"# B-i-n-g-o, B-i-n-g-o, B-i-n-g-o #" "#And Bingo was his name-o #" "#There was a farmer had a dog #" "#And Bingo was his name-o #" "( Clap ) # i-n-g-o #" "( Clap ) # i-n-g-o # # i-n-g-o #" "#And Bingo was his name-o #" "#There was a farmer who had a dog #" "#And Bingo was his name-o... #" "Oh!" "Oh, my goodness, what's happening?" "It's okay." "We just had a flat." " No problem here, honey." " Oh, no." "( Sighing )" "Darn it." "Honey, would you mind holding the light for a second?" "( Yelling )" "Paul!" "Paul?" "Paul!" "Where are you, Paul?" "!" "What happened?" "!" "Paul!" "Paul!" "( Barking )" "Here we go, boy." "( Whistling )" "Let's go over here." "Come on, boy." "Man:" "Over here!" "We found something." "Easy, easy, easy." "( Retching And Coughing )" "Man:" "His leg's been eaten off." "Man:" "Hey, up here!" "( Whistling )" "Come on!" "It's in here." "It's as tall as a house." "We can smoke him out." "And then what?" "I see it!" "He's coming at us!" "Working hard, Mulder?" "This woman claims... to have been taken aboard a spaceship... and held in an antigravity chamber... without food and water for three days." "Antigravity is right." "Sorry to interrupt... your serious investigation, but I just heard a story... that would just about take your knees out." "What's that?" "They found a body in the New Jersey woods yesterday... missing its right arm and shoulder." "They think they may have been eaten off by a human." "Where in New Jersey?" "Just outside Atlantic City." "Not an uncommon place to lose a body part." "Do they think it's the mob?" "It was a homeless man." "There doesn't seem to be a motive." "You feeling lucky, Scully?" "Relative to whom?" "It's not our case, Mulder." "The local police are handling it." "An X-file?" "Ever hear of something called " TheJersey Devil" ?" "Yeah." "A beast that comes out of the woods and attacks cars, right?" "Kind of like an East Coast Bigfoot?" "Read the file about the case in 1 947." "Save me the trouble." "1 947." "Family watches dad get dragged into the woods." "Cops find dad with a few appendages gnawed off." "Cops gun down a large naked man in the woods." "Autopsy shows human flesh and bones... in the man's large intestine-- a beast man." "Is the autopsy report here?" "No." "The original disappeared... from the Paterson P.D.'s files a few years later." "There is a statement from the attending pathologist." "It's the same story I've heard since I was a kid." "It's a folktale, a myth." "I heard the story when I was a kid, too." "Funny thing is, I believed it." "Thanks, Lorraine." "We got a cannibalized body in New Jersey." "Someone or something out there is hungry." "( Sighing )" "They say animals can develop an appetite for human flesh... but this is no animal." "You see the teeth marks just below the clavicle?" "They're human." "Who found the body?" "Park ranger." "Was he alive when it happened?" "It's hard to tell." "There's a skull fracture, but no sign of a struggle." "His blood-alcohol level was up." "Probably never knew what hit him." "Any ideas about that?" "From the size of that bite mark, I'd say a large adult male." "Detective Tomson is handling the case." "Glenna?" "I'm Special Agent Dana Scully, and this is Agent Fox Mulder." "I don't remember anybody calling the F.B.I. in on this." "We're not here in an official capacity." "Agent Scully is a medical doctor." "We heard about your victim." "She thought she might take a look." "I'm going to ask you to leave." "We have an investigation." "Tommy, this is no time to get pissy." "We have jurisdiction." "Any suspects, Detective?" "I don't work for you, sir." "Unless you hear different from the attorney general... this case is a local matter." "Agent Mulder, we should go." "There's no need to get bent out of shape." "On the contrary." "I think I've been exceedingly polite." "So what's eating that guy?" "He was perfectly in his rights." "The F.B.I. has no overriding jurisdiction... on a murder case." "You'd feel the same way... if someone was horning in on your work." "Chances are he's without a clue." "He'll probably be scratching his head... when they bring the next body in." "You could have really humiliated him... and told him who the perpetrator