All language subtitles for The X Files - 6x16 - Alpha.en

[ Speaking Chinese ]

[ Creature Snarls ]

[ Loud Clattering ]

[ Speaking Chinese ]

[ Siren Wails ]

This hold was secured
in Hong Kong.

I don't know how this happened.
It makes no sense.

We found the cage still locked.
Two of my men are missing.

Who's in charge here ? You ?

- Who are you ?
- My name is Detweiler.

I'm the owner of this cargo. I was to
be notified immediately of its arrival.

There's an animal in here, damn it.
It needs care.

- Aren't you goin' home ?
- I am home.

I'm just feathering the nest.

What ya got ?

Two merchant marines found dead
this morning in San Pedro.

In the hold
of their cargo ship.

Mind if I ask
the cause of death ?

- On the crime report it says
"multiple bite wounds."
- From what ?

Well, the Hong Kong manifest
has the cargo listed as a dog.

A dog ?

- A dog dog ?
- Yo quiero Taco Bell.

That alone is not
what drew me to this case.

The two men were found
inside the container which
was locked from the outside.

- What happened to the dog ?
- Dog gone.

Dog gone. Doggone.

Yeah, I got it. Did anybody
examine the victim, Mulder ?

Look, bite wounds are rarely
lethal in themselves.

I mean, they are not
the cause of death.

They lead to it
through the loss of blood.

But it makes me wonder
how accurate this report is.

Local P.D. wrote it up. Department
of Fish and Wildlife is on the case.

I got an outside source
says it was a dog.

I don't have to tell you how absolutely
and completely wrong that seems.

- I mean, they were found dead
in a locked cage, right ?
- Yeah.

- Two grown men.
- Mm-hmm.

You're not gonna tell me
that a dog did this.

- Bad dog.
- Yeah.

[ Barking ]

Quiet. JoJo, come on.
Shh, shh, shh.

That's enough, now. Come on.
Come on. Come on. It's okay.

Hey, get outta there !
Go on, get !

Come on. Inside.
Come on, come on. Inside.

Inside. Inside,JoJo.

[ Barking Continues ]

Get outta here !
Go on home !

Go home.!

JoJo ?

Here, girl !

Better not be on the bed !

There you are.
What are you doin', girl?

You nut.
Big old lazy bones.

JoJo, what are you doin'--

[ Growling ]

[ Snarling ]

Stay away. Go on. Go.

[ Snarling Continues ]

[ Man Screaming, Groaning ]

- OfficerJeffrey Cahn ?
- Yeah.

I'm Special Agent Fox Mulder
with the F.B.I.

This is my partner
Dana Scully.

I think the L.A. field office
would have contacted you
that we were coming down today.

Oh, yeah.
I hope you don't mind.

I had a look around the ship with
my men. We were pretty thorough.

- What did you find ?
- Nothing conclusive, really.

But I can tell you the dog's
not likely still on the ship.

- How'd you determine that ?
- You ever owned a dog, sir ?

- Yeah.
- Had to clean up after it ?

I don't suppose you can tell us
what kind of dog this is ?

I'm not really sure.

The man it was shipped to, his name
is Detweiler. Dr. Ian Detweiler.

- Calls himself a, uh, cryptozoologist.
- Cryptozoologist ?

Yeah. They deal with animals
thought to be extinct. Animals--

Animals that aren't supposed to exist,
like Sasquatch, the Ogopogo
and the Abominable Snowman--

Don't mind him.
He'll go on forever.

Did you have a chance to talk
to this Dr. Detweiler ?

- About five minutes ago.
-[ Detweiler ]
Officer Cahn, any progress ?

[ Cahn ]
Agents, Dr. Detweiler.

- Are you from the F.B.I. ?
- Yeah.

- Who should I be speaking to
about the theft of this animal ?
- What do you mean, theft ?

Well, this is a very valuable
animal that has disappeared.

A rare breed and arguably
a priceless specimen.

- A breed of what ?
- Wanshang Dhole. It's a canid.

That's an Asian dog. Supposed to have
been extinct for the last 1 50 years.

Yes.
That's right, actually.

-And you have one of these ?
-I was on the expedition that caught it.

Be that as it may, we now have
an unquarantined animal loose.

Loose ? This animal's
a little more than loose.
It seems to have killed two people.

