1 00:00:04,771 --> 00:00:10,676 Ugh! I got mosquito bites. I got blisters. I hate those new boots. 2 00:00:10,777 --> 00:00:14,941 Honey, why are you so PO'd? I thought we had a good time‘ 3 00:00:15,015 --> 00:00:16,539 You had a good time. 4 00:00:16,650 --> 00:00:20,643 You had a fine time tromping around and leaving me a half a mile behind. 5 00:00:20,721 --> 00:00:24,555 For future reference, me running through the woods after you for a day 6 00:00:24,658 --> 00:00:27,650 is not my idea of a good time. 7 00:00:27,728 --> 00:00:30,060 I'm sorry. 8 00:00:30,163 --> 00:00:33,223 I've got longer legs. 9 00:00:33,333 --> 00:00:35,893 I was excited, you know? 10 00:00:36,003 --> 00:00:40,201 The great outdoors, communing with nature. 11 00:00:40,307 --> 00:00:44,038 - Your head hurt? - Yeah. 12 00:00:44,144 --> 00:00:49,207 You can hit me in the head with a rock if it'll make you feel better. 13 00:00:49,316 --> 00:00:51,876 Fine. Go get one. 14 00:00:53,820 --> 00:00:56,015 I'm taking a shower. 15 00:01:41,602 --> 00:01:43,593 Argh! 16 00:01:56,617 --> 00:02:01,418 - You still mad at me? - No. I'm not mad. 17 00:02:03,390 --> 00:02:05,449 Come here. 18 00:02:11,064 --> 00:02:16,900 So I guess we're never going hiking again. It's indoors for ever from now on. 19 00:02:19,272 --> 00:02:21,502 Angie, honey, what‘s up? 20 00:02:22,776 --> 00:02:25,006 Just hold me. 21 00:03:42,355 --> 00:03:44,653 Oh. Whoo. 22 00:03:44,725 --> 00:03:48,024 I don't know what they did with the screen for this thing. 23 00:03:48,095 --> 00:03:50,086 This is Angela and Wallace Schiff, 24 00:03:50,197 --> 00:03:54,657 a young married couple last seen hiking near Brown Mountain, North Carolina. 25 00:03:54,735 --> 00:03:59,536 That's Angie on the right. This is the condition in which their bodies were found 26 00:03:59,606 --> 00:04:03,702 after being missing for only three days in temperatures below 70 degrees. 27 00:04:03,777 --> 00:04:09,113 Which rules out decomposition. I'd say predation, but the bones would be scattered. 28 00:04:09,216 --> 00:04:13,050 Not to mention that these skeletons are not wearing any clothes. 29 00:04:13,120 --> 00:04:18,456 Right. I'd say it looks like a double murder, possibly one with ritualistic overtones. 30 00:04:18,558 --> 00:04:22,358 The bodies may have been stripped, then skeletonised, 31 00:04:22,429 --> 00:04:26,627 possibly by boiling or by the use of some kind of acid solution. 32 00:04:26,733 --> 00:04:31,397 Maybe the arrangement of the bodies has some meaning for the killer or killers. 33 00:04:31,471 --> 00:04:35,032 - At any rate, I'd term it ritualistic. - That's a big operation. 34 00:04:35,108 --> 00:04:39,442 There was no evidence at the scene. No tyre tracks, no footprints, nothing. 35 00:04:40,280 --> 00:04:44,546 - What do you think this is? - Brown Mountain doesn't ring a bell? 36 00:04:44,618 --> 00:04:46,381 Brown Mountain lights? 37 00:04:46,453 --> 00:04:49,752 It's a famous atmospheric phenomenon dating back 700 years, 38 00:04:49,823 --> 00:04:53,589 witnessed by thousands of people, back to the Cherokee Indians. 39 00:04:53,660 --> 00:04:57,061 Strange coloured lights are seen to dance above the mountain. 40 00:04:57,130 --> 00:05:01,089 There's been no geological or scientific credible explanation at all. 41 00:05:01,168 --> 00:05:03,159 What does that have to do with this? 42 00:05:03,270 --> 00:05:06,171 There's been no scientific credible explanation, 43 00:05:06,273 --> 00:05:09,333 but there are those of us who believe these lights are... 44 00:05:09,442 --> 00:05:11,103 UFOs? 45 00:05:11,178 --> 00:05:15,581 Extraterrestrial visitors from beyond who have nothing better to do 46 00:05:15,649 --> 00:05:19,608 than buzz one mountain over and over again for 700 years. 47 00:05:19,686 --> 00:05:24,623 Sounds like crap when you say it. I'm just wondering if there's a connection, Scully. 48 00:05:24,691 --> 00:05:28,525 The conditions of these bodies are reminiscent of cattle mutilations. 49 00:05:28,628 --> 00:05:33,327 Those cases have no physical evidence. They've been associated with UFO activity. 