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[HELICOPTER BLADES WHIRRING]
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[MURMURING INDISTINCTLY]
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[MAN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY
OVER RADIO]
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For the next few hours,
this crate is all that matters.
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Protect it like your Mama's in it.
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Clear?
BOTH: Yes, sir!
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Do not drop it, do not scratch it,
do not peek inside of it.
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And for God's sakes,
you do not lose sight of it.
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Is that clear?
BOTH: Yes, sir!
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Quon will guide you to a site
east of Hill 862...
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...where you're gonna deliver
this crate to Bravo Company.
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Is that clear?
BOTH: Yes, sir!
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[MAN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY
OVER RADIO]
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MAN 1:
Three o'clock. Three o'clock.
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Rendezvous back at the drop site
at approximately 1900 hours.
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Is that clear?
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[GUNS FIRING]
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MAN 2: Now! Let's go!
Go! Go! Go!
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[GRUNTS]
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[GUNS FIRING]
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[FIRING CONTINUES]
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[WHIRRING]
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You all right, John?
I'm scared as hell, man!
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[BULLET WHIZZING]
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Dude, look at me. Look at me.
Everybody's scared.
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I got your back, and you got mine, okay?
Okay. Okay.
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We go.
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There's a village in there. Go.
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WALTER:
Damn!
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Go! GO!
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[ALL SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
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Quon!
What are you doing?
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He's been hit! I gotta go help him!
No, we gotta stay with the crate!
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Please.
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Stay put.
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[GRUNTS]
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[MAN SPEAKING
IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
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[GUNFIRE]
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[MEN SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
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Quon.
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[GRUNTS]
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[GRUNTING]
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[WOMEN SCREAMING]
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[YELLING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
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[YELLING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE
CONTINUES]
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WALTER: John.
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WALTER: John.
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John, where are you?
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[WOMAN SCREAMING]
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John?
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John?
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Monsters.
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John--
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John. John, it's me.
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John, it's me. It's Skinner!
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Deputy Director Kersh.
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I'm gonna ask you once and only once.
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Where is he?
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Sir, of whom are we speaking?
Cut the crap, agents.
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Have you ever wondered why...
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...after 35 years in the Bureau...
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...Walter Skinner isn't sitting
on this side of the desk...
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...or even perhaps running
this whole damn agency, for that matter?
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Are you looking for Skinner?
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Let me be unambiguous...
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...in the event that there are any questions
about this in your conspiracy-addled minds.
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Walter Skinner's stalled career...
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...has everything to do
with his blind loyalty to the both of you...
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...and your misguided search
for some imaginary truth.
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Sir, what is this about?
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Skinner's gone AWOL, Agent Mulder,
without warning or explanation.
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And, frankly, I don't buy your naiveté,
not even a moment.
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He hasn't been the same
since the two of you returned to the Bureau.
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Sir, has anyone checked his apartment?
Could he have had a medical emergency?
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The director's asking questions
about Skinner's activities that I can't answer.
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There's some implication
that he recently started poking around...
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...in places he shouldn't be poking.
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What sort of places?
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I couldn't say. But if you truly care
about his future in the FBI...
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...I suggest you bring him back here
while he still has a future to return to.
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What happened to the old reliable Skinner
we knew and loved?
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Well, based on his behavior
the past couple months...
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...it's safe to say
the old Skinner has left the building.
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Mulder, do you think his disappearance
actually has to do with us?
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Or something to do with William
or that business with the Purlieu Services?
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There's no way of telling
what Skinner's been up to recently.
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But I'll keep my eyes peeled
for cigarette butts.
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Maybe he's out
meeting with an interior decorator.
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No, I noticed this
the last time that we were here.
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There are no personal items.
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No mementos, no knickknacks...
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...no family photographs.
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It occurs to me
that even after all these years...
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...we know precious little about
Walter Sergei Skinner beyond the professional.
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It appears he may suffer
from moderate to severe constipation.
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I'm sorry to be a wimp, Mulder,
but this just feels wrong.
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This feels like a real invasion of his privacy.
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Well, it's not like Skinner to just disappear
without telling anyone. You know?
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As much as I don't trust the guy
right now...
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...if he's gotten into a dangerous situation,
he's gonna forgive us this little trespass.
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Look at this, Mulder.
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"Lance Corporal Walter Skinner.
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Third Battalion, Third Marines,
United States Marine Corps."
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That's a peculiar way
to address it.
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There's no return address.
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Aah!
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Is that a--?
Desiccated human ear.
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There's a note.
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"The monsters are here."
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Monsters, Mulder.
Does that get your juices flowing?
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As much as I appreciate any reference
to myjuices, Scully...
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...my only concern here is for Skinner.
But now I'm worried about him.
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Me, too.
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FOX:
"The Mud Lick Messenger."
