"Woman On Radio:" "Rogeryour request for assistance." "What is your present location?" "Unit 50, go ahead." "Suspect is now westbound." "Has entered the gate ofthe shipworks." "Unit 50 still in pursuit." "Over." "Officer On Bullhorn:" "Pull yourvehicle over and stop!" "Putyour hands on the roofand freeze!" "Hold it!" "(Men Grunting)" "Get on the ground!" "Do it!" "Did you hear me?" "Face down!" "Do it!" "(Grunting)" "(Grunting)" "Stop!" "Armed officer!" "(Gunshots)" "I hit him." "I know I hit him." "Where the hell did he go?" "He'd be bleeding bad." "...offthe coast ofltaly." "But theirs is a very light lava." "That's what stumped me." "Because inside there must be something the weight ofthe heaviest rock." "But, Professor, that would be Icelandic peridotite." "Precisely." "There's a piece chipped off." "By me." "Well, what's the rock inside?" "Icelandic peridotite, naturally." "When I saw this, I stopped chipping." "(Phone Rings)" "Mulder." "Areyou watching channel eight?" "What's your conclusion?" "Science does not jump to conclusions." "Science is not a guessing game." "Reporter:" "...where a 60-mile high-speed car chase ended early this evening-- the suspect eluding capture by leaping into the harbor but not before injuring several Ardis police officers." "We have Captain Roy Lacerio standing by." "How was the man able to escape and how seriously injured were the officers involved?" "Those details are still unclear." "I'll be talking with several..." "I'm sorry-- You'll have to excuse me." "Captain Roy Lacerio being pulled away here during an intense manhunt." "...Lacerio being pulled away here during an intense..." "Mulder, you've been through this tape 1 00 times." "What exactly areyou hoping to find?" "Mulder:" "I don't know." "And all he told you was to watch channel eight?" "Yeah, that's all he said." "Do we even know why the suspect was being chased?" "As far as I can tell he wouldn't pull over for a moving violation." "Well, that should put him on the ten most wanted list." "There must be something here." "Some detail we're not seeing." "How doyou know he's notjustyanking your chain?" "Well, he has admitted lying toyou." "He wouldn't call ifthere wasn't something here-- something he wants me to see." "Then what areyou missing?" "There were three law enforcement agencies out here last night." "Hunting a man on a moving violation?" "I know it's not Silence ofthe Lambs but it's what we do." "This man isn't wearing a badge or a uniform." "He's not one ofyours?" "No, sir." "But it was a zoo out here." "You say the suspect was shot." "Why hasn't the body been recovered?" "We got our search ongoing." "We're quite certain he will be found." "It's been almost 1 8 hours, Captain." "Where could the body be?" "There are cables and debris all over the bottom." "It's a painstaking business." "Can I askwhat the F.B.I.'s interest in this case would be?" "The suspect matches the description ofa federal fugitive." "Really?" "How's that?" "No description ofthe suspect has been released." "Ifyou don't mind, can we take a look at the car, please?" "It's been taken to impound." "The report says that the car was registered to a rental agency in Gaithersburg." "They had no idea the carwas even missing." "You know, Mulder" "I think that we're wasting our time here." "I don't know what the hell I'm supposed to find." "You can't make out the license plate in this photo." "Scully, look at this." "What?" "Look at the car in the photo." "Look at the windshield." "It's not the same car." "Scully:" "It's called a caduceus." "It's the adopted symbol ofthe medical profession." "So probably only a doctor would have that on his car." "Mm-hmm." "I had the picture enhanced." "The plate is different." ""3 A-Y-F."" "Fast-forward." "That's all you can make out." "The rest is obscured." "Hey, Danny, it's Mulder." "Run a Maryland plate for me." "All I got is a partial." "Registered to a doctor, or used to be." "Yeah, I'll hold." "They switched cars and lied about it." "Whywould they do that?" "Maybe the real owner ofthe car has something to hide." "(Animal Squeals)" "Mulder:" "Dr. Berube?" "Yes?" "We're with the F.B.I." "Can we have a minute?" "I'm very busy." "Areyou aware that a car registered toyou was involved in a high-speed chase in Ardis yesterday?" "Excuse me?" "A silver Ciera, Doctor." "Doyou own one?" "Yes." "It was used forwhat?" "A crime." "Wereyou aware it was even missing?" "Not until now." "I have a housekeeper, and she often uses the car." "It's a second car..." "Please!" "They should not be excited." "Nothing should be touched." "I thought theywere friendly." "They're part ofan experiment." "What kind?" "Am I under some kind ofsuspicion?" "No." "Then I think I've answered all your questions." "Excuse me." "I have more work than time." "Thankyou." "Did he biteyou?" "No, but he tried to." "Well, it's almost 5:00." "Let's check with the doctor's housekeeper about the car." "No." "No?" "What doyou mean?" "This has reached the point