50 00:05:33,433 --> 00:05:39,338 Can't you just for once, just for the novelty of it, come up with the simplest explanation, 51 00:05:39,439 --> 00:05:44,433 the most logical one, instead of automatically jumping to UFOs or Big Foot? 52 00:05:44,511 --> 00:05:47,605 Scully, in six years, how often have I been wrong? 53 00:05:48,648 --> 00:05:53,051 No, seriously. Every time I bring you a new case, we go through this dance. 54 00:05:53,153 --> 00:05:56,782 You tell me I'm not scientifically rigorous and that I'm off my nut. 55 00:05:56,857 --> 00:06:01,453 And then, in the end, who turns out to be right 98.9 per cent of the time? 56 00:06:02,863 --> 00:06:06,355 I just think I've earned the benefit of the doubt here. 57 00:06:17,911 --> 00:06:21,972 We gave 'em adjoining suites. I was ready to send them on to Chapel Hill. 58 00:06:22,048 --> 00:06:24,710 The state medical examiner should have a look. 59 00:06:24,818 --> 00:06:27,048 We appreciate you holding off. 60 00:06:27,153 --> 00:06:29,519 The connective tissue is intact. 61 00:06:29,589 --> 00:06:34,652 Unlike everything else. I'm not sure what to make of it considering the time frame. 62 00:06:34,728 --> 00:06:40,030 If you'll pardon an obvious question, are you sure that these are the right two bodies 63 00:06:40,100 --> 00:06:43,399 and not two others that have lain out for six months? 64 00:06:45,739 --> 00:06:49,675 We triple-checked the dental records. Angela and Wallace Schiff. 65 00:06:49,743 --> 00:06:51,836 No doubt about it. 66 00:06:59,619 --> 00:07:03,453 And they were both found near Brown Mountain, right? 67 00:07:03,556 --> 00:07:07,617 - Where exactly? - Well, I could write you some directions. 68 00:07:09,696 --> 00:07:12,688 Would you... happen to know what this is? 69 00:07:13,433 --> 00:07:16,027 The remains were found in a swampy area. 70 00:07:16,102 --> 00:07:20,801 Some sort of organic material relating to that. It's bog sludge. 71 00:07:20,907 --> 00:07:24,138 I'm gonna go check out where the bodies were found. 72 00:07:27,814 --> 00:07:31,113 - You coming? - No. You go ahead. 73 00:08:28,875 --> 00:08:31,139 Wallace Schiff? 74 00:09:07,313 --> 00:09:09,304 Wallace Schiff? 75 00:09:15,722 --> 00:09:18,088 We got your gas spectrometer results. 76 00:09:18,191 --> 00:09:21,752 That stuff on the bones I said was bog sludge - it isn't. 77 00:09:23,763 --> 00:09:28,996 "Water, hydrochloric acid, electrolytes, pepsins and trypsins." 78 00:09:29,069 --> 00:09:32,903 - It's a digestive secretion. - Stomach juices, pretty much. 79 00:09:33,006 --> 00:09:35,600 Pretty damn close to it, except for this. 80 00:09:36,409 --> 00:09:37,740 Chitinase? 81 00:09:37,844 --> 00:09:42,907 It's a digestive enzyme as well. But it's strictly plant, not animal. 82 00:10:00,967 --> 00:10:02,434 Hello? 83 00:10:17,717 --> 00:10:22,381 I told you I'd seen this before. These are the two I remember, anyway. 84 00:10:28,228 --> 00:10:30,753 Both were discovered as skeletal remains. 85 00:10:30,830 --> 00:10:34,561 Right. But we saw nothing odd in that. 86 00:10:34,634 --> 00:10:39,162 Both were lost hikers found months or years later, whatever it says there. 87 00:10:39,272 --> 00:10:44,767 The bodies were found not far from where Angela and Wallace Schiff turned up. 88 00:10:55,855 --> 00:10:58,688 Mulder, answer your phone. 89 00:10:58,791 --> 00:11:01,021 The customer you are trying... 90 00:11:01,127 --> 00:11:06,030 Do me a favour. Forward a sample of that secretion over to the FBI lab at Quantico. 91 00:11:06,132 --> 00:11:09,329 - I want them to run a complete analysis. - You got it. 92 00:11:09,435 --> 00:11:12,962 And, in the meantime, can I borrow your truck? 93 00:11:24,017 --> 00:11:27,544 Please... don't take me. 94 00:11:28,288 --> 00:11:31,815 Hey, come out here. Step closer. I won't hurt you. 95 00:11:35,195 --> 00:11:37,959 - You're not one of them? - One of who? 96 00:11:40,667 --> 00:11:43,158 Are you Wallace Schiff? 