1 00:00:03,436 --> 00:00:05,927 - T-minus ten seconds to engagement. 2 00:00:06,006 --> 00:00:09,066 Yaaah! Whoo-hoo! 3 00:00:09,142 --> 00:00:11,940 Whoo! Lo-Fat's goin'off! 4 00:00:12,012 --> 00:00:15,106 - Gotta kill! Gotta kill. - Stay out of my way, geeks. 5 00:00:15,181 --> 00:00:17,479 Come the next level, I'm a death machine. 6 00:00:17,550 --> 00:00:19,609 Whoo! Yeah! 7 00:00:22,522 --> 00:00:24,956 Status: combat ready. 8 00:00:25,025 --> 00:00:28,893 Situation: Guerrilla units in the immediate vicinity... 9 00:00:28,962 --> 00:00:30,759 of insertion module. 10 00:00:36,970 --> 00:00:39,461 Whoo! Yeah! 11 00:00:39,539 --> 00:00:41,473 - Let's do this! - Bring it on! 12 00:00:41,541 --> 00:00:43,736 - T-minus ten, nine, - Look at these heart rates. 13 00:00:43,810 --> 00:00:47,439 - Eight, seven, six, - If I don't let these boys out, they're gonna kill each other. 14 00:00:47,514 --> 00:00:50,449 - Five, four, - Come on! Yeah! 15 00:00:50,517 --> 00:00:52,985 three, two, 16 00:00:53,053 --> 00:00:54,987 one. 17 00:00:55,055 --> 00:00:56,989 - Engage. - Whoo! 18 00:01:13,239 --> 00:01:15,173 Do you see 'em? 19 00:01:15,241 --> 00:01:17,607 They're out there, geeks, looking to fry your huevos. 20 00:01:33,093 --> 00:01:34,856 Call it, Retro! Call it! 21 00:01:38,932 --> 00:01:41,457 Now! 22 00:02:10,163 --> 00:02:13,860 Whoa! It's a total massacre out there. 23 00:02:23,743 --> 00:02:26,211 Phase two, geeks. 24 00:02:33,586 --> 00:02:36,384 - Ready, knuckleheads? - Flank right! 25 00:02:36,456 --> 00:02:38,014 - Flank left! - Go! 26 00:03:40,954 --> 00:03:43,115 Lo-Fat's down. 27 00:03:49,562 --> 00:03:52,963 - You got me, Moxie? - Got you covered. 28 00:03:58,037 --> 00:04:01,131 - Retro's in. - Adrenaline redline. 29 00:04:01,207 --> 00:04:03,539 The blood thirst is unquenchable. 30 00:04:33,172 --> 00:04:35,606 Moxie? Who's there? 31 00:05:16,282 --> 00:05:18,910 Who are you? 32 00:05:18,985 --> 00:05:22,421 I am Maitreya. This is my game. 33 00:06:21,647 --> 00:06:24,309 Agents Mulder and Scully. F.B.I. We're expected. 34 00:06:27,853 --> 00:06:29,684 I need to scan your I.D. 35 00:06:32,658 --> 00:06:35,525 Retina scan, please. 36 00:06:37,696 --> 00:06:40,256 Cool. 37 00:06:40,332 --> 00:06:42,596 Ma'am? 38 00:06:42,668 --> 00:06:46,263 I'll need you to look over those nondisclosure agreements. 39 00:06:47,639 --> 00:06:50,472 "To protect all proprietary or intellectual property... 40 00:06:50,542 --> 00:06:52,942 "owned by FPS, a private California corporation, 41 00:06:53,011 --> 00:06:55,036 under the harshest penalty of the law." 42 00:06:55,113 --> 00:06:57,707 Signature at the bottom, please. 43 00:07:03,956 --> 00:07:06,823 - FPS. - First Person Shooter. 44 00:07:08,093 --> 00:07:11,688 - Video games. - Digital entertainment. 45 00:07:11,763 --> 00:07:15,358 I can get into the Pentagon easier than this. 46 00:07:15,434 --> 00:07:19,234 Dudes! Agent Mulder, what's up, wild man? 47 00:07:19,304 --> 00:07:22,034 Welcome to the land where silicon meets silicone. 48 00:07:22,107 --> 00:07:25,804 Can I get you a latte from the bar, or perhaps a bottle of designer H2O? 49 00:07:25,877 --> 00:07:28,175 Scully? 50 00:07:28,246 --> 00:07:30,476 How 'bout a simple explanation as to why we're here? 51 00:07:30,549 --> 00:07:34,747 Why don't we take a brief moment to feel the pulse of the new American gold rush? 52 00:07:34,820 --> 00:07:37,914 You're standing on the launch pad of a rocket headed for the stars. 53 00:07:39,391 --> 00:07:41,325 Okay. 54 00:07:45,631 --> 00:07:47,929 There's been a little accident. 55 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:50,434 What kind of accident? 56 00:07:50,502 --> 00:07:52,732 Like an industrial accident. 57 00:07:52,804 --> 00:07:56,262 - How did the victim die? - It's not exactly clear. 58 00:07:56,341 --> 00:07:58,434 - Right. - Was there equipment involved? 59 00:07:58,510 --> 00:08:00,444 - No. - Yes. 60 00:08:00,512 --> 00:08:03,538 - Yes and no. - What's your business here? 61 00:08:03,615 --> 00:08:05,708 - Our business? - Yeah. 62 00:08:05,784 --> 00:08:07,911 We're... We're consultants to FPS. 63 00:08:07,986 --> 00:08:10,887 Langly did some programming for them. 64 00:08:10,956 --> 00:08:14,153 - He created all of the bad guys. - Only the Euro-goons. 