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(woman) Ugh! I got mosquito bites.
I got blisters. I hate those new boots.
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Honey, why are you so PO'd?
I thought we had a good time.
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You had a good time.
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You had a fine time tromping around
and leaving me a half a mile behind.
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For future reference, me running
through the woods after you for a day
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is not my idea of a good time.
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I'm sorry.
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I've got longer legs.
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I was excited, you know?
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The great outdoors, communing with nature.
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- Your head hurt?
- Yeah.
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You can hit me in the head with a rock
if it'll make you feel better.
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Fine. Go get one.
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I'm taking a shower.
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Argh!
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- You still mad at me?
- No. I'm not mad.
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Come here.
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So I guess we're never going hiking again.
It's indoors for ever from now on.
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Angie, honey, what's up?
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Just hold me.
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(Mulder) Oh. Whoo.
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I don't know what they did
with the screen for this thing.
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This is Angela and Wallace Schiff,
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a young married couple last seen hiking
near Brown Mountain, North Carolina.
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That's Angie on the right. This is the
condition in which their bodies were found
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after being missing for only three days
in temperatures below 70 degrees.
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Which rules out decomposition. I'd say
predation, but the bones would be scattered.
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Not to mention that these skeletons
are not wearing any clothes.
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Right. I'd say it looks like a double murder,
possibly one with ritualistic overtones.
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The bodies may have been
stripped, then skeletonised,
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possibly by boiling or by the use
of some kind of acid solution.
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Maybe the arrangement of the bodies
has some meaning for the killer or killers.
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- At any rate, I'd term it ritualistic.
- That's a big operation.
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There was no evidence at the scene.
No tyre tracks, no footprints, nothing.
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- What do you think this is?
- Brown Mountain doesn't ring a bell?
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Brown Mountain lights?
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It's a famous atmospheric phenomenon
dating back 700 years,
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witnessed by thousands of people,
back to the Cherokee Indians.
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Strange coloured lights
are seen to dance above the mountain.
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There's been no geological
or scientific credible explanation at all.
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What does that have to do with this?
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There's been no scientific
credible explanation,
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but there are those of us
who believe these lights are...
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UFOs?
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Extraterrestrial visitors from beyond
who have nothing better to do
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than buzz one mountain
over and over again for 700 years.
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Sounds like crap when you say it. I'm just
wondering if there's a connection, Scully.
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The conditions of these bodies
are reminiscent of cattle mutilations.
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Those cases have no physical evidence.
They've been associated with UFO activity.
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Can't you just for once, just for the novelty
of it, come up with the simplest explanation,
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the most logical one, instead of automatically
jumping to UFOs or Big Foot?
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Scully, in six years,
how often have I been wrong?
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No, seriously. Every time I bring you
a new case, we go through this dance.
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You tell me I'm not scientifically rigorous
and that I'm off my nut.
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And then, in the end, who turns out
to be right 98.9 per cent of the time?
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I just think I've earned
the benefit of the doubt here.
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We gave 'em adjoining suites.
I was ready to send them on to Chapel Hill.
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The state medical examiner
should have a look.
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We appreciate you holding off.
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The connective tissue is intact.
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Unlike everything else. I'm not sure what
to make of it considering the time frame.
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If you'll pardon an obvious question, are
you sure that these are the right two bodies
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and not two others
that have lain out for six months?
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We triple-checked the dental records.
Angela and Wallace Schiff.
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No doubt about it.
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And they were both found
near Brown Mountain, right?
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- Where exactly?
- Well, I could write you some directions.
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Would you... happen to know what this is?
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The remains were found in a swampy area.
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Some sort of organic material
relating to that. It's bog sludge.
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I'm gonna go check out
where the bodies were found.
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- You coming?
- No. You go ahead.
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Wallace Schiff?
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Wallace Schiff?
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We got your gas spectrometer results.
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That stuff on the bones
I said was bog sludge - it isn't.
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"Water, hydrochloric acid,
electrolytes, pepsins and trypsins."
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- It's a digestive secretion.
- Stomach juices, pretty much.
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Pretty damn close to it, except for this.
