1 00:00:07,090 --> 00:00:09,957 - They were to check in at midnight. - You try every band? 2 00:00:10,093 --> 00:00:14,257 - All audiovisual seemed to be down. - Maybe it's just a satellite glitch. 3 00:00:14,348 --> 00:00:19,433 We thought so too, until we received this... from a tracking station in Bend, Oregon. 4 00:00:19,520 --> 00:00:22,182 They picked it up on an emergency frequency. 5 00:00:25,609 --> 00:00:28,271 What are those guys doing? 6 00:00:30,656 --> 00:00:33,944 We did manage to uplink Firewalker's video camera. 7 00:00:34,034 --> 00:00:38,198 It's at base camp, so we hope it can give us a picture, tell us what's going on. 8 00:00:38,497 --> 00:00:40,988 Data feed‘s coming in now. 9 00:00:47,506 --> 00:00:50,669 - What's the robot doing in the volcano? - I don't know. 10 00:00:50,801 --> 00:00:52,837 There's no descent scheduled. 11 00:00:52,970 --> 00:00:56,679 Firewalker's not responding. I can't get control. 12 00:00:56,807 --> 00:01:00,846 - Someone's overriding it. - Lock camera remote and pan left. 13 00:01:05,983 --> 00:01:07,644 Stop. Stop! 14 00:01:07,818 --> 00:01:09,900 Go back. 15 00:01:11,822 --> 00:01:14,234 Tilt up and zoom in. 16 00:01:18,495 --> 00:01:20,531 Erikson. 17 00:01:21,081 --> 00:01:23,322 What the hell...? Give me that! 18 00:01:28,505 --> 00:01:32,714 There it is again. Did you see that? You saw that shadow, didn't you? 19 00:01:32,843 --> 00:01:36,335 Yeah, but what could be moving around in that kind of heat? 20 00:01:36,430 --> 00:01:38,045 I don't know. 21 00:01:39,600 --> 00:01:44,845 Maybe it was, uh, just a ghost signal. I mean, it wouldn't be the first time that... 22 00:01:55,741 --> 00:01:57,857 What's going on up there? 23 00:02:55,425 --> 00:03:01,170 Let’s go to our science editor Eric Parker in MountAvann, Washington. Eric? 24 00:03:01,264 --> 00:03:04,131 I’m standing here with a group of scientists... 25 00:03:04,267 --> 00:03:08,852 ..who are excited about this device, which looks like a large titanium bug. 26 00:03:08,939 --> 00:03:13,478 Firewalker will next week make its first descent into an active volcano. 27 00:03:13,610 --> 00:03:17,023 This robot is the brainchild of volcanologist Daniel Trepkos. 28 00:03:17,114 --> 00:03:19,400 It will gather samples from the crater... 29 00:03:19,491 --> 00:03:22,824 ..which may hold scientific data about the Earth’s core. 30 00:03:22,953 --> 00:03:25,365 Scientific data? 31 00:03:25,455 --> 00:03:28,913 We ’re talking about revisiting the very origin of the Earth. 32 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:31,616 Peering into the fire where it all began. 33 00:03:32,546 --> 00:03:37,461 A human endeavour more important even than man 's exploration of space. 34 00:03:40,220 --> 00:03:42,211 That's no mean claim. 35 00:03:42,305 --> 00:03:45,138 Daniel always had a flair for self-dramatisation. 36 00:03:45,308 --> 00:03:49,972 - I'd always heard that he was brilliant. - Brilliant doesn't go quite far enough. 37 00:03:50,063 --> 00:03:52,679 He occupies a rare place among scientists... 38 00:03:52,816 --> 00:03:56,934 ..where dreams, ambition and... great luck converge. 39 00:03:57,028 --> 00:03:58,768 You think his luck just ran out. 40 00:03:58,864 --> 00:04:04,780 The team sent a distress signal yesterday after failing to make a status report. 41 00:04:04,870 --> 00:04:07,577 They haven't responded to any of our calls. 42 00:04:07,664 --> 00:04:12,283 But by using remote telemetry, we were able to activate Firewalker's camera. 43 00:04:12,377 --> 00:04:14,493 This is what we found. 44 00:04:14,588 --> 00:04:17,546 You're looking at the floor of the volcano. 45 00:04:18,216 --> 00:04:21,834 But this is the last thing we expected to discover. 46 00:04:21,928 --> 00:04:26,171 The dead man is, uh, Phil Erikson... chief seismologist. 47 00:04:27,768 --> 00:04:30,100 Now, look at this. 48 00:04:31,271 --> 00:04:34,855 Whoa! What the hell is that? 49 00:04:36,026 --> 00:04:38,233 We don't know. 50 00:04:38,528 --> 00:04:40,689 Whatever it was disabled the camera. 51 00:04:40,781 --> 00:04:45,150 The temperature readings are upwards of 130° at this depth. 52 00:04:45,243 --> 00:04:47,655 - But that was alive. - Why weren't you there? 