Oh, no, let me assure you.
This is not a predatory animal.

Chinese folklore has imbued it
with mythic qualities.

But it doesn't even hunt.
It scavenges.

Where's Officer Cahn ?

I just got a report on the radio.
Some kind of vicious dog attack
in Bellflower.

Watch your step.

Jake Conroy, age 30.

He was employed as a customs agent
by the federal government.

The bite marks match those of
the victims on the Chinese freighter.

In this case, it bit off the man's hand.
There's some talk in the house...

that he may have been involved
in the theft of the animal
and then it turned on him.

Talk about bitin' the hand
that feeds ya.

Well, it does make sense.

I mean, a victim and his dog
are attacked inside of a house
with all the doors shut.

It couldn't have happened unless
the dog was being kept inside.

- Well, if all the doors were shut,
how did he get out ?
- Well, then what ?

I think we're speaking in common
about an animal we're calling a dog...

but which displays none of the behavior
of man's best friend.

- You mean covering up crime scenes ?
- You get a biscuit, Scully.

So you're talking about a dog
that has human intelligence ?

Well, even if there were
such an animal, where would we
even begin to look for one ?

With a human
that thinks like an animal.

[ Dogs Barking ]

Karin ? Karin Berquist ?

Karin ? Karin Berquist ?

No. Stacie Muir.

I'm just puttin' up this fence for her.
She's been havin' some coyote problems.

You two lookin' for Karin
about boarding ?

No, it's actually
more of a behavior problem.

Yeah. He, uh, doesn't listen,
and he chews on the furniture.

[ Chuckles ]

Just, can you tell her that
the F.B.I.'s here to see her ?

Right this way.

Karin will be out
in a moment, all right ?

Are you sure this woman's
not an authority on bats ?

Karin Berquist knows more about canine
behaviorisms than anybody on the planet.

She's lived with wild canids
and wolves in the wilderness
on five different continents.

How is it that you know
so much about her but you don't
know what she looks like ?

I never actually met her.

Yet you assume
that she's gonna help us ?

No. It's not an assumption. She is
the one who told me about this case.

- Oh, so you two are chummy.
- Well, I've read her books.

Oh. "The Wolf Inside.

Dogs Don't lie.
Better Than Human. "

- Better than human ?
- She's not a real people person.

Well, she seems to have made
a connection to you.

All right, settle down.

Settle.

Karin, I'm Fox.

Fox Mulder.

This is my partner,
Dana Scully.

It's nice to finally meet you.

I wish I'd known.
I don't get many visitors.

Stacy tells me you have
a question about behaviorism.

Yeah, it's about the animal
I'm tracking, the one you
mentioned in your E-mail.

- About its intelligence.
- Canids' intelligence
is far superior to ours.

if that's
what you want to know.

- Intelligence enough to murder ?
- Murder takes no intelligence.

- It's a human behaviorism.
- What about hunting ?

Coyotes use elaborate trickeries
to draw out their prey.

Many canids do,
alone or in packs.

- What about a Dhole ?
- If you mean the Wanshang
Dhole, it's extinct.

Is there any other reason
you came here ?

No. Thank you, Karin.

- Come on.
- [ Dog Barks ]

-[ Door Closes ]
- Mulder. She's a friend of yours ?

- Well, we met on line.
- On line ?

Two professionals
exchanging information.

This is Fiedler. I'm at an alley
just south of Cooper in Signal Hill.

Looks like something's been scavenging.
I'm gonna check it out.

[ Man On Radio ]
Copy that.

-[ Clattering ]
- Hey !

Hello, sir.
I'm with U.S. Fish and Wildlife.

Maybe you've seen a dog
I'm lookin' for.

Sir ? Can you hear me ?

[ Growling, Snarling ]

[ Man Screaming ]

You wanna catch a killer ?

You arrest that crypto son of a bitch
who shipped that dog over here.

Is it the same dog ?

That's Frank Fiedler over there. He's
a friend of mine. Damn good at his job.

You think this kind of thing
happens here every day ?

No, I'm sure it doesn't.
We'rejust trying to catch
this animal just like you.

Oh, you can catch it.
I want to kill it.

I don't think wolf woman
is here to speak to me.

I'm just, uh, gonna
take a look at the body.

- I didn't expect to see you.
- " Dog Eats Dogcatcher."

Story's all over the news this morning.
It's sort of uplifting.