65 00:08:14,226 --> 00:08:17,684 We don't want to give you the idea that we're major profit participants. 66 00:08:17,763 --> 00:08:20,231 Cash or stock options? 67 00:08:20,298 --> 00:08:23,096 Options. Preferred rate. 68 00:08:23,168 --> 00:08:26,103 Vested immediately with a short-term exercise against venture collateral... 69 00:08:26,171 --> 00:08:28,105 to bypass S.E.C. regs. 70 00:08:28,173 --> 00:08:30,733 - The I.P.O. 's in a week. - Game ships on Friday. 71 00:08:30,809 --> 00:08:33,209 Fifty malls across the United States and Japan. 72 00:08:33,278 --> 00:08:36,475 Only there's a dead body between you and untold riches. 73 00:08:36,548 --> 00:08:40,712 I don't know about you guys, but I'd be checking my shorts for cake. 74 00:08:46,491 --> 00:08:49,858 - This man's been shot. - No! 75 00:08:49,928 --> 00:08:53,329 See, when somebody is shot, there's a gun involved, right? 76 00:08:53,398 --> 00:08:58,165 That is absolutely impossible because there's no way anybody could get a gun past security. 77 00:08:58,236 --> 00:09:00,500 What do you call this? 78 00:09:00,572 --> 00:09:03,973 That's a laser blaster for wasting cyber-trash. 79 00:09:04,042 --> 00:09:06,636 - It emits a low-frequency... - Just let me! All right. 80 00:09:06,712 --> 00:09:09,840 The weapons feed off the FPS mainframe. 81 00:09:09,915 --> 00:09:12,850 The effect is intensely real, but harmless. 82 00:09:12,918 --> 00:09:16,718 You say this weapon is a toy, but this man clearly has gunshot wounds... 83 00:09:16,788 --> 00:09:18,847 - Through his... - Stun suit. 84 00:09:18,924 --> 00:09:21,620 It's rigged with paint for wounds and kill shots. 85 00:09:21,693 --> 00:09:24,389 Total bleeding-edge technology. 86 00:09:28,667 --> 00:09:31,761 - He's dead. I got it. - Who was he playing against? 87 00:09:31,837 --> 00:09:36,171 Against the game. You waste the cyber-thugs before they waste you. 88 00:09:36,241 --> 00:09:38,175 It's all about body count. 89 00:09:38,243 --> 00:09:41,041 But they're computer-generated images... 90 00:09:41,113 --> 00:09:43,013 running on a projector. 91 00:09:43,081 --> 00:09:45,242 It all happens in the game space. 92 00:09:45,317 --> 00:09:47,581 It's a total digital environment. 93 00:09:47,652 --> 00:09:49,847 Nothing's real. It's all virtual. 94 00:09:49,921 --> 00:09:52,355 Did anybody see what happened? 95 00:09:53,992 --> 00:09:56,688 I was in the control booth with Ivan. 96 00:09:56,762 --> 00:10:00,289 Retro was in the zone. His telemetry was solid. 97 00:10:00,365 --> 00:10:03,801 He looked unstoppable, like he was on his way to the next level, 98 00:10:03,869 --> 00:10:05,996 when suddenly he was cooked meat. 99 00:10:06,071 --> 00:10:09,336 Well, the next call's gonna be to the local P.D. 100 00:10:09,407 --> 00:10:12,934 No cops! No cops. You said no cops. 101 00:10:13,011 --> 00:10:15,172 You said you had connections. 102 00:10:15,247 --> 00:10:17,511 Connections or not, you've got a murder victim here. 103 00:10:17,582 --> 00:10:19,516 Headlines! 104 00:10:19,584 --> 00:10:21,953 Just what the Wall Street money dudes want to read as we're goin' to market. 105 00:10:21,953 --> 00:10:23,682 Just what the Wall Street money dudes want to read as we're goin' to market. 106 00:10:23,755 --> 00:10:26,383 Yes, this is Special Agent Dana Scully with the F.B.I. 107 00:10:26,458 --> 00:10:30,360 You said you were in the control booth when it happened? 108 00:10:30,428 --> 00:10:34,364 Can you tell me exactly what you saw? 109 00:10:34,432 --> 00:10:36,866 - I'm still not sure if we even saw it. 110 00:10:36,935 --> 00:10:41,031 I mean, one minute everything was going perfect, and then we crashed. 111 00:10:41,106 --> 00:10:44,803 Ivan and I were sitting here. We both just looked at each other. 112 00:10:46,378 --> 00:10:49,040 It happened so fast. 113 00:10:50,982 --> 00:10:54,713 Moxie's covering Retro, who's going inside after the enemy to rack up beaucoup points. 114 00:10:54,786 --> 00:10:58,847 And then "goosh," Retro's vitals spike like he's been shot. 115 00:10:58,924 --> 00:11:00,789 And the system defaults. 116 00:11:00,859 --> 00:11:03,760 And they're right back in the game space. 