53 00:04:47,746 --> 00:04:52,410 I left the project six weeks ago. Trepkos and I nearly came to blows. 54 00:04:53,251 --> 00:04:56,835 - Over what? - Well, I wish I could explain. 55 00:04:56,922 --> 00:04:59,288 Daniel and I, uh... 56 00:05:00,717 --> 00:05:06,462 I always played Salieri to his Mozart. I was never quite on his plane of intellect. 57 00:05:06,556 --> 00:05:08,763 But this time I found him slipping. 58 00:05:09,142 --> 00:05:11,224 Into madness. 59 00:05:12,062 --> 00:05:15,805 - He controlled the others... - You think he's responsible for this? 60 00:05:15,899 --> 00:05:19,062 Whatever there is between me and him, I pray that he isn't. 61 00:05:19,152 --> 00:05:24,112 We've got 20 million tax dollars in this project. If word of it were to get out,... 62 00:05:24,241 --> 00:05:28,280 ..it could destroy years of work. I'm afraid to go through proper channels. 63 00:05:28,411 --> 00:05:31,494 Yeah. We're not exactly proper channels. 64 00:05:32,958 --> 00:05:37,122 - How soon can we get up there? - There's a flight waiting to take us to Seattle. 65 00:05:37,254 --> 00:05:40,746 From there, a helicopter will fly us to Mount Avalon. 66 00:05:42,300 --> 00:05:44,211 Scully? 67 00:05:44,302 --> 00:05:49,092 - I don't think it's a good idea for you to go. - Mulder, I appreciate your concern,... 68 00:05:49,182 --> 00:05:52,470 ..but I'm ready - I wanna work. 69 00:05:53,144 --> 00:05:55,977 Well, maybe you should take some time off. 70 00:05:56,648 --> 00:05:59,264 I've already lost too much time. 71 00:06:14,207 --> 00:06:16,289 There it is! 72 00:07:23,068 --> 00:07:25,901 This was Firewalker's satellite relay. 73 00:07:26,738 --> 00:07:30,947 We installed field instruments here. Seismographs, tilt meters... 74 00:07:31,034 --> 00:07:33,491 We'll look here after we've checked inside. 75 00:07:33,578 --> 00:07:38,948 The instruments are worth millions of project dollars. I'm accountable to the USGS for 'em. 76 00:07:39,042 --> 00:07:43,752 - Shouldn't we find the descent team first? - I just wanna take a quick damage survey. 77 00:07:43,880 --> 00:07:46,371 I'll catch up with you in a few minutes. 78 00:08:05,235 --> 00:08:07,317 Hello? 79 00:08:40,520 --> 00:08:45,355 Looks like somebody wanted to put this operation permanently out of commission. 80 00:10:11,194 --> 00:10:13,025 Mulder! 81 00:10:13,113 --> 00:10:16,196 - Wait! Wait! - What's going on? 82 00:10:16,282 --> 00:10:19,945 - This isn't what it looks like! - He just about took my head off. 83 00:10:20,703 --> 00:10:24,070 I told you, I made a mistake, OK? I'm sorry, all right? 84 00:10:24,207 --> 00:10:27,950 - Who the hell are you? - I'm... I'm Ludwig. I'm Jason Ludwig. 85 00:10:28,044 --> 00:10:31,832 - I'm the robotics engineer. - Do you always greet people this way? 86 00:10:31,923 --> 00:10:35,381 I heard a noise. I thought it was him. I was protecting myself. 87 00:10:35,468 --> 00:10:37,254 You know, self-preservation? 88 00:10:37,387 --> 00:10:41,505 Who did you think I was that you thought you had to protect yourself? 89 00:10:41,599 --> 00:10:43,715 Trepkos. 90 00:10:50,400 --> 00:10:56,771 Sometimes he wouldn't talk to us for days. Then, boom! You couldn't get him to shut up. 91 00:10:56,906 --> 00:10:58,942 Don't get me wrong, OK? 92 00:10:59,075 --> 00:11:01,817 No one revered the man more than me. 93 00:11:01,911 --> 00:11:04,903 I mean... he was a prophet... 94 00:11:05,915 --> 00:11:07,496 ..an oracle. 95 00:11:07,584 --> 00:11:09,290 He saw things. 96 00:11:09,419 --> 00:11:13,003 H... I mean, he... he saw things that you and me,... 97 00:11:14,007 --> 00:11:16,214 ..we only dream about,... 98 00:11:16,301 --> 00:11:19,418 ..and then forget when we wake up. 99 00:11:27,437 --> 00:11:31,806 Well, it's OK, you can come out now. The cavalry‘s here. 100 00:11:36,529 --> 00:11:39,817 This is Peter Tanaka, our systems analyst. 101 00:11:45,121 --> 00:11:48,454 And, uh, this is Jesse O'Neil. 102 00:11:50,335 --> 00:11:52,291 Are you the rescue team? 103 00:11:52,378 --> 00:11:55,211 - No, we're with the FBI. - FBI? 104 00:11:56,132 --> 00:11:58,214 But you're taking us back, right? 105 00:11:58,509 --> 00:12:02,377 - After we've investigated what happened. - Trepkos is what happened. 