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Mud Lick?
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Well, this is strange. Based on the way
that package was addressed...
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...I requested some basic information
about Skinner and his platoon in Vietnam...
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...like names of his fellow Marines, et cetera...
Uh-huh.
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...and I've just received word
that I've been denied access by the Bureau.
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That the information is classified top secret.
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Well, the sheriff here in Mud Lick says
he's got a body in the morgue minus an ear.
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I'll bet you that that victim turns out
to be one of Skinner's platoon mates...
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...from that classified list.
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You ain't gonna find no kitten.
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What?
Ain't no kitten out there.
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No. All right.
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SHERIFF: Doctor Matthew Wegweiser.
The victim was a medical doctor?
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That's correct, ma'am. Doc Wegweiser is--
Was our one and only town doctor.
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Terrific guy. Beloved.
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Went out for a hike Thursday last,
never to return.
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Mrs. Wegweiser told us he hiked
the same route several times a week.
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We found him on the trail, got himself snared
in some kind of hunting trap.
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A hunting trap?
How do you account for the severed ear?
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Well, I can't, honestly.
And the missing teeth?
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Missing teeth?
The autopsy says that he was missing...
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...several upper and lower molars
...and a couple of bicuspids.
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But there's no evidence
of advanced tooth decay or periodontitis.
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No evidence of manual extraction.
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FOX:
That mean something to you?
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It's funny because I just happened to have lost
two teeth in the past month myself.
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And my wife lost one yesterday.
We were puzzling over it at breakfast.
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FOX:
Hmm.
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The autopsy also says that
there were wood splinters inside the wound.
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This hunting trap, did it have
some kind of a spear or stake element?
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Yes, ma'am. It was a primitive whip trap.
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It's a bent piece of bamboo
held by a trip wire.
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There's a sharpened spear attached at the end.
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It's a punji stick.
Pardon?
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It's a simple spear
made of wood or bamboo.
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It was used in Vietnam in any one
of a number of insidious traps or weapons.
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Was Dr. Wegweiser here
by any chance a Vietnam vet?
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I don't believe he was, no.
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Are there any other Vietnam vets in town
that you know of?
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Oh, sure. Yeah, there's an institution
outside of town called Glazebrook.
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Lot of guys were sent up there after the war.
Lot of them stuck around when they got out.
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I think we passed one on our way in.
Old Trigger Davis. He's harmless.
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Trigger?
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Is Glazebrook a mental hospital?
Right, ma'am, a government-run facility.
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I'd like to see a list of past and current patients.
Do you have access to that?
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Probably not.
They run a tight ship up there.
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But I'll see what I can drum up.
Thank you, sheriff.
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Anything to dispel the craziness
everyone in town is buzzing about.
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What kind of craziness is that?
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People are swearing they seen
some kind of monster out in the woods.
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FOX:
Hmm.
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[WHIMPERING]
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[TWIGS RUSTLE]
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[DOG BARKING]
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[BARKING CONTINUES]
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Pippet?
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Pippet?
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[DOG WHIMPERING]
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Pippet. What is it, girl?
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What is it?
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[YELPS]
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[DOG WHIMPERING]
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SHERIFF:
Tell them what you told me, Ed.
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Well, Banjo called me up and said he saw
a damn monster out here in his woods...
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...and could I come with him
and look around.
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We was having that look around
when he just straight disappeared.
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Did you say Banjo?
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Ozzy Krager. Friends call him Banjo.
This is his property.
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Did he describe this monster?
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Well, first he thought it was a bear,
shh, shh, shh, but then he saw big old horns.
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And it was walking on two feet.
Same as people in town was talking about.
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But Mr. Krager, I mean, Banjo,
was he a Vietnam vet?
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Yeah, he was.
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This may seem like an odd question,
but was he missing any teeth?
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Yeah, he was.
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He'd just keep losing them,
like he's an old man or something.
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Well, I can't make much fun of him
because I been losing some, too.
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What's this?
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That's, uh, that's one of them deer cams.
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Hunters use them for game surveillance.
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They send an alert to your phone
when they detect movement.
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Can we review what's on it?
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Should be able to see it on a computer
back at the station.
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Something about that camera
that's troubling you, sir?
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Banjo don't have no deer cams.
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I mean, at least none that I seen,
and I hunt with him, like, every week.
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The camera is motion activated...
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...so it shouldn't take terribly long
to find what we're looking for.
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DANA:
Oh.
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FOX:
There.
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SHERIFF:
I don't believe it.
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There's our killer.
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Why do I get the distinct feeling
you two know who that man is?
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That how it's gonna be?
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I've been nothing but courteous to y'all,
and I don't appreciate being played a fool.
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Excuse me. I gotta go tell my people
we found their monster.
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Sheriff, that man is our boss.
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Assistant Director Walter Skinner
of the FBI.