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Chitinase?
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It's a digestive enzyme as well.
But it's strictly plant, not animal.
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Hello?
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I told you I'd seen this before.
These are the two I remember, anyway.
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Both were discovered as skeletal remains.
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Right. But we saw nothing odd in that.
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Both were lost hikers found months
or years later, whatever it says there.
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The bodies were found not far from
where Angela and Wallace Schiff turned up.
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(ringing tone)
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Mulder, answer your phone.
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The customer you are trying...
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Do me a favour. Forward a sample of that
secretion over to the FBI lab at Quantico.
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- I want them to run a complete analysis.
- You got it.
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And, in the meantime,
can I borrow your truck?
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Please... don't take me.
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Hey, come out here.
Step closer. I won't hurt you.
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- You're not one of them?
- One of who?
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Are you Wallace Schiff?
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I hate to tell you this, Wallace,
but you're supposed to be dead.
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They found your skeleton
not 200 yards from here.
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- It's fake. They put it there.
- Who put it there?
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- You know who.
- The Brown Mountain lights.
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They abducted us. Me and my wife Angela.
They took us on board their... Oh, God...
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Wallace? Wallace?
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They found your wife Angela, too.
Lying right alongside your skeleton.
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No! Don't you get it?
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They faked our deaths.
They have that kind of technology.
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Who the hell would be looking for us if they
thought they'd already found our bodies?
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They returned me, but Angela's still up there
being experimented on and I can't...
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I don't know what to...
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What do I do?
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Mulder?
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First things first.
We gotta find a way outta here.
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Right behind you.
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What the hell is going on?
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That was solid rock.
Now there's nothing there.
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Oh, God. It's them.
They're affecting your head.
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Maybe mine, too.
What if I can't even tell what's real?
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Wallace, let's get outta here.
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- Come on, Wallace!
- They're out there, man.
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(rumbling)
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It's them.
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Wallace.
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Mulder?
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Mulder!
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(rumbling)
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(Wallace) Don't let them see you.
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- They're gone.
- Yeah. For now.
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- Thank God they didn't find us.
- They should have.
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Maybe they came for something else.
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(Wallace) Oh, my God.
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Oh, my God. Angie.
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They brought her back.
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(Mulder) Angie, can you talk to me? Do you
remember what happened? Can you tell me?
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It's all fuzzy and...
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You were with your husband.
You were with Wallace.
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There was a light. A bright light.
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Where was that light coming from?
From the mountain?
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Over Brown Mountain. There were
strange lights dancing over the peak.
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And... they took me.
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And Wallace, too.
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- And then what happened?
- It just... it all went black.
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And when I woke up,
I didn't know where I was.
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And I couldn't see Wallace any more.
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They returned me first.
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This place that they took you to, can you
describe it to me, tell me what it looked like?
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It was white.
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A white place. It was featureless.
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I was lying on a table and I couldn't get up.
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Nothing was holding me down,
but I couldn't move.
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Were there men there?
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Yes.
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There were men standing over me,
but I couldn't see their faces.
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Did they perform tests on you?
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Yes, they did tests.
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Terrible tests.
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What?
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You have a scar back here
on the back of your neck.
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- What? What scar?
- It's fresh.
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- What is that?
- It's an implant. I've seen this before.
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Yes, the drill. I remember the drill.
I couldn't see it at first.
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That was the worst part. But I could hear it
spinning, and it was coming out of the light!
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- What did they put in me?
- Is there one in me?
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Male abductions don't usually report this.
Everything is textbook except for one detail.
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What?
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Two skeletons we found were identified as
yours and Angie's. It doesn't make any sense.
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Maybe they're like those cattle mutilations.
Maybe they're related or part of their tests.
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I had that thought, but there's no precedent
for it. It's in none of the literature.
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They didn't want anybody to find us. I guess
they didn't want you to know the truth.
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- We gotta get outta here right now.
- No way.
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They're out there. They're always watching.
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If they find us, if we leave,
they'll take us again.
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We're leaving right now.
Gather your things. Angie, I'll help you up.
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They're coming. I can feel it.
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(rumbling)
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- They're here!