106 00:12:02,513 --> 00:12:05,801 - Did he kill Erikson? - He flipped out. 107 00:12:06,976 --> 00:12:10,264 Right after the descent, he just flipped out. 108 00:12:10,355 --> 00:12:14,769 Can you think of anything that might've caused or contributed to his behaviour? 109 00:12:14,859 --> 00:12:18,351 - You're asking me? - Daniel was sick. 110 00:12:19,155 --> 00:12:23,774 He had a bipolar disorder. I think that's what it was. 111 00:12:23,868 --> 00:12:28,282 It wasn't a secret, but it's not something he advertised either. 112 00:12:28,373 --> 00:12:31,080 But with his medication he was just fine. 113 00:12:32,001 --> 00:12:35,664 Well, I think Erikson's wife might disagree with that. 114 00:12:37,840 --> 00:12:40,377 You're part of the team, Jesse? 115 00:12:41,427 --> 00:12:46,046 Daniel was my thesis advisor at the university. 116 00:12:46,724 --> 00:12:49,340 He asked me to assist him on this project. 117 00:12:51,229 --> 00:12:54,767 - Are these his notes? - Oh... yeah. 118 00:12:55,566 --> 00:12:57,932 Well, whatever's left of 'em. 119 00:12:59,445 --> 00:13:01,982 First thing he did was destroy all his own work. 120 00:13:02,073 --> 00:13:05,440 You know, his field journals, his computer disks. 121 00:13:06,703 --> 00:13:09,285 We salvaged what we could, but... 122 00:13:09,372 --> 00:13:12,409 ..I don't really think you'll find much in there. 123 00:13:12,542 --> 00:13:14,874 Of use, anyway. 124 00:13:41,612 --> 00:13:44,228 Hello? 125 00:13:45,450 --> 00:13:47,941 Anyone there? 126 00:14:01,424 --> 00:14:03,506 Scully. 127 00:14:09,432 --> 00:14:12,390 What d'you make of Mr Trepkos's neighbourhood? 128 00:14:12,477 --> 00:14:16,846 - What d'you mean? - Isn't their behaviour bizarre? Paranoid? 129 00:14:16,939 --> 00:14:21,558 - After what they've been through, no. - They're practically climbing the walls. 130 00:14:21,652 --> 00:14:24,610 They've been living in the middle of nowhere for a year. 131 00:14:24,697 --> 00:14:27,404 One is dead, probably at the hands of another. 132 00:14:27,492 --> 00:14:31,030 You have to expect some heightened level of emotional distress. 133 00:14:31,120 --> 00:14:34,533 It's more than that. There‘s something they're not telling us. 134 00:14:34,624 --> 00:14:36,910 Based on what? 135 00:14:37,001 --> 00:14:40,459 Based on when Ludwig tried to play T-ball with my head. 136 00:14:40,546 --> 00:14:43,003 He knew I wasn't Trepkos. 137 00:14:43,883 --> 00:14:48,422 - Now Mulder, you’re sounding paranoid. - Pierce knows these people. 138 00:14:48,513 --> 00:14:51,505 Let's find out what he thinks. 139 00:14:51,641 --> 00:14:53,506 OK. 140 00:15:19,168 --> 00:15:22,001 No one... can leave. 141 00:15:34,517 --> 00:15:35,927 Pierce! 142 00:15:36,018 --> 00:15:38,600 - He's not here. - Pierce! 143 00:15:38,688 --> 00:15:42,306 - Something's happened! - Oh, my God! 144 00:15:42,400 --> 00:15:47,235 Get over here. He's over here! I've found him! I've found him! 145 00:15:48,072 --> 00:15:50,188 I've found him! 146 00:15:55,371 --> 00:15:58,408 - That should do it. - What shall we do with the body? 147 00:15:58,541 --> 00:16:00,202 - Do you have a freezer? - Yeah. 148 00:16:00,293 --> 00:16:03,956 - Radio for the helicopter. I'm almost done. - Let me help you. 149 00:16:04,046 --> 00:16:06,458 No, that's OK, we got him. 150 00:16:12,388 --> 00:16:14,845 - We can't leave, Scully. Not yet. - Why not? 151 00:16:14,932 --> 00:16:18,424 - Trepkos is still out there. - He killed Pierce and probably Erikson. 152 00:16:18,561 --> 00:16:21,473 - We should come back with a larger party. - No. 153 00:16:22,148 --> 00:16:27,484 I've been going over Trepkos's work. I found references to a subterranean organism. 154 00:16:27,570 --> 00:16:30,312 - What? - An organism existing within the volcano. 155 00:16:30,406 --> 00:16:32,647 No specific description... 156 00:16:32,742 --> 00:16:35,529 Mulder, nothing can live in a volcanic interior. 157 00:16:35,620 --> 00:16:39,408 Not only because of the intense heat, but the gasses would be toxic. 158 00:16:39,499 --> 00:16:41,911 What does this say? 159 00:16:42,793 --> 00:16:47,708 It describes the metabolism from hydrogen sulphide into silicon dioxide. 160 00:16:47,798 --> 00:16:49,709 A silicon-based life form? 161 00:16:49,800 --> 00:16:53,463 The basic building block for every organism known to man is carbon. 