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Well, what in the hell was he doing
at my crime scene last night?
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That's what we're here to find out.
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You're telling me you knew
that man was here all along?
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Walter Skinner didn't do this.
He's a good man. He's a smart man.
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He's been at the FBI for over 30 years,
and this murder's sloppy.
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I mean, not that he's capable of murder.
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But if he was, he certainly wouldn't get himself
caught on camera at a crime scene.
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So tell me, what's your good man doing...
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...standing over a dead body in the woods
in the middle of the night?
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A body which he neglected to call in
to any law enforcement agency...
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...including his own?
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Well, I know it looks bad, sheriff,
but I assure you, he's not your man.
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You can assure me all you want.
I'll decide who my man is...
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...when I get a chance to bring him in
and have a conversation with him.
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Now, if you'll excuse me, I gotta go
put out an APB for this Walter Skinner.
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What are you doing?
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There's more on that tape, Scully.
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Put down an out all-points bulletin
for a Walter Skinner, white male, glasses...
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Hurry up.
You're gonna get us run out of town.
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SHERIFF:
--armed and dangerous.
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[BEEPING]
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What did we just see, Mulder?
235
00:16:07,009 --> 00:16:09,887
We find that monster, we find Skinner.
236
00:16:10,054 --> 00:16:13,808
Tell me you don't think that was some real,
actual monster we just saw.
237
00:16:13,975 --> 00:16:15,017
For once, we agree.
238
00:16:15,184 --> 00:16:18,437
Monsters don't dig pits and set traps.
That was a man in a mask.
239
00:16:18,604 --> 00:16:21,399
I'm more concerned
about Skinner's state of mind right now.
240
00:16:22,775 --> 00:16:24,485
[INDISTINCT CHATTERING]
241
00:16:26,988 --> 00:16:32,368
Maybe Skinner's experiencing a delayed form
of PTSD from his time in Vietnam.
242
00:16:32,535 --> 00:16:35,288
That's, uh, not without precedent.
243
00:16:35,454 --> 00:16:41,627
And even the shock of receiving that ear
in the mail is a pretty plausible trigger.
244
00:16:43,129 --> 00:16:45,214
What?
You said trigger.
245
00:16:46,966 --> 00:16:49,177
Trigger. Banjo.
246
00:16:49,886 --> 00:16:51,345
Kitten?
247
00:16:52,096 --> 00:16:55,474
I already told you.
Yeah, you said I wouldn't find Kitten.
248
00:16:55,641 --> 00:16:58,769
But is Kitten a person?
Is that somebody's nickname?
249
00:16:58,936 --> 00:17:03,691
I told the eagle where to find Kitten's kitten.
The eagle. Hmm.
250
00:17:06,944 --> 00:17:09,030
Is the eagle bald?
251
00:17:10,948 --> 00:17:12,825
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
252
00:18:00,373 --> 00:18:02,625
[KNOCKS ON DOOR]
253
00:18:10,258 --> 00:18:11,259
Hello?
254
00:18:12,468 --> 00:18:14,178
Anybody here?
255
00:19:09,442 --> 00:19:10,818
[CHUCKLES]
256
00:19:17,825 --> 00:19:20,494
So I unload into this ditch, right?
257
00:19:20,661 --> 00:19:23,497
And they're deader than a bag of tent stakes,
the whole lot.
258
00:19:23,664 --> 00:19:28,669
And I kneel down next to this little one.
He's gotta be no more than 10, 12 years old.
259
00:19:28,836 --> 00:19:32,048
And I'm about to add another
little adorable charm to my necklace.
260
00:19:34,008 --> 00:19:35,134
I take out my Ka-Bar...
261
00:19:35,301 --> 00:19:39,263
...I slice this little monster's ear off
like a hunk of Wisconsin cheddar.
262
00:19:39,430 --> 00:19:40,723
SOLDIER 1:
Oh, man, Kitten.
263
00:19:40,890 --> 00:19:44,185
But all of a sudden, he opens his eyes.
264
00:19:44,352 --> 00:19:45,603
Screams like a banshee!
265
00:19:45,770 --> 00:19:48,314
Takes off into the trees,
hollering the whole way!
266
00:19:48,481 --> 00:19:51,400
[LAUGHING]
267
00:19:54,320 --> 00:19:55,404
Uh.
268
00:19:55,571 --> 00:19:57,198
You're bleeding, man.
269
00:20:00,951 --> 00:20:01,952
SOLDIER 2 & 3:
Oh.
270
00:20:02,119 --> 00:20:04,789
Dang. That's the third one this week.
271
00:20:04,955 --> 00:20:05,956
[CHUCKLES]
272
00:20:06,123 --> 00:20:08,209
Hey, they got a tooth fairy in 'Nam?