was-- theJersey Devil." "What do you say we grab a hotel, take in a floor show... drop a few quarters in the slot... and do a little digging on this case?" "You're kidding, right?" "We can skip the floor show." "I have to be back in D.C." "Got a date?" "No." "I have my godson's birthday party at 6:30." "What are you doing?" "A little poking around." "Maybe make a weekend out of it." "It's a three-hour drive back by myself-- in Friday-night traffic." "( Coins Jingling )" "Change for 50." "Found the body just over there... lying facedown on the rocks." "3 2 years with the park service." "I've come across some weird stuff... but never anything like this." "The victim was a homeless man." "You get many of them out here?" "Well, occasionally I'll see some... but most are scared of the woods." "Scared?" "Of what?" "I don't know." "The devil." "People say that's just a myth." "Depends on who you talk to." "What do you think?" "Well, like I said, you know, 3 2 years..." "I see a lot of weird stuff." "Like one time... a little over four years ago..." "I saw what I thought was a large man... come out of a copse of birch trees-- not a stitch of clothing." "He was about 60 yards away." "And he starts sniffing the air... you know, like a dog... and then he looks straight at me... and I swear he smelled me... because he took off into the woods so fast... you'd swear he wasn't human." "Really?" "You never saw him again?" "No." "But I feel him... and..." "I've found things." "Some scat, half-buried like a cat's... only more human." "Found a half-eaten rabbit with what looked like... a human cuspid tooth in it, and some deer bones... that looked like they'd been sharpened into tools." "Do you think it might be responsible for the body you found?" "Well..." "I got a pension coming up in a few years." "You say the wrong thing" "Yeah." "I'll tell you one thing." "I don't ever come out here without my weapon anymore." "How far is it into town from here?" "About a mile, mile and a half." "I'm staying at the Galaxy Gateway... for the next couple days." "If you think of anything, will you call me?" "Sure." "All right." "( Children Laughing )" "Look at this gorilla!" "Hey, I can't see!" "Where am I?" "( Crying )" "Oh, come here." "It's okay." "It's all right." "What happened?" "Did you bump your head?" "Oh, Cruiser, stop that!" "Go on." "What" " What happened?" "Jungle warfare." "Oh, I'm going to kill that dog." "If the hit squad doesn't get to him before you do." "I'm so glad you're here, Dana." "( Party Horn Blowing And Children Yelling )" "Oh, you're amazing." "What?" "You're such a natural at all this." "I don't know how you keep it all together." "Mommy radar." "I don't think I'm cut out for this, Ell." "Dana, you went through the F.B.I. Academy." "What better training could there be for motherhood?" "Seriously." "You're great with kids." "What are you talking about?" "When am I supposed to find the time?" "First you have to get a life." "And, of course, it helps to find a man." "Know of any?" "Yeah, they're disappearing... faster than the Brazilian rain forest." "What about that guy you work with?" "Mulder?" "You said he was cute." "He's a jerk." "He's not a jerk." "He's, um..." "He's obsessed with his work." "( Doorbell Ringing )" "Hi." "Hi." "I'm Rob." "I'm Scott's dad." "Oh." "Come in." "Thanks." "Hey, tiger." "How you doing?" "Having a good time?" "( Whispering: ) Divorced." "( People Talking )" "Did anybody here know Roger Crockett?" "He was murdered two days ago." "Ma'am, can I..?" "Woman:" "Hey, honey, you got any change to spare?" "Mulder:" "Roger Crockett?" "Anybody." "What do you want to know?" "Did you know Roger Crockett?" "Did you hear how he died?" "Yeah." "Any ideas who might have done it?" "You a cop?" "No." "I'm F.B.I." "I'll show you something." "Okay." "I need some money." "What is this?" "Stuck in the pocket of a jacket I found." "Does it mean anything to you?" "I've seen it." "Where?" "Right here, digging in the trash." "Are you hustling me?" "Swear to God." "What do you think it is?" "I don't know." "Scared the hell out of me." "Has anybody else seen it?" "Oh, yeah." "Everybody's pretty freaked." "Anybody tell the cops?" "You think they