162 00:16:53,596 --> 00:16:58,215 - From bacterium to redwood trees. - Silicon is the closest element to carbon. 163 00:16:58,309 --> 00:17:02,723 It reacts identically with other elements - it combines to form complex molecules. 164 00:17:02,813 --> 00:17:06,476 A silicon-based life form is one of the holy grails of modern science. 165 00:17:06,609 --> 00:17:07,894 Maybe Trepkos found it. 166 00:17:07,985 --> 00:17:13,275 Mulder, that is science fiction. It's... an elaborate construct from a delusional mind. 167 00:17:13,366 --> 00:17:15,573 This doesn't prove anything. 168 00:17:15,660 --> 00:17:19,323 Trepkos said he had evidence. It's gotta be here somewhere. 169 00:17:19,455 --> 00:17:25,200 - Whatever evidence he had, he destroyed. - Maybe it wasn't Trepkos who destroyed it. 170 00:17:25,294 --> 00:17:29,037 - What if it was one of the others? - Why would they do that? 171 00:17:29,799 --> 00:17:34,338 All of these people are suffering to varying degrees from post-traumatic stress. 172 00:17:34,470 --> 00:17:40,181 And from a medical point of view, we have to get them out of here sooner rather than later. 173 00:17:52,029 --> 00:17:54,145 Jesse? 174 00:17:55,366 --> 00:17:57,482 Can I talk to you? 175 00:18:03,583 --> 00:18:05,665 Are you OK? 176 00:18:07,878 --> 00:18:10,585 I hate this place. 177 00:18:11,173 --> 00:18:13,835 What happened here, Jesse? 178 00:18:16,095 --> 00:18:18,507 You can trust me. 179 00:18:20,600 --> 00:18:23,091 After the first descent... 180 00:18:23,185 --> 00:18:25,267 ..Daniel changed. 181 00:18:25,354 --> 00:18:27,640 He became withdrawn and paranoid. 182 00:18:27,732 --> 00:18:31,941 He locked himself in the lab for three days and wouldn't let any of us in. 183 00:18:32,028 --> 00:18:34,815 Do you think the descent triggered his breakdown? 184 00:18:34,905 --> 00:18:37,112 Well, that's what I thought. 185 00:18:37,199 --> 00:18:40,032 And then... I found out... 186 00:18:41,537 --> 00:18:44,279 ..that he's not taking his pills. 187 00:18:46,042 --> 00:18:48,374 Lithium carbonate. 188 00:18:48,461 --> 00:18:51,578 Yeah, he said that they were polluting his brain. 189 00:18:51,714 --> 00:18:54,626 And... he said I was polluting his body. 190 00:18:59,055 --> 00:19:01,421 I'm scared. 191 00:19:01,557 --> 00:19:05,220 - I don't wanna die here. - What are you so afraid of, Jesse? 192 00:19:05,436 --> 00:19:07,552 Daniel. 193 00:19:10,441 --> 00:19:14,309 The only reason I even came here was because of him. 194 00:19:16,113 --> 00:19:19,901 He promised me that this would be an adventure. 195 00:19:22,161 --> 00:19:24,618 That it would change my life. 196 00:19:29,251 --> 00:19:34,666 But eight months is a long time, and I just wanna go home now. 197 00:19:35,007 --> 00:19:36,838 Where's home? 198 00:19:37,510 --> 00:19:39,842 Anywhere but here. 199 00:19:44,600 --> 00:19:50,345 Samples 7, 12 and 22 also contain trace evidence of the organism. 200 00:19:50,439 --> 00:19:55,650 The possibility of this new, or perhaps unfathomably old, life form... 201 00:19:55,778 --> 00:20:01,148 ..has left me sleepless, wondering if] haven 't lost all perspective. 202 00:20:02,118 --> 00:20:08,284 If my intense desire to find the truth hasn’t finally eclipsed the truth itself. 203 00:20:08,374 --> 00:20:13,619 Our meddling intellect misshapes the beauteous forms of things. 204 00:20:13,713 --> 00:20:15,795 We murder to dissect. 205 00:20:17,216 --> 00:20:21,209 My mind is a tangled knot I can no longer untie. 206 00:20:21,387 --> 00:20:26,051 Daily, I fight the urge to sever it completely to stop this descent. 207 00:20:45,578 --> 00:20:47,864 What caused that tremor? 208 00:20:48,664 --> 00:20:52,327 There's been a lot of seismic activity in the northeast rift zone. 209 00:20:52,418 --> 00:20:57,333 If Trepkos hadn't destroyed our instruments, we might have learned something from it. 210 00:20:57,423 --> 00:20:59,914 You feeling all right? 211 00:21:03,220 --> 00:21:04,426 Yeah. 212 00:21:04,513 --> 00:21:07,801 Agent Scully's a medical doctor. Let her take a look at you. 213 00:21:07,892 --> 00:21:10,099 - I'm fine. - Just let her take a look... 214 00:21:10,186 --> 00:21:11,596 No! 215 00:21:15,399 --> 00:21:18,357 I'll go get Scully. 