117 00:11:05,597 --> 00:11:08,760 Lo-Fat, get over here! What happened? 118 00:11:10,001 --> 00:11:11,935 Retro? What's wrong? 119 00:11:12,003 --> 00:11:14,938 - Lights out. Game over. - What's wrong, man? What happened? 120 00:11:15,006 --> 00:11:17,065 What happened in there? 121 00:11:17,142 --> 00:11:20,600 We don't know. There's no res images on interior game spaces. 122 00:11:22,113 --> 00:11:24,775 What about the wire frame? 123 00:11:24,850 --> 00:11:26,715 Maybe I can. 124 00:11:26,785 --> 00:11:29,117 I'll strip down to wire frame display. 125 00:11:29,187 --> 00:11:33,419 Um, I mean... we've never mapped this area before. 126 00:11:33,491 --> 00:11:36,688 Retro was in noncombat space. 127 00:11:48,940 --> 00:11:51,135 - It's a chick. - It can't be. 128 00:11:54,379 --> 00:11:57,007 Can you texture-wrap her? 129 00:12:21,473 --> 00:12:24,965 - Holy Toledo! - She's packin' a flintlock. 130 00:12:25,043 --> 00:12:28,444 That ain't all she's packin'. Can you print that out for me? 131 00:12:44,195 --> 00:12:46,129 Goddess. 132 00:12:48,533 --> 00:12:50,626 Let me get this straight, Agent Scully. 133 00:12:50,702 --> 00:12:53,364 You got no murder weapon, no forensic evidence, 134 00:12:53,438 --> 00:12:56,100 no motive, no suspect. 135 00:12:56,174 --> 00:12:58,108 Scully. 136 00:12:58,176 --> 00:13:01,202 My partner Agent Mulder. This is Detective Lacoeur. 137 00:13:01,279 --> 00:13:04,646 - Have you got something? - Yeah, our killer, I believe. 138 00:13:07,118 --> 00:13:11,214 Hey, I'll put out an A.P.B. for Frederick's of Hollywood. 139 00:13:11,289 --> 00:13:13,314 Mulder, you're not serious. 140 00:13:13,391 --> 00:13:15,655 It's all in the computer. 141 00:13:15,727 --> 00:13:18,855 Mulder, that's any voluptuous vixen out of any number of video games. 142 00:13:18,930 --> 00:13:22,559 She's not in "any video game." She's in this one, and no one programmed her in. 143 00:13:22,634 --> 00:13:25,831 Yeah, but even if they had, she's not real. 144 00:13:25,904 --> 00:13:29,965 She's a character. She's-She's some immature, hormonal fantasy. 145 00:13:35,013 --> 00:13:37,880 Darryl Musashi. You see who that is? 146 00:13:37,949 --> 00:13:42,010 - Darryl Musashi. - As I live and breathe. 147 00:13:42,087 --> 00:13:45,454 - Who's Darryl Musashi? - The O.G. 148 00:13:45,523 --> 00:13:47,457 Original Guru. 149 00:13:47,525 --> 00:13:50,961 Word is he slums as a game designer when he's not contracted to the C.I.A. 150 00:13:51,029 --> 00:13:54,226 - The boy wonder of virtual mayhem. - What's he doing here? 151 00:13:54,299 --> 00:13:57,666 Ivan must have called him to go in and slay the ninja babe. 152 00:13:57,736 --> 00:14:00,637 Mulder, why does this game have the effect... 153 00:14:00,705 --> 00:14:03,265 of reducing grown men back to moony adolescence? 154 00:14:04,642 --> 00:14:06,576 That's Darryl Musashi! 155 00:14:06,644 --> 00:14:08,737 Mulder. 156 00:14:08,813 --> 00:14:12,271 - Huh. - Do you want me to autopsy the body? 157 00:14:19,156 --> 00:14:22,751 Emerging module into set mode. T-minus 20 seconds. 158 00:14:22,826 --> 00:14:24,760 Pay attention, worms. 159 00:14:24,828 --> 00:14:27,524 Darryl Musashi's gonna show us how this game's supposed to be played. 160 00:14:27,598 --> 00:14:30,863 I heard he scored 90 consecutive wins on Demon Space Drifter. 161 00:14:30,934 --> 00:14:34,870 - Ninety-one. - Look at him. The man's a sphinx. 162 00:14:34,938 --> 00:14:37,839 - T-minus ten, 163 00:14:37,908 --> 00:14:40,274 nine, eight, 164 00:14:40,344 --> 00:14:42,904 seven, six, 165 00:14:42,980 --> 00:14:44,971 five, four, 166 00:14:45,048 --> 00:14:48,609 three, two, one. 167 00:14:49,820 --> 00:14:51,754 Engage. 168 00:15:03,367 --> 00:15:06,632 Hey, Byers, you gotta see this. Mulder, get over here. 169 00:15:08,872 --> 00:15:11,898 - Is that him? Is that Darryl Musashi? - Yeah, that's him. 170 00:15:11,975 --> 00:15:14,739 He just stepped into the game. 171 00:15:16,213 --> 00:15:19,239 - Why is he just standing there? - Because he knows no fear. 172 00:15:57,221 --> 00:15:59,712 - Yeah! - Unbelievable. 173 00:15:59,790 --> 00:16:02,884 - Standing heart rate is 68. - He hasn't even broken a sweat. 