273
00:20:20,137 --> 00:20:22,139
WALTER: Get down!
Aah!
274
00:20:29,730 --> 00:20:32,066
JOHN: Speak of the devil. Ha-ha-ha.
275
00:20:32,233 --> 00:20:33,234
Whoo!
276
00:20:35,111 --> 00:20:36,904
MAN:
What are you doing in my house?
277
00:20:38,864 --> 00:20:40,324
John, is that you?
278
00:20:48,249 --> 00:20:49,500
[CHUCKLES]
279
00:20:49,667 --> 00:20:52,545
John.
I'm not John. I'm Davey.
280
00:20:54,296 --> 00:20:55,923
Davey.
281
00:20:57,216 --> 00:20:58,592
Well, you're John's son.
282
00:21:01,220 --> 00:21:04,515
You're Walter Skinner.
That's right.
283
00:21:04,682 --> 00:21:07,017
Father sure talks a lot about you.
284
00:21:07,184 --> 00:21:11,564
Your father and I, heh,
we went through a lot together.
285
00:21:16,986 --> 00:21:18,654
Calls you baby killer.
286
00:21:24,243 --> 00:21:25,828
Where is your father, Davey?
287
00:21:29,165 --> 00:21:31,876
Father says it's your fault
the way our life turned out.
288
00:21:32,042 --> 00:21:34,879
Because of your testimony against him
after the war...
289
00:21:35,045 --> 00:21:37,548
...Father spent 38 years in Glazebrook.
290
00:21:39,216 --> 00:21:42,261
Until I got a letter from him last week,
I thought he was dead.
291
00:21:42,428 --> 00:21:45,806
I spent years searching for him
after his trial, but they vanished him.
292
00:21:45,973 --> 00:21:48,809
His records were sealed, even from me.
Who vanished him?
293
00:21:48,976 --> 00:21:53,063
The same people responsible for turning him
from the good man he was into...
294
00:22:00,112 --> 00:22:01,197
Into what?
295
00:22:05,618 --> 00:22:06,952
I only wanna help him.
296
00:22:07,119 --> 00:22:08,496
[CHUCKLES]
297
00:22:10,080 --> 00:22:13,125
I'm sorry, I don't believe he wants
your help, Walter Skinner.
298
00:22:21,509 --> 00:22:24,887
Father told me all the stories
about his time in Vietnam.
299
00:22:25,095 --> 00:22:26,764
DAVEY".
There were monsters in that jungle.
300
00:22:26,931 --> 00:22:29,892
Because of his exposure
to an experimental weaponized gas...
301
00:22:30,059 --> 00:22:32,102
[YELLING]
302
00:22:32,269 --> 00:22:37,233
He wasn't crazy like you said
at his court-martial, but no one believed him.
303
00:22:37,816 --> 00:22:39,777
Not even Mother.
304
00:22:40,945 --> 00:22:42,905
No one except me.
305
00:22:43,072 --> 00:22:44,865
Listen, Davey, I know what he saw.
306
00:22:45,032 --> 00:22:47,826
I got a glimpse of it myself,
but it wasn't real.
307
00:22:47,993 --> 00:22:50,287
It was the gas
using his own fear against him.
308
00:22:50,454 --> 00:22:56,085
Your dad was exposed to a lot more of it
than I was, and it changed him.
309
00:22:57,294 --> 00:22:59,463
I watched it happen.
310
00:22:59,630 --> 00:23:04,093
And yet, you said nothing about that gas
at his trial?
311
00:23:05,511 --> 00:23:07,137
Did you?
312
00:23:11,850 --> 00:23:15,187
They'd let me visit him sometimes
up at Glazebrook.
313
00:23:15,354 --> 00:23:19,692
I had to sign
all manner of non-disclosure documents.
314
00:23:23,404 --> 00:23:26,407
Do you realize how painful it was for me...
315
00:23:26,574 --> 00:23:30,494
...to see my father wasting away
at that sanitarium?
316
00:23:33,122 --> 00:23:37,835
They kept him behind glass the whole time.
I couldn't even touch him.
317
00:23:38,002 --> 00:23:39,920
I couldn't touch my own father.
318
00:23:42,047 --> 00:23:44,300
How could you let that happen
to your friend?
319
00:23:46,427 --> 00:23:49,805
I was forbidden to speak about the gas
at his court-martial.
320
00:23:49,972 --> 00:23:53,392
I was following orders, doing
what my superiors commanded me to do.
321
00:23:54,101 --> 00:23:56,270
I'm not saying it's right.
It's not.
322
00:23:56,437 --> 00:24:01,275
And I have lived with the guilt
of that decision every moment since.
323
00:24:02,610 --> 00:24:04,945
I think about him every day.
324
00:24:06,530 --> 00:24:11,410
But you gotta understand,
your dad murdered innocent people.