216 00:21:21,697 --> 00:21:25,155 - Come on, get up. She'll help you. - I don't want her to! 217 00:21:25,242 --> 00:21:28,109 Of course you do! It's for the best. 218 00:21:28,621 --> 00:21:30,862 We have to get out of here. 219 00:21:31,624 --> 00:21:35,913 He just collapsed after the tremor. He seems pretty bad. 220 00:21:38,297 --> 00:21:40,959 - He's burning up. - What is it? 221 00:21:41,050 --> 00:21:44,918 An infection or a toxic reaction. We've gotta get him to a hospital. 222 00:21:45,054 --> 00:21:48,467 - I'll get a stretcher. - We can't just leave Trepkos. 223 00:21:48,557 --> 00:21:50,969 Give me the shortwave. 224 00:21:54,271 --> 00:21:59,482 This is Agent Scully with the Firewalker team. Come in, Search and Rescue. 225 00:22:00,736 --> 00:22:03,773 I‘ll get O'Neil and meet you at the landing site. 226 00:22:03,906 --> 00:22:05,521 This is Search and Rescue. 227 00:22:05,616 --> 00:22:08,699 Request dispatch of medevac immediately. 228 00:22:08,786 --> 00:22:12,779 We have an Asian male, mid-thirties, spiking a high-grade fever. 229 00:22:34,520 --> 00:22:37,307 Tanaka's collapsed. We're getting him out. 230 00:22:52,538 --> 00:22:54,995 - Tanaka! - Peter! 231 00:22:55,124 --> 00:22:57,661 Peter, come on, get back here! 232 00:23:33,746 --> 00:23:35,657 There. 233 00:23:40,502 --> 00:23:42,663 - Come on. - Don't go down there! 234 00:23:42,755 --> 00:23:46,498 - Let me go! What're you doing? Let go of me! - Don't go down there. 235 00:24:19,541 --> 00:24:22,578 So what is it, Scully? What are we dealing with? 236 00:24:22,711 --> 00:24:25,919 Without better imaging equipment, I can't say for sure. 237 00:24:26,048 --> 00:24:28,505 I'll take any theory you've got. 238 00:24:28,592 --> 00:24:33,131 - It appears to be some kind of a fungus. - Anything you recognise? 239 00:24:33,222 --> 00:24:38,387 Well, I'm not a botanist, but I think it's fair to guess that it's an unknown genus. 240 00:24:39,228 --> 00:24:41,344 - What am I looking at here? - Spores. 241 00:24:41,438 --> 00:24:44,396 I scraped them off the tip of the fungus. 242 00:24:45,401 --> 00:24:51,271 It appears as if one of the spores grew inside Tanaka until it reached reproductive maturity. 243 00:24:51,407 --> 00:24:53,443 Essentially outgrowing its host. 244 00:24:53,575 --> 00:24:58,786 But by then it had caused massive tissue damage, particularly to the respiratory tract. 245 00:24:58,914 --> 00:25:02,657 - That accounts for the sand in his lungs. - You found sand in his lungs? 246 00:25:02,751 --> 00:25:06,960 Silicon dioxide. The waste product of a silicon-based organism. 247 00:25:07,131 --> 00:25:12,626 Wait a second. There... there's no such thing as a silicon-based organism. 248 00:25:12,761 --> 00:25:15,093 Maybe now there is. 249 00:25:15,431 --> 00:25:19,595 But we won't have proof until we determine its molecular structure. 250 00:25:19,685 --> 00:25:22,597 Come on. How else do you explain the sand in his lungs? 251 00:25:22,688 --> 00:25:26,977 It's the best trace evidence we could ask for. Trepkos was right. 252 00:25:27,526 --> 00:25:29,983 Daniel knew about this? 253 00:25:30,112 --> 00:25:33,650 He discovered a spore in the samples Firewalker brought up. 254 00:25:33,782 --> 00:25:35,147 He would've told us. 255 00:25:35,325 --> 00:25:39,910 Not if what he discovered was too disturbing even for him to understand. 256 00:25:39,997 --> 00:25:44,787 This might explain something else. The spore could explain Trepkos's dementia. 257 00:25:44,877 --> 00:25:47,869 Fungi contain alkaloids that affect the nervous system. 258 00:25:47,963 --> 00:25:51,751 Yeah, but what about us? I mean... we weren't exposed. 259 00:25:51,842 --> 00:25:56,552 We don't know that. If it was an airborne microbe, any of us could've inhaled a spore. 260 00:25:56,805 --> 00:25:58,966 So we're not going home, right? 261 00:25:59,058 --> 00:26:02,391 Not until we know how it's transmitted, how it incubates. 262 00:26:02,478 --> 00:26:07,643 If even one of us is infected, we could risk infecting a much larger population. 263 00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:18,107 Search and Rescue, this is Agent Mulder. Do you copy? 264 00:26:18,202 --> 00:26:21,365 This is Search and Rescue. We’re in a holding pattern. Over. 265 00:26:21,497 --> 00:26:27,458 Notify FBI District HQ in Spokane that we're in quarantine due to possible contagion. 