"(Speaking Arabic)" "(Screams)" "(Military Radio Calls)" "(Radio Static)" "(Loud Hum)" "(Explosion)" "Oh, man!" "This is Southern Crescent to Red Crescent." "We've got a downed plane at camp perimeter." "That's a negative." "We have nothing in the sky." "We got something down here." "Advise Medevac to stand by." "We're going to check it out." "Medevac One, Medevac One, this is Red Crescent." "Southern Crescent reports downed aircraft in their area." "Over." "Breaker, breaker, this is Quick Light." "Anybody out there with their ears on?" "Readin' you loud and clear." "This is Betty Blue." "Come on." "From Opryland, it's the Grand Ole Opry on WSM Radio 650 brought toyou by Goody's Headache Powder." "When the night's been too long and the party's been too hearty," "Goody's Headache Powder will straighten you right out." "And you have myword on that." "Goody" "(Loud Static)" "C.B. Caller #1 :" "It was cigar-shaped, red and green lights fast as hell." "Caller #2:" "I seen three ofthem fying over Chester County." "Caller #3:" "Right, right." "Six troopers were chasing them down 22." "(Siren Blaring)" "Caller #4:" "I see one now." "It's over the water tower." "Red and green lights just likeyou said!" "(Loud Hum)" "From the trucker's description, the shape he fired upon could conceivably have been a mountain lion's." "Conceivably." "The National Weather Service last night reported atmospheric conditions in this area which were possibly conducive to lightning." "Possibly." "It is feasible that the truck was struck by lightning creating the electrical failure." "It's feasible." "And you know there's a marsh over there." "Those lights the driver saw may have been swamp gas." "Swamp gas?" "It's a natural phenomenon in which phospine and methane rising from decaying organic matter ignite, creating globes ofblue fame." "Happens to me when I eat Dodger Dogs." "How can a dozen witnesses including a squad ofpolice vehicles in three counties become hysterical over swamp gas?" "I've investigated multiple sightings before." "Chesapeake Bay, the Okoboji Lakes," "Area 51 in Nevada." "None had this much supporting evidence." "Anecdotal data, exhaust residue radiation levels five times the norm." "Mulder, none ofthat evidence is conclusive." "The question is, whywas the trucker singled out?" "Isn't it more plausible that an exhausted truck driver became swept up in the hysteria and fired upon hallucinations?" "After all, the road can play tricks on you." "Yeah, it can play tricks on you but not like this." "I started these stop watches at the same time." "I don't know why they're holding me." "This "firing a weapon on a county road" charge is a lot ofhorse manure." "I'm a vet and I know how to handle a gun." "Mr. Ranheim, I'd appreciate it ifyou could elaborate on the reportyou filed last night regarding your encounter." "It was round..." "like a saucer." "And green and orange lights." "Last nightyou said it was cigar-shaped and black." "I didn't ask for this to happen." "(Coughs)" "All I want is to deliver my shipment ofauto parts and forget... (Coughing)" "Pardon me for asking, but how long haveyou had that cough?" "Why?" "I'm just concerned." "You said you were a veteran." "What's that got to do with this?" "The cough, the fever, the rash." "Those are all symptoms ofGulfWar Syndrome." "I was never in the GulfWar." "Okay." "So, how long haveyou not been yourself?" "Since the thing last night." "Mr. Ranheim, I'm Police Chief Rivers." "Please, forgive the misunderstanding." "Your truck's been squared away." "You may go." "I'd like to examine the truck." "That won't be necessary." "This man had an alleged close encounter." "The truck contains important evidence." "Sir!" "lfl may..." "You've gotten all you're going to get." "We will no longer cooperate in your investigation." "Why?" "just... go away." "Not..." "Not here." "It's obvious someone got to the police chief." "Ranheim was hiding something." "Ranheim was sick." "Only since last night." "Excuse me, could I useyour pen?" "Mm-hmm." "You suggesting GulfWar Syndrome is caused by UFOs?" "UFOs are frequentlywitnessed by soldiers during wartime." "Thanks." "Hereyou go." "The only UFOs that soldiers are likely to see are