97 00:11:46,539 --> 00:11:50,805 I hate to tell you this, Wallace, but you're supposed to be dead. 98 00:11:50,877 --> 00:11:54,176 They found your skeleton not 200 yards from here. 99 00:11:54,247 --> 00:11:58,206 - It's fake. They put it there. - Who put it there? 100 00:12:00,753 --> 00:12:04,484 - You know who. - The Brown Mountain lights. 101 00:12:05,358 --> 00:12:11,763 They abducted us. Me and my wife Angela. They took us on board their... Oh, God... 102 00:12:12,265 --> 00:12:14,199 Wallace? Wallace? 103 00:12:15,235 --> 00:12:20,571 They found your wife Angela, too. Lying right alongside your skeleton. 104 00:12:21,708 --> 00:12:24,370 No! Don't you get it? 105 00:12:24,444 --> 00:12:28,175 They faked our deaths. They have that kind of technology. 106 00:12:28,681 --> 00:12:33,380 Who the hell would be looking for us if they thought they'd already found our bodies? 107 00:12:33,453 --> 00:12:39,221 They returned me, but Angela's still up there being experimented on and I can't... 108 00:12:39,292 --> 00:12:41,123 I don't know what to... 109 00:12:41,227 --> 00:12:43,627 What do I do? 110 00:13:15,828 --> 00:13:17,455 Mulder? 111 00:13:42,422 --> 00:13:45,949 First things first. We gotta find a way outta here. 112 00:13:47,427 --> 00:13:49,918 Right behind you. 113 00:13:53,466 --> 00:13:55,798 What the hell is going on? 114 00:13:55,868 --> 00:13:58,462 That was solid rock. Now there's nothing there. 115 00:13:58,538 --> 00:14:03,032 Oh, God. It's them. They're affecting your head. 116 00:14:03,943 --> 00:14:06,776 Maybe mine, too. What if I can't even tell what's real? 117 00:14:06,846 --> 00:14:08,939 Wallace, let's get outta here. 118 00:14:10,850 --> 00:14:14,149 - Come on, Wallace! - They're out there, man. 119 00:14:25,231 --> 00:14:27,324 It's them. 120 00:14:28,067 --> 00:14:29,534 Wallace. 121 00:14:36,976 --> 00:14:38,637 Mulder? 122 00:14:48,821 --> 00:14:50,254 Mulder! 123 00:15:08,341 --> 00:15:10,775 Don't let them see you. 124 00:15:19,952 --> 00:15:23,513 - They're gone. - Yeah. For now. 125 00:15:24,390 --> 00:15:27,621 - Thank God they didn't find us. - They should have. 126 00:15:29,262 --> 00:15:32,459 Maybe they came for something else. 127 00:15:44,811 --> 00:15:46,904 Oh, my God. 128 00:15:49,081 --> 00:15:51,140 Oh, my God. Angie. 129 00:15:52,985 --> 00:15:55,078 They brought her back. 130 00:16:00,993 --> 00:16:05,896 Angie, can you talk to me? Do you remember what happened? Can you tell me? 131 00:16:05,965 --> 00:16:08,263 It's all fuzzy and... 132 00:16:08,334 --> 00:16:11,735 You were with your husband. You were with Wallace. 133 00:16:11,804 --> 00:16:15,296 There was a light. A bright light. 134 00:16:16,576 --> 00:16:19,568 Where was that light coming from? From the mountain? 135 00:16:19,645 --> 00:16:25,015 Over Brown Mountain. There were strange lights dancing over the peak. 136 00:16:25,117 --> 00:16:28,780 And... they took me. 137 00:16:28,855 --> 00:16:31,983 And Wallace, too. 138 00:16:34,026 --> 00:16:38,463 - And then what happened? - It just... it all went black. 139 00:16:38,531 --> 00:16:41,830 And when I woke up, I didn't know where I was. 140 00:16:41,934 --> 00:16:45,097 And I couldn't see Wallace any more. 141 00:16:45,171 --> 00:16:47,969 They returned me first. 142 00:16:48,774 --> 00:16:54,144 This place that they took you to, can you describe it to me, tell me what it looked like? 143 00:16:54,213 --> 00:16:56,613 It was white. 144 00:16:56,682 --> 00:16:59,776 A white place. It was featureless. 145 00:16:59,852 --> 00:17:04,983 I was lying on a table and I couldn't get up. 146 00:17:05,057 --> 00:17:09,050 Nothing was holding me down, but I couldn't move. 147 00:17:09,161 --> 00:17:11,652 Were there men there? 148 00:17:12,331 --> 00:17:13,559 Yes. 149 00:17:13,666 --> 00:17:20,071 There were men standing over me, but I couldn't see their faces. 150 00:17:20,506 --> 00:17:23,839 Did they perform tests on you? 151 00:17:23,910 --> 00:17:26,811 Yes, they did tests. 152 00:17:28,247 --> 00:17:30,977 Terrible tests. 153 00:17:32,552 --> 00:17:34,019 What? 154 00:17:35,588 --> 00:17:39,183 You have a scar back here on the back of your neck. 155 00:17:39,258 --> 00:17:42,887 - What? What scar? - It's fresh. 