- I'm joking. Sorry.
- Mm-hmm.

- That's okay.
- I thought you might use some help.

You said that a dog, or a canid,
only hunts what it needs.

But I've got four bodies
with bite marks on it...

from an animal that seems
to kill for no other reason.

- Who are the victims ?
- There's two men on a ship
that it came in on,

a customs agent, and now
an officer from Fish and Wildlife.

In fact, all these men
could have come in contact with
the animal before the attacks.

Classic dominant,
alpha territorial behavior.

No, this animal seems to have ranged
many miles to make its attacks.

In each case, it seems to have
outsmarted or tricked its victims.

Unlike we Homo sapiens, a canid's
motives are simple and direct.

It would be an extraordinary case
to find one who kills for sport.

Likely we may never know.
I'm sure someone will kill it first.

This guy over here ?
He claims to have caught it once.

Maybe he can catch it again.
He's Dr. Ian Detweiler.

- Do you know him ?
- No, but I dislike him already.

I've been over the area.
If that was my animal, there's
absolutely no evidence of it.

No prints, nothing
whatsoever I can find.

- But it's still on the loose ?
- How did you say you caught it
originally ?

Oh, this is Karin Berquist.

We tranquilized it,
after tracking it for two weeks.

You admire it, don't you ?

I admire its ability to survive.

I think I'll look around too.

Mm-hmm.

That's one strange bird.

I'm leaving my dart gun in the car. I'm
going to live rounds from here on out.

I don't care what
the regulations say.

I shouldn't be asked to risk my life.
Neither should anyone else.

[ Man On Radio ] No one's
asking you to risk your life, Cahn.

- Fiedler's lying dead.
You realize that ?
-[ Clattering ]

- Cahn, are you still there ?
- We need more men out here.

How many more people have to
go down before you guys listen ?

Look, I don't have a photo
of this animal. No one's even seen it.

Let's get more men out here
so we can catch it and kill it.

If you want pe--

- You scared me.
- You kill that dog, and I'll kill you.

[ Berquist ] This man Detweiler said
he could find no evidence at the scene.

But with very little effort,
I was able to find several tracks...

on the floor of the building
where the man was attacked.

- Did they tell you anything ?
- That this is a large, rangy animal...

with primitive, even
pre-evolutionary aspects.

It isn't perfectly visible,
but with the computer...

I can enhance the print
so that you can see it.

A fifth toe pad on the right paw.

Canids only have four toes.

He's got a vestigial toe pad
on his front paws, right there.

The dewclaw.
Serving no purpose now.

Although some believe
it was once a prehensile thumb.

And that's what you think
the print indicates ?

I am told that this animal went
in and out of closed buildings.

But just yesterday you dismissed
the possibility outright...

that a dog, or a canid as you
call it, would behave like this.

- I dismissed the idea of murder.
- But you'll accept the idea...

that it behaves in every other
way likeJack the Ripper ?

I'm just going by the facts.

In Chinese myth
a Dhole can be evil,

capable of opening doors, stealing wives
and disappearing into thin air.

Maybe there is some basis in reality
for this trickster myth.

Oh, I'm fairly certain there is.

- Everything okay, Scully ?
- How well do you know this woman,
Mulder ?

How well do you know anybody you meet
on the Internet ? She likes to talk.

Well, I question her motives.

You're suggesting this case
was to get me out here, to meet me ?

I'm flattered, but no.

I don't know this woman,
but I'll go out on a limb and say...

there's no way she has anything to do
with those four people being dead.

She's enamored of you, Mulder.

Don't underestimate a woman.
They can be tricksters too.

So, Dr. Riley wanted me
to give Duke three pills a day.
Is one bottle gonna be enough ?

- We can get you a refill.
- Okay.

- [ Barking ]
- Duke.

- Duke, enough.!
- Can't you control your dog ?

He gets this way
with strangers sometimes.

- Let's take him outside.
- Okay. Thanks.

- Excuse me. Excuse me. You got him ?
- Duke, come on.!

[ Barking Continues ]

[ Riley ]
Good luck.

Sorry about that.
He's usually a well-behaved dog.

I'm Dr. Detweiler. I called
about the animal tranquilizer.

The Telezol. I don't have
much occasion to dispense it.

- If I have any, it's very little.
- I'll take whatever you've got.