174 00:16:02,960 --> 00:16:06,123 Look at him. He's not even waiting for the reset. He's going right for the kill. 175 00:16:34,825 --> 00:16:37,419 What just happened? 176 00:16:37,494 --> 00:16:39,428 She cut off his hands. 177 00:17:20,203 --> 00:17:23,536 Preliminary external examination of deceased, 178 00:17:24,975 --> 00:17:29,412 a 20-ish male, name listed only as "Retro," 179 00:17:29,479 --> 00:17:33,415 offers no additional clues as to actual cause of death. 180 00:17:41,391 --> 00:17:43,859 Scratch that. 181 00:17:43,927 --> 00:17:48,523 Cause of death is from a large entry wound at the sternum... 182 00:17:48,598 --> 00:17:51,931 resulting in trauma to the internal organs... 183 00:17:52,002 --> 00:17:53,993 and blood loss. 184 00:17:54,071 --> 00:17:57,598 Wound is consistent with a high-velocity impact... 185 00:17:57,674 --> 00:17:59,938 from a large projectile... 186 00:18:00,010 --> 00:18:03,036 which passed through a three-ply Kevlar jacket. 187 00:18:09,753 --> 00:18:12,221 Scratch that. 188 00:18:12,289 --> 00:18:15,486 Wound is the result of high-velocity impact... 189 00:18:15,559 --> 00:18:17,720 from an unknown object... 190 00:18:17,794 --> 00:18:20,228 which, even if it did enter the body, 191 00:18:20,297 --> 00:18:23,232 left no damn trace evidence whatsoever. 192 00:18:23,300 --> 00:18:26,133 No powder burns, no chemical signatures... 193 00:18:26,203 --> 00:18:29,195 of any kind of explosive propellant. 194 00:18:30,507 --> 00:18:34,034 - No luck? - I thought I was on to something. 195 00:18:35,746 --> 00:18:39,580 You know, Mulder, this suit holds more than just exploding paint cells. 196 00:18:39,649 --> 00:18:44,382 It measures the player's vital signs, from the heart rate to the extant body chemistry, 197 00:18:44,454 --> 00:18:46,615 and then sends that information back to the computer. 198 00:18:46,690 --> 00:18:51,389 Then when a player is shot, a battery pack sends a 12-volt jolt... 199 00:18:51,461 --> 00:18:53,793 that keeps him from getting up until the game is over. 200 00:18:53,864 --> 00:18:55,729 Virtual death. 201 00:18:55,799 --> 00:18:58,063 Yeah. Well, if only that were the case. 202 00:18:58,135 --> 00:19:01,730 - Yeah. - I thought at first that maybe the suit had malfunctioned, 203 00:19:01,805 --> 00:19:04,501 that one of the charges had blown inward. 204 00:19:04,574 --> 00:19:08,601 But unfortunately, that wasn't the case either. 205 00:19:08,678 --> 00:19:11,511 I've got a birthday coming up. 206 00:19:11,581 --> 00:19:15,244 You have to admit, though, Scully, this is a pretty amazing piece of technology. 207 00:19:15,318 --> 00:19:19,049 - Yeah. Wasted on a stupid game. - Stupid? 208 00:19:19,122 --> 00:19:22,285 Dressing up like high-tech warriors... 209 00:19:22,359 --> 00:19:25,556 to play a futuristic version of cowboys and Indians. 210 00:19:25,629 --> 00:19:29,360 What kind of moron gets his ya-yas out like that? 211 00:19:30,600 --> 00:19:33,228 Mulder, what purpose does this game serve... 212 00:19:33,303 --> 00:19:37,501 except to add to a culture of violence in a country that's already out of control? 213 00:19:37,574 --> 00:19:40,509 - Who says it adds to it? - You think that taking up weapons... 214 00:19:40,577 --> 00:19:43,068 and creating gratuitous virtual mayhem... 215 00:19:43,146 --> 00:19:45,546 has any redeeming value whatsoever? 216 00:19:45,615 --> 00:19:50,177 That the testosterone frenzy that it creates stops when the game does? 217 00:19:50,253 --> 00:19:53,689 That's rather sexist, isn't it? 218 00:19:53,757 --> 00:19:57,090 I mean, maybe the game provides an outlet for certain impulses, 219 00:19:57,160 --> 00:19:59,754 that it fills a void in our genetic makeup... 220 00:19:59,830 --> 00:20:02,560 that the more civilizing effects of society fail to provide for us. 221 00:20:02,632 --> 00:20:07,194 That must be why men feel the great need to blast the crap out of stuff. 222 00:20:08,472 --> 00:20:11,635 Well, testosterone frenzy or no, 223 00:20:11,708 --> 00:20:14,871 the only suspect we have in this man's murder is a woman. 224 00:20:16,213 --> 00:20:18,738 Yeah, I've seen it. 225 00:20:18,815 --> 00:20:21,113 A computer-animated woman, Mulder, 226 00:20:21,184 --> 00:20:23,482 with a computer-animated weapon. 