325
00:24:11,577 --> 00:24:15,372
And I know it was because of the gas.
I knew who he was before.
326
00:24:15,539 --> 00:24:17,416
But the man it changed him into...
327
00:24:22,004 --> 00:24:23,964
He was dangerous, Davey.
328
00:24:24,673 --> 00:24:27,426
People are getting hurt again,
and we can stop it.
329
00:24:28,135 --> 00:24:30,888
But you've got to believe
that I am here to help him.
330
00:24:31,055 --> 00:24:32,973
I only wanna make things right.
331
00:24:35,726 --> 00:24:38,312
Please...
332
00:24:38,479 --> 00:24:40,064
...take me to him, Davey.
333
00:24:47,488 --> 00:24:49,114
0K8)'-
334
00:24:51,575 --> 00:24:53,577
I'll take you to him.
335
00:24:55,788 --> 00:24:58,082
His name is John "Kitten" James.
336
00:24:58,248 --> 00:25:02,586
He is or was, in fact,
a patient at Glazebrook Hospital.
337
00:25:02,753 --> 00:25:07,716
But his military files, like the other files
I've tried to access, are classified.
338
00:25:08,425 --> 00:25:12,304
You think it's true, Scully, what Kersh said?
What's that?
339
00:25:12,471 --> 00:25:16,392
That we're the sole reason Skinner's career
hasn't advanced in 30-some years?
340
00:25:16,558 --> 00:25:18,310
I hope not.
341
00:25:18,477 --> 00:25:24,316
I'd like to believe that his choice
to stay loyal to us was exactly that, a choice.
342
00:25:24,483 --> 00:25:27,027
But if there's one thing I know
about Walter Skinner...
343
00:25:27,194 --> 00:25:30,989
...is he's a man ruled by his moral compass
above all else.
344
00:25:31,156 --> 00:25:34,326
There was a time I would have
agreed with that unequivocally.
345
00:25:34,493 --> 00:25:36,662
I realize that his conduct
has been strange...
346
00:25:36,829 --> 00:25:39,623
...but don't you think we should give him
the benefit of the doubt...
347
00:25:39,790 --> 00:25:41,542
...after everything we've been through?
348
00:25:41,709 --> 00:25:46,630
I mean, especially in light of what we now
understand he may have sacrificed for us.
349
00:25:46,797 --> 00:25:49,717
[SIREN WAILING]
350
00:25:49,883 --> 00:25:53,345
Let's just hope we find him
before somebody else does.
351
00:26:00,644 --> 00:26:02,730
WALTER: Where are we going, Davey?
352
00:26:03,939 --> 00:26:06,024
It's not far now.
353
00:26:16,952 --> 00:26:21,582
This is what they drove him to.
Oh, God. No, John, what have you done?
354
00:26:22,583 --> 00:26:23,751
John.
355
00:26:24,126 --> 00:26:25,127
[GRUNTS]
356
00:26:25,836 --> 00:26:27,463
[CHUCKLES]
357
00:26:28,505 --> 00:26:30,007
[WALTER GRUNTS]
358
00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:33,802
[GRUNTING]
359
00:26:33,969 --> 00:26:35,512
[GASPING]
360
00:26:39,683 --> 00:26:41,810
Now who sees monsters?
361
00:26:48,776 --> 00:26:50,527
[DOG BARKING]
362
00:26:51,445 --> 00:26:56,450
Help me! ls somebody out there?
Help!
363
00:26:58,786 --> 00:27:00,120
Why ?
364
00:27:01,038 --> 00:27:02,873
No!
365
00:27:12,633 --> 00:27:14,426
DAVEY: Can I help you?
366
00:27:15,093 --> 00:27:18,096
Special Agent Mulder.
Special Agent Dana Scully.
367
00:27:18,263 --> 00:27:21,809
Are you related to John James?
I'm his son, Davey.
368
00:27:21,975 --> 00:27:25,145
We're looking for a man who we believe
may be in the area...
369
00:27:25,312 --> 00:27:28,690
...and may have served with your father
in Vietnam. Walter Skinner.
370
00:27:28,857 --> 00:27:31,193
I don't believe
I've heard that name before, no.
371
00:27:31,360 --> 00:27:35,364
Is your father home?
No, I'm sorry. I haven't a clue where he is.
372
00:27:35,531 --> 00:27:37,449
I haven't seen him in weeks.
373
00:27:37,616 --> 00:27:39,952
Is it okay if we come inside
for a brief moment?
374
00:27:40,118 --> 00:27:44,873
We'd like to get some insight on a few things.
By all means.
375
00:27:45,624 --> 00:27:47,000
Right this way.
376
00:28:08,856 --> 00:28:10,399
[GASPING]
377
00:28:26,957 --> 00:28:28,542
[GRUNTING]
378
00:28:33,714 --> 00:28:34,715
[GASPS]
379
00:28:34,882 --> 00:28:36,091
Help!