ofabsurdity." "We're out here on halfa hunch offa cryptic phone call chasing down a clue that's based on speculation." "Well, that's all we've got." "That's all he's given us." "Who is this Deep Throat character?" "We don't know anything about him." "He's in a delicate position." "He has access to information and indiscretion could expose him." "You don't know that this isn'tjust a game." "He's toying with you." "Rationing out the facts." "You think he does it because he gets offon it?" "No." "I think he does it becauseyou do." "Calling it a night" "Mr. Mulder?" "My mother usually likes me home before the street lights come on." "I'm surprised atyou." "Why?" "Your level ofcommitment seems to have diminished." "My level ofcommitment?" "I expected thatyou'd be working through the night putting the pieces together." "Maybe ifyou'd given me something more to workwith." "I've given you all I can." "A news report?" "And where has it led you?" "Not very far." "It may be further than you realize." "This has always been on your terms." "I've been the dutiful son." "This time we canjust cut out the Obi Wan Kenobi crap and save me the trouble." "I fearyou've become too dependent on me." "Look, I've got plenty to do without chasing down yourvague leads or trying to decode your circular logic." "Maybe it's you who's become too dependent on me-- on mywillingness to playyour games." "Mr. Mulder?" "What?" "Don't give up on this one." "Trust me." "You've never been closer." "Closer to what?" "(Door Opening)" "Hello?" "Hello?" "Who's there?" "Working late tonight, Doctor?" "What doyou want here?" "He's alive, isn't he?" "Has he contacted you?" "Please." "You're going to have to leave." "(Banging Cage Violently)" "Ifyou're from the F.B.I." "I've already answered all your questions." "What questions?" "I had nothing to say to them." "I have nothing to say toyou." "Where's Doctor Secare?" "I don't know whatyou're talking about." "Please." "Mywork is very important." "I must get on with mywork." "I'm afraid... yourwork is done." "(Loud Shattering, Equipment Falling)" "Anybody see anything?" "No." "Nothing." "I'm calling it off." "Let's get those guys out ofthe water." "Yes, sir." "Bring it in." "Scully:" "The county sheriffs office is conducting the investigation." "On the preliminary reports it's being listed as a suicide." "Suicide?" "They think that, forwhatever reason he trashed his lab and then killed himself." "How?" "He tied one end ofa roll ofmedical gauze around his neck and the other end to this gas outlet." "Then hejumped." "Were there anywitnesses?" "Nope." "He kept this place" "like he was waiting for the people from Good Housekeeping to show up." "I would never have pegged him to do this... or a Greg Louganis out the window." "Scully:" "I know." "That gauze is troubling." "It's a bit too calculated, huh?" "As ifsomeone wanted to make doubly sure he'd break his neck before he hit the ground." "What else do we know about Dr. Berube?" "Um..." ""Terrence Allen Berube." "Harvard Med, 1 974."" "He was working on the Human Genome Project." "Areyou familiar with that?" "Yeah." "The mapping ofall human genes." "Maybe the most ambitious scientific endeavor in the history ofmankind." "There's nothing extraordinary about that." "There were thousands ofscientists working on that project." "But only one who owned a silver Ciera and went bungeejumping with medical gauze wrapped around his neck." "I'm seeing the pieces but I'm not seeing the connection." "Mulder:" "Maybe that'sjust it." "Maybe we're not seeing it because it can't be seen, not in any obvious way." "What is this?" "I don't know." "Can you find out?" "What will you do?" "I'll see what else I can find out about Dr. Berube." "Okay, Mulder, but I'm warning you." "Ifthis is monkey pee, you're on your own." "(Doorbell Rings)" "My first impression is it's some kind ofbacteria specimen." "Can I askyou whereyou got it?" "It was recovered at a crime scene." "We've come a long way from Colonel Mustard in the den with a rope, haven't we?" "I'm expecting it will turn out to be nothing." "No." "You've definitely got something here." "Wow." "Look at this." "Scully:" "What are they?" "They're the size ofbacteria but no bacteria I've ever seen." "How doyou mean?" "Well, most bacteria are symmetrical and smooth." "These are..." "I don't know." "It's strange." "You have no way ofidentifying them?" "Well, we could do a freeze fracture." "Take a thin slice off and see what's going on inside these babies... ifyou don't mind waiting." "No." "No, I'll wait." "Hi, Danny." "Yeah, it's Mulder again." "Look, I've got a number this time-- 555-2804, area code 301 ." "I need an address, a name ifyou can get it for me." "All right." "I'm at, uh... same prefix, 1 51 7." "All right." "Thanks, Danny." "(Ringing)" "Mulder:" "That was fast." "Man's Voice:" "Terry, is thatyou?" "Yeah." "Who's this?" "They shot me, Terry." "Oh, God." "I've been in the water for three days." "I'm hurt." "Where areyou now?" "At a pay phone." "I'll pickyou up." "Where areyou?" "Terry..." "You okay?" "Areyou there?" "Hello?" "Hello." "This man's been hurt here." "I think he needs medical attention." "What's the street?" "What's the street?" "I'm going to call an ambulance." "Sir?" "(Telephone Ringing)" "Don't hang up." "You got it." "Hi, Danny." "I got it." "Let me get the address." "All right, you ready?" "Mulder?" "I'm just writing it down now." "Go ahead." "Belongs to a company called Zeus Storage. 