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Grab a light.

Hey. This is it.

I turned down a nice trip to Miami for this.

Who was it that said that a weekend in the mountains would be more fun than one

of those boring medical seminars?

That's because the guy at the Paris Pharmaceuticals said that this cabin was

like a resort.

And free, too.

Light beer?

You only brought light beer?

Hey, looking out for you.

Hey, well, why don't you watch out for some firewood and light a fire while I

drive back to town and get some real beer?

You can light a fire, can't you? I know how to light a fire. I've seen every

Robinson Crusoe movie ever made, even the one on Mars.

Mr. Light Beer.

I was in Miami.

If I were in Miami, I wouldn't have to build a fire to stop them breathing to

death.

Matches. In Miami, they have matches. Hello.

Point out Steve Sloan for me, will you? Over there.

Thanks. HB has grids five and six covered. Concentrate on three and four.

in an extra team if you need it. We've got plenty to spare.

Hey, you've got so many guys up there, they're probably bumping into each

And you are?

Gary Barton. I'm the district ranger. I'm the guy who organizes rescue efforts

up here. Your office said you were up at Kings Canyon fighting a forest fire.

Yeah, and I had half as many people working on that situation.

You know, you called in everybody but the Coast Guard for one hiker who's been

missing less than a day?

First of all, Jesse Travis wouldn't hike outside of Venice Beach alone.

He's not exactly the Daniel Boone type.

Well, maybe he wasn't thinking clearly.

Maybe he had a couple too many beers, started to miss his girlfriend. Maybe he

went home. He's not a heavy drinker. His girlfriend is in Europe, and if he

wanted to go home, he had to wait till I got back.

And we finished here? Not until I hear something that makes sense.

Why the urgency?

Did you find any blood? Any signs of forced entry? Anything at all to suggest

foul play? Not yet.

Then tell me why I shouldn't send half these people home.

When I left Jesse last night, he was cold, tired, and hungry.

All he wanted to do was get warm and relax.

How likely is it that he'd pack a fireplace with wood and stroll off into

night without his jacket?

It's not very likely.

So why don't you just go fight a forest fire and leave us alone?

You have your guys grouped together too closely here. Other than that, I like

the grid you've laid out. I can work with this.

Is that an apology?

It's an offer.

Do you want my help or not?

Welcome to the team, Ranger.

Don't get too used to having me here.

We've got a nasty front moving in, and as soon as it hits, I'm going to have to

pull everybody out.

Sloan here.

Still nowhere.

No, not yet. How about your end?

Well, I talked to Jesse's neighbors, his landlady, all of his patients, and all

of his friends I could track down.

And he hasn't contacted any of them?

No. Still no idea what happened to him?

No, but I know what's going to happen if we don't find him soon.

This is some of the roughest country in California, and it's going to get

rougher if the weather changes.

Listen, if you need more help, Amanda and I... No, no, you stay where you are.

We already have more searches than we can coordinate.

Besides, with a little luck, Jesse could still find his own way back to

civilization. Yeah, and if he did, we'd be the first people he'd call.

Well, let's hope.

Okay, we'll stay put. Keep us posted.

You got it.

Well, still no sign of Jesse.

But don't worry, you know Steve.

Oh, he won't stop until he finds him. He hasn't got any choice. He can't run

barbecue bobs without him. And we can't run the ER without him either.

I barely managed to round up enough residents to handle Jesse's next three

shifts. Why, just because he worked 55 hours a week?

Along with conducting field trials on Devin Lab's new defibrillator.

Never heard about that?

No. I knew about Paris Pharmaceuticals. Two studies at once?

Where does he find the time? I guess when the rest of us are sleeping, it's

to be a brutal pace.

I don't think Jesse sees it as brutal. I think he really thrives on the

pressure. You know, Mark, up until yesterday, I may have agreed with you,

what if Jesse didn't just wander off?

What, you think maybe he had some kind of a breakdown and ran away?

I'd have a kind of a hard time accepting that.

You know, he has been overextended.

Well, we're all overextended. That's an occupational hazard. No, he's really

been pushing it.

Can't leave. We've got a deal. We did three days ago. Now we've got a storm on

the way. What about Jesse? He's still out there.

When the weather clears, we will try again.

When? Tomorrow? Next Thursday? Next week?

All right, try to understand what I'm saying.

We did our best, but we've run out of time. It's over for now. It's over when

find Jesse.

How? We've combed every inch of the sector and turned up exactly zero. Not a

footprint, not a broken twig, nothing.