secret military aircraft." "What ifthat's what made the soldiers in Iraq sick-- the exhaust or fuel ofa classified aircraft or its weapon?" "There is a base in Little Rock." "You think that's what the air force was fying that night?" "They'd deny it, but it could explain how Ranheim developed his symptoms." "Possibly." "I want to talk to some people when we get back to Washington." "The military isn't going to talk." "No, these guys are like an extreme government watchdog group." "They publish a magazine called the Lone Gunman." "Some oftheir information is first-rate-- covert actions, classified weapons." "Some oftheir ideas are downright spooky." "(Clicking)" "So, Mulder, I had breakfast with the guywho shot john F. Kennedy." "Is that so?" "Yeah." "Says he was dressed as a cop on the grassy knoll." "Mulder, listen to this." "Zhirinovsky, the leader ofthe Russian social democrats-- he's being put into power by the most heinous and evil force ofthe 20th century." "Barney?" "The C.I.A." "Hmm." "Is this your skeptical partner?" "(Camera Clicks)" "She's hot." "You don't believe the C.I.A., threatened by a loss ofpower and funding, wouldn't dream ofhaving the old enemy back?" "I thinkyou give the government too much credit." "The government can't control the deficit or manage crime." "Lone Gunman." "What makes you think they can plan and execute an elaborate conspiracy?" "She is hot." "Settle down, Frohike." "It's not idiots on the hill trying to bone Capitol pages." "We're talking about a dark network-- a government within a government controlling our every move." "How can they do that?" "How?" "I'll showyou how." "You got a $20 bill?" "Hmm." "I'll check." "Mm-hmm." "Hey!" "That'sjust one method." "They use this magnetic strip to trackyou." "Wheneveryou go through a metal detector at an airport they know exactly how much you're carrying." "It is a federal crime to deface money." "The strip is an anti-counterfeiting measure." "On the inside?" "Other countries put it on the outside." "O..." "O..." "Okay, all right." "What doyou know about GulfWar Syndrome?" "Agent Orange ofthe '90s." "Shells coated with depleted uranium." "Heard ofany classified planes being fown during the Persian GulfWar?" "Why expose secret planes to an air force that runs to Iran wheneveryou fy?" "Any UFO activity during that period?" "Yeah." "UFOs caused GulfWar Syndrome." "That's a good one." "That's whywe likeyou, Mulder." "Your ideas are weirder than ours." "Scully:" "Those were the most paranoid people I have ever met." "How could you think their ideas are remotely plausible?" "I think it's remotely plausible that someone might thinkyou're hot." "Did you see the way they answered the telephone?" "They probably think every call they get is monitored and they're followed everywhere they go." "It's a form ofself-delusion." "It makes them think that what they're doing is important enough that somebodywould..." "What's the matter?" "(Phone Ringing)" "Hello." "(Hanging Up Telephone)" "Pitchers and catchers report for spring training this week." "Yeah." "What are we doing here?" "Missed your calling, did you, Mr. Mulder?" "Maybe this yearwe can catch a game at Camden Yards." "Ofcourse, we wouldn't be able to sit together." "That's too bad." "Something tells meyou'd have the connections to get great seats." "Any park in the country." "(Camera Clicks)" "It'sjust a tourist." "In our line, nothing isjust what it seems." "What am I onto?" "We go to investigate a truck driver's encounterwith a UFO and the next thing we're discovering electronic surveillance equipment." "Who's listening to us?" "Whywon'tyou tell me?" "What am I onto?" "A dangerous path." "(Man Speaking Arabic)" "(Responding ln Arabic)" "(Screams)" "(First Man Speaking Excitedly)" "(Yelling Response)" "The truck is bogus and so's the truck driver, Ranheim." "First I checked his manifest." "It listed a truck carrying 1 08 cartons ofauto parts weighing 3,1 00 pounds." "Then I checked with three weigh stations along his route." "They have it listed at 5,1 00 pounds." "There's something in that truck, and it's not auto parts." "And ofcourse, nobody ever reported him." "Furthermore, Ranheim lied about being in the GulfWar." "His