? 357 00:34:09,799 --> 00:34:12,302 (Mulder) What went wrong, Trepkos'? 358 00:34:15,055 --> 00:34:18,683 Firewalker carried something back to the surface. 359 00:34:19,976 --> 00:34:22,646 Firewalker brought up an elephant. 360 00:34:24,648 --> 00:34:26,775 The truth... 361 00:34:26,858 --> 00:34:30,403 ...is an elephant described by three blind men. 362 00:34:32,030 --> 00:34:35,659 The first man touches the tail and says it's a rope. 363 00:34:36,576 --> 00:34:40,997 The second man feels the rough leg and says it's a tree. 364 00:34:42,832 --> 00:34:45,835 The third man feels the trunk and says it's a snake. 365 00:34:46,044 --> 00:34:49,172 What about you? What do you say it is? 366 00:34:51,091 --> 00:34:55,345 I say the earth holds some truths best left buried. 367 00:34:55,762 --> 00:34:58,181 Like the spore? 368 00:35:02,060 --> 00:35:06,523 - Who are you? - I'm Special Agent Mulder. I'm with the FBI. 369 00:35:07,440 --> 00:35:09,317 You don't look like a policeman. 370 00:35:09,401 --> 00:35:12,487 I came down here to investigate Erikson's death. 371 00:35:12,570 --> 00:35:15,073 That's not why you're here. 372 00:35:16,616 --> 00:35:22,205 You still believe you can petition heaven and get some penetrating answer. 373 00:35:23,540 --> 00:35:26,042 If you found that answer... 374 00:35:28,545 --> 00:35:30,880 ...what would you do with it? 375 00:35:34,759 --> 00:35:38,638 I just wanna know what happened after the first descent. 376 00:35:40,724 --> 00:35:42,976 What did you find? 377 00:35:47,814 --> 00:35:50,108 It was porous... 378 00:35:53,236 --> 00:35:55,322 ...obsidian. 379 00:35:56,239 --> 00:36:01,536 Erikson thought it was some sort of rock, so I told him to pulverise it for analysis. 380 00:36:01,619 --> 00:36:05,290 - Erikson released the spore? - He discovered a new life form. 381 00:36:05,415 --> 00:36:09,878 In a single moment, all that science held sacred suddenly turned on its head. 382 00:36:09,961 --> 00:36:16,009 - What about Erikson? If... if he was infected... - I was too immersed in the work to notice. 383 00:36:17,010 --> 00:36:22,140 I'd been alone in the lab for three days... when I heard their screams. 384 00:36:25,602 --> 00:36:28,104 They were all gathered around him. 385 00:36:29,022 --> 00:36:34,027 By the time I realised what was happening, they were already changing. 386 00:36:34,110 --> 00:36:38,656 The spore... grew in each of them until it became... 387 00:36:38,782 --> 00:36:41,159 What do you mean? 388 00:36:42,202 --> 00:36:44,579 It's a parasite. 389 00:36:44,662 --> 00:36:47,540 It lives to find a host. 390 00:36:47,624 --> 00:36:50,377 - But you weren't infected? - No. 391 00:36:51,711 --> 00:36:54,255 You destroyed your work, the equipment. 392 00:36:54,339 --> 00:36:57,384 You killed Pierce... so no one could leave. 393 00:36:58,009 --> 00:37:00,303 No one can leave. 394 00:37:06,017 --> 00:37:08,645 What about O'Neil? 395 00:37:08,728 --> 00:37:10,522 Jesse? 396 00:37:10,647 --> 00:37:15,026 - Was she exposed to the spore? - They were all exposed. 397 00:37:17,654 --> 00:37:21,658 - All of them. - I have a colleague, a friend... 398 00:37:22,325 --> 00:37:24,994 ...who's with O'Neil right now. 399 00:37:25,078 --> 00:37:29,165 - Let me go to her. - She may already be infected. 400 00:37:35,672 --> 00:37:37,841 I can't let you leave. 401 00:37:39,175 --> 00:37:41,761 Then you're gonna have to shoot me. 402 00:37:42,595 --> 00:37:45,098 Because I'm walking outta here. 403 00:38:29,559 --> 00:38:31,603 Jesse? 