- I have etorphine. Can you use that ?
- Yeah.

- Can I ask what these are for ?
- An animal escaped from a pier
in San Pedro.

Not that dog
that's been attacking people ?

I'm in a bit of a hurry.

This dog you're looking for--
You're not looking around here ?

I'm afraid we are.

Good night, Peggy.

Be sure to lock the front door
for me, would you ?

I'll lock up back here.

- Good night, Sparky. Bye, Dino.
- [ Dog Whimpers ]

[ Whimpering ]

[ Dogs Barking ]

[ Barking Continues ]

Hey, Buck.
What's wrong, Buck ?

What's wrong, Buck, huh ?

[ Snarling, Barking ]

[ Sirens Wailing ]

Come on !

- Where is he ?
- He's trapped in a kennel.

- How'd it get in there ?
- It must have come around back.

Lomas, Young, go around back.

All right, I'm gonna open the door.
Doc, you're gonna have to move back.

I'm gonna have to shoot him.

I see him !

Did you hit him ?

-[ Dogs Barking ]
- I think so. He's down.

- [ Whimpering ]
- Duke.

It's the wrong dog.

[ Police Radio, Indistinct ]

- You came out for nothing.
- How's that ?

- I took out somebody's pet.
- What kind of pet ?

A St. Bernard. It was dark.
I just saw something move.

Okay, Duke.

All done, pal.
You're gonna be all right.

Now we gotta find out how
you got back in here, huh ?

[ Riley Screaming ]

I'm a federal agent.!
I'm armed.!

If you can hear me, don't move !
Just stay where you are
and tell me if you're okay.

-[ Clattering ]
- Mulder ?

- Yeah ?
- Come take a look at this.

I'll call paramedics.

- Where's Fox ?
- Continuing his investigation.
Come on.

- You're not working together ?
- No. This is my investigation.

- Of?
- You.

I have no idea what you mean.

I thought at first that
they were eccentricities.

Or affectations.
The dark, the clothes.

But it's photosensitivity.

Your sleeves
cover up skin lesions.

It's why you're here amongst the humans
instead of out in the field.

Systemic lupus erythematosis.

Lupus,
from the Latin for "wolf."

Ironic, isn't it ?

Ironic or perverse ?

I've ignored
the symptoms for years.

I've always felt more
like a wolf than a person.

But not with Mulder.

With Mulder,you found somebody
you could communicate with.

Someone who challenged you.
But that wasn't enough.

You needed to lure him out here.

I lack your feminine wiles.

You don't believe it, do you ?

Not for a minute that there's
an animal out there killing.

I don't believe that this man,
Dr. Detweiler, ever caught it.

I lived in Asia. I know
about the Wanshang Dhole.

And if it survived
for over a century,

it was because it was
more cunning than man.

More cunning than this man
Detweiler ever dreamed of.

More cunning than you ?

I'm watching you.

You watch,
but you don't see.

[ Man On Radio ] Officer Cahn,
we have an emergency phone call...

we'd like to
patch through to you.

Officer Cahn, are you there ?

Officer Cahn, please respond.

Officer Cahn,
please respond.

This is Jeffrey Cahn.
Go ahead.

We have an F.B.I. agent holding for you.
I'm gonna patch him through now.

- Officer Cahn ?
- Agent Mulder.

I'm back here at the clinic.
Did you know Detweiler had been here ?

- Dr. Detweiler was there ?
- Yeah, he signed for something.

Looks like "etorphine,"
"etoraphine."

Tranquilizers. Ampules.

- Are you anywhere near here at all ?
- Not far. Why ?

If you have access to the lab,
there's something I'd like you
to check out for me.

I'll be there in 1 5 minutes.

- [ Engine Starts ]
- [ Growling, Snarling ]

[ Screaming ]

- What are you doing here ?
- I'd heard what had happened.

I didn't know
how bad he would be.

I thought I might get
a description of the animal.

How did you learn
about the attack ?

I'd been in contact with Officer Cahn.
I learned through his office.

No, you didn't. No, you hadn't.
Officer Cahn didn't want to have
anything to do with you.

He was going to kill it.

Does that frighten you ?

Please, sir,
this is ridiculous.

You aren't hunting this animal.
You know it can't be caught.

-Then how could I have brought it here ?
-That's what no one can figure out.