Even without this storm, I wouldn't know where to send my people next. What

about here? We haven't searched this area yet.

Cedar Lake Military Reservation?

That's strictly off -limits. What, even for the Forest Service?

That's far enough, sir. Whoa, freeze! Hey, guys, I'm LAPD.

All right, let's see some ID.

Come with us, sir.

Please.

How could they call it off? They haven't been searching that long.

It's been over 72 hours.

Bad country and freezing weather. But there's still a chance.

Not according to the ranger in charge. What about Steve? What does he say? I've

been paging him all morning, just hoping to get... Steve?

Oh, Mr. Healy. No, I thought you were... No, I'm afraid they haven't found Dr.

Travis yet.

My son's still down there.

Yes, I'm aware that you have a deadline.

Mr. Healy, I assure you that Dr. Travis is not avoiding his obligation to the

acid draw study.

Yes, we'll keep you posted.

Let me guess, Paris Pharmaceuticals?

Expressing their sincere concern.

Obviously, they have their priorities.

And I have mine.

What is your name?

I already told you, I'm Lieutenant Steve Sloan, LAPD.

Why were you attempting to enter this facility?

I answered that too. Could we move on?

Why were you attempting to enter this facility?

I was looking for a lost friend. I thought he might be here.

You have no friends here.

What... basis did you have for thinking your friend was here?

There was nowhere left to look.

What is your name?

You know who I am.

We know you are an armed man who tried to break into a government facility.

Now, what is your name?

Answer the question.

What is your name?

He's been cleared by risk assessment.

We're done here.

You may go.

This way, Sheriff.

One final thing, Lieutenant.

Don't bother coming back.

Your friend couldn't possibly be here.

Listening posts and surveillance devices scan every inch of this facility.

All of it?

All of the time?

Your friend would have triggered our alarms just like you did.

I believe this is also yours, sir.

Thanks so much.

It's all right. You're home.

Everything's going to be fine, Jesse.

Jesse, what happened to you? What happened?

We've been looking for you. Why did you leave the cabin?

How did you get to Utah?

Utah? The highway patrol found you outside of Ogden. You've been missing

five days.

What's the last thing you remember?

You left me.

Wandering off again?

How's that?

Bet they're all blaming you for that, aren't they?

I don't think they are.

Why would they?

They shouldn't.

You're not the first.

Other people, up there where you were, it's happened to them too.

Do I know you?

Forget me.

This is about you and what you're going through.

Because if you're missing a block of time, if you have strange marks on your

body, well, it's all part of the pattern.

The only pattern I see is that you got a hold of my medical records.

You have questions.

And you're gonna have more.

A lot more.

Pills won't help.

You need to talk to people who know the truth.

I didn't think he was hurt that badly.

He wasn't. But traumatic memory loss can be caused by something other than a

bump on the head.

Emotional stress, for one thing.

So what do we do now? How can we help him get his memory back? Well, some

word works sometimes. An image might be able to trigger it.

Which means we have got to find out what happened to him the last five days.

Well, my facts just pictured every airport, bus station, and train terminal

between here and Ogden. Nobody remembers seeing him.

What about his wallet?

It's still missing.

None of his credit cards have been used, not since before he disappeared.

If you've got any suggestions, I'd love to hear them. How about finding Jesse?

Again.

Apparently he checked himself out of the hospital.

If you don't care to go on... Oh, no, it's okay.

Give me just a minute.

Like I said, I was alone.

My husband was working late.

It started a little past midnight.

At first, the lights flickered.

Yes, yes.

And then it started shaking like an earthquake.

Then I saw this bright glow. And it came in through the windows, and it was the

same for me. And it lit everything like day.

Yes, and then I heard sounds like something in the sky.

Something big.

Yes.

Then the door opened.

And I saw them.

Were they the tall, thin ones or the short ones?

Tall.

The aliens everybody calls the greys.

Excuse me.

The meeting's just started.

I'm in the wrong place. I'm sorry.

Oh, I see.

You mean you're not one of these nutcases.

No, I just don't belong here. I wasn't grabbed by aliens. I just got lost.

Denial. That's usually the first thing.

You don't know what I'm going through.

No one does.

Then anger.

You see, that always comes next.

Look, we know you're afraid.

We know the pain and fear because it's happened to all of us.

The nightmares, they won't just end.

They keep coming back.

In fact, they get worse.

You want it to stop?

You have to talk it out.

remember a whole lot it's not unusual just tell us what you can i

was uh i was alone in this cabin hey mark i

didn't know you made house calls i do when my patients check themselves out of

the hospital i am a doctor jesse you've been through an ordeal you need rest i

know and plenty of fluids both of which i'm getting right here you ever try and

sleep in a hospital

Strange people going in and out all night long.