404 00:38:48,077 --> 00:38:49,746 Oh! 405 00:38:50,497 --> 00:38:53,249 God, you scared me! 406 00:38:53,625 --> 00:38:56,878 - (laboured breathing) - Jesse? 407 00:38:56,961 --> 00:38:59,881 - Are you OK'? - (choking) 408 00:38:59,964 --> 00:39:02,967 Jesse, what's wrong? Jesse? 409 00:39:05,303 --> 00:39:07,805 Jesse, what are you doing? 410 00:39:09,599 --> 00:39:11,434 (choking) 411 00:39:22,820 --> 00:39:24,948 (laboured breathing) 412 00:39:29,035 --> 00:39:30,828 (choking) 413 00:40:46,863 --> 00:40:48,281 Scully? 414 00:40:49,907 --> 00:40:51,826 Scully? 415 00:40:51,909 --> 00:40:54,037 I'm OK. I'm OK. 416 00:40:58,541 --> 00:41:00,960 - You all right? - I'm OK. 417 00:41:17,310 --> 00:41:18,561 Yeah. 418 00:41:21,773 --> 00:41:24,108 Mulder, look... 419 00:41:24,901 --> 00:41:28,613 ...she was infected. I don't know how. 420 00:41:28,738 --> 00:41:31,074 Erikson was the original host. 421 00:41:31,157 --> 00:41:35,578 When the fungus shed its spores, everyone was at ground zero, except for Trepkos. 422 00:41:35,662 --> 00:41:37,997 Did you find him? 423 00:42:04,273 --> 00:42:08,277 I told her... it would change her life. 424 00:42:20,873 --> 00:42:23,835 Search and Rescue, this is Agent Mulder. Do you copy? 425 00:42:23,960 --> 00:42:27,463 This is Army Biohazard. How many are in your party? 426 00:42:34,804 --> 00:42:37,807 We have two survivors - Agent Scully and myself. 427 00:42:37,890 --> 00:42:41,477 Copy that. Our ETA is seven minutes. 428 00:42:42,562 --> 00:42:46,357 Mulder, what are you doing? They're gonna wanna question him. 429 00:42:47,567 --> 00:42:49,986 It's all over, Scully. 430 00:42:50,820 --> 00:42:53,156 He won't talk. 431 00:43:07,086 --> 00:43:10,131 Scully and I are in the third day of a month's quarantine... 432 00:43:10,214 --> 00:43:13,134 ...undergoing level four decon procedures. 433 00:43:13,217 --> 00:43:17,388 We are, so far, without symptoms of fungal contamination. 434 00:43:20,558 --> 00:43:27,106 Our specimens and field notes were taken by the biohazard corps prior to our evacuation. 435 00:43:27,190 --> 00:43:33,029 Their presence is delayed indefinitely for the arrival of the USGS data retrieval team. 436 00:43:33,112 --> 00:43:38,034 I suspect, though, there will be little left for them to retrieve. 437 00:43:38,117 --> 00:43:44,290 There are no plans to explore the volcanically active mountains in the Cascade range... 438 00:43:44,373 --> 00:43:46,751 ...including Mount Avalon. 439 00:43:48,628 --> 00:43:53,466 All access points to that volcano have been sealed off by army engineers. 440 00:43:55,635 --> 00:43:58,679 Of the members of the Firewalker descent team... 441 00:43:58,763 --> 00:44:02,016 ...only Trepkos and O'Neil remain unaccounted for. 442 00:44:02,099 --> 00:44:06,229 They are presumed dead, and the search for them has been abandoned. 443 00:44:07,647 --> 00:44:10,066 Firewalker, however, was recovered, ... 444 00:44:10,149 --> 00:44:15,655 ...though its sensory and locomotive systems were found to be irreparably damaged. 445 00:44:15,738 --> 00:44:19,867 The data it collected from the Earth's interior will never be known. 446 00:44:19,951 --> 00:44:25,581 And of the events that occurred at Mount Avalon between 11 and 13 November 1994... 447 00:44:27,625 --> 00:44:30,503 ...mine stands as the only record. 448 00:44:40,763 --> 00:44:43,975 Visiontext Subtitles: Claire Bates 449 00:45:05,872 --> 00:45:07,623 (Child) I made this!