380
00:28:38,135 --> 00:28:42,264
I've never met real live FBI agents before.
381
00:28:43,348 --> 00:28:44,349
Please.
382
00:28:44,516 --> 00:28:50,272
Father said there's two refuges in life
from sorrow...
383
00:28:50,439 --> 00:28:51,857
...music...
384
00:28:52,065 --> 00:28:53,525
[CHUCKLES]
385
00:28:54,359 --> 00:28:55,444
...and cats.
386
00:28:56,486 --> 00:28:58,322
But I think cats are creepy.
387
00:28:59,740 --> 00:29:02,284
[JOHN CALE'S
"FEAR ls A MAN'S BEST FRIEND" PLAYING]
388
00:29:02,451 --> 00:29:04,995
Can I offer you some tea or something?
389
00:29:05,162 --> 00:29:07,998
No, no, I'm good.
No, thank you.
390
00:29:08,582 --> 00:29:14,504
Um... Mr. James, we understand
that your father was a patient at Glazebrook?
391
00:29:15,213 --> 00:29:18,467
Yes, uh, that's right.
For many years.
392
00:29:18,634 --> 00:29:21,637
And when was he released?
He was released one month ago.
393
00:29:21,803 --> 00:29:25,057
On what grounds?
Sorry?
394
00:29:25,223 --> 00:29:28,352
Why was he released after he had been
confined for so many years?
395
00:29:28,518 --> 00:29:32,814
They determined that he was no longer
a danger to himself or anyone else.
396
00:29:32,981 --> 00:29:35,025
Not that he ever was.
397
00:29:36,693 --> 00:29:40,322
Well, I guess he was a threat to someone.
398
00:29:41,615 --> 00:29:42,991
Is this your mother?
399
00:29:44,159 --> 00:29:48,997
My mother died many years ago.
Father's incarceration was very hard on her.
400
00:29:49,706 --> 00:29:52,876
Do you mind if I ask how she died?
Yes.
401
00:29:55,420 --> 00:29:59,466
Mr. James, a minute ago you said
that your father was a threat to someone.
402
00:29:59,633 --> 00:30:02,552
What did you mean?
Father had secrets.
403
00:30:02,719 --> 00:30:05,097
Secrets?
About the government.
404
00:30:05,806 --> 00:30:09,226
DAVEY: Father was poisoned
by an experimental weaponized gas in Vietnam.
405
00:30:09,935 --> 00:30:13,522
Because of his exposure,
they continued to do tests on him...
406
00:30:13,689 --> 00:30:16,316
...and other soldiers
for many years at Glazebrook.
407
00:30:16,483 --> 00:30:19,820
What kind of tests?
Chemical and biological.
408
00:30:19,987 --> 00:30:22,656
They were trying to learn
how to control human behavior.
409
00:30:22,823 --> 00:30:25,659
Harnessing our fears
to manipulate us into violence.
410
00:30:25,826 --> 00:30:29,371
[GRUNTING]
411
00:30:29,538 --> 00:30:31,331
Using this weaponized gas?
412
00:30:31,498 --> 00:30:34,793
The gas in the war
was still in the experimental stage.
413
00:30:35,502 --> 00:30:39,965
And they still haven't perfected it.
But after years of testing it and honing it...
414
00:30:40,132 --> 00:30:42,467
...they are getting close.
To what end?
415
00:30:43,176 --> 00:30:46,722
Imagine the power of a government
that could literally control the minds...
416
00:30:46,888 --> 00:30:48,724
...of millions of its citizens.
417
00:30:48,890 --> 00:30:53,979
Influence every choice and decision they made
simply by exposing them to this poison.
418
00:30:56,648 --> 00:31:02,404
You'll have to forgive me, Mr. James,
but this sounds like a dystopian novel.
419
00:31:02,571 --> 00:31:05,240
It's happening right now
in the United States of America.
420
00:31:05,407 --> 00:31:10,037
Do you honestly believe that after 3O years
of research and development...
421
00:31:10,203 --> 00:31:13,415
...and decades of experimenting
on American heroes like my father...
422
00:31:13,582 --> 00:31:17,044
...they would just be thrown in the trash?
Never to be utilized?
423
00:31:17,210 --> 00:31:21,048
Unlikely. The DoD and the CIA
have been working on various incarnations...
424
00:31:21,214 --> 00:31:23,675
...of mind-control projects since the '50s.
425
00:31:23,842 --> 00:31:27,804
Project Bluebird, MK-ULTRA,
MK-DELTA.
426
00:31:27,971 --> 00:31:31,850
Well, those programs were supposedly ended
in the early 1980s.
427
00:31:32,017 --> 00:31:33,018
Supposedly.