Except for Karin Berquist.
She knows what was in that cage,
and she knows it must be killed.

And that's a thought
that she can't bear...

because she doesn't want this thing
to be extinct any more than you do.

- You're not making any sense.
- Oh, I think I am.

You went to China
looking for that animal.

And you may have tracked it,
as you claim, but the rest
is far from the truth.

You found the Wanshang Dhole.

But you never caught it.
It caught you.

You may not have known
what was happening at first,
but you're well aware now.

That when night comes,
you stop being yourself.

- That's insane.
- You become the trickster.

A shape-shifting man
who becomes an animal.

- I've heard enough.
- No. You killed because you could.

You may have resisted it
at first.

You may have hated
what you'd become.

Eventually it took you over.

That's where
the tranquilizer came in.

I found traces of etorphine
in animal blood at the clinic.

You injected yourself
with a tranquilizer
hoping to stop the killings.

But they didn't and they
haven't and they won't.

[ Quiet Chattering ]

I protected you as long as I could.
I won't any longer.

I can usually get a sense of a person
right away from the dogs.

Dogs are the best judges
of character I know.

I'm sensing
something myself here.

I'm thinking
maybe I've been misled.

That you haven't been totally
honest with me about this case.

I've been honest with you,
though perhaps not myself.

I was looking forward to meeting you.
I wouldn't admit how much.

But you might also have admitted
what you knew about this animal,
that it wasn't an animal at all.

I heard the reports and called you out,
if only so you could disprove them.

What I knew was it couldn't be a dog
responsible for those killings.

It's Detweiler, isn't it ?

- Yes.
- So you knew that and didn't say ?

I only realized it
when I saw him.

My failure was in thinking
I was protecting the animal.

That by deceiving you,
it might be captured alive.

He's got to be put down, Fox.
It's the only way to stop this.

Well, I've got Scully on him,
tailing him, watching his every move.

- He'll elude her easily.
- But where's he gonna go ?

To the man he only wounded.

To the hospital
to finish the kill.

[ Dialing Phone ]

Scully, it's me.
You gotta get to the hospital.

You gotta make sure
Cahn is protected.

Yeah, he's in danger.

Want to tell me why you pulled
me away from the suspect
and chained me to this chair ?

'Cause I haven't seen hide nor hair
of Detweiler since I've been here.

That's aptly put.
It's not yet dark.

You should take a load off.
We might be here all night.

- What do you mean ?
- It's Detweiler.

It's not Detweiler,
it's something he becomes.

- Mulder.
- Through some blood curse,

this man undergoes some kind
of nocturnal transformation.

He becomes the same shape-shifting
trickster as that mythical dog.

So is he gonna walk in here,
skitter across the linoleum
and pee in the corners ?

It's about territoriality.

He's gonna come back here
tonight to make sure his
dominance isn't challenged.

He's gonna put down the threat he failed
to eliminate when he attacked Cahn.

Karin Berquist confirmed it.

Mulder, the only thing Karin Berquist
is interested in is you.

You're kidding yourself...

if you think that she hasn't
manipulated this entire situation...

for her own purposes.

He'll come here tonight,
Scully. You'll see.

[ Dogs Whimpering ]

Okay.

He's not comin'.

[ Sighs ] Well, you've got
no argument from me.

He's not comin' here tonight.
Karin knew that. She lied to me.

-[ Phone Ringing ]
- [ Gasps ]

Karin, it's Fox Mulder.
I know what you're doing.

If you can hear me,
lock your doors. I'm on my way.

[ Growling, Snarling ]

Come on, dog.

- [ Snarling Continues ]
- Come on. Come on.

[ Dogs Barking ]

Mulder.

Yeah, it's Detweiler.

- You going home ?
- Yeah, pretty soon.

You think this is your fault.

I think that I...
believed her very quickly.

I think maybe
that was my fault, yeah.

- Why wouldn't you believe her ?
- I barely knew her.

Well, she had a lot of secrets,
that's for sure.

I think that Karin Berquist
lived by her instincts.

She sized people up pretty quickly, and
I think she figured you out to a tee.

I think she saw in you
a kindred spirit, Mulder.

She may not have been able
to express that to you.

Maybe what she did
was the highest form of compliment.

[ Sighs ]

You gonna be okay ?

Oh, this came for you.

Thank you.

[ Child ]
I made this.!