227 00:20:23,553 --> 00:20:26,317 A flintlock pistol, which would leave a very large entry wound. 228 00:20:26,389 --> 00:20:29,790 Pictures don't kill people. Guns kill people. 229 00:20:31,761 --> 00:20:33,422 As do swords. 230 00:20:39,736 --> 00:20:43,263 The world-renowned Darryl Musashi. 231 00:20:52,549 --> 00:20:54,483 Mulder. 232 00:20:56,086 --> 00:20:58,418 You're kidding. 233 00:21:00,156 --> 00:21:03,353 - Thanks. 234 00:21:03,426 --> 00:21:07,362 L.A. Sheriff s Department just picked up a female suspect for the murders. 235 00:21:26,283 --> 00:21:29,116 Who's the man? He's the man. 236 00:21:29,185 --> 00:21:31,449 He's the man with the badge! 237 00:21:31,521 --> 00:21:34,285 You get the feeling these men have something better to do? 238 00:21:34,357 --> 00:21:36,450 I mean, is that legal? 239 00:21:36,526 --> 00:21:39,017 Uh, we picked her up outside of a strip club in Reseda. 240 00:21:39,095 --> 00:21:41,029 Fits your description to a "T." 241 00:21:41,097 --> 00:21:43,998 - Was she read her rights? - About 500 times. 242 00:21:44,067 --> 00:21:47,059 - Oh, yeah. 243 00:22:01,918 --> 00:22:04,219 For the record, can you state your name, please? 244 00:22:04,219 --> 00:22:05,151 For the record, can you state your name, please? 245 00:22:10,225 --> 00:22:14,423 For the record again, my name is Jade Blue Afterglow. I reside... 246 00:22:14,495 --> 00:22:18,488 - I'm sorry. Your real name? - That is my real name. 247 00:22:18,566 --> 00:22:20,830 What were you expecting? Mildred? 248 00:22:20,902 --> 00:22:23,063 No. 249 00:22:24,672 --> 00:22:27,266 I sure seem to be upsetting a lot of people around here. 250 00:22:27,342 --> 00:22:29,833 Well, you're not upsetting me, Miss, uh... 251 00:22:29,911 --> 00:22:31,776 Afterglow. 252 00:22:33,781 --> 00:22:36,944 I sure upset the man running the metal detector. 253 00:22:44,492 --> 00:22:48,223 You say that you have no knowledge of Ivan Martinez... 254 00:22:48,296 --> 00:22:52,255 or a company known as First Person Shooter, or FPS. 255 00:22:52,333 --> 00:22:54,699 I meet a lot of men. 256 00:22:54,769 --> 00:22:58,637 Would it surprise you to know that you have been placed at a crime scene... 257 00:22:58,706 --> 00:23:00,799 in the offices of FPS? 258 00:23:00,875 --> 00:23:04,072 Let's just say it takes a whole lot to surprise me. 259 00:23:06,981 --> 00:23:09,779 You might want to start telling the truth. 260 00:23:09,851 --> 00:23:12,877 And what truth am I not telling you? 261 00:23:12,954 --> 00:23:14,888 That you murdered two men, 262 00:23:14,956 --> 00:23:17,254 one with a 14th-century broadsword, 263 00:23:17,325 --> 00:23:19,623 and the other with a flintlock pistol. 264 00:23:19,694 --> 00:23:23,596 Oh. You must have had me confused with my sister. 265 00:23:24,799 --> 00:23:26,733 Xena, warrior princess. 266 00:23:28,403 --> 00:23:31,270 Are you denying that this is you? 267 00:23:36,844 --> 00:23:38,971 - Now I get it. - What? 268 00:23:39,047 --> 00:23:41,481 The medical imaging place in Culver City. 269 00:23:41,549 --> 00:23:44,780 I got paid to let them do this body-scan thing. 270 00:23:44,852 --> 00:23:47,844 They paid you to scan your body? 271 00:23:47,922 --> 00:23:50,948 You think that's the strangest thing I've been paid to do? 272 00:23:54,195 --> 00:23:57,631 We're very sorry, Miss Afterglow, but... 273 00:23:57,699 --> 00:24:00,793 Uh, we're sorry. You're free to go. 274 00:24:17,752 --> 00:24:21,244 I don't know about you, Scully, but I am feeling the great need... 275 00:24:21,322 --> 00:24:23,688 to blast the crap out of something. 276 00:24:41,075 --> 00:24:43,270 - Hello? - Anybody here? 277 00:24:52,487 --> 00:24:54,455 Phoebe? 278 00:24:54,522 --> 00:24:56,456 Hey, you okay? 279 00:24:56,524 --> 00:24:59,789 Boy, I must have fell asleep. 280 00:24:59,861 --> 00:25:02,489 I was just thinking of taking a nap. 281 00:25:02,563 --> 00:25:06,226 I've been up for 70 hours straight analyzing code, 282 00:25:06,300 --> 00:25:08,291 trying to fix the game. 283 00:25:08,369 --> 00:25:12,066 - Where is everybody? Where's Ivan? - Um, he's with the money guys. 284 00:25:12,140 --> 00:25:14,074 They're all freaking. 285 00:25:14,142 --> 00:25:17,737 We need to talk to him right away about a woman named Jade Blue Afterglow. 