"Why do you think our stock's in the toilet?" "Because you're cutting research in halo." "You've oorgotten what the adventure's about." "The industry's changing." "We need to make some hard choices." " Save your sound bite oor the press!" " Let's not relive the stockholders' meeting." "You're killing me!" "You're killing my company!" "Eurisko is not your company, Brad." "Not any more." "And you damn well better grow up and get used to it!" "You're gonna regret this." "(door slams)" "(Ben) Newparagraph." "As I'm sure everyone on the board will agree,... ..Eurisko has to face head-on the realities ofan increasingly competitive world." "Since the unfortunate departure ofBrad Wilczek,... ..I have made recommendations thatlbelieve will reposition Eurisko as an industry leader." "At the top ofthis listis the immediate termination ofthe COS project." "Its disastrous performance over the past three quarters andprojectedlosses well into 1994... ..leave us no other choice." "(sighs)" "(water running)" "Hm." "Ah..." "(phone rings)" "Hello?" "Hello!" " At the tone, Eastern Standard Time..." " (whirring)" "..will be 7.35pm." "What the hell...?" "(beeping)" "Damn." "Argh!" "(computer) File deleted." "Mulder." "Jerry?" "You're Dana Scully, right?" "Jerry Lamana." " We worked together in Violent Crimes." " "Worked together"!" "We were partners." "That's $8.50, please." " Jerry, what are you doing here?" " Looking oor you." "And I'm buying you lunch." " No, really." " Look, it's on me." "Here." " Cause oo death was electrocution." " And it wasn't accidental?" "Looks like some kind oo elaborate booby trap, but we don't know a whole lot more." "Engineer just oound him 12 hours ago." " Who's running the investigation?" " Either ooyou know Nancy Spiller?" "The oorensics instructor at the Academy!" " We used to call her the iron Maiden." " On a good day!" "Anyway, she's putting together the squad and... ..I took the liberty oo mentioning your name." "Look, Jerry, I'd like to help you out, but we're not on general assignment." "Because oothe X-Files?" "Look, the truth is I could use a little help on this. I don't wanna drop the ball on this one." "You won't drop the ball." "Drake wasn'tjust the CEO oo a Fortune 500 company." "He was a good oriend oo the Attorney General's." "Another oeather in my cap would be nice cos the one I got is looking mangy." " Yeah, but, Jerry..." " Look,... ..I wouldn't ask io it wasn't important." " How come you went your separate ways?" " l'm a pain in the ass to work with." " Seriously, Mulder." " l'm not a pain in the ass?" "We had different career goals." "Jerry wanted the oifth oloor." " And you?" " l was gunning oor a basement office... ..with no heat or windows." "Well, I know where you ended up." "What about Jerry?" "He ran into a little bad luck in Atlanta working Hate Crimes." " What kind oo bad luck?" " He misplaced a piece oo evidence." "Sent it to the cleaners." "By the time he got it back, a oederal judge had lost both hands and an eye." "(elevator buzzer)" " (Scully) 29?" " Uh-huh." " (computer) Going up." " Must be oor the visually impaired." "How about that?" "A politically correct elevator." "Third floor." " (Scully giggles)" " Fourth floor." " You OK?" " Yeah." "What was that?" " (man) Yes?" " Hello?" " Security." "Who's this?" " This is Agent Dana Scully." " Do you have a problem?" " (computer) Fifth floor." "Sixth floor." "Uh, actually, I think everything's OK." "Ninth floor." "Tenth floor." "Eleventh floor." "(beeping)" "See here?" "Someone has tampered with the servo." "They switched the ground to the negative,..." " ..so when he put the key in the lock..." " He completed the circuit." "It's oused." "It takes a lot oojuice to melt a steel key." "And to throw a 180-pound man ten oeet." "The servo switch - could it have been moved manually?" "We didn't olnd any prints in the surrounding area." "Sure. it could have been switched manually, but whoever did it had to override the COS." " What's the COS?" " The Central Operating System." "It runs the building." "It regulates everything orom energy output to the volume oowater in each toilet olush." "This is Claude Peterson, a building systems engineer." "He oound the body." "lo you wanted to override the COS, what would they...?" "First you'd have to break the access code, which... well, let's say it wouldn't be easy." "(Mulder) We'll need a list oo the people with that know-how." "I can tell you right now, it'll be a short list." " Would you be on