don't know?" "Where you sleeping tonight?" "You're standing in my bedroom." "You know the Galaxy Gateway?" "Room 7 56." "Go ahead." "Hey, they got HBO?" "Yeah, they do." "( Rustling )" "( Dog Barking )" "( Fence Rattling )" "( Soft Thudding )" "( Ragged Breathing )" "( Soft Grunting )" "( Sniffing )" "( Siren Wails )" "Sir." "You got a man on that roof." "Nothing to be afraid of." "We'll give you a place to sleep it off." " Back off." " Calm down." "There's a man up there." "Get in the car, now." "What do you think you're doing?" "Enjoying the night life... here in beautiful Atlantic City." "I'll go to the D.A. if I have to." "Obstructing an investigation... misconduct." "Let's go see her together." "We'll add " withholding evidence" to the list." "What are you talking about?" "Statements given to you... describing something stalking the back streets of Atlantic City." "This is the fishing trip... they get me up at 3:00 in the morning for?" "Unbelievable." "Why else would you be sweeping the streets tonight?" "You know it's out there." "I got a perpetrator out there." "Whether it's Hannibal the Cannibal or Elmer Fudd..." "I've got a job to protect people." "Oh, is that your job?" "Or is it to keep the dice rolling, keep the tour buses rolling in?" "You can't fill those casinos, this town disappears... like a quarter down the slot." "I've seen it." "Seen what?" "( Chuckling )" "You've been spending too much time... in supermarket check-out lines." "This story's as old as the hills." "Who's going to be responsible... when you lose your first tourist, Detective?" "You are." "No, you are, sir... because you're wasting my time... and impeding the solution of this case." "You want to go on a safari, go to Africa." "In the meantime, enjoy the rest of your weekend." "Agent Scully." "Agent Mulder, line three." "Where are you?" "Not far from where you left me." "You're still in Atlantic City?" "Uh, Scully,you got anything happening this morning?" "What's that noise in the background?" "( Retching )" "That's a guy getting sick." "Mulder, where are you?" "The drunk tank?" "I saw this thing on the roof." "Well, it's not hard to see... why they mistook you for a vagrant." "You going to rag on me... or are you going to get me something to eat?" "Am I buying... or did you manage to panhandle some spare change?" "It moved like a cat, quick and graceful." "A human couldn't have gotten up on a roof that fast." "Mulder." "What?" "What will happen when the Bureau finds out?" "They dropped the charges." "Tomson ran me through the system to spite me." "I'm talking about this Jersey Devil." "I saw it." "It's exactly what the ranger described." "The way it moved, sniffed the air." "It's out of the woods, probably in search of food." "I'll say." "It picked through the garbage." "If it was a man-eater, why didn't it come after me?" "Probably felt threatened." "You're ascribing it a motive and an alibi." "This thing chewed somebody's arm off." "It's not exactly a defensive posture." "But you do believe I saw something?" "You saw something, but I won't go in and sell it... when it's nothing more than a sighting in a dark alley." "I'm still paying for a hotel room." "I have to get back to Washington by 7:30." "Another birthday party?" "No." "I have a date." "Can you cancel?" "Unlike you, Mulder, I would like to have a life." "I have a life." "Come on." "I have somebody I want you to meet... on the way home." "Come on." "Hold on." "Just about every culture has one" "Yeti, Sasquatch, the Russian Almas." "Why is that?" "It's a universal wild man myth-- a symbolic fear of our dual natures as humans... as creators of life and destroyers of it." "What's this chart?" "It shows the historic entry of man onto each continent... and the effect it had on other animal species... which has been disastrous." "Why?" "We humans have retained hereditary traits... through evolution... that have proven to be extremely destructive." "We tend to be tribal and aggressively territorial... oriented by selfish sexual and reproductive drives... that make cooperation beyond the family or tribe... extremely hard for us." "So we kill other species in order to survive." "Humans are top carnivores." "We sit at