286 00:25:17,812 --> 00:25:21,612 He scanned her body and he created the character out of her. 287 00:25:21,682 --> 00:25:23,775 - He put her in the game. - Hey, what are they doing? 288 00:25:23,851 --> 00:25:25,785 Oh. 289 00:25:26,854 --> 00:25:28,788 The Lone Gunmen are on the floor. 290 00:25:28,856 --> 00:25:30,915 Langly and I wrote a software patch. 291 00:25:30,992 --> 00:25:33,893 - We're going to run a res-up test on the game. - What for? 292 00:25:33,961 --> 00:25:35,952 To bypass the problem. 293 00:25:40,668 --> 00:25:42,397 - Hey. - What just happened? 294 00:25:42,470 --> 00:25:44,597 Oh, I don't know. 295 00:25:44,672 --> 00:25:48,130 - They're in the game. - Hey, Phoebe, are you paying attention? 296 00:25:48,209 --> 00:25:50,609 You're supposed to wait until we said we were ready. 297 00:25:50,678 --> 00:25:53,909 What the hell's going on? 298 00:25:53,981 --> 00:25:56,609 Phoebe, come on. 299 00:25:56,684 --> 00:25:59,152 - What's happening? - Anyone up there running the program? 300 00:25:59,220 --> 00:26:02,656 I don't believe this. The program's running itself. 301 00:26:02,723 --> 00:26:04,714 - Phoebe! - This can't be happening. 302 00:26:04,792 --> 00:26:08,228 Somebody's shooting at them. 303 00:26:08,296 --> 00:26:12,232 This is supposed to be background only. There wasn't supposed to be any game play. 304 00:26:12,300 --> 00:26:14,734 They need help. 305 00:26:17,472 --> 00:26:19,667 Mulder! 306 00:26:25,146 --> 00:26:28,445 Nine, eight, seven, 307 00:26:28,516 --> 00:26:31,713 six, five, 308 00:26:31,786 --> 00:26:34,254 four, three, 309 00:26:34,322 --> 00:26:36,654 two, one. 310 00:26:36,724 --> 00:26:39,659 - Engage. - Bring it on. 311 00:26:45,833 --> 00:26:48,495 - You guys okay? - We've been better. 312 00:26:48,569 --> 00:26:52,266 - Byers has been hit. - I'm okay. It's a flesh wound. 313 00:26:52,340 --> 00:26:54,774 It's her. She's out there. 314 00:26:55,910 --> 00:26:59,437 She nailed Byers with that flintlock. 315 00:26:59,514 --> 00:27:02,278 Okay, on the count of three, I'm gonna lay down some cover, fellas. 316 00:27:02,350 --> 00:27:04,648 You ready? 317 00:27:04,719 --> 00:27:06,687 One, 318 00:27:06,754 --> 00:27:08,551 two, three. 319 00:27:17,899 --> 00:27:19,833 Mulder! 320 00:27:20,902 --> 00:27:23,370 Get in the module! 321 00:27:31,913 --> 00:27:35,314 - What is he doing? - Don't go after her! Get back here! 322 00:27:35,383 --> 00:27:39,046 - He's getting his ya-yas out. - We're not defaulting the program! 323 00:27:39,120 --> 00:27:41,418 - Mulder! - It's suicide! 324 00:28:03,344 --> 00:28:05,710 Put the sword down. 325 00:28:27,468 --> 00:28:29,732 Mulder? 326 00:28:42,450 --> 00:28:44,918 - Oh, no. 327 00:28:47,054 --> 00:28:49,079 Where's Mulder? 328 00:28:59,500 --> 00:29:01,764 I said, where's Mulder? 329 00:29:01,836 --> 00:29:04,532 Maybe you guys didn't hear me. Come on, guys. Where is he? 330 00:29:04,605 --> 00:29:07,199 We don't know. He just took off after her. 331 00:29:07,274 --> 00:29:10,801 - I saw what he did, but where did he go? - He went into the building. 332 00:29:10,878 --> 00:29:14,143 - He was firing his weapon. - I saw where he went! 333 00:29:14,215 --> 00:29:17,514 I want to know where he is. 334 00:29:17,585 --> 00:29:22,454 Is there a door or an exit or some kind of passageway that he could have used? 335 00:29:22,523 --> 00:29:24,889 Just the one you came in. 336 00:29:24,959 --> 00:29:28,725 - He should be right here. - It's impossible. It's a digital environment. 337 00:29:28,796 --> 00:29:31,390 - It's just a game. - Yeah. 338 00:29:31,465 --> 00:29:34,127 - Easy for you to say. - Agent Scully! 339 00:29:35,236 --> 00:29:37,170 I found him. 340 00:29:39,040 --> 00:29:42,567 This monitors everyone playing the game. There... player four. 341 00:29:42,643 --> 00:29:45,476 - It's his telemetry. - What do you mean? 342 00:29:45,546 --> 00:29:48,344 Player four. That's him. 343 00:29:48,416 --> 00:29:50,384 - On the monitor. - Right there. 344 00:29:50,451 --> 00:29:52,646 - Where? - That's Mulder. 345 00:29:54,121 --> 00:29:56,248 - He's alive. - Those are his vitals. 346 00:29:56,323 --> 00:29:58,985 - He's still in the game. - Yes, but where's the game? 347 00:30:42,767 --> 00:30:44,701 Frohike! 