- Hide. They'll take you, too.
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- We've got to hide!
- No.
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No!
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- Scully.
- Mulder...
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Why did you leave North Carolina
without telling me?
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Long story.
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You disappear and then
I get a furtive call that you're in DC?
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- I'm sorry. Does anyone know you're here?
- No.
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- Scully, this is...
- Angela and Wallace Schiff.
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- But, Mulder, it can't be.
- This is my partner. Agent Scully.
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- Mulder, I lD'd their remains myself.
- Yeah, I think you were meant to.
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Agent Scully, the aliens planted decoys
so you would think we were dead.
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The aliens?
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Scully, I want you to put aside
your scientific bias for a moment.
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Because what I'm about to tell you
is gonna change your life for ever.
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Your life, my life, the life
of everybody on this planet.
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- Mulder?
- It was out there.
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And I found it.
193
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- What?
- The truth.
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This couple... they were abducted by a UFO.
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Brown Mountain lights.
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They took me to a white place. There were
men there. They put an implant in my neck.
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Just like what happened to you.
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From what very little I understand about
this case, this is not what happened to me.
199
00:21:02,721 --> 00:21:04,890
There's more.
200
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He doesn't like the light.
201
00:21:16,652 --> 00:21:18,112
Who?
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I abducted him.
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[f5 a QTGY.
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It speaks to me.
205
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We communicate telepathically.
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00:21:47,683 --> 00:21:50,102
He told me everything.
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I... I can hear him.
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Yeah.
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Oh, my God.
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L.-
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I don't know what to say,
Mulder, where to begin.
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I mean, you... you were right.
213
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All these years, you were right.
214
00:22:33,229 --> 00:22:35,856
You think so?
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You were right about the greys,
about the abductions, about the UFOs,
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the Brown Mountain lights.
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What about the skeletons?
218
00:22:47,826 --> 00:22:52,164
- They were fake. They were decoys.
- You're buying that decoy theory?
219
00:22:53,707 --> 00:22:58,587
What about that organic substance we found,
that goo you were so interested in?
220
00:22:58,671 --> 00:23:01,173
It was nothing. It was bog sludge.
221
00:23:04,176 --> 00:23:07,888
That... doesn't sound like you, Scully.
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00:23:07,972 --> 00:23:11,392
It... God, I can't believe you're buying that.
223
00:23:14,353 --> 00:23:17,481
Mulder, I'm admitting that I was wrong.
224
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Are you all right?
225
00:23:54,226 --> 00:23:56,312
How are you feeling?
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- This doesn't make any sense.
- What?
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These two, their story, their skeletons.
228
00:24:04,153 --> 00:24:08,365
Mulder, if I of all people can believe this,
then why can't you?
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- (coroner) Did you go inside the cave?
- (Scully) I looked. It's empty.
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It's as if he just vanished.
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He's gotta be around.
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We'll catch up to him.
I know this area pretty well.
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Doctor.
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It's more of that digestive material. Looks
like it's coming up from out of the ground.
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Agent Scully?
236
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I got tracks going in and out.
237
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They were only going in before.
238
00:25:34,993 --> 00:25:37,663
- I guess you missed him.
- How?
239
00:25:37,746 --> 00:25:41,750
This cave's not much more
than a hole in the rock.
240
00:25:41,834 --> 00:25:43,919
Agent Scully?
241
00:26:24,752 --> 00:26:28,839
The courierjust arrived.
He brought your partner's charts.
242
00:26:48,692 --> 00:26:51,403
I'm sorry.
243
00:26:51,487 --> 00:26:53,989
I know it's difficult.
244
00:27:08,754 --> 00:27:10,214
That...
245
00:27:12,132 --> 00:27:17,805
That digestive secretion that we keep
finding - could it have done this to him?
246
00:27:17,888 --> 00:27:20,474
I'm not sure I follow.
247
00:27:20,557 --> 00:27:25,103
It's chemically similar to gastric juices,
right? Maybe he fell in it.
248
00:27:25,187 --> 00:27:30,734
Or maybe it's a product of a particular
vegetation that grows in the area.