the top of the food chain... and reduce other species' chances of survival." "Nice to know Dana left here with more than a degree." "But what if something entered the food chain above us?" "It won't happen." "Our intelligence virtually ensures... that, barring the introduction of some alien life-form... we will live out our days as rulers of the world." "But what if, through some fluke of nature... a human was born... who reverted to its most animal instincts?" "A kind of carnivorous Neanderthal." "Wouldn't he occupy a space above us on the food chain?" "Oh, sure." "All he'd have to do... is wait outside any fast-food restaurant... and eat us on the way in." "Haven't there been cases... where men have been raised in the wilderness by animals... who have no language and hunt like predators?" "Yes, but cannibalism is rare... even among lower mammals." "But even when faced with extinction?" "Maybe in the jungles of New Guinea." "It's just highly unlikely that what you're suggesting... could have survived civilization or evolution... out in the woods of New Jersey?" "Highly unlikely... but not outside the realm of extreme possibility?" "Well, it would be an amazing discovery." "Rob:" "The hard thing... was when my wife remarried." "Suddenly I felt very competitive for my son's attention." "It was weird." "I'm sure." "I became a superdad on the weekends with Scott." "I had this unconscious fear of being replaced." "I actually had dreams... where I was running over his stepfather with my car." "You'll understand when you have kids." "Having kids changes everything." "That's what they say." "Maybe some weekend if you're up for it... we could take the kids out to the beach for the day." "Yeah." "Great." "Thank you." "Can I ask about the case you're on, or can't you say?" "Well..." "I don't think it's a case we should discuss over dinner." "I don't suppose you'd want to hear... about the finer points of estate planning and taxation?" "( Telephone Ringing )" "Mulder." "Agent Mulder, this is Peter Brouillet... of theJersey Parks Department." "Oh, yeah." "Hi." "I found a body out in the woods today." "It looks like it's been dead six to eight months." "A long-haired male... missing the same tooth I found in that rabbit." "Could be your devil." "Where's the body now?" "I turned it over to the coroner's office." "You're sure it was a male?" "It had all the plumbing." "Excuse me." "Mm-hmm." "( Beeping )" "I'm sorry." "Excuse me." "Certainly." "( Ringing )" "Scully." "Mulder." "Sorry to interrupt your evening." "That's okay." "What's up?" "I just had an amazing thought." "Maybe it isn't a beast man we're looking for after all." "Well, if they picked it up... nobody logged the body on the chart." "I sure haven't seen it." "What else would they have done with it?" "We called you here for nothing." "They're going to sweep this under the carpet." "Why?" "Any publicity, and the streets will be crawling... with people who aren't here to play craps." "Word gets out there's something on the loose, forget it." "It's a female?" "The body they found was a male." "There's a 50-50 chance there was a mate." "We may never know unless we find out ourselves." "If it's true, what are the chances of capturing it alive?" "If it is a primate... it would have a natural fear of heights." "It would also want to stay close to its food source." "This thing has no fear of heights." "We'll start with the lower floors." "How much time will that dart give us?" "It will put down a 500-pound bear for an hour... if I hit it." "What the hell's a park ranger vehicle doing here?" "I don't know." "Check it out." "Run a check for me on" "Something here." "It's blood." "She could be bringing her killing here." "She could be injured." "Roger." "Zebra Team in position." "What if it is a female, Scully?" "How close is she to you or me?" "Does she feel emotion... or are her days just spent looking for food?" "Maybe she spends her day shopping." "Eight million years out of Africa" "I don't think we're all that different." "Mulder, we've put men into space." "We've built computers... that work faster than the human mind." "While we overpopulate the world... and create new technologies to kill each other