real name is Frank Druce." "And I worked hard to get this one" "He was special operations, black beret, in Mosul, Northern Iraq." "Also, he didn't get sick from the encounter the other night." "He's been to the V.A. hospital for treatments three times in the pastyear." "We had it." "We had it, and we let it go." "Four days ago an Iraqi Air Force pilot shot down an unidentified fying object." "The wreckage and possibly the occupants were recovered by the army." "Ranheim, the truck driver, would be a perfect escort for the wreckage and/or bodies out oflraq to a laboratory in the United States." "That would explain why the truck weighs so much more than listed." "The military has, in the past, transported dangerous materials and weapons... in unmarked trucks across the country." "I'm beginning to sound like those guys at the Lone Gunman, right?" "Where did you obtain this information?" "Let'sjust say it's a source with a deep background." "I want to know all about him." "All I know is that he's guided us away from harm." "How doyou know that?" "We work for the Federal Bureau of lnvestigation, and we're being bugged." "What does that tell you?" "That tells me that not everything is as it appears to be." "Exactly." "For all we know, this deep background is responsible for the bug." "He's never lied to me." "I won't break that confidence." "I trust him." "Mulder, you're the only one I trust." "Then you're going to have to trust me." "Did you find out where the truck is now?" "Generally." "It's heading west, towards Colorado." "We've got to try to intercept it and see what's on board." "I'm going to go pick up a few things." "I'll meetyou back atyour place in an hour, okay?" "I cut the main breaker." "(Sighs)" "You risk exposure coming here." "What I have here is too important." "The photograph in that envelope was taken by an officer at Fort Benning, Georgia." "1 7 UFOs were spotted in one hour." "Is that where the Iraqi wreckage is being held?" "Are UFOs monitoring the area?" "Nice placeyou have here." "Wait." "Wait." "I just wanted to take this opportunity to thankyou." "You've helped mywork so much and you've never asked for anything in return and I knowyou've putyourself at great risk to do so." "This is the best photographic evidence I have ever seen." "I knew the Gulf Breeze photos were a hoax, but this is the quality ofevidence the government has amassed for decades at the highest classified levels." "That business with the truckwas a decoy to keep anyone looking closely away from Fort Benning where they are keeping the remains ofthe Iraqi UFO." "We've got to leave for Georgia immediately." "This photograph is a fake." "What?" "Look." "This soldier's shadow is allegedly created by the lights from the UFO, but it falls in a direction contradictory to the craft's position." "There could be an off-camera light source creating that shadow." "Look closely at the color ofthe light refected in the windshield." "It should be from the red lights ofthe UFO but it doesn't match the color ofthe ship's lights." "There's probably tint in the windshield." "Or the gradation could be attributed to atmospheric conditions." "We should have it analyzed." "You're determined not to believe him." "Maybeyou're too determined to believe him." "I am determined to follow a lead that may result in the proofofthe existence ofextraterrestrial biological entities." "Mulder, listen." "Please, will youjust hear me?" "I have never met anyone so passionate and dedicated to a beliefas you." "It's so intense that sometimes it's blinding." "But there are others who are watching you who know what I know." "And whereas I can respect and admireyour passion, theywill use it againstyou." "Mulder, the truth is out there, but so are lies." "Thankyou." "I had the photo analyzed by the Bureau's computers." "Initially, it appears to be legitimate." "The film grain matches in pattern and density, color levels, shading." "Then I noticed this." "It's the moon, halffull." "I had the refection in this window enlarged by 25." "There's the moon again, a quarter full-- not to mention that the window couldn't even catch the moon's refection from that angle." "You were right, Scully." "It's a fake." "He