1 61 6 Pandora." "Zeus Storage." "Yeah." "1 61 6 Pandora Street." "That's it." "All right, thanks." "(Siren Wailing)" "Medic:" "White male, 40, weakvitals severe dyspnea and hypotension." "He also has a green fuid coming from a wound right upper quadrant." "Doctor:" "ls he responding to CPR?" "No, and we're noticing rope veins at the neck and a hypersonant sounding chest." "He's going real blue on us now." "Release the air pressing on the heart cavity." "I'm going to need a cannula." "We're going to do a needle decompression." "(Air Rushes Out)" "Ah... (Coughing)" "Doctor:" "What's going on in there?" "(Coughing)" "Answer me." "What is the problem?" "Come in, please!" "(Telephone Ringing)" "Mulder." "It's me." "He's alive, Scully." "Who?" "The driver ofthe silver Ciera." "He called the doctor's house." "Where is he now?" "I don't know." "Where areyou?" "I'm at the Georgetown Microbiology Department." "I've got something foryou." "Is it smaller than a silver Ciera?" "Much." "And it's not silver." "It's green." "What is it?" "Some kind ofbacteria, each containing virus." "Berube may have been cloning them." "They also contain something that looks like chloroplasts-- plant cells." "They've never seen anything like it." "What could he have been doing with them?" "The only reason you clone a virus inside a bacteria is to inject it into something living." "It's called gene therapy and it's still highly experimental." "Maybe that's what he was doing with those monkeys." "Can they tell you anything else?" "They'rejust about to run some primary cell cultures and a DNA sequence." "Now, I may be understating the strangeness ofthis, Mulder." "Bacteria like this-- it may have existed, but not for millions ofyears... not since before our ancestors first crawled out ofthe sea." "Areyou there, Mulder?" "Yeah." "Scully, keep up the good work." "Agent Scully." "Oh, Dr. Carpenter, I fell asleep." "I've done some work." "These are the DNA sequences from the bacteria sample you brought in." "You know something about molecular biology." "What areyou looking at?" "I think those are genes." "Right." "They're called base pairs." "Each pair is made up ofsomething called a nucleotide." "Only four nucleotides exist in DNA, four." "And through some miracle ofdesign that we haveyet to fathom every living thing is created out ofthese four basic building blocks." "Whatyou're looking at is a sequence ofgenes from the bacteria sample." "Normally, we'd find no gaps in the sequence." "But with these bacteria, we do." "Why is that?" "I don't know why." "But I tell you, under any other circumstances my first call would have been to the government." "What exactly did you find?" "A fifth and sixth DNA nucleotide-- a new base pair." "Agent Scully whatyou are looking at it exists nowhere in nature." "It would have to be by definition... extraterrestrial." "(Ringing)" "Hello." "Mulder?" "Where on God's Earth haveyou been?" "I've been trying to call you all night." "I had a situation." "I left my phone in the car." "Mulder... that bacteria I had analyzed" "They're saying that it doesn't exist in nature." "They're saying that it could be extraterrestrial." "Scully..." "What?" "How soon can you be here?" "There's something I gotta showyou." "Wait a second." "Mulder..." "I just want to say that I was wrong." "That's all right." "Don't worry about it." "No, um... ifyou'd have listened to me, we wouldn't be here right now." "I should know by now to trustyour instincts." "Why?" "Nobody else does." "You know, I've always held science as sacred." "I've always put my trust in the accepted facts." "And what I saw last night... for the first time in my life, I don't know what to believe." "Whatever it is you do believe, Scully when you walk into that room... nothing sacred will hold." "There were tanks here... and five bodies suspended in solution." "There were computers monitoring them." "Theywere alive, Scully, underwater." "What happened to them?" "God only knows." "Most likely they've been destroyed." "Miss Scully." "We met ever so briefy." "Destroyed bywhom?" "I don't know." "I don't believeyou." "There are limits to my knowledge" "Mr. Mulder." "Inside the intelligence community there are so-called black organizations-- groups within groups conducting covert activities unknown at the highest levels ofpower." "There were three men-- I was chased." "Ifyou were chased, you would have been killed." "Those men are trained well for that sort ofbusiness." "Were those the same men who killed Dr. Berube?" "Presumably." "Why?" "Why?" "Good