249
00:27:31,318 --> 00:27:36,240
That all sounds plausible, I guess.
Except for one thing.
250
00:27:38,951 --> 00:27:41,662
There's no sign of it on these remains.
251
00:28:01,515 --> 00:28:02,975
It...
252
00:28:03,892 --> 00:28:06,395
It was on the Schiffs.
253
00:28:07,229 --> 00:28:10,983
I just think we need to look
for the simplest explanation.
254
00:28:13,151 --> 00:28:15,654
The most logical.
255
00:28:17,030 --> 00:28:19,741
What is the most logical explanation?
256
00:28:21,159 --> 00:28:26,623
I'd say we're looking at a murder,
one with ritualistic overtones.
257
00:28:27,666 --> 00:28:30,961
I think his body was stripped
and then skeletonised,
258
00:28:31,044 --> 00:28:34,631
possibly by boiling or use of an acid solution.
259
00:28:38,176 --> 00:28:42,973
Don't worry, Agent.
We'll take care of the arrangements.
260
00:28:44,975 --> 00:28:47,060
What arrangements?
261
00:28:47,144 --> 00:28:50,022
We'll have the remains
sent on to Washington.
262
00:28:54,610 --> 00:28:58,614
I appreciate the thoroughness of your report,
263
00:28:58,697 --> 00:29:01,783
especially given the circumstances.
264
00:29:01,867 --> 00:29:05,078
It might be best if you took
some time off, some shore leave.
265
00:29:09,416 --> 00:29:12,044
Agent?
266
00:29:12,127 --> 00:29:14,212
Sir...
267
00:29:15,130 --> 00:29:18,050
You're satisfied with
my conclusions in this case?
268
00:29:18,133 --> 00:29:20,218
Absolutely.
269
00:29:21,511 --> 00:29:23,597
I take it you're not?
270
00:29:26,141 --> 00:29:29,645
I was unable to determine
a clear cause of death.
271
00:29:30,479 --> 00:29:34,524
Nor was I able to fully account for
the condition of Agent Mulder's body.
272
00:29:34,608 --> 00:29:37,778
You concluded he was
a victim of a ritual killing.
273
00:29:37,861 --> 00:29:39,655
No.
274
00:29:39,738 --> 00:29:44,451
I mean, that was one possible
scenario that I mentioned.
275
00:29:44,534 --> 00:29:49,164
But, in my mind, it was the least plausible.
276
00:29:49,247 --> 00:29:53,210
Not only is it plausible, it's likely.
277
00:29:54,836 --> 00:29:58,715
Why are you questioning
your own findings?
278
00:29:58,799 --> 00:30:02,344
My role in the X-Files
has always been to provide...
279
00:30:02,427 --> 00:30:07,766
a rational, scientific perspective
to cases that would seem to defy explanation.
280
00:30:07,849 --> 00:30:11,603
- A counterpoint to Agent Mulder.
- And you have done that.
281
00:30:11,687 --> 00:30:14,856
- You have performed admirably.
- Have I?
282
00:30:15,524 --> 00:30:22,239
How many X-Files has my scientific approach
fully and satisfactorily explained?
283
00:30:23,281 --> 00:30:26,618
Your reports have consistently
made sense of his conclusions.
284
00:30:26,702 --> 00:30:29,454
Sir, this one makes no sense at all.
285
00:30:31,581 --> 00:30:35,627
Are you suggesting
this is anything other than a murder?
286
00:30:35,711 --> 00:30:38,672
That's what Agent Mulder
would have thought.
287
00:30:41,133 --> 00:30:43,635
And you think he would've been right?
288
00:30:48,515 --> 00:30:52,644
Given his life work, it's tempting
to attribute his death to the paranormal,
289
00:30:52,728 --> 00:30:56,565
the unexplained, the unknown,
but that's simply not the case here.
290
00:30:56,648 --> 00:30:59,651
We need to see this for what it is.
291
00:30:59,735 --> 00:31:05,157
And given that... I promise you
we'll get the bastard who did this.
292
00:32:08,845 --> 00:32:10,931
I'm sorry.