156 00:17:42,995 --> 00:17:46,362 - What is that? - It's an implant. I've seen this before. 157 00:17:46,432 --> 00:17:51,096 Yes, the drill. I remember the drill. I couldn't see it at first. 158 00:17:51,203 --> 00:17:57,233 That was the worst part. But I could hear it spinning, and it was coming out of the light! 159 00:17:57,343 --> 00:17:59,607 - What did they put in me? - Is there one in me? 160 00:17:59,712 --> 00:18:05,878 Male abductions don't usually report this. Everything is textbook except for one detail. 161 00:18:06,419 --> 00:18:07,443 What? 162 00:18:07,553 --> 00:18:12,388 Two skeletons we found were identified as yours and Angie's. It doesn't make any sense. 163 00:18:12,458 --> 00:18:17,191 Maybe they're like those cattle mutilations. Maybe they're related or part of their tests. 164 00:18:17,263 --> 00:18:21,962 I had that thought, but there's no precedent for it. It's in none of the literature. 165 00:18:22,068 --> 00:18:27,768 They didn't want anybody to find us. I guess they didn't want you to know the truth. 166 00:18:30,109 --> 00:18:33,545 - We gotta get outta here right now. - No way. 167 00:18:33,613 --> 00:18:36,707 They're out there. They're always watching. 168 00:18:36,782 --> 00:18:40,115 If they find us, if we leave, they'll take us again. 169 00:18:40,219 --> 00:18:44,622 We're leaving right now. Gather your things. Angie, I'll help you up. 170 00:18:44,724 --> 00:18:47,454 They're coming. I can feel it. 171 00:18:50,930 --> 00:18:53,592 - They're here! - Hide. They'll take you, too. 172 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:56,730 - We've got to hide! - No. 173 00:19:00,640 --> 00:19:02,107 No! 174 00:19:24,463 --> 00:19:26,158 - Scully. - Mulder... 175 00:19:26,265 --> 00:19:29,166 Why did you leave North Carolina without telling me? 176 00:19:29,268 --> 00:19:30,326 Long story. 177 00:19:30,436 --> 00:19:33,462 You disappear and then I get a furtive call that you're in DC? 178 00:19:33,606 --> 00:19:37,372 - I'm sorry. Does anyone know you're here? - No, 179 00:19:41,347 --> 00:19:44,874 - Scully, this is... - Angela and Wallace Schiff. 180 00:19:46,819 --> 00:19:50,983 - But, Mulder, it can't be. - This is my partner. Agent Scully. 181 00:19:53,559 --> 00:19:58,121 - Mulder, I ID'd their remains myself. - Yeah, I think you were meant to. 182 00:19:58,197 --> 00:20:02,657 Agent Scully, the aliens planted decoys so you would think we were dead. 183 00:20:04,637 --> 00:20:06,696 The aliens? 184 00:20:11,510 --> 00:20:15,970 Scully, I want you to put aside your scientific bias for a moment. 185 00:20:17,316 --> 00:20:21,514 Because what I'm about to tell you is gonna change your life for ever. 186 00:20:21,587 --> 00:20:26,490 Your life, my life, the life of everybody on this planet. 187 00:20:27,827 --> 00:20:31,092 - Mulder? - It was out there. 188 00:20:31,197 --> 00:20:33,688 And I found it. 189 00:20:35,201 --> 00:20:37,032 - What? - The truth. 190 00:20:37,103 --> 00:20:42,040 This couple... they were abducted by a UFO. 191 00:20:42,108 --> 00:20:44,406 Brown Mountain lights. 192 00:20:45,745 --> 00:20:51,377 They took me to a white place. There were men there. They put an implant in my neck. 193 00:20:52,685 --> 00:20:54,744 Just like what happened to you. 194 00:20:56,589 --> 00:21:02,619 From what very little I understand about this case, this is not what happened to me. 195 00:21:02,728 --> 00:21:04,889 There's more. 196 00:21:13,405 --> 00:21:15,896 He doesn't like the light. 197 00:21:16,642 --> 00:21:18,109 Who? 198 00:21:33,559 --> 00:21:35,754 I abducted him. 199 00:21:37,563 --> 00:21:39,622 It's a grey. 200 00:21:41,066 --> 00:21:43,125 It speaks to me. 201 00:21:44,236 --> 00:21:46,727 We communicate telepathically. 202 00:21:47,673 --> 00:21:50,107 He told me everything. 203 00:21:52,178 --> 00:21:54,578 I... I can hear him. 204 00:21:54,647 --> 00:21:56,171 Yeah. 205 00:21:58,250 --> 00:22:01,014 Oh, my God. 206 00:22:18,037 --> 00:22:20,198 207 00:22:20,306 --> 00:22:24,834 I don't know what to say, Mulder, where to begin. 