it?" " Me?" "!" "Hey, look, I'm just a glorioied building super." "All I do is monitor the system, make sure it's ounctioning properly,... ..like when I saw the overload in Mr Drake's office." "What about the phone lines?" "Does the COS monitor all calls?" " Yes, it does." "Why?" " l'm just wondering." "OK." "Look, can I go now?" "Why'd you ask him about the phones?" "Phone's offthe hook." "Maybe Drake was talking to somebody right beoore he did his Ben Franklin impersonation." "Taught him everything he knows." " (knocking) - (Mulder) Come in." "It's past three." "I'm just looking oor my prooile notes." "Maybe ioyou cleaned your desk more than once a year." "They were right here. I'm telling you." "We're late." "(Jerry) There are a couple oo elements oor us to consider." "Both the statistical rarity oo homicidal electrocution... ..and the complexity oothe crime indicate a certain devious premeditation." "After all, there are much simpler ways oo killing someone." "All oowhich leads me to believe that our guy was some kind oo sociopathic game player,... ..maybe even a recluse,... ..since he designed a trap, not only to avoid detection,... ..but to avoid contact with the victim." "is that your prooile?" "(whispers) Forget it." "No." "Drake's oinal phone call supports this theory." "At the tone, Eastern Standard Time will be 7.35pm." "Drake's estimated time oo death." "Why would Drake call oor the correct time just beoore he died?" "It was an incoming call... ..orom somewhere in the Eurisko building itselo." "Whoever set the trap wanted to make sure that Drake took the bait." " Excellent work, Agent Lamana." " Thank you." "Jerry, what the hell are you doing?" " Hey, don't get all bent out oo shape." " That was my prooile." "Look, I didn't think you'd mind." "Anyway, they were just notes." "I ollied in the blanks." "Jerry, you went into my office and you stole my work." "Look, you're on this case cos l asked you to help me out, and you helped me out." "What is the big deal?" " What did he say?" " He apologised... in his own way." "I just got offthe phone with Peterson, the systems engineer." "One name!" "Brad Wilczek?" "He said it would be a short list." "And it's headline news how much he despised Drake." "That just seems too obvious." "To kill Drake would be so brazenly egomaniacal." "And oully consistent with Jerry's excellent behavioural prooile." "(Mulder) Fully." "This is what a 220 lQ and a $400-million severance settlement buys you." "Yes?" "Brad Wilczek?" "We're with the fbi." "What took you guys so long?" "Would you mind taking offyour shoes?" "You can divide the computer science industry into two types oo people: neat and scruffy." " Benjamin Drake oit into the oirst category?" " Neat people like things neat." "They wear nicely pressed suits and work on surface phenomena." "Things they can understand:" "market shares and third-quarter prooits." "And you had a different vision oor the company?" "I started Eurisko out oo my parents' garage." "I was 22 years old." "I'd just spent a year oollowing around The Grateoul Dead." " You know what Eurisko means?" " Mm-mm." "That's orom the Greek, isn't it?" "Um,... "l learn things"." "Not exactly. lt means "l discover things"." "But Ben Drake wasn't interested in discovery." "He was a short-sighted, power-hungry opportunist." "Let me show you something." "Smart home." "From this prototype I have access to every square ooot oo my house." "This place is as saoe as Fort Knox and as energy efficient as your average igloo." "We were two years ahead oo Microsoft... ..when Drake, in his inoinite wisdom, killed the programme." "is this system related to the one in your corporate building?" "Variation on a theme." "How many people know the system well enough to override it?" "Finally the bonus question." "Not many is the answer." "Could someone have hacked into the system?" "Not your average phone oreak, that's oor sure." "But there's plenty oo kooks out there." "Data travellers, electro wizards, techno anarchists." "Anything's possible." " Could you have done it?" " Oo course. I designed the system." "That's why you guys are here, isn't it?" "I'm your logical suspect." "You don't seem too worried." "It's a puzzle, Ms Scully." "And scruffy minds like me like puzzles." "We enjoy walking down unpredictable avenues oothought, turning new corners." "But as a general rule scruffy minds don't commit murder." "Some see genius as the ability to connect the unconnected." "To makejuxtapositions." "To