266 00:26:27,544 --> 00:26:30,832 Have CDC send up an evacuation unit on high alert. 267 00:26:30,923 --> 00:26:33,414 What’s the nature of the contagion? 268 00:26:35,552 --> 00:26:37,793 Agent Mulder? 269 00:26:37,888 --> 00:26:42,632 Tell them it's a biological agent... of unknown origin. 270 00:26:42,726 --> 00:26:45,012 That's affirmative. Standing by. 271 00:26:47,022 --> 00:26:49,764 Maybe you should go check up on O'Neil. 272 00:27:08,961 --> 00:27:11,452 I'm gonna go find Trepkos. 273 00:27:14,466 --> 00:27:19,426 - What if he's already dead? - He'll find it tough answering my questions. 274 00:27:19,555 --> 00:27:21,887 I've gotta find out what he knows. 275 00:27:21,974 --> 00:27:25,762 It could change our understanding of the origin and evolution of life. 276 00:27:25,894 --> 00:27:29,307 He's dangerous, Mulder. He's already killed two men. 277 00:27:29,398 --> 00:27:33,232 - Then I have to find out why. - Will you at least let me go with you? 278 00:27:33,318 --> 00:27:34,603 No. 279 00:27:34,736 --> 00:27:39,150 Look, I know what you're thinking, but you have to get past that. We both do. 280 00:27:39,241 --> 00:27:42,654 I'm back... and I'm not going anywhere. 281 00:27:43,620 --> 00:27:46,783 You have to finish the autopsy on Tanaka. 282 00:27:46,915 --> 00:27:52,251 Hopefully that'll give us a better idea of what we're dealing with - whatever it is. 283 00:27:52,337 --> 00:27:56,455 I'm counting on you to keep us all from ending up on that slab. 284 00:28:18,780 --> 00:28:21,863 - Do like we said, OK? - Mm-hm. Mm-hm. 285 00:28:21,950 --> 00:28:24,111 You know what to say, right? 286 00:28:26,330 --> 00:28:28,616 I could use a little help. 287 00:28:29,374 --> 00:28:31,456 Excuse me. 288 00:28:33,378 --> 00:28:37,747 - So what do you need? - Directions, a contour map, USGS survey. 289 00:28:37,841 --> 00:28:40,332 Anything that can help me get here. 290 00:28:41,553 --> 00:28:43,635 Oh. 291 00:28:45,641 --> 00:28:48,303 These are the steam caves. 292 00:28:49,519 --> 00:28:53,353 They feed into the Sherman Crater. That's how we access the caldera. 293 00:28:53,482 --> 00:28:56,064 - How did you get these? - Firewalker. 294 00:28:56,151 --> 00:29:01,145 They were transmitted right before Trepkos destroyed his camera. 295 00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:02,776 Oh! 296 00:29:02,866 --> 00:29:05,699 So you're finally gonna go after Trepkos? 297 00:29:08,497 --> 00:29:10,863 Well, I'll tell you one thing. 298 00:29:10,999 --> 00:29:13,911 You won't find him with those. 299 00:29:14,002 --> 00:29:18,211 - And you won't find him with any map either. - How will I find him? 300 00:29:18,340 --> 00:29:20,376 You won't. 301 00:29:22,344 --> 00:29:25,336 - Not without a guide. - A guide? 302 00:29:25,430 --> 00:29:28,593 Yeah, a guide. I've been up here for almost a year. 303 00:29:28,684 --> 00:29:31,096 I spent months in those caves,... 304 00:29:31,186 --> 00:29:35,600 ..charting every fissure, every crevice, so Firewalker wouldn't trip. 305 00:29:35,691 --> 00:29:38,683 If Trepkos is there, I can find him. 306 00:29:38,777 --> 00:29:42,520 - Why are you so eager to help me find him? - Oh, I'm... I'm not eager. 307 00:29:42,614 --> 00:29:48,860 I just don't want to wait around for Trepkos to do to me what he did to Pierce and Erikson. 308 00:29:48,954 --> 00:29:51,286 Plus, you've got the gun. 309 00:29:53,041 --> 00:29:56,579 You're the only one who can get us out of this place. 310 00:30:16,106 --> 00:30:18,597 Whatever I'm smelling, is it toxic? 311 00:30:18,734 --> 00:30:24,104 Between the heat and the sulphur, it can get pretty nasty in here. But it won't hurt you. 312 00:30:24,239 --> 00:30:26,571 You'll get used to it. 313 00:30:27,617 --> 00:30:33,613 - How far does the cave extend? - Three quarters of a mile, to the crater rim. 314 00:30:35,083 --> 00:30:37,574 Let's head in. 315 00:30:38,587 --> 00:30:43,172 It twists around quite a bit till you get there. Lots of dead ends... 316 00:30:44,593 --> 00:30:46,675 ..and blind drops. 