208 00:22:24,944 --> 00:22:28,311 I mean, you... you were right. 209 00:22:30,783 --> 00:22:33,149 All these years, you were right. 210 00:22:33,219 --> 00:22:35,847 You think so? 211 00:22:35,955 --> 00:22:41,825 You were right about the greys, about the abductions, about the UFOs, 212 00:22:41,894 --> 00:22:43,987 the Brown Mountain lights. 213 00:22:44,063 --> 00:22:47,123 What about the skeletons? 214 00:22:47,833 --> 00:22:52,167 - They were fake. They were decoys. - You're buying that decoy theory? 215 00:22:53,706 --> 00:22:58,575 What about that organic substance we found, that goo you were so interested in? 216 00:22:58,677 --> 00:23:01,168 It was nothing. It was bog sludge. 217 00:23:04,183 --> 00:23:07,880 That... doesn't sound like you, Scully. 218 00:23:07,987 --> 00:23:11,388 It... God, I can't believe you're buying that. 219 00:23:14,360 --> 00:23:17,488 Mulder, I'm admitting that I was wrong. 220 00:23:20,232 --> 00:23:22,097 Are you all right? 221 00:23:54,233 --> 00:23:56,292 How are you feeling? 222 00:23:58,637 --> 00:24:00,730 - This doesn't make any sense. - What? 223 00:24:00,806 --> 00:24:04,071 These two, their story, their skeletons. 224 00:24:04,143 --> 00:24:08,375 Mulder, if I of all people can believe this, then why can't you? 225 00:24:46,919 --> 00:24:50,685 - Did you go inside the cave? - I looked. It's empty. 226 00:24:50,789 --> 00:24:53,451 It's as if he just vanished. 227 00:24:55,461 --> 00:24:57,861 He's gotta be around. 228 00:24:57,963 --> 00:25:01,364 We'll catch up to him. I know this area pretty well. 229 00:25:01,467 --> 00:25:02,934 Doctor. 230 00:25:04,770 --> 00:25:10,037 It's more of that digestive material. Looks like it's coming up from out of the ground. 231 00:25:24,156 --> 00:25:26,215 Agent Scully? 232 00:25:28,994 --> 00:25:31,986 I got tracks going in and out. 233 00:25:32,064 --> 00:25:34,897 They were only going in before. 234 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:37,662 - I guess you missed him. - How? 235 00:25:37,736 --> 00:25:41,729 This cave's not much more than a hole in the rock. 236 00:25:41,840 --> 00:25:43,899 Agent Scully? 237 00:26:24,750 --> 00:26:28,846 The courier just arrived. He brought your partner's charts. 238 00:26:48,707 --> 00:26:51,403 I'm sorry. 239 00:26:51,477 --> 00:26:53,968 I know it's difficult. 240 00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:10,227 That... 241 00:27:12,131 --> 00:27:17,797 That digestive secretion that we keep finding - could it have done this to him? 242 00:27:17,903 --> 00:27:20,463 I'm not sure I follow. 243 00:27:20,572 --> 00:27:25,100 It's chemically similar to gastric juices, right? Maybe he fell in it. 244 00:27:25,177 --> 00:27:30,740 Or maybe it's a product of a particular vegetation that grows in the area. 245 00:27:31,316 --> 00:27:36,253 That all sounds plausible, I guess. Except for one thing. 246 00:27:38,957 --> 00:27:41,653 There's no sign of it on these remains. 247 00:28:01,513 --> 00:28:02,980 It... 248 00:28:03,882 --> 00:28:06,373 It was on the Schiffs. 249 00:28:07,219 --> 00:28:10,985 I just think we need to look for the simplest explanation. 250 00:28:13,158 --> 00:28:15,649 The most logical. 251 00:28:17,029 --> 00:28:19,725 What is the most logical explanation? 252 00:28:21,166 --> 00:28:26,627 I'd say we're looking at a murder, one with ritualistic overtones, 253 00:28:27,673 --> 00:28:30,972 I think his body was stripped and then skeletonised, 254 00:28:31,043 --> 00:28:34,638 possibly by boiling or use of an acid solution. 255 00:28:38,183 --> 00:28:42,984 Don't worry, Agent. We'll take care of the arrangements. 256 00:28:44,990 --> 00:28:47,049 What arrangements? 257 00:28:47,159 --> 00:28:50,026 We'll have the remains sent on to Washington. 258 00:28:54,600 --> 00:28:58,593 I appreciate the thoroughness of your report, 259 00:28:58,704 --> 00:29:01,764 especially given the circumstances. 260 00:29:01,873 --> 00:29:05,070 It might be best if you took some time off, some shore leave. 261 00:29:09,414 --> 00:29:12,042 Agent? 