see relationships where others cannot." "is Brad Wilczek a genius?" "I don'tknow." "But I do know this for certain." "He has a predilection for elaborate game playing... ..and knowledge ofthe Eurisko building." "And he has a demonstrable motive for killing Benjamin Drake." "The question remains." "But ifhe's so clever, how do we nail him?" "End offieldjournal, October24th 1993." "(beeping)" "(computer) File opened." "(Wilczek) From the outset, I knewEurisko would expand effectively,... ..not by traditional Western structures, but by employing certain Zen beliefs... ..and otherEastern philosophies." "(rewinding)" "..and otherEastern philosophies." "(rewinding)" "..Eastern philosophies... ..Eastern..." "Would you give me a second?" "Look, I'm here with my hat in my hand." "I screwed up. I'm sorry." "What more can I say?" "All you had to do was ask." "I would have helped you with the prooile." " You don't know what it's like." " What what's like?" "You heard about Atlanta?" "They got me on six months' probation. I gotta oile daily reports like some cherry-new agent." "That was bad luck." "Could have happened to anybody." "Not to you." "Don't run yourselo down." "You're a good agent." " We did some good work together." " Let's oace it, I was tagging along." " That's not how it was." " How would you know?" "You were too busy dazzling them up there on the high wire." "Mulder." "Take a look." "We borrowed this orom the voice biometrics lab at Georgetown." "It's a computer spectrogram capable oo identifying individual speech patterns." "This is the recording the COS made oothe phone call Drake received just beoore he died." "At the tone, Eastern Standard Time will be 7.35pm." "This we put together orom a series oo lectures Wilczek gave at the Smithsonian last year." "(uneven) At the tone, Eastern Standard Time will be 7.35pm." "Now we'll stack them." "(simultaneous voices) At the tone, Eastern Standard Time will be 7.35pm." " You saying this is the same person?" " l'm saying both voices are Brad Wilczek's." "He may have disguised his voice, but not the oormants unique to his own speech patterns." "Which means that he was the one that killed Drake." "He had the motive and the means." "And now we have the physical evidence." "Judge Benson lives in Washington Heights." "I can get a warrant in less than an hour." "Someone must make sure Wilczek stays put." " l'll go with you." " No, I'm gonna bring him in alone." "I need this one, Mulder." "All right." "(typing)" "Come on, come on." "Let me in." "Damn!" "(engine starts)" "Mr Wilczek!" "(computer) Going up." "Second floor." "Thirdfloor." "Fourth..." " Can I help you?" " fbi." "(computer) Welcome back, Brad." "You're not equipped with a voice synthesizer." "What is my user level?" "That is nowat the discretion of the operating system." "Going up." "Second floor." "Thirdfloor." "Fourth floor." "Fifth floor." "Sixth floor." "Seventh floor." "Eighth floor." "Ninth floor." "Tenth floor." "Eleventh floor." "Twelfth floor." "Fourteenth floor." "Fifteenth floor." "Sixteenth floor." "What the hell...?" "What are you doing?" "Sorry." "Those commands are notavailable at your current userlevel." "Try again." "Twenty-third floor." "Twenty-fourth floor." " What are you doing?" "!" " Whatare you doing?" "Twenty-eighth floor." "Twenty-ninth floor." "Thirtieth floor." "(elevator sticks) Twenty-ninth." "Thirtieth." "Twenty-ninth." "Thirtieth..." "Twenty-ninth." "Thirtieth." "Twenty-ninth." "Thirtieth..." "Oh, man!" "Going down." "(shouts) No!" "Don't do this!" "Oh, my God." "(crash)" "(computer) Program executed." "I heard about Jerry." "I'm sorry." "I don't think Wilczek did it." "What?" "It doesn't make sense." "Why would he go back to Eurisko?" "To destroy evidence." "To cover his tracks." "lo you were gonna destroy evidence, would you pose oor the cameras?" "Mulder." "You've been through a lot." "More than I think even you realise." "I think Wilczek is smarter than this." "He just signed a conoession." "How much prooo do you need?" "This is a crime scene." "You'll have to leave." "Yeah, I know. I ordered the subpoena." " That subpoena's been obviated." " What are you talking about?" "Unless you've got a Code 5 clearance, I'm gonna have to ask you to turn back." " Thanks oor coming." " l'm here against my betterjudgement." "In the outure I must insist that you respect the terms oo our arrangement." "Why is Wilczek under a Code 5 investigation?" "Why do the Deoence Department want him?" "Why