Jesse is your doctor and is your friend. You have to come back to community,

General. There are no answers for me there, Mark.

And that's what I need right now, not pills.

Encounter at Roswell.

The truth about Hangar 18, these are answers.

Don't be so quick to judge.

I'm not judging. I am just wondering... Wondering what?

Why I'm wasting my time with all this?

Well, you couldn't possibly begin to understand.

Why don't you let me try?

They understand.

The people at the Encounter Institute.

They look just like you or me, Mark, except they've lived through something

terrible, like me.

I see.

You see.

Oh, come on, give me just this much honesty. You think that I'm bug -eyed

I'm just concerned.

So am I.

I just lost a week.

And things happen, things that I can't remember, things that maybe I don't want

to remember, but I... You think that I'm crazy, don't you? I think you're

exhausted. I'm not going back to that hospital.

All right, then we're going to bring the hospital to you. I want to have

somebody here twice a day to make sure you're all right. Fine, and I will be a

good little outpatient, okay? I'm going to stay right here, and I'm going to get

plenty of rest.

You won't come back?

No.

Take care of yourself.

Dr. Travis, we need to talk.

What were you doing at Cedar Lake?

Is this... Answer me.

What were you doing at Cedar Lake?

What's Cedar Lake?

I wasn't doing anything.

I wasn't even there.

I mean, I don't think I was.

Then why'd we find your wallet inside the perimeter fence?

Not too far from where your friend tried to break in.

Who? I ask the questions here, Doctor. You answer them.

Okay, how can I answer?

I mean, you think that I know, but I don't.

I don't know what you're talking about. Why did you go to Cedar Lake?

What was your objective?

Who do you work for?

Who else is involved?

Why did you go to Cedar Lake?

What was your objective?

Who do you work for?

Who else?

Why did you go to...

What was your name?

Jesse, easy, easy.

Steve, what happened in here?

They were here.

Did you see them outside?

Them? They broke in last night, and they tore up my whole apartment, and then

they started asking me all these questions, but I couldn't hear them. You

I couldn't hear them. Jesse, Jesse, you're not being coherent exactly. I'm

incoherent. I'm just not saying what I mean very well.

Are they outside? Did you see them?

Jesse, I didn't see anybody.

It doesn't mean they're not out there, Steve.

These guys are good.

Very good.

Jesse, where are you going? Someplace they can't find me.

Jazz.

Jesse.

You really want to hit me with that thing?

Steve, what's happening to me?

What did they find out about these Cedar Lake people he's so worried about?

For the record, there is no base at Cedar Lake.

Wait a minute, you were there.

Off the record, it's an ultra -top -secret R &D facility.

Pentagon refuses to confirm or deny, I see.

I'm having trouble seeing Jesse's connection to this thing.

If there is one, I intend to find it. And on my turf this time.

Hi, how's he doing?

A little better. Look, I'd like to run a full toxic panel on him, just in case

the CBC missed something.

What about an MRI?

The way he is, you'll have to tie him down.

Yeah, he's right. He's still agitated.

Well, we'll have to take it one procedure at a time. Right.

Hello?

Is this Dr. Travis?

Yeah, this is Dr. Travis.

Uh, counting's on the third floor. Just go down this corridor, turn right, and

take the first elevator. Thank you.

Hello?

I'm here.

Were you followed?

I don't know.

You don't know.

You don't know.

You and I, we're the only two left.

They've gotten rid of everyone else.

Everyone.

We have to move on.

We can't stay here. It's not safe. They might have followed one of us. Not going

anywhere. Not until you tell me what's going on. You already know.

That's why they're trying to get rid of us. I don't know.

I can't you understand that? I keep telling everyone, but no one

don't know.

We have to get out of here.

Are you okay, sir?

Dispatch, this is Patrol 10. Notified, Lieutenant Sloan. We have Dr. Jesse

Travis in custody. We copy.

We'll notify.

We swept the whole building. There's no bodies, dead or otherwise.

No trace of blood either.

What's that supposed to mean? That this didn't happen?

Can I just imagine the splinters in my arm? I got them when they shot at me.

Sir, you could have gotten those in the alley where we found you. Or on the

street before that. You're covered with cuts and scrapes. I got them from the

crates. The crates were right there.

We've checked every crate in the place. There's no bullet hits on any of them.

I don't believe this.

So you're not going to investigate?

Jess, we're already investigating.