262 00:29:12,117 --> 00:29:14,210 Sir... 263 00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:18,055 You're satisfied with my conclusions in this case? 264 00:29:18,123 --> 00:29:20,216 Absolutely. 265 00:29:21,526 --> 00:29:23,585 I take it you're not? 266 00:29:26,131 --> 00:29:29,623 I was unable to determine a clear cause of death, 267 00:29:30,469 --> 00:29:34,530 Nor was I able to fully account for the condition of Agent Mulder's body. 268 00:29:34,606 --> 00:29:37,769 You concluded he was a victim of a ritual killing. 269 00:29:37,876 --> 00:29:39,639 No. 270 00:29:39,745 --> 00:29:44,444 I mean, that was one possible scenario that I mentioned. 271 00:29:44,549 --> 00:29:49,145 But, in my mind, it was the least plausible. 272 00:29:49,254 --> 00:29:53,213 Not only is it plausible, it's likely. 273 00:29:54,826 --> 00:29:58,728 Why are you questioning your own findings? 274 00:29:58,797 --> 00:30:02,324 My role in the X-Files has always been to provide... 275 00:30:02,434 --> 00:30:07,770 a rational, scientific perspective to cases that would seem to defy explanation. 276 00:30:07,839 --> 00:30:11,605 - A counterpoint to Agent Mulder. - And you have done that. 277 00:30:11,677 --> 00:30:14,840 - You have performed admirably. - Have I? 278 00:30:15,514 --> 00:30:22,249 How many X-Files has my scientific approach fully and satisfactorily explained? 279 00:30:23,288 --> 00:30:26,621 Your reports have consistently made sense of his conclusions. 280 00:30:26,692 --> 00:30:29,456 Sir, this one makes no sense at all. 281 00:30:31,596 --> 00:30:35,623 Are you suggesting this is anything other than a murder? 282 00:30:35,701 --> 00:30:38,670 That's what Agent Mulder would have thought. 283 00:30:41,139 --> 00:30:43,630 And you think he would've been right? 284 00:30:48,513 --> 00:30:52,643 Given his life work, it's tempting to attribute his death to the paranormal, 285 00:30:52,718 --> 00:30:56,552 the unexplained, the unknown, but that's simply not the case here. 286 00:30:56,655 --> 00:30:59,647 We need to see this for what it is. 287 00:30:59,725 --> 00:31:05,163 And given that... I promise you we'll get the bastard who did this. 288 00:32:08,860 --> 00:32:10,919 I'm sorry. 289 00:32:27,746 --> 00:32:31,375 Agent Scully, how are you holding up? 290 00:32:31,450 --> 00:32:33,577 291 00:32:34,286 --> 00:32:37,153 - I still can't believe it. - Neither can we. 292 00:32:37,255 --> 00:32:40,418 I half expect Mulder to come knocking at that door. 293 00:32:40,492 --> 00:32:42,892 "Surprise." 294 00:32:42,961 --> 00:32:45,759 - This'll dull the pain. - No, thank you. 295 00:32:51,570 --> 00:32:54,061 Just so you know... 296 00:32:55,941 --> 00:33:00,139 we've launched our own investigation. 297 00:33:00,245 --> 00:33:03,737 I was beginning to think that I was the only one who was suspicious. 298 00:33:03,815 --> 00:33:07,581 We'll find him. We'll find him and we'll make him pay. 299 00:33:07,652 --> 00:33:10,917 - Find who? - The son of a bitch who killed Mulder. 300 00:33:10,989 --> 00:33:15,119 I hope you're not offended but we managed to get ahold of your report. 301 00:33:15,193 --> 00:33:18,026 We were impressed by the thoroughness of it. 302 00:33:18,129 --> 00:33:21,530 - Especially given the circumstances. - I don't understand. 303 00:33:21,633 --> 00:33:26,593 We concur with your findings. Clearly, this was a ritualistic murder. 304 00:33:26,671 --> 00:33:29,037 Those are not my findings. 305 00:33:29,140 --> 00:33:32,337 You guys believe that too, that Mulder was murdered? 306 00:33:32,444 --> 00:33:36,039 - It's the obvious answer. - No, it is not the obvious answer! 307 00:33:38,183 --> 00:33:43,815 We believe his body was stripped, then skeletonised by boiling or an acid solution. 308 00:33:43,889 --> 00:33:48,292 - We'll make that monkey pay. - What the hell is wrong with everybody? 309 00:33:48,360 --> 00:33:53,388 There are unanswered questions here. Am I the only one that's asking them? 310 00:33:57,235 --> 00:33:59,328 I could use a drink. 