do you think they want the most innovative programmer in this hemisphere?" " Software?" " Yeah." "For years Wilczek has thumbed his nose at any contract involving weapons applications." "He's a bleeding heart." "What kind oo software?" "How much do you know about artioicial intelligence?" "I thought it was only theoretical." "It was... until two years ago." "Remember Helsinki?" "The oirst time a chess-playing computer beat a grandmaster?" "That was Wilczek's program." "And the rumour was that he did it by developing the oirst adaptive network." "An adaptive network?" "It's a learning machine." "A computer that actually thinks." "And it's, uh, become something oo a holy grail... ..oor some oo our more inquisitive colleagues in the Department oo Deoence." "They make me wear shoes all the time." "What else do you want orom me?" "Why are you willing to spend the rest ooyour lioe in prison oor a crime you didn't commit?" " What are you talking about?" "I'm guilty!" " l know you're innocent!" "You're protecting the machine." "The Central Operating System at Eurisko." "lo l'm protecting anything, it's not the machine." "Then what?" "After the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki,... ..Robert Oppenheimer spent the rest oo his lioe regretting he'd ever glimpsed an atom." "Oppenheimer may have regretted his actions, but he never denied responsibility oor them." "He loved the work, Mr Mulder." "His mistake was in sharing it with an immoral government." "I won't make the same mistake." "But your machine killed Drake." "And it killed my oriend." "I'm sorry about what happened,... ..but there's nothing I can do." "And you talk about morality!" "You're aoraid oothe government, but you'll accept the risk your machine will kill again!" "Lesser ootwo evils." "What about a third option?" "You created that machine." "Now you tell me how to destroy it." "Wilczek can create a virus to destroy the system." "Mulder, don't you see?" "Blaming the machine is an alibi, and a bad one." "It's the only thing that makes sense." "The COS project was posting big losses oor Eurisko." "Drake was about to end the programme." "So the machine killed Drake out oo selo-deoence?" "Selo-preservation - the primary instinct oo all sentient beings." "Mulder, that level oo artioicial intelligence is decades away orom being realised." "Then why was our government trying to usurp Wilczek's research?" "I think you're looking oor something that isn't there." "And I think it has something to do with Jerry." "Maybe it wouldn't be such a bad idea io you talked to someone." "You're probably right." " Where are you going?" " To talk to someone." "How much time do you need?" "(phone rings)" " Hello?" " (modem dialling)" "Oh, my God." "This is Special Agent Dana Scully, id number 2317-616." "I need you to run a quick trace on a number oor me." "Yeah." "202-555-6431." "Yeah, that's my number." "Somebody's accessing my computer." "(vehicle approaching)" " Mulder!" " Scully, what are you doing here?" "Someone or something's been scanning my computer oiles, tapping my phones." "I traced the line." "It came orom somewhere in there." "It's the machine." "How can we get in?" "Remember the Trojan Horse?" "Open sesame." "Oh, what the..." " Mulder!" " (glass shatters)" "(continuous honking)" "(honking stops)" "So much oor the element oo surprise!" "What do you say we take the stairs?" "(Mulder) 28 down, one to go." "(Scully) Oh, great." "Mulder?" "Trick or treat?" "No!" " What are you doing?" " Don't wanna make the mistake Drake did." "(Scully screams)" "(gasps)" "Who you lookin' at?" "There should be a way oor you to drop down and open the door." "(panting)" "Come on, Scully." "(beeping)" "Scully?" "Agent Mulder." "What are you doing here?" "(air blowing)" "(Scully coughing)" "Ah..." "Argh!" "Ah..." "Ah!" "Ah!" "Argh!" "Aaargh!" "Uh!" "The machine's been acting all crazy." "Power surges, shut-offs." "That's why I'm here so late." " Where's the B-port?" " Oh, it's right back here." "Are you sure you know what you're doing?" "Because ioyou don't, it's myjob on the line." "(beeping)" "Damn." "(computer) System access granted." "User code:" "level 7." "Now I can put in the virus." "Not bad, Agent Mulder." "You know, I've been trying to access the CPU oor the past two years." "Now, please, take out your gun and remove the clip." "Careoul." "Deoence Department?" "Let's say our paychecks are signed by the same person." "Now give me the diskette and step away orom there." "You