293
00:32:27,739 --> 00:32:31,368
Agent Scully, how are you holding up?
294
00:32:31,451 --> 00:32:33,578
L.-
295
00:32:34,287 --> 00:32:37,165
- I still can't believe it.
- Neither can we.
296
00:32:37,249 --> 00:32:40,418
I half expect Mulder
to come knocking at that door.
297
00:32:40,502 --> 00:32:42,879
"Surprise."
298
00:32:42,963 --> 00:32:45,757
- This'll dull the pain.
- No, thank you.
299
00:32:51,555 --> 00:32:54,057
Just so you know...
300
00:32:55,934 --> 00:33:00,147
we've launched our own investigation.
301
00:33:00,230 --> 00:33:03,733
I was beginning to think that I was
the only one who was suspicious.
302
00:33:03,817 --> 00:33:07,571
We'll find him. We'll find him
and we'll make him pay.
303
00:33:07,654 --> 00:33:10,907
- Find who?
- The son of a bitch who killed Mulder.
304
00:33:10,991 --> 00:33:15,120
I hope you're not offended,
but we managed to get ahold of your report.
305
00:33:15,203 --> 00:33:18,039
We were impressed
by the thoroughness of it.
306
00:33:18,123 --> 00:33:21,543
- Especially given the circumstances.
- I don't understand.
307
00:33:21,626 --> 00:33:26,590
We concur with your findings.
Clearly, this was a ritualistic murder.
308
00:33:26,673 --> 00:33:29,050
Those are not my findings.
309
00:33:29,134 --> 00:33:32,345
You guys believe that too,
that Mulder was murdered?
310
00:33:32,429 --> 00:33:36,057
- It's the obvious answer.
- No, it is not the obvious answer!
311
00:33:38,185 --> 00:33:43,815
We believe his body was stripped, then
skeletonised by boiling or an acid solution.
312
00:33:43,899 --> 00:33:48,278
- We'll make that monkey pay.
- What the hell is wrong with everybody?
313
00:33:48,361 --> 00:33:53,408
There are unanswered questions here.
Am I the only one that's asking them?
314
00:33:57,245 --> 00:33:59,331
I could use a drink.
315
00:34:00,790 --> 00:34:06,338
You three of all people, you should be
all over this, not buying the party line.
316
00:34:06,421 --> 00:34:11,092
Something else is going on here.
Am I the only one who thinks that?
317
00:34:12,802 --> 00:34:14,888
Are you all right?
318
00:34:22,229 --> 00:34:24,648
You need to go home and get some rest.
319
00:34:24,731 --> 00:34:27,817
- I'll call you a cab.
- What have you done with him?
320
00:34:27,901 --> 00:34:30,946
You're emotionally distraught.
You need to calm down.
321
00:34:31,029 --> 00:34:34,741
Where is Mulder? Where is he?
What have you done with him?
322
00:34:34,824 --> 00:34:37,786
Listen to me. He's gone.
You need to accept that.
323
00:34:37,869 --> 00:34:42,832
Something else is going on here.
Where is he? Where's Mulder?
324
00:34:44,668 --> 00:34:46,753
(knock at door)
325
00:34:53,718 --> 00:34:55,804
(knocking continues)
326
00:35:18,868 --> 00:35:20,328
Scully.
327
00:35:30,714 --> 00:35:35,844
We were in the cave when the light came.
328
00:35:35,927 --> 00:35:40,557
It was a blinding blue-white light.
329
00:35:41,933 --> 00:35:44,894
And then they took me.
330
00:35:44,978 --> 00:35:47,314
I was abducted.
331
00:35:47,397 --> 00:35:53,486
I found myself in some kind of medical bay.
It was a white, featureless...
332
00:35:53,570 --> 00:35:56,740
- It was just as the Schiffs had described it.
- They're dead.
333
00:35:56,823 --> 00:35:58,867
No, actually, they're not.
334
00:35:58,950 --> 00:36:04,205
Mulder, their remains
were discovered in a field.
335
00:36:04,289 --> 00:36:08,251
That's what brought us
to this case in the first place.