with?" "Maybe we're just beasts with big brains." "What?" "No, I was just... thinking about my godson's birthday party." "Eight little six-year-old boys running around." "Talk about primitive behavior." "Tomson:" "His name is Mulder." "He's a federal agent." "You know him?" "No." "What are you doing here?" "I'm a professor of anthropology." "Mulder." "Does that sound familiar?" "I know he's here somewhere." "Will you check upstairs, Andrew?" "I want this place searched top to bottom" "Move, move!" "( Metallic Banging )" "Scully:" "Mulder..." "Mulder, where are you?" "( Metallic Clanking )" "( Snarls )" "( Groaning )" "Mulder?" "( Grunting )" "Scully." "Lay back." "Oh, Mulder, you're hurt." "You should have seen her." "She was beautiful." "Yeah, well, she just about ripped your lungs out." "She could have torn my head off... but she sensed I wasn't a threat." "I need federal jurisdiction on this case." "How old would you say she was?" "The U.S. Assistant D.A. is on the phone." "He wants to know what's going on." "Tell him he's got a real live Neanderthal on the loose." "She was young." "The Atlantic City major crime unit... has filed a complaint... that we're endangering a murder investigation." "That is such crap" "They got her cornered in a building." "Let's go." "It crawled into the wall." "Get a man in there." "Affirmative." "Keep these people out of here." "You can take her alive." " ( Man Yelling )" " What's going on?" "I've got a man down." "A naked woman just jumped from a second-story window." "Suspect is headed south into the woods on foot." "Good boy." "I know these woods." "She's going for cover down by the rocks." "Keep your eyes to the left." "Stay alert." "( Groaning )" "Look." "Can you reach her from here?" "I can try." "( Grunting )" "( Gunshot )" "( Gunshot )" "( Men Yelling )" "Man:" "I got it!" "Good shot." "She tried to take my arm off." "Man:" "Looks like she tried to bury herself." "Why did you have to kill her?" "Same reason you kill a rabid animal." "( Sighing )" "Hi." "This just came through." "It's a posthumous medical exam of the woman's body." "They found fragments of human bone... still in her digestive tract." "They estimated her age to be 25 to 30 years." "They allowed Dr. Diamond to do a medical exam of the body... but he found nothing... that suggested prehistoric bone structure... or physiology." "The A.C.P.D. has her listed as a Jane Doe... in a search for her identity... and state psychiatric records has begun in earnest." "Good luck." "They have also released the medical exam... from the male body that they found." "His age is estimated to be about 40 years." "There would have been offspring." "The medical exam of the woman's uterus... seems to indicate that she may have given birth." "She was protecting her children." "It all makes sense." "The male dies... and she comes out of the woods in search of food." "Do me a favor." "Go out and have a beer." "Take the day off." "I'll cover for you." "Just take some time for yourself." "Thanks, but I've got an appointment... at the Smithsonian with an ethnobiologist." " ( Telephone Ringing )" " I can't wait to tell him." "Mulder." "Yeah,just a second." "It's for you." "Hello." "Hi, Dana." "It's Rob." "Oh, hi." "I have Scott for the night... and we have two extra tickets for Cirque du Soleil." "We thought maybe you'd like to ask Ellen... if you could take Trent and join us." "Requisition for a car, please, Fran." "Thank you." "Who was that on the phone?" "A guy." "Same guy you had dinner with the other night?" "Same guy." "You going to have dinner with him again?" "I don't think so." "No interest." "Not at this time." "Thanks, Fran." "What are you doing?" "Going with you to the Smithsonian." "Don't you have a life?" "Keep that up and I'll hurt you... like that beast woman." "Eight million years out of Africa." "And look who's holding the door." "Dad, did you just see something down there?" "Where?" "Over there." "No." "I'm sure it was nothing." "No." "I saw something." "Did you ever hear the story of theJersey Devil?" "When I was a kid... my dad used to tell this story about a creature... who lived out there in the woods." "It was half man, half animal." "I used to believe"