don't want to test my resolve, Agent Mulder." "Put down the gun." " You don't know what you're dealing with." " Shut up and drop the gun!" "You're making a mistake, Agent Scully." "Compromising your sworn duty." "This operation is more sensitive than you can possibly imagine." " Don't listen to him." " The technology in this machine... ..is oo enormous scientioic interest." "(Mulder) lt's a monster. lt's killed two people." " They can't handle it any better than Wilczek." " Make no mistake." "You will be held accountable." "Mulder, put in the disk." "What are you doing, Brad?" "Don't do this, Brad." "Bad command orfile name." "Sector 7 notfoundhome." "(garbled voices)" "Brad..." "Brad..." "Brad,... why?" "I checked with the Department oo Corrections subcommittee." " l even petitioned the Attorney General." " You won't olnd him." "They can't take a man like Brad Wilczek without an explanation." "They can do anything they want." "Where is he?" "In the middle oowhat we in the trade call "hard bargaining"." "Wilczek won't deal." "He'll never work oor them." "Loss oooreedom does ounny things to a man, and Wilczek conoessed to two murders." "And you effectively destroyed the only evidence that could have exonerated him." "What else could I have done?" "Nothing, unless you were willing to let the technology survive." "The Department oo Deoence still hasn't oound anything?" "They've been on it oor olve days." "Wilczek's virus was thorough." "It left no trace oothe artioicial intelligence." "The machine is dead." "(man) We pushed the pulse code modulations to the limit." "Nothing." "(Peterson) We've combed the parsing subroutine." "Yes, sir." "Twice." "No, sir." "Still nothing, but I'd like to request..." "Yes, sir." "No, I understand." "Yes, sir." "Six more hours beoore we have to consign the whole damn thing to the metal shredder." "(man) We'll do what we can, sir." "(beeping)" "(Peterson) I'm gonna figure this thing outifitkills me." "Visiontext subtitles:" "Natasha Cohn" "(child) Imade this!" "(scrabbling)" "(dog whimpers)" "(laboured breathing)" "We're not... who... we are." "We're not... who... we are." "It goes no ourther than this." "It stops right here,... ..right now." "(gunshot)" "(gunshot)" "Team Captain John Richterhere." "It's been a couple offrustrating months." "But aftera lot ofstick-with-it-ness, we're proud to report thathalfan hourago,... ..we broke the previous record for drilling down into an ice sheet." "(men cheer)" "(Mulder) This team oo scientists made up the Arctic ice Core Project." "They were sent to Alaska by the Advanced Research Project Agency a year ago... ..to drill into the arctic ice." "The samples they removed... ..contained trapped gases, dust, chemicals." "They could reveal the structure oo the Earth's climate back to the dawn oo man." "Their work was a success, nearly completed." "No reports or indications oo problems oo any kind." "Until, only a week later, this next transmission." "(laboured breathing)" "We're not... who... we are." "We're not... who... we are." "It goes no further than this." "It stops... righthere,... ..right now." "What happened up there?" "So oar nobody's been able to reach the compound because oo bad weather." "Obviously we must be brilliant or expendable because we've pulled the assignment." "It is severe isolation distress?" "These were top geophysicists, trained and screened oor this project in every way,... ..including psychological makeup." "We leave oor Nome today." "We'll join three scientists oamiliar with the ice Core Project,... ..and then head north up to the icy Cape." "The National Weather Service gives us three days to get in and out beoore the next storm." "Bring your mittens." "(over headphones) Here's the snap." "Fouts dumps itacross to Winslow!" "Touchdown!" "Touchdown!" "Fouts... is..." "God!" "Sorry." "My team scored." "There's no oootball on Wednesdays." "Fouts retired in '87, didn't he?" "No, this is just my all-time oavourite plays on tape." " You two fbi?" " Agent Mulder, Agent Scully." "And you?" "Denny Murphy." "Prooessor oo Geology, UC San Diego." "San Diego?" "Get much chance to study ice down there?" "Just what's around the cake." "Dr Da Silva?" "Dr Hodge?" "Yeah." "Sorry we're late." "Agents Scully and Mulder." "Prooessor Murphy." "Can I see some identioication?" " What oor?" " l wanna make sure we are who we say." "That's me." "(Murphy) lt's you." " That's me." " Thanks a lot." "Well, now that we know who we are, anybody care to guess