317 00:30:46,762 --> 00:30:51,597 Unless you know where you're going, you're... like a rat in a maze. 318 00:31:00,776 --> 00:31:03,017 Argh! Argh! 319 00:31:03,362 --> 00:31:05,444 Argh! 320 00:31:34,351 --> 00:31:36,467 Your gun. 321 00:31:40,232 --> 00:31:42,473 Back. Get back. 322 00:31:49,491 --> 00:31:52,608 Why are you doing this, Trepkos? He's already dead. 323 00:31:52,702 --> 00:31:55,990 How many times do you have to kill him? 324 00:32:02,087 --> 00:32:04,749 It's not him I'm trying to kill. 325 00:32:39,791 --> 00:32:44,751 I have attempted to culture the spore, using temperatures ranging from human basal... 326 00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:48,247 ..to those approximating the volcanic interior. 327 00:32:48,383 --> 00:32:51,796 I have used nutritive mediums containing... 328 00:32:52,554 --> 00:32:56,718 ..human tissue, blood and saliva. Even sulphur. 329 00:32:56,808 --> 00:32:59,299 However, none of the seven trials... 330 00:32:59,394 --> 00:33:03,603 ..have successfully grown the fungus that killed Tanaka. 331 00:33:03,732 --> 00:33:09,068 Based on this preliminary data, I have come to the following hypothesis: 332 00:33:10,655 --> 00:33:14,989 ..That unless the spores are ingested or inhaled by the host organism... 333 00:33:15,076 --> 00:33:17,988 ..immediately upon their release,... 334 00:33:18,079 --> 00:33:20,365 ..they become harmless,... 335 00:33:20,457 --> 00:33:22,664 ..effectively dead. 336 00:33:29,466 --> 00:33:31,582 Jesse? 337 00:33:36,848 --> 00:33:39,134 What is it? 338 00:33:39,267 --> 00:33:43,601 I thought you'd like to know - the chances are good that none of us were infected. 339 00:33:45,607 --> 00:33:51,273 We were a safe distance from Tanaka. When Mulder and Ludwig come back, we can leave. 340 00:33:51,363 --> 00:33:55,606 I... I just need to run a few more tests, but I think we're gonna be OK. 341 00:33:58,995 --> 00:34:01,111 Ow. Oooh. 342 00:34:02,666 --> 00:34:05,032 OK, Jesse? Jesse? 343 00:34:09,798 --> 00:34:12,289 What went wrong, Trepkos? 344 00:34:15,053 --> 00:34:18,671 Firewalker carried something back to the surface. 345 00:34:19,975 --> 00:34:22,637 Firewalker brought up an elephant. 346 00:34:24,646 --> 00:34:26,762 The truth... 347 00:34:26,856 --> 00:34:30,394 ..is an elephant described by three blind men. 348 00:34:32,028 --> 00:34:35,646 The first man touches the tail and says it's a rope. 349 00:34:36,575 --> 00:34:40,989 The second man feels the rough leg and says it's a tree. 350 00:34:42,831 --> 00:34:45,823 The third man feels the trunk and says it's a snake. 351 00:34:46,042 --> 00:34:49,159 What about you? What do you say it is? 352 00:34:51,089 --> 00:34:55,332 I say the earth holds some truths best left buried. 353 00:34:55,760 --> 00:34:58,172 Like the spore? 354 00:35:02,058 --> 00:35:06,518 - Who are you? - I'm Special Agent Mulder. I'm with the FBI. 355 00:35:07,439 --> 00:35:09,304 You don't look like a policeman. 356 00:35:09,399 --> 00:35:12,482 I came down here to investigate Erikson's death. 357 00:35:12,569 --> 00:35:15,060 That's not why you're here. 358 00:35:16,615 --> 00:35:22,201 You still believe you can petition heaven and get some penetrating answer. 359 00:35:23,538 --> 00:35:26,029 If you found that answer,... 360 00:35:28,543 --> 00:35:30,875 ..what would you do with it? 361 00:35:34,758 --> 00:35:38,626 I just wanna know what happened after the first descent. 362 00:35:40,722 --> 00:35:42,963 What did you find? 363 00:35:47,812 --> 00:35:50,098 It was porous,... 364 00:35:53,234 --> 00:35:55,316 ..obsidian. 365 00:35:56,237 --> 00:36:01,527 Erikson thought it was some sort of rock, so I told him to pulverise it for analysis. 366 00:36:01,618 --> 00:36:05,281 - Erikson released the spore? - He discovered a new life form. 367 00:36:05,413 --> 00:36:09,873 In a single moment, all that science held sacred suddenly turned on its head. 368 00:36:09,959 --> 00:36:16,000 - What about Erikson? If... if he was infected... - I was too immersed in the work to notice. 369 00:36:17,008 --> 00:36:22,128 I'd been alone in the lab for three days... when I heard their screams. 370 00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:28,091 They were all gathered around him. 371 00:36:29,020 --> 00:36:34,014 By the time I realised what was happening, they were already changing. 372 00:36:34,109 --> 00:36:38,648 The spore... grew in each of them until it became... 