348 00:30:45,803 --> 00:30:48,203 Langly! 349 00:30:48,272 --> 00:30:50,797 Byers! 350 00:31:26,744 --> 00:31:28,678 - I think that's it. - Yeah. 351 00:31:28,746 --> 00:31:31,442 - What are you doing? - We're rerouting the circuitry. 352 00:31:31,515 --> 00:31:34,450 - Making a kill switch so we can shut down the game. - Don't touch that. 353 00:31:34,518 --> 00:31:37,578 I mean, it won't work. There's no way to do that. 354 00:31:37,655 --> 00:31:42,422 We are back in business! Baby, you are dope. 355 00:31:42,493 --> 00:31:44,256 What? 356 00:31:44,328 --> 00:31:46,956 We were toast. I felt the flames licking my ass. 357 00:31:47,031 --> 00:31:50,432 Then the bankers saw the letters on the autopsy..."F.B.I. 358 00:31:50,501 --> 00:31:53,493 Cause of death: unknown." 359 00:31:53,571 --> 00:31:57,473 You fixed our problems. The game's gonna ship, and we're gonna be countin'Franklins. 360 00:31:57,541 --> 00:32:00,999 Yeah, and you're gonna be countin' teeth. 361 00:32:01,078 --> 00:32:04,343 - Her partner's lost in the game. - Lost? 362 00:32:04,415 --> 00:32:07,851 - The game has disappeared. - What are you talking about? 363 00:32:07,918 --> 00:32:10,284 Jade Blue Afterglow. Does that ring a bell? 364 00:32:11,889 --> 00:32:14,016 Jade Blue Afterglow? 365 00:32:14,091 --> 00:32:16,616 - Oh, you'd remember her. 366 00:32:23,267 --> 00:32:25,758 Hey! Phoebe! 367 00:32:29,840 --> 00:32:32,934 I don't know how it happened. 368 00:32:33,010 --> 00:32:36,207 You knew about her? 369 00:32:36,280 --> 00:32:38,714 Then it was you. You scanned that woman's body. 370 00:32:38,782 --> 00:32:40,716 Into my computer. 371 00:32:40,784 --> 00:32:43,582 She was my creation. She was mine. 372 00:32:44,989 --> 00:32:48,186 - But why? - You don't know what it's like... 373 00:32:48,259 --> 00:32:52,252 day in and day out, choking in a haze of rampant testosterone. 374 00:32:52,329 --> 00:32:54,923 I wouldn't be so sure. 375 00:32:54,999 --> 00:32:58,127 I mean, she was all I had to keep me sane, 376 00:32:58,202 --> 00:33:01,968 my only way to strike back as a woman. 377 00:33:02,039 --> 00:33:06,442 She was my goddess, everything I can never be. 378 00:33:06,510 --> 00:33:08,944 But, Phoebe, she is still a killer. 379 00:33:10,581 --> 00:33:13,448 I can't explain it, but she is, and you put her in that game. 380 00:33:13,517 --> 00:33:15,508 No, I didn't. 381 00:33:15,586 --> 00:33:19,181 I was creating my own game in my own computer. 382 00:33:19,256 --> 00:33:23,056 It was totally secret. I never told anyone. 383 00:33:23,127 --> 00:33:25,254 But somehow she jumped programs, 384 00:33:25,329 --> 00:33:27,923 and she's feeding off the male aggression. 385 00:33:27,998 --> 00:33:31,024 It's making her stronger and stronger. 386 00:33:32,770 --> 00:33:34,704 I need your help. 387 00:33:37,107 --> 00:33:40,042 You're the only one who can understand. 388 00:33:40,110 --> 00:33:44,547 - You've got to destroy her, Phoebe. - I don't know how. 389 00:33:44,615 --> 00:33:46,549 Well, there's got to be some way. 390 00:33:46,617 --> 00:33:50,246 There's got to be some vulnerability or a weakness somewhere. 391 00:33:50,321 --> 00:33:53,882 She has no weakness anymore. 392 00:33:58,963 --> 00:34:00,897 Hey! 393 00:34:28,192 --> 00:34:30,922 Bet you think you're gonna kick my butt up and down the block. 394 00:34:34,665 --> 00:34:37,031 Okay. 395 00:34:41,005 --> 00:34:43,769 Her name is Maitreya. 396 00:34:43,841 --> 00:34:47,277 - Maitreya? - She's input herself into the game. 397 00:34:47,344 --> 00:34:50,279 - We have to download her. - We can't even get on-line. 398 00:34:50,347 --> 00:34:52,679 - The system's been hijacked. - The program won't respond. 399 00:34:52,750 --> 00:34:55,048 Frohike, what's wrong? 400 00:34:55,119 --> 00:34:58,350 - What is that? - Mulder's vitals are wiggy. 401 00:34:58,422 --> 00:35:01,016 - What? - They're all over the map. 402 00:35:01,091 --> 00:35:04,117 This is your fault. 403 00:35:04,194 --> 00:35:08,324 - You put her here. - Hey! 404 00:35:08,399 --> 00:35:10,162 No fair pickin' on a girl. 405 00:36:06,690 --> 00:36:10,126 We're back on-line. 406 00:36:10,194 --> 00:36:12,628 - There's no picture. - No, we're just in res-up. 407 00:36:12,696 --> 00:36:15,221 No, there's something wrong. 