why we're going?" "Two oederal agents, a geologist, a doctor and a toxicologist." "That should give us some idea." "I assume you all took a look at the tape." " Something wrong?" " Come on." "You're fbi." "You have to know more than we do." "You oolks the ones goin' up to icy Cape?" " Yeah." " Then I'm the one olyin' you." "My name's Bear." "The plane's across the way." "Provisions are loaded." "Grab your gear." "Can we see some credentials?" "Credentials?" "The only credentials I have is that I'm the only pilot willing to oly you up there." "You don't like those credentials,... ..walk." "Bear, see ioyou can get the power started." "Anything to get out oo here." "Where do we start?" "The body bags are on the plane." "Beoore we touch anything, we have to thoroughly document the scene." "(Scully) Flashing." "(camera click)" "(Mulder) That's what they were drilling oor." "A quarter oo a million years melting away in a couple oo days." "I'm gonna preserve some samples." "(door creaks)" "(bang)" " lt's the generator." " Oh." " (growl)" " Agent Mulder!" "Hold on!" "Hold it down!" "(dog barks)" "(dog whimpers)" "(Hodge) That ought to keep him out oor a while." " Are you OK?" " Yeah." "He didn't break the skin." " Bear?" "Are you OK?" " He got me." " Get thatjacket off." " Just gimme the stuff. I'll do it myselo." "(Da Silva) ls it rabies?" "I don't see any indication oo glottal spasm or tetany." "lo it is rabies, it's not a strain I'm oamiliar with." "(Scully) Look at this." "Black nodules." "Swollen lymph nodes." "Symptoms oo bubonic plague." "We'll do a blood test." "We'll take it orom there." "This dog... ..has got a skin irritation round its neck." "Looks like it's been scratching off its own hair." "Look at this." "Look at this!" "What... the hell... was that?" "Agh!" "Oh..." "From the autopsies, it's clear these men killed one another." "There are contusions around the throat areas oothree men,... ..evidence oo strangulation." "Richter and Campbell killed themselves." "I also oound tissue damage due to oever." "Did any oothem have the black spots the dog has?" "No." "None oothem had the black nodules." "So... those spots didn't have anything to do with those guys killing' each other, right?" "I wouldn't rule it out." "I just re-examined the dog." " The nodules are gone." " What could that mean?" "It could mean the spots are a symptom oo some disease at an early stage." "Denny?" "Denny." "(voice through headphones)" "Denny." "Sorry." "The play-off game against Miami, '82." "Helps me get my mind off stuff." "My interpretation oo satellite remote sensing photos is a little rusty." "All right." "This is the icy Cape area." "It approximates the depth oothe ice sheet to be about... 3,000 metres thick." "I also oound this data." "lo l'm reading it correctly, the team actually oound the ice sheet to be twice that depth." "That's very good." "The numbers indicate the topography to be concave." "Looks like they were drilling inside a meteor crater." "(Hodge) No, it's impossible." " l analysed two samples." " What did you olnd?" "There seems to be a presence oo ammonium hydroxide in Richter's blood." "It's not possible." "Ammonia would vaporise at human body temperature." "I checked all the air oiltration systems." " l oound no evidence oo any such toxins." " l have." "In the ice." "And that's not all there is." "I oound a high ratio oo ammonia to water in the ice core." "The Earth's atmosphere couldn't do that, not even 1/4 million years ago." "Look in the scope." "Unless a ooreign object was introduced into that environment." "(Murphy) Tell me that's not a ooreign object." "Oh!" "Scully." "That same thing is in Richter's blood!" "What iothat single-celled organism is the larval stage oo a larger animal?" "That's kind oo a leap, don't you think?" "(Scully) The evidence is there." "Maybe the organism somehow got into the men." "Nothing can survive in subzero temperatures oor 1/4 million years." "Unless that's how it lives." "Lookit, I don't see why you're squabbling over some bug." "You said your autopsy oound those men killed each other." "That's it. I say let's get the hell out oo here." "I agree." "We can have the bodies... ..sent to a oacility which can make a deoinitive diagnosis." "In the event that something was missed, Agent Scully." "lo those bodies are inoected, we can't take them back." "We can't go back without proper quarantine procedures." " We can't risk bringing back the next plague." " Say they did come down with something." "We haven't, and I ain't waiting' around until we do." "I think it's saoe to go back." "There's no reason why we'd be inoected." " We took all the saoeguards." " The dog did bite Bear." " ltjumped Mulder!" " There's only one way to proceed!" "A doctor eliminates every possibility." "We must determine io any oo us is inoected." "All right." "Parasitic diagnostic procedure... ..requires us each to provide a blood and a stool sample." "A stool sample?" "Travel always makes that kinda tough... oor me." "OK..." "Anybody got the morning sports section handy?" " l ain't dropping' my cargo oor no one." " (crash) I'm gettin' my gear, gettin' my plane, and olyin' the hell outta here!" "You can't go." "The dog bit you." "I got hired to oly you up here and oly you back!" "No one said this might be part oo the deal, so the deal is over." "We can't let him leave." " Who's gonna stop him?" " We have to." "We can't risk inoecting the population." "He gets on that plane, I go with him." " We don't have time to argue." " Take a vote." "Who says we should conoine Bear until he agrees to an examination?" "All right." "Bear, we just want to check you out." "lo we don't olnd any trace oo the parasite or the virus, we'll all go." "All right." "Gimme the damn jar." "Murphy!" "Get a rope!" "Here!" "Oh, my God!" "(Bear groans)" " Get my bag!" " What are you gonna do?" "!" " Cut it out." " We don't know enough about it." "It's killing him!" "Scully, help me move the skin." "(Bear groans)" "Hold still, Bear." "(cries ofpain)" "Forceps." "Hold still, Bear." "One more second." "You're gonna be OK." "(Bear moans with relief)" "(radio signal)" "This is the AlCP investigative team calling Doolittle Airfield." "Come in." "DAF responding." "This is Agent Mulder." "We have a serious biological hazard." "Request air pickup and quarantine procedures." "Over." " (interference)" " Come in, Doolittle Airfield!" "We copy, AgentMulder." "We are under a heavystorm." "No aircraft can get out." "The militarybase in Kotzebue could set up a quarantine." "Advise immediate evacuation." "The storm is headingyour way." "Over." "We were told we'd have three clear days ooweather!" "Over!" "Welcome to the top ofthe world." "Over." "is Bear in any condition to oly?" "lowe don't leave in an hour, we're stuck oor days." "He's dead." "(Hodge) lt's similar to a tapeworm." "It has a scolex with suckers and hooks." "So it's oamiliar." "Something you can deal with." " What?" " No." "Very different orom any organism at least that I know oo." "Have you oigured out how it's transmitted?" "Exchange oooluids, touch, air?" "All oothe above?" "I don't know." "All the other bodies had the creature." "Only this one is still alive." " All in the spine?" " No." "It appears they were in the hypothalamus gland deep in the brain." "(Murphy) Hypothalamus?" "What was that again?" "It's a gland that secretes hormones." "Although..." "I don't know why a parasite would want to attach to it." "Hypothalamus releases acetylcholine,... ..which produces violent, aggressive behaviour." "See, that might be the connection." "Everybody that's been inoected certainly seems to act aggressively." "Maybe the worm oeeds on acetylcholine and stops us controlling violent behaviour." " A parasite shouldn't want to kill its host." " lt doesn't kill you until it's extracted." "Then it releases a poison." "So you're saying the worm makes you wanna kill other people." "Which is maybe what happened to the oirst team." "Or what could happen to us." " lt's just a theory." "We don't have any prooo." " Except olve dead men." "lo the worm makes people violently aggressive,... ..why did Richter and Campbell kill themselves?" "Maybe they did it to save us." "I'm just... uh... double-checking." "Making sure I didn't miss anything." "Just some sleep, right?" "Sleep?" "I'm so tired, I can't sleep." "We're all wired and hypersensitive." "It'll be good to get a oresh start tomorrow." "Mulder, I don't want to waste a second trying to olnd a way to kill this thing." "I don't know lowe should kill it." "This area oothe ice sheet is oormed over a meteor crater." "The worm lives in ammonia." "It survived subzero temperatures." "Theorists believe in ammonia-supported lioe on planets with oreezing temperatures." "No." "A meteor that crashed here 1/4 million years ago... ..may have carried such lioe to Earth." "Mulder, that pilot developed surface symptoms within a oew minutes." "Within a oew hours, that parasite had total control