tried to deceive us." "Now we're alone on this." "There's no one we can trust." "Theywent to a lot oftrouble to put us on the wrong track." "There's something here that no one's supposed to find." "Why didn'tyou leave for Fort Benning?" "The photograph was a fake." "Well, at leastyou're not insulting me further by feigning appalled surprise." "I think a compliment is in order." "That photo was prepared by ourvery best." "I thoughtyou were my ally." "Oh, I am." "Imagine if Eisenhower told the Allies D-Daywould take place in Belgium." "I place my life in greatjeopardy every time we speak." "I've been a participant in some ofthe most insidious lies... and witness to deeds that no crazed man could imagine." "I spentyears watching you... from my, uh, lofty position to know thatyou were the one I could trust." " Then why did you lie to me?" " To divertyou." "You and Scully are excellent investigators and your motives arejust." "However, there still exist some secrets which should remain secret-- truths that people arejust not ready to know." "Who areyou to decide that for me?" "The world's reaction to such knowledge would be far too dangerous." "Dangerous." "You mean, in the sense ofoutrage," "like the reaction to the Kennedy assassination or M.I.A.s or radiation experiments on terminal patients, Watergate," "Iran-Contra, Roswell, the Tuskegee experiments." "Where will it end?" "Oh, I guess it won't end as long as... men likeyou decide what is truth." "That transcriptyou gave me ofthe Iraqi pilot-- that was the truth." "Yeah." "Why did you even bother to show it to me?" "Well, I was aware thatyou were onto the truck so I knew that down the road I would have to steeryou away, that I would have to lie toyou, and a lie, Mr. Mulder, is most convincingly hidden between two truths." "Mulder." "Ifa shark stops swimming, it will die." "Don't stop swimming." "I'm not responsible for the electronic surveillance but I do know they can still hearyou." "(Doorbell Rings)" "Scully:" "Mulder!" "Areyou home?" "Scully, glad you dropped by." "I been thinking about this whole situation." "And I thinkyou're right." "I thinkwe shouldjust move on." "I think this time you're right, Mulder." "All right, stickwith him." "Hey!" "There is your round-trip ticket to Chicago." "Here's your credit card." "And the plane departs at gate 35." "I'd also like a one-way ticket to Los Angeles with a stop in Las Vegas, and I'll be paying cash." "(Horns Honking)" "Called everyweigh station and bureau office west ofColorado." "Tied up an airphone for three hours." "SomeJapanese businessman told me to stick a piece ofsushi where the sun don't shine." "My ear's numb from being on hold for so many hours." "At least they didn't trace our call." "I couldn't find the truck." "Did you have any luck?" "Yep." "It's heading northwest on l-90." "We have to get a couple oftickets to Seattle." "Yeah, think about it." "This truck drove across America." "People it passed probably thought it was hauling auto parts or furniture," "livestock, whatever." "Nobodywould have suspected it was hauling a craft from anotherworld." "Here we go." "Mulder, we've been following this truck for hours." "Maybe he knows we're following him and he's taking an evasive route." "Well, ifthat were the case... (Loud Static)" "You all right?" "Yeah." "Come on." "Scully:" "Ranheim!" "Ranheim?" "Scully!" "Scully:" "Oh, my God." "It was an extraterrestrial biological entity... alive." "Where did it go?" "I thinkwe werejust witness to a rescue mission." "God, Mulder, I can't stop shaking." "Whatjust happened-- does it fit the profile?" "Areyou asking me ifit was real?" "Did wejust have a close encounter?" "No." "It was another hoax." "But how could anyone generate such force?" "Whatever they used, we probably haven't heard ofit." "Sound weapons, a stealth helicopter with an ultra high-intensity light." "It doesn't matter." "There's no evidence that this was a UFO." "So they created this elaborate show just to defect us again?" "Wouldn't it have been easier for them just... just to kill us." "Yeah, I've wondered that myself." "Maybe they're using me against myself, likeyou said before." "That I want so badly to believe, that I'djust accept