What do you think all these people are doing?

Building a case against me.

No, sir. We're trying to just find evidence.

And the best evidence we have is in your arm.

Not yet.

Listen, Jess.

Let's go back to community general.

We'll have a man to take the splinters out of your arm and run an analysis on

them.

It's the right thing to do.

Maybe we'll finally get some answers.

Mr. Healy, I don't understand why you say he's no longer credible.

Dr. Travis is one of the...

Please. This study's very important to him.

Just postpone your decision a couple of days.

That's absurd.

Well, frankly, I don't much appreciate your tone either.

You all right, Dan? Oh, I'm having a terrific day.

Let me make it just a little more terrific.

Oh, no.

Dr. Travis revealed he was taken aboard an interstellar craft.

And mated with an alien love goddess. Where did they get this stuff?

From Jesse, my friend.

What?

He went to some place called the Encounter Institute.

What, and told them about this alien love goddess?

Well, I imagine this stuff's been in Belly somewhere.

Just enough to make Jesse sound totally crazy. No wonder he wanted them off that

project.

I cannot believe that Jesse's life is unraveling so completely.

You want me to tell him about this?

No, I better.

Can't put it off anymore.

Why should I check myself in?

Amanda took the splinters out of my arm. She has everything she needs, right?

Jesse, please, let's just run a few tests. A full tox panel. No, no way. I

been poked and probed enough all the way from here to wherever.

All right, let's set up a hypnosis session with Dr. Chalice.

You want me to see a shrink?

It may help you remember.

Next thing you know, you're going to be penning me up into some psycho war.

Safe place.

Think about it. If somebody's after you. If?

What do you mean, if? If there's someone really after me.

Jesse, if you don't admit yourself for treatment, then I don't have any choice.

I cannot have you seeing patients in that condition.

After all I've done for you, and after all the times I've stuck my neck out for

you, now you're going to fire me? I'm not firing you. I'm suspending you until

you get some sense.

Well, thanks for the lesson in friendship.

What are you going to do, Mark?

Lock me up for my own good? Well, you can't. It's the law.

You better get that. It could be a member of your staff who still trusts

They pulled him out of the L .A. river this afternoon.

Two 9mm bullets in the chest.

Obviously another swimming accident.

Yeah, and all these splinters across his upper body.

They match the one in Jesse's arm?

Right down to traces of the machine oil from where Jesse said the shooting took

place.

You know, according to this, he was apparently homeless. No ID, ragged

Reeking of cheap alcohol.

But how many winos do you know with perfectly capped teeth, manicured nails?

Well, do you think somebody tried to make this guy look like a transient?

So nobody would be in any hurry to identify him. Yes, they do.

But why?

What possible connection could he have to Jesse's abduction?

Well, I don't think some space alien zapped him.

Do you?

Right now. I don't know what to think

Stay

away

from the window

Somebody could be watching.

Right. More than one someone.

You're learning.

Faster than I want.

Who are you? What's your name?

Safer if you don't know.

For both of us.

Understand? Yes, I understand.

Safer.

I just don't know why they're after me.

You know.

You know, you're just like the guy at the warehouse. You think I have all the

answers. You do know, Jeff. You were right there.

What did you see?

Tell me.

Aliens. It's about alien abductions and the government covering them up.

So... Now you're one of us.

A select few who know the truth.

It is the truth, isn't it?

We need to leave.

I got a hole to hide in. What about you?

No, nowhere.

Not anymore.

Because you don't know which of your friends are dupes and which ones are

of the conspiracy.

I'm afraid they all might be part of it. Come on, think about it.

Someplace isolated and deserted.

What's the last place they think they'll look?

There is this cabin in the mountains.

Sounds good. Yeah.

Oh, no.

Dump the electronics.

Pages, watches, cell phones.

Any of them could contain a tracking device.

If they do find you, you may need this.

I'm a doctor. I can't. You have no patients anymore.

No friends either.

Trust nobody.

You were them.

I've identified our shooting victim. He's Parker Craddock, a lawnmower

Doesn't sound like a candidate for murder.

No, but an excellent candidate for surgery. Check out his autopsy report.

He had a duodenal ulcer.

Ooh, and a bad ulcer.

Advanced anemia?

Severe hemorrhaging?

They should have caught that long before it became that advanced.

Well, maybe it was.

Craddock was receiving drug therapy, both in acids and H2 blockers, including

cimetidine and acidrol.

None of which was working.

What was the doctor thinking?

We'll never know.

Craddock's doctor, Neil Brooksmith, died in a hit -and -run accident eight days

ago.