428
00:31:33,185 --> 00:31:35,896
My father believed he was part
of the program MK-NAOMI...
429
00:31:36,063 --> 00:31:38,774
...which was a successor to MK-ULTRA.
430
00:31:38,940 --> 00:31:42,944
We don't know how they're using
this chemical now, but we know that they are.
431
00:31:44,071 --> 00:31:46,990
Maybe they're poisoning our water
or the food supply.
432
00:31:47,157 --> 00:31:50,994
Maybe they're putting it in those chemtrails
behind all those commercial jets...
433
00:31:51,161 --> 00:31:53,955
...that fly over our country every single day.
434
00:31:55,248 --> 00:31:57,375
Thank you, sir.
435
00:32:00,796 --> 00:32:02,464
Thank you, Mr. James.
436
00:32:03,173 --> 00:32:04,800
[DOOR OPENS]
437
00:32:05,884 --> 00:32:07,886
[MUSIC CONTINUES PLAYING]
438
00:32:08,804 --> 00:32:10,889
You drive.
What's going on, Mulder?
439
00:32:11,056 --> 00:32:13,809
Let's just get in the car and drive away.
440
00:32:18,730 --> 00:32:20,190
[ENGINE STARTS]
441
00:32:20,357 --> 00:32:21,691
[CAR DOORS CLOSE]
442
00:32:36,248 --> 00:32:38,500
Mulder, you wanna tell me
what's going on?
443
00:32:38,667 --> 00:32:41,628
He claims not to know who Skinner is,
but in the photo album...
444
00:32:41,795 --> 00:32:44,840
...there were photos of his dad and Skinner
like they were BFFs.
445
00:32:45,006 --> 00:32:47,843
And did you check out that SUV
parked beside the cabin?
446
00:32:48,009 --> 00:32:51,096
Yeah, that definitely wasn't his.
Skinner could be back there.
447
00:32:51,263 --> 00:32:54,641
Then why the hell are we driving away?
Just pull over here.
448
00:32:59,104 --> 00:33:01,606
Get somewhere with cell reception,
call the sheriff...
449
00:33:01,773 --> 00:33:04,109
...and get every available officer
down here.
450
00:33:04,276 --> 00:33:05,652
What are you gonna do?
451
00:33:05,819 --> 00:33:08,613
I'm gonna do for Skinner
what I'd hope he would do for us.
452
00:33:08,780 --> 00:33:10,782
Mulder.
453
00:33:19,166 --> 00:33:20,876
[MUSIC CONTINUES PLAYING]
454
00:33:40,854 --> 00:33:42,772
[MUSIC CONTINUES PLAYING]
455
00:34:28,109 --> 00:34:29,778
[NEEDLE SKIPPING]
456
00:34:30,737 --> 00:34:32,489
WALTER:
Help!
457
00:34:35,992 --> 00:34:37,744
Help!
458
00:34:40,205 --> 00:34:41,206
[DOOR OPENS]
459
00:34:43,375 --> 00:34:45,126
[DOOR CLOSES]
460
00:34:51,049 --> 00:34:53,009
Come on.
461
00:34:53,927 --> 00:34:54,970
Damn it.
462
00:35:03,937 --> 00:35:05,522
WALTER:
ls somebody out there?
463
00:35:11,903 --> 00:35:13,446
Hello?
464
00:35:24,958 --> 00:35:27,294
Mulder?
Skinner.
465
00:35:27,460 --> 00:35:28,962
[PANTING]
466
00:35:30,338 --> 00:35:32,007
Get me the hell out of here.
467
00:35:34,551 --> 00:35:35,969
[GRUNTING]
468
00:35:46,396 --> 00:35:47,605
[GRUNTS]
469
00:35:52,944 --> 00:35:54,487
[FOX EXHALES]
470
00:35:55,488 --> 00:35:57,782
I'll boost you up.
I'll boost you, you're good.
471
00:35:59,367 --> 00:36:00,368
Here we go.
472
00:36:04,122 --> 00:36:08,877
Davey. Davey, please. Let us out.
473
00:36:11,504 --> 00:36:13,673
Let's do this quickly.
Come on.
474
00:36:15,842 --> 00:36:17,552
[WALTER GRUNTING]
475
00:36:20,180 --> 00:36:21,556
Gas. Ugh.
476
00:36:23,224 --> 00:36:26,853
Davey. You don't have to do this.
477
00:36:27,854 --> 00:36:29,314
[GUNSHOT]
478
00:36:35,195 --> 00:36:36,988
Scully.
479
00:36:49,501 --> 00:36:51,544
Where's Davey?
480
00:36:55,924 --> 00:36:58,301
Go. Go!