the obvious conclusions and walk away." "Well, now we have nothing to go on and no one to turn to." "There's still one player in all this who hasn't lied to us, but it's not quite someone we can turn to." "Leverling and Priest Rapids, east bank ofthe Columbia River." "Did you send out a field investigator?" "And you can substantiate the sighting?" "Okay, Nick." "Thanks a lot." "I've contacted several organizations that have hot lines for UFO reports." "Center for UFO Studies in Chicago," "MUFON, NICAP..." "None ofthem have ever reported a week ofsuch activity." "It began in Tennessee where Ranheim was encountered." "The sightings are following the path ofthe truck." "And after last night's hoax..." "Look at this." "Seven sightings in Mattawa, Washington, a hundred miles away." "Aliens?" "Looks like theywant their colleague back." "We've driven full circle through Mattawa twice." "There's nothing here." "(Rock Music)" "What's over there?" "Man:" "We have been waiting!" "Welcome to our home!" "We are willing to go with you!" "Freddie:" "Ahh-doo-nay-vah-so-barahgahs." "That's an intergalactic space greeting." "That means " Hello, space brothers."" " Hello." " What's going on here?" "A UFO party." "You've seen UFOs?" "Last two nights." "They're drawn to our electric power." "They hover over the power plant down there." "Man:" "Everyone!" "They are here!" "Yes, sir, that's right." "It's all secure." "Lock it up." "Mulder:" "This is it." "There's Ranheim." "This place has got to have the highest level ofsecurity." "just the kind ofchallenge they're looking for." "Who?" "(Dialing Phone)" "(Phone Ringing)" "Lone Gunman." "It's Mulder." "Turn the tape recorder off." "Okay." "It's off." " Turn it off!" "." " It's offalready." "How would you like to have on your front page the first substantiated photo of an extraterrestrial biological entity?" "No way." "An E.B.E.?" "What do we have to do?" "just hack me some identification numbers." "Mulder:" "Braidwood and Stefoff." "Personal identification number?" "7-5-9-3." "5-3-1 -1 ." "Open the trunk, please." "Park in lot four." "Thanks." "Hey, wait!" "Display these at all times." "Proceed." "Langly said he couldn't gain access to level six, so that's whywe..." "We have to go back through that door." "We'll look suspicious going back." "We'll have to find another access then." "Theywon't let us." "You folks come with me, please." "We're lost." "We're looking for..." "Just proceed down the hallway." " Ifyou couldjust help us..." "Mulder, stop." "We're agents with the Federal Bureau oflnvestigation." "I'm reaching for my l.D." "We're here conducting an investigation." "Proceed down the hallway, please." "This is level two to level six." "I have a male and a female who have identified themselves..." " Mulder!" " Stop!" "Hold it!" "He took the stairs!" "Go!" "Go!" "Go!" "This way." "Come on, guys!" "Aah!" "Stay on top ofhim!" "Move!" "Move!" "Man:" "Halt!" "I said, hold it!" "Halt!" "(Guns Cocking)" "Deep Throat:" "Let him go." "Let him go!" "You've done well." "You're dismissed." "I know how badly, how... very badlyyou want to look through that window." "But it would be pointless." "It's dead." "After the Roswell incident in 1 947, even at the brink ofthe Cold War there was an ultrasecret conference attended by the United States, the Soviet Union, the People's Republic ofChina, Britain, both Germanies, France," "and it was agreed that should any extraterrestrial biological entity survive a crash, the country that held that being would be responsible for its extermination." "I, um... have the distinction ofbeing one ofthree men to have exterminated such a creature." "I was with the C.I.A. in Vietnam." "A UFO was sighted for five nights over Hanoi." "The Marines shot it down and brought it to us." "Maybe... it didn't know what a gun was or perhaps they don't show emotion... but that... innocent and blank expression as I pulled the trigger has haunted me... until I found you." "That's why I come toyou, Mr. Mulder, and will continue to come toyou to... atone forwhat I've done." "And maybe sometime through you, the truth will be known." "You're awfully quiet, Mr. Mulder." "I'm wondering which lie to believe." "(Chuckles)"