336
00:36:08,335 --> 00:36:11,296
I found your remains in that same field.
337
00:36:11,379 --> 00:36:14,341
Me... I'm here.
338
00:36:15,050 --> 00:36:19,596
- How did you get here?
- The aliens brought me back here.
339
00:36:20,138 --> 00:36:24,100
From North Carolina
direct to your apartment door?
340
00:36:26,978 --> 00:36:30,231
Mulder, you don't remember
getting here, do you?
341
00:36:32,442 --> 00:36:34,527
Neither do I.
342
00:36:35,111 --> 00:36:37,655
It doesn't change what happened.
343
00:36:37,739 --> 00:36:41,826
Mulder, why did you knock?
This is your apartment.
344
00:36:41,910 --> 00:36:46,164
And you don't seem
the least bit surprised to find me here.
345
00:36:46,247 --> 00:36:48,458
And what about the Schiffs?
346
00:36:48,541 --> 00:36:52,837
If they're alive, as you say, then...
347
00:36:54,339 --> 00:36:57,384
Then where are they? Where'd they go?
348
00:36:57,467 --> 00:37:03,640
Mulder, five minutes ago this room
was filled with people attending your wake.
349
00:37:03,723 --> 00:37:06,643
What can I say, Scully? I'm here. I'm real.
350
00:37:06,726 --> 00:37:11,564
Mulder, this is not reality.
This is a hallucination. It has to be.
351
00:37:11,648 --> 00:37:15,485
Either I am having it, or you are having it
or we are having it together.
352
00:37:15,568 --> 00:37:18,905
- Brought on by what?
- Something that we found in that field,
353
00:37:18,988 --> 00:37:21,491
because that's where it began.
354
00:37:24,035 --> 00:37:26,579
Wild mushrooms.
355
00:37:26,663 --> 00:37:31,626
Wild mushrooms. They were growing there.
I stepped on one and it gave off spores.
356
00:37:32,252 --> 00:37:36,714
Several varieties of mushrooms
are known for their hallucinogenic properties.
357
00:37:36,798 --> 00:37:40,301
- If we inhaled it...
- What about the most logical explanation?
358
00:37:40,385 --> 00:37:47,434
This is it, Mulder. What if we're still there,
if we're still in that cave in North Carolina?
359
00:37:47,517 --> 00:37:50,687
That we're not here
in this apartment right now.
360
00:37:50,770 --> 00:37:52,605
Oh, Scully...
361
00:37:52,689 --> 00:37:55,316
Bear with me. I think this is making sense.
362
00:37:55,400 --> 00:37:57,861
I think that Angela and Wallace Schiff
363
00:37:57,944 --> 00:38:01,614
were digested by that substance
that I found all over that field,
364
00:38:01,698 --> 00:38:05,827
that they were dissolved
and then expelled up out of the ground.
365
00:38:05,910 --> 00:38:11,040
What if that substance and this hallucinogen
are from one and the same organism?
366
00:38:11,124 --> 00:38:12,625
A giant mushroom?
367
00:38:12,709 --> 00:38:16,045
A giant fungal organism.
We already know that they exist.
368
00:38:16,129 --> 00:38:21,968
Biologists have found specimens that range
dozens of acres, that weigh hundreds of tons.
369
00:38:22,051 --> 00:38:24,762
What if this one needs
to feed on living tissue?
370
00:38:24,846 --> 00:38:30,226
There is carnivorous plant life. There's
the Venus flytrap and the pitcher plant.
371
00:38:30,310 --> 00:38:35,732
- What if this one puts off an hallucinogen...
- To lure its prey into the cave?
372
00:38:36,691 --> 00:38:41,029
To make it complacent,
to keep it still while it devours it.
373
00:38:42,989 --> 00:38:48,328
What if we're still underground, Mulder?
What if we're moving deeper into the cave?
374
00:38:48,411 --> 00:38:51,039
Or being moved?
375
00:38:51,122 --> 00:38:53,666
Mulder, what if we're being digested...
376
00:38:57,045 --> 00:38:59,130
right now?
377
00:39:55,770 --> 00:39:59,190
The exact size of this organism
is yet to be determined?