311 00:34:00,805 --> 00:34:06,334 You three of all people, you should be all over this, not buying the party line. 312 00:34:06,411 --> 00:34:11,075 Something else is going on here. Am I the only one who thinks that? 313 00:34:12,817 --> 00:34:14,876 Are you all right? 314 00:34:22,227 --> 00:34:24,661 You need to go home and get some rest. 315 00:34:24,729 --> 00:34:27,823 - I'll call you a cab. - What have you done with him? 316 00:34:27,899 --> 00:34:30,925 You're emotionally distraught. You need to calm down. 317 00:34:31,036 --> 00:34:34,733 Where is Mulder? Where is he? What have you done with him? 318 00:34:34,839 --> 00:34:37,774 Listen to me. He's gone. You need to accept that. 319 00:34:37,876 --> 00:34:42,836 Something else is going on here. Where is he? Where's Mulder? 320 00:35:18,883 --> 00:35:20,316 Scully. 321 00:35:30,729 --> 00:35:35,826 We were in the cave when the light came. 322 00:35:35,934 --> 00:35:40,564 It was a blinding blue-white light. 323 00:35:41,940 --> 00:35:44,909 And then they took me. 324 00:35:44,976 --> 00:35:47,308 I was abducted. 325 00:35:47,412 --> 00:35:53,476 I found myself in some kind of medical bay. It was a white, featureless... 326 00:35:53,585 --> 00:35:56,748 - It was just as the Schiffs had described it. - They're dead. 327 00:35:56,821 --> 00:35:58,846 No, actually, they're not. 328 00:35:58,957 --> 00:36:04,190 Mulder, their remains were discovered in a field. 329 00:36:04,295 --> 00:36:08,254 That's what brought us to this case in the first place. 330 00:36:08,333 --> 00:36:11,302 I found your remains in that same field. 331 00:36:11,369 --> 00:36:14,338 Me... I'm here. 332 00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:19,602 - How did you get here? - The aliens brought me back here. 333 00:36:20,145 --> 00:36:24,104 From North Carolina direct to your apartment door? 334 00:36:26,985 --> 00:36:30,216 Mulder, you don't remember getting here, do you? 335 00:36:32,457 --> 00:36:34,516 Neither do I. 336 00:36:35,126 --> 00:36:37,651 It doesn't change what happened. 337 00:36:37,729 --> 00:36:41,825 Mulder, why did you knock? This is your apartment. 338 00:36:41,900 --> 00:36:46,166 And you don't seem the least bit surprised to find me here. 339 00:36:46,237 --> 00:36:48,467 And what about the Schiffs? 340 00:36:48,540 --> 00:36:52,840 If they're alive, as you say, then... 341 00:36:54,345 --> 00:36:57,371 Then where are they? Where'd they go? 342 00:36:57,482 --> 00:37:03,648 Mulder, five minutes ago this room was filled with people attending your wake. 343 00:37:03,722 --> 00:37:06,657 What can I say, Scully? I'm here. I'm real. 344 00:37:06,725 --> 00:37:11,560 Mulder, this is not reality. This is a hallucination. It has to be. 345 00:37:11,663 --> 00:37:15,497 Either I am having it, or you are having it or we are having it together. 346 00:37:15,567 --> 00:37:18,900 - Brought on by what? - Something that we found in that field, 347 00:37:19,003 --> 00:37:21,494 because that's where it began. 348 00:37:24,042 --> 00:37:26,567 Wild mushrooms. 349 00:37:26,678 --> 00:37:31,615 Wild mushrooms. They were growing there. I stepped on one and it gave off spores. 350 00:37:32,250 --> 00:37:36,710 Several varieties of mushrooms are known for their hallucinogenic properties. 351 00:37:36,788 --> 00:37:40,280 - If we inhaled it... - What about the most logical explanation? 352 00:37:40,391 --> 00:37:47,422 This is it, Mulder. What if we're still there, if we're still in that cave in North Carolina? 353 00:37:47,532 --> 00:37:50,695 That we're not here in this apartment right now. 354 00:37:50,769 --> 00:37:52,600 Oh, Scully... 355 00:37:52,704 --> 00:37:55,298 Bear with me, I think this is making sense. 356 00:37:55,406 --> 00:37:57,874 I think that Angela and Wallace Schiff 357 00:37:57,942 --> 00:38:01,605 were digested by that substance that I found all over that field, 358 00:38:01,713 --> 00:38:05,809 that they were dissolved and then expelled up out of the ground. 359 00:38:05,917 --> 00:38:11,048 What if that substance and this hallucinogen are from one and the same organism? 360 00:38:11,122 --> 00:38:12,612 A giant mushroom? 361 00:38:12,724 --> 00:38:16,057 A giant fungal organism. We already know that they exist. 