Lord." "You've worked so hard and you still don't see it." "Dr. Berube was conducting human experiments with extraterrestrial viruses." "Yes, but that's been going on foryears." "We've had the tissue since 1 947 but not the technology." "Roswell?" "Roswell was a smoke screen." "We've had a halfa dozen better salvage operations." "Dr. Berube was killed because his work was too successful." "You're standing in the room where the first DNA transplant took the first human-alien hybrid was created." "Six volunteer patients all terminally ill." "One, Dr. William Secare, an old friend of Dr. Berube's was dying ofmelanoma cancer." "And as a result ofthe E.T. gene therapy all six patients treated in this room began to recover from their illnesses." "Dr. Secare was able to live a more or less normal life-- as normal as possible for a man who has developed inhuman strength and the ability to breathe underwater." "That's how he eluded capture." "What was he running from?" "Dr. Secare was never supposed to have survived." "Dr. Berube's research was part ofa top secret government project." "All theywere interested in was the technology." "To have a hybrid living out in the real world-- too great a liability." "What ifhe should need emergency medical procedure?" "The man has a blood chemistry that is alien and very likely toxic." "That story should hit the press." "It was easier to kill Dr. Secare." "Ofcourse." "There was only one problem." "Dr. Berube was able to warn him." "There'sjust one thing I don't understand-- whyyou gave us so little to go on in the beginning." "And why areyou giving us so much now?" "I didn't anticipate the speed and precision oftheir cleanup operation." "They're systematically destroying all the evidence" "Dr. Berube, the bodies here." "Without the evidence you two have no case." "Who would believe the story" "I just told you?" "You must put together everything thatyou have found and you must find Dr. Secare before they do." "I'll have no further contact with you on this matter." "I'm going to get back to Georgetown and get all the lab work." "I'm going to find Dr. Secare." "Where?" "I don't know." "I'm going to trust my instincts." "I'm looking for Dr. Ann Carpenter." "I've been unable to reach her by phone and she's not in her office." "She was in a terrible car accident... herwhole family." "And Dr. Carpenter is, um, dead." "(Thump)" "(Thump)" "Dr. Secare?" "Wait!" "I'll protectyou." "(Gunshot)" "(Air Rushes Out)" "Ah...!" "(Coughing)" "(Ringing)" "Your cellular phone's been ringing offthe hook." "I'm a popular guy." "Why don'tyou answer it for me?" "Oh, I don't like talking on the phone." "I have this thing about unsecured lines." "When you feel like talking" "let me know, though." "He's not home." "Where is he?" "He's been gone all night." "I wish I knew." "Something's happened to him." "Theywon't kill him." "How doyou know that?" "He's become too high-profile and you've got evidence that could expose them." "They took the evidence and they may have killed in order to get it." "The evidence still exists." "Where?" "It might be difficult to obtain but with your medical background" "I might be able to getyou inside." "Inside where?" "The high-containment facility at Fort Marlene, Maryland." "What do they have there?" "The wellspring, Miss Scully-- the original tissue." "Ifthey've got Agent Mulder they might be willing to make a deal." "It could save his life." "(Click)" "Name?" "Dana Scully." "Company or institution?" "Federal Government." "Project password?" "Project password?" "Purity Control." "Log in, please." "You're late." "Doyou have it?" "Yes." "Good." "They're willing to make the exchange." "You spoke to them?" "Yes." "I'll take the parcel." "No, sir." "I'll make the exchange." "I made the deal, Scully." "They're expecting me." "I don't trustyou." "There's no one else to trust." "I don't know whoyou are." "I know nothing aboutyou." "For God's sake don't screw this up." "In 1 987, a group ofchildren from a Southern state were given what their parents thought was a routine inoculation." "What theywere injected with was a clone DNA from the contents ofthat package you're holding as a test." "That's the kind ofpeople you're dealing with." "So, why give it back to them?" "To save Mulder's life." "At the risk ofother lives?" "You and Mulder are the ones who can bring it to light." "Now, give me the parcel." "Give me the parcel, Scully." "No!" "Mulder." "Mulder." "Trust... trust... no one." "(Telephone Ringing)" "Hello." "Mulder:" "Hey, Scully, it's me." "Where areyou?" "They're shutting us down, Scully." "What?" "They called me in tonight and they said they're going to reassign us to other sections." "Who told you that?" "Skinner." "He said word came down from the top ofthe executive branch." "Mulder..." "It's over, Scully." "Lodge a protest." "They can't..." "Yes, they can." "What areyou going to do?" "I'm... not going to give up." "I can't give up... not as long as the truth is out there."