Not too long before one of his patients was shot to death.

Possibly coincidental.

Yeah, coincidental, just like it was coincidental that Kravak was shot when

was trying to warn Jesse.

That's an awful lot of coincidences.

A lot more than I'm comfortable with.

At any rate, good news for Jesse.

Proof that at least part of his story is true.

Jesse wouldn't leave this. His father gave him this watch. It's not like him

all. None of this is.

You know, there's one thing we haven't considered.

Given the demands of Jesse's schedule lately, he wouldn't be the first

to turn to drugs.

You know, you're exactly right. All of his symptoms are exactly like chronic

drug use.

We've got to search this place. The key's here. I know it is. We just have

find it.

Mark? Yeah? I found something. It's not drugs, but it's definitely something.

So have I.

I found a listening device.

I put it under a pillow.

Somehow, I don't think this should be here.

Wow. This looks like a time -release mechanism.

Mm -hmm.

Jesse's being poisoned?

Mm -hmm.

And judging from his constant thirst, my guess is high as siamine or

scopolamine. Two drugs that would never show up in a standard blood test. Every

time he took a drink of water, he got dosed again.

Which explains his irrational behavior when he'd come home.

You know, I knew that Jesse would never willingly take drugs. They had to do it

this way to get to him.

But why? Who would do this?

You know, Jesse's parka and all of his camping gear was here because Steve

bought them back from the camp for him. They're gone.

Jesse ran away again?

Not away.

To the cabin?

Of course.

Call Steve and tell him to meet me there.

Get away from me.

Everything's all right.

Go away!

Now, what you're going through must be horrible, Jesse.

Overwhelming anxiety, hallucinations, visions.

You can't understand what I'm feeling.

I know you've been drugged.

Jesse, put the gun down and come home with me, please.

I can't.

He told me that I couldn't trust anyone.

He? Who is he?

The only friend Dr. Travis has left.

Hello?

Dad, I'm still halfway down the mountain.

A rock slide has blocked the road up to the cabin and... Imagine that.

The road's blocked.

Well, you're obviously a man of many talents.

You can block roads, arrange alien abductions, and commit murder.

Think, Jesse.

Why would I do any of that?

You'd do it for your employers, Paris Pharmaceuticals.

This is their cabin, isn't it?

And that's the gun you used on Craddock.

Just as he was about to tell Jesse the truth.

You can't trust anything he says.

He's a part of all this.

Jesse. I'm your friend. I've always been. Now you know that. You're lying.

You don't care about me.

Then why am I here? I could have stayed away, but I didn't.

I knew you needed me.

Jesse, he's arrested. We'll have to start CPR.

Jesse!

We've got respiration in place.

Listen, you better put some pressure on that wound before it bleeds out.

And now, we're keeping him alive.

It's not to mention saving my life.

Oh, good timing.

We need your helicopter to get this man to a hospital.

You do want to find out how he managed to plant Jesse's wallet on your vase,

don't you?

All right.

I'm beginning to think you were expecting it.

Well, I admit I was kind of using you as a backup plan in case Steve got

detained.

I figured that your little listening post at Cedar Lakes would probably pick

our broadcast.

And then I knew, of course, that you wouldn't be able to resist

I don't like being manipulated.

Or would you feel happier if I promised never to do it again?

Dr.

Brooksmith worked for Paris Pharmaceuticals?

Officially, he was in charge of the acidrol field tests.

Unofficially, he was taking some serious bribes. Came in for a positive report

on acidrol's capabilities, no doubt.

So what happened? Brooksmith backed out of the deal?

Probably because of what acidrol did to his patient, Parker Craddock.

That's where your friend at the cabin comes in.

His real name was Quinn Trask.

Paris hired him as a crisis consultant.

The crisis being the millions of dollars the company would lose if it couldn't

market acidrol on schedule.

Which is why Dr.

Brooksmith had to go.

But I wasn't taking any bribes.

No, but you were filing negative and potentially very damaging test results.

Well, then why didn't Trask kill me like Brooksmith?

Well, two dead doctors would have drawn attention, so he decided to destroy your

credibility. By staging your abduction and putting the UFO scenario in your

mind, it was an elaborate scheme.

No kidding, that must have cost a fortune.

Rigging the cabin like that with all the special effects.

Not to mention drugging you and keeping you a prisoner for five days.

You know, I think you have had enough excitement for one day.

See you tomorrow, Jesse.

Come on, Jess.

Oh, hey.

See you.

Go home ET.

I'm going to bed.