481
00:36:59,844 --> 00:37:01,137
[GASPS]
482
00:37:06,226 --> 00:37:07,936
[GROANS]
483
00:37:30,041 --> 00:37:31,876
[PANTING]
484
00:37:43,012 --> 00:37:44,431
[GRUNTING]
485
00:37:48,226 --> 00:37:49,686
[DANA GASPS]
486
00:37:50,895 --> 00:37:52,230
[GRUNTS]
487
00:37:56,151 --> 00:37:57,485
[GASPS]
488
00:37:59,070 --> 00:38:01,990
[WALTER PANTING]
489
00:38:14,627 --> 00:38:16,379
[DANA SIGHS]
490
00:38:19,632 --> 00:38:20,884
Thank you.
491
00:38:21,050 --> 00:38:23,428
Ambulance is on its way.
492
00:38:23,970 --> 00:38:28,016
I would call Kersh
as soon as you get cell reception.
493
00:38:32,854 --> 00:38:34,189
Something you wanna share?
494
00:38:37,442 --> 00:38:41,863
Kersh indicated to us
that we were responsible...
495
00:38:42,030 --> 00:38:45,074
...for your lack of upward mobility
in the Bureau.
496
00:38:46,993 --> 00:38:49,871
If it wasn't for you two,
I wouldn't be here right now.
497
00:38:50,038 --> 00:38:53,458
And I'm not talking about the fact
that you showed up here today.
498
00:38:58,129 --> 00:39:00,798
[GRUNTS]
499
00:39:10,642 --> 00:39:13,895
I enlisted in the Marine Corps
the day that I turned 18.
500
00:39:16,940 --> 00:39:17,941
I was a kid.
501
00:39:18,107 --> 00:39:22,612
Full of callow self-confidence,
and faith, and this...
502
00:39:23,738 --> 00:39:29,744
This kind of uncorrupted belief
that I was doing the right thing.
503
00:39:30,370 --> 00:39:32,455
But John James...
504
00:39:33,790 --> 00:39:35,583
...he didn't enlist.
505
00:39:35,750 --> 00:39:37,794
He was drafted.
506
00:39:39,379 --> 00:39:42,924
And his whole life
was completely upended...
507
00:39:43,091 --> 00:39:46,511
...by a war that he really,
truly didn't even understand.
508
00:39:46,678 --> 00:39:50,557
And he was so afraid all the time.
I felt like I had to protect him.
509
00:39:51,683 --> 00:39:53,351
But I didn't.
510
00:39:56,563 --> 00:39:58,147
I couldn't.
511
00:40:01,734 --> 00:40:04,320
That experience in Vietnam with John...
512
00:40:04,487 --> 00:40:08,533
...it put a dent in that blind faith
that I had in my government.
513
00:40:08,700 --> 00:40:11,661
It planted seeds of mistrust.
514
00:40:11,828 --> 00:40:16,541
I tried for years to suppress that mistrust,
but it gnawed at me.
515
00:40:17,292 --> 00:40:18,751
[SCOFFS]
516
00:40:19,627 --> 00:40:21,129
Then you two.
517
00:40:26,259 --> 00:40:31,139
You two came along
and you taught me not to hide from it...
518
00:40:31,306 --> 00:40:36,686
...but to have the guts to shine a light
directly into the darkest corners.
519
00:40:36,853 --> 00:40:40,064
And if given the choice
between advancing my career...
520
00:40:40,231 --> 00:40:45,111
...by being blindly loyal to some faceless
puppeteers pulling strings from the shadows...
521
00:40:45,278 --> 00:40:48,239
...or to throw in with you two,
make no mistake about it...
522
00:40:48,406 --> 00:40:51,117
...I'd make the same decision
every single damn time.
523
00:40:55,371 --> 00:40:59,083
So I'm gonna go back,
I'm gonna kiss the ring.
524
00:41:01,628 --> 00:41:03,504
But I intend to do right by this man...
525
00:41:03,671 --> 00:41:07,592
...and that means finding the truth
of what the hell it was they used him for.
526
00:41:08,092 --> 00:41:10,053
No matter the cost.
527
00:41:16,184 --> 00:41:17,727
I owe him that.
528
00:41:19,479 --> 00:41:20,980
[SCOFFS]
529
00:41:21,147 --> 00:41:23,232
I owe myself that.
530
00:41:24,901 --> 00:41:26,486
[GROANS]
531
00:41:37,497 --> 00:41:39,332
[SIGHS]
532
00:41:39,957 --> 00:41:41,626
Skinner.
533
00:41:43,127 --> 00:41:44,962
We're with you.
534
00:42:47,567 --> 00:42:51,362
DAVEY: Imagine the power of a government
that can literally control the minds...
535
00:42:51,529 --> 00:42:56,659
...of millions and millions of its citizens,
simply by exposing them to this poison.
536
00:43:05,710 --> 00:43:09,922
It's happening. It's happening right now.