408 00:36:18,435 --> 00:36:21,461 - That's not the game. - Yes, it is. It's level two. 409 00:36:21,538 --> 00:36:23,369 - How did that happen? - Where's Mulder? 410 00:36:23,440 --> 00:36:26,102 Mulder's in level one. 411 00:36:26,176 --> 00:36:29,703 - No, he's right there. - Shut the game down. 412 00:36:29,780 --> 00:36:32,874 No, no. No, no. I can't. 413 00:36:32,950 --> 00:36:35,111 - Well, just turn it off. - Power down, Langly. 414 00:36:46,397 --> 00:36:49,093 - The computer's not responding. - Look, we have to get him out of there! 415 00:36:49,166 --> 00:36:51,760 Yeah, and quick. 416 00:37:03,213 --> 00:37:06,341 Whoa! Stop right there! 417 00:37:12,956 --> 00:37:15,481 That's not really fair, is it? 418 00:37:17,594 --> 00:37:19,858 Well, that's just cheating. 419 00:37:52,458 --> 00:37:55,427 - Go, girl! - Scully's on fire! 420 00:37:55,494 --> 00:37:58,327 - The blood thirst in unquenchable! - Are you witnessing this? 421 00:37:58,397 --> 00:38:00,592 - Oh, yeah. - Scully's in the zone! 422 00:38:00,666 --> 00:38:02,531 - Clearly. - What's wrong? 423 00:38:02,601 --> 00:38:05,195 This is level two. It only gets harder. 424 00:38:05,271 --> 00:38:08,536 No one's ever beaten level two. 425 00:38:14,347 --> 00:38:16,872 - Are you okay? - Ask me if I'm humiliated. 426 00:38:31,731 --> 00:38:33,961 Mulder. 427 00:38:50,483 --> 00:38:53,577 - This is nuts! - They'll never make it. 428 00:38:53,652 --> 00:38:56,815 - How do you kill something that won't die? - Try and stop me, Ivan. 429 00:38:56,889 --> 00:39:00,188 - My whole life is in this game! - What are you trying to do? 430 00:39:00,259 --> 00:39:01,988 - Stay out of this! - She's gonna destroy it. 431 00:39:02,061 --> 00:39:04,859 - It's the only way to save them. - Let it go, both of you! 432 00:39:04,930 --> 00:39:08,696 - You can save them? - There's a kill command. 433 00:39:08,768 --> 00:39:11,032 - It kills the whole game. - You knew about this? 434 00:39:11,103 --> 00:39:13,264 - She knew about it too. - You said it wouldn't work. 435 00:39:13,339 --> 00:39:16,103 She was trying to save her creation, her goddess. 436 00:39:16,175 --> 00:39:18,837 You don't care who dies as long as your game survives. 437 00:39:18,911 --> 00:39:22,176 - Our friends are in there. - And we're not gonna let them die. 438 00:39:46,972 --> 00:39:48,906 Mulder? 439 00:40:18,270 --> 00:40:21,171 Give me that! This is out of your hands now. 440 00:40:21,240 --> 00:40:25,040 - Shut down the program. - You're the only ones that can do it. 441 00:40:26,612 --> 00:40:29,809 - They can't keep this up. - Scully's running out of ammo. 442 00:40:31,116 --> 00:40:33,812 - What's the command? - Don't do it, Phoebe. 443 00:40:35,287 --> 00:40:37,346 We're so close. 444 00:40:53,038 --> 00:40:55,905 - The command. - Give it to him. 445 00:41:01,780 --> 00:41:04,305 Shift-Alt-Blood Bath. 446 00:41:27,006 --> 00:41:28,940 Oh, my God. 447 00:41:44,957 --> 00:41:48,620 We killed the game, and Mulder and Scully along with it. 448 00:41:53,699 --> 00:41:55,633 Over here! 449 00:42:03,976 --> 00:42:06,103 - Scully! - Mulder! 450 00:42:06,178 --> 00:42:08,112 Scully! 451 00:42:19,024 --> 00:42:20,958 That's entertainment! 452 00:42:31,170 --> 00:42:33,934 We came, we saw, we conquered. 453 00:42:34,006 --> 00:42:36,600 And if the taste of victory is sweet, 454 00:42:36,675 --> 00:42:39,667 the taste of virtual victory is not Sweet 'N Low, 455 00:42:39,745 --> 00:42:41,940 nor the bullets made of sugar. 456 00:42:42,014 --> 00:42:45,780 Maybe out past where the imagination ends, our true natures lie, 457 00:42:45,851 --> 00:42:48,786 waiting to be confronted on their own terms. 458 00:42:48,854 --> 00:42:52,085 Out where the intellect is at war with the primitive brain... 459 00:42:52,157 --> 00:42:54,955 in the hostile territory of the digital world... 460 00:42:55,027 --> 00:42:58,963 where laws are silent and rules disappear in the midst of arms. 461 00:42:59,031 --> 00:43:02,558 Born in anarchy, with an unquenchable blood thirst, 462 00:43:02,635 --> 00:43:06,469 we shudder to think what might rise up from the darkness. 0 00:00:0,500 --> 00:00:2,00 www.tvsubtitles.net