362 00:38:16,127 --> 00:38:21,963 Biologists have found specimens that range dozens of acres, that weigh hundreds of tons. 363 00:38:22,066 --> 00:38:24,762 What if this one needs to feed on living tissue? 364 00:38:24,836 --> 00:38:30,240 There is carnivorous plant life. There's the Venus fly-trap and the pitcher plant. 365 00:38:30,308 --> 00:38:35,746 - What if this one puts off an hallucinogen... - To lure its prey into the cave? 366 00:38:36,681 --> 00:38:41,015 To make it complacent, to keep it still while it devours it. 367 00:38:42,987 --> 00:38:48,323 What if we're still underground, Mulder? What if we're moving deeper into the cave? 368 00:38:48,426 --> 00:38:51,020 Or being moved? 369 00:38:51,129 --> 00:38:53,654 Mulder, what if we're being digested... 370 00:38:57,035 --> 00:38:59,128 right now? 371 00:39:55,760 --> 00:39:59,196 The exact size of this organism is yet to be determined? 372 00:39:59,264 --> 00:40:01,357 That's correct, sir. 373 00:40:03,101 --> 00:40:07,037 We know that the organism extends for at least ten acres, 374 00:40:07,105 --> 00:40:10,563 though it's mostly subterranean, so it may be far larger. 375 00:40:10,675 --> 00:40:12,666 We've contacted Fish and Wildlife. 376 00:40:12,744 --> 00:40:18,740 We've contacted the North Carolina Health Department and the FBI office in Raleigh. 377 00:40:18,850 --> 00:40:23,947 And we've contacted mycologists at the Smithsonian. We have our bases covered. 378 00:40:24,055 --> 00:40:29,357 The lab results determined that the spores we were exposed to 379 00:40:29,427 --> 00:40:32,760 have a chemical structure similar to LSD. 380 00:40:32,864 --> 00:40:38,393 They also contain an alkaloid which induces a state of narcosis. 381 00:40:39,971 --> 00:40:44,271 It's a rare day when the two of you sign off on the same report. 382 00:40:49,747 --> 00:40:51,112 Agent Mulder? 383 00:40:52,617 --> 00:40:55,745 I'm just thinking. 384 00:40:55,820 --> 00:40:58,721 I'm not exactly clear on how we escaped. 385 00:40:58,790 --> 00:41:01,281 What's not clear? 386 00:41:01,426 --> 00:41:08,093 Once you recognized that we were under a chemical influence, then it broke its spell? 387 00:41:08,633 --> 00:41:09,725 That's right. 388 00:41:09,801 --> 00:41:14,966 Scully, how could we simply will ourselves out of a chemical hallucination? 389 00:41:15,073 --> 00:41:17,974 - The fact remains, we did. - Did we? 390 00:41:18,810 --> 00:41:23,304 Can you name one drug that loses its effect once the user realizes it's in his system? 391 00:41:23,414 --> 00:41:26,611 I assume the effects wore off and you were both able to escape. 392 00:41:26,684 --> 00:41:30,085 How long were we underground? Hours? Half a day? 393 00:41:30,154 --> 00:41:33,851 Our bodies don't show effects of being burned by the digestive fluids. 394 00:41:33,958 --> 00:41:37,621 We were covered in hydrochloric acid, yet look at our skin. Nothing. 395 00:41:37,695 --> 00:41:39,993 Mulder, where are you going with this? 396 00:41:40,098 --> 00:41:43,590 Scully, we never escaped. 397 00:41:45,103 --> 00:41:48,504 We're still trapped underground. 398 00:41:48,873 --> 00:41:51,103 Mulder, we did escape. 399 00:41:52,643 --> 00:41:55,510 You're suffering from post-traumatic stress. 400 00:41:55,613 --> 00:41:57,672 No, I'm not. 401 00:41:57,782 --> 00:42:00,546 This is not real. You, you're not real. 402 00:42:02,020 --> 00:42:03,146 Mulder... 403 00:42:03,221 --> 00:42:05,689 I'll prove it, Scully. I'll prove it. 404 00:42:06,824 --> 00:42:07,984 Mulder! 405 00:42:56,574 --> 00:42:58,667 Over here. 406 00:43:02,613 --> 00:43:04,080 Hey! 407 00:43:07,785 --> 00:43:09,878 Come on! 408 00:43:14,792 --> 00:43:16,953 He's alive. 409 00:43:17,061 --> 00:43:19,461 Hurry up. 410 00:43:19,564 --> 00:43:22,055 Get him out. Get him out! 411 00:43:30,408 --> 00:43:32,899 Keep digging. She's down here. 412 00:43:34,812 --> 00:43:36,905 Pull her out! 413 00:43:49,961 --> 00:43:52,452 - Mushroom... - We found it. 414 00:43:54,899 --> 00:43:56,560 Just take it easy. 415 00:45:17,081 --> 00:45:18,708 I made this!