373 00:36:38,780 --> 00:36:41,146 What do you mean? 374 00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:44,566 It's a parasite. 375 00:36:44,661 --> 00:36:47,528 It lives to find a host. 376 00:36:47,622 --> 00:36:50,364 - But you weren't infected? - No. 377 00:36:51,710 --> 00:36:54,247 You destroyed your work, the equipment. 378 00:36:54,337 --> 00:36:57,374 You killed Pierce... so no one could leave. 379 00:36:58,007 --> 00:37:00,293 No one can leave. 380 00:37:06,015 --> 00:37:08,631 What about O'Neil? 381 00:37:08,727 --> 00:37:10,513 Jesse? 382 00:37:10,645 --> 00:37:15,014 - Was she exposed to the spore? - They were all exposed. 383 00:37:17,652 --> 00:37:21,645 - All of them. - I have a colleague, a friend,... 384 00:37:22,323 --> 00:37:24,985 ..who's with O'Neil right now. 385 00:37:25,076 --> 00:37:29,160 - Let me go to her. - She may already be infected. 386 00:37:35,670 --> 00:37:37,831 I can't let you leave. 387 00:37:39,174 --> 00:37:41,756 Then you're gonna have to shoot me. 388 00:37:42,594 --> 00:37:45,085 Because I'm walking outta here. 389 00:38:29,557 --> 00:38:31,593 Jesse? 390 00:38:48,076 --> 00:38:49,737 Oh! 391 00:38:50,495 --> 00:38:53,237 God, you scared me! 392 00:38:53,623 --> 00:38:56,865 Jesse? 393 00:38:56,960 --> 00:38:59,872 Are you OK? 394 00:38:59,963 --> 00:39:02,955 Jesse, what's wrong? Jesse? 395 00:39:05,301 --> 00:39:07,792 Jesse, what are you doing? 396 00:40:46,861 --> 00:40:48,271 Scully? 397 00:40:49,906 --> 00:40:51,817 Scully? 398 00:40:51,908 --> 00:40:54,024 I'm OK. I'm OK. 399 00:40:58,539 --> 00:41:00,951 - You all right? - I'm OK. 400 00:41:17,308 --> 00:41:18,548 Yeah. 401 00:41:21,771 --> 00:41:24,103 Mulder, look,... 402 00:41:24,899 --> 00:41:28,608 ..she was infected. I don't know how. 403 00:41:28,736 --> 00:41:31,068 Erikson was the original host. 404 00:41:31,155 --> 00:41:35,569 When the fungus shed its spores, everyone was at ground zero, except for Trepkos. 405 00:41:35,660 --> 00:41:37,992 Did you find him? 406 00:42:04,272 --> 00:42:08,265 I told her... it would change her life. 407 00:42:20,872 --> 00:42:23,830 Search and Rescue, this is Agent Mulder. Do you copy? 408 00:42:23,958 --> 00:42:27,450 This is Army Biohazard. How many are in your party? 409 00:42:34,802 --> 00:42:37,794 We have two survivors - Agent Scully and myself. 410 00:42:37,889 --> 00:42:41,473 Copy that. Our ETA is seven minutes. 411 00:42:42,560 --> 00:42:46,348 Mulder, what are you doing? They're gonna wanna question him. 412 00:42:50,818 --> 00:42:53,150 He won't talk. 413 00:43:07,085 --> 00:43:10,122 Scully and I are in the third day of a month's quarantine,... 414 00:43:10,213 --> 00:43:13,125 ..undergoing level four decon procedures. 415 00:43:13,216 --> 00:43:17,380 We are, so far, without symptoms of fungal contamination. 416 00:43:20,556 --> 00:43:27,098 Our specimens and field notes were taken by the biohazard corps prior to our evacuation. 417 00:43:27,188 --> 00:43:33,024 Their presence is delayed indefinitely for the arrival of the USGS data retrieval team. 418 00:43:33,111 --> 00:43:38,026 I suspect, though, there will be little left for them to retrieve. 419 00:43:38,116 --> 00:43:44,282 There are no plans to explore the volcanically active mountains in the Cascade range,... 420 00:43:44,372 --> 00:43:46,738 ..including Mount Avalon. 421 00:43:48,626 --> 00:43:53,461 All access points to that volcano have been sealed off by army engineers. 422 00:43:55,633 --> 00:43:58,670 Of the members of the Firewalker descent team,... 423 00:43:58,761 --> 00:44:02,003 ..only Trepkos and O'Neil remain unaccounted for. 424 00:44:02,098 --> 00:44:06,216 They are presumed dead, and the search for them has been abandoned. 425 00:44:07,645 --> 00:44:10,057 Firewalker, however, was recovered... 426 00:44:10,148 --> 00:44:15,643 ..though its sensory and locomotive systems were found to be irreparany damaged. 427 00:44:15,736 --> 00:44:19,854 The data it collected from the Earth's interior will never be known. 428 00:44:19,949 --> 00:44:25,569 And of the events that occurred at Mount Avalon between 11 and 13 November 1994,... 429 00:44:27,623 --> 00:44:30,490 ..mine stands as the only record. 430 00:45:05,870 --> 00:45:07,610 I made this!