378
00:39:59,274 --> 00:40:01,359
That's correct, sir.
379
00:40:03,111 --> 00:40:07,031
We know that the organism
extends for at least ten acres,
380
00:40:07,115 --> 00:40:10,577
though it's mostly subterranean,
so it may be far larger.
381
00:40:10,660 --> 00:40:12,662
We've contacted Fish and Wildlife.
382
00:40:12,745 --> 00:40:18,751
We've contacted the North Carolina Health
Department and the FBI office in Raleigh.
383
00:40:18,835 --> 00:40:23,965
And we've contacted mycologists at the
Smithsonian. We have our bases covered.
384
00:40:24,048 --> 00:40:29,345
The lab results determined
that the spores we were exposed to
385
00:40:29,429 --> 00:40:32,765
have a chemical structure similar to LSD.
386
00:40:32,849 --> 00:40:38,396
They also contain an alkaloid
which induces a state of narcosis.
387
00:40:39,981 --> 00:40:44,277
It's a rare day when the two of you
sign off on the same report.
388
00:40:49,741 --> 00:40:51,117
Agent Mulder?
389
00:40:52,619 --> 00:40:55,747
I'm just thinking.
390
00:40:55,830 --> 00:40:58,708
I'm not exactly clear on how we escaped.
391
00:40:58,791 --> 00:41:01,294
What's not clear?
392
00:41:01,419 --> 00:41:08,092
Once you recognised that we were under
a chemical influence, then it broke its spell?
393
00:41:08,635 --> 00:41:09,719
That's right.
394
00:41:09,802 --> 00:41:14,974
Scully, how could we simply will ourselves
out of a chemical hallucination?
395
00:41:15,058 --> 00:41:17,977
- The fact remains, we did.
- Did we?
396
00:41:18,811 --> 00:41:23,316
Can you name one drug that loses its effect
once the user realises it's in his system?
397
00:41:23,399 --> 00:41:26,611
I assume the effects wore off
and you were both able to escape.
398
00:41:26,694 --> 00:41:30,073
How long were we underground?
Hours? Half a day?
399
00:41:30,156 --> 00:41:33,868
Our bodies don't show effects
of being burned by the digestive fluids.
400
00:41:33,951 --> 00:41:37,622
We were covered in hydrochloric acid,
yet look at our skin. Nothing.
401
00:41:37,705 --> 00:41:39,999
Mulder, where are you going with this?
402
00:41:40,083 --> 00:41:43,586
Scully, we never escaped.
403
00:41:45,088 --> 00:41:48,508
We're still trapped underground.
404
00:41:48,883 --> 00:41:51,094
Mulder, we did escape.
405
00:41:52,637 --> 00:41:55,515
You're suffering from post-traumatic stress.
406
00:41:55,598 --> 00:41:57,684
No, I'm not.
407
00:41:57,767 --> 00:42:00,561
This is not real. You, you're not real.
408
00:42:02,021 --> 00:42:03,147
Mulder...
409
00:42:03,231 --> 00:42:05,692
I'll prove it, Scully. I'll prove it.
410
00:42:06,818 --> 00:42:07,985
Mulder!
411
00:42:56,576 --> 00:42:58,661
(man) Over here.
412
00:43:02,623 --> 00:43:04,083
(man) Hey!
413
00:43:07,795 --> 00:43:09,881
(man) Come on!
414
00:43:14,802 --> 00:43:16,971
He's alive.
415
00:43:17,054 --> 00:43:19,474
Hurry UP-
416
00:43:19,557 --> 00:43:22,059
Get him out. Get him out!
417
00:43:30,401 --> 00:43:32,904
Keep digging. She's down here.
418
00:43:34,822 --> 00:43:36,908
Pull her out!
419
00:43:49,962 --> 00:43:52,465
- Mushroom...
- We found it.
420
00:43:54,884 --> 00:43:56,552
Just take it easy.
421
00:44:54,110 --> 00:44:56,112
Visiontext Subtitles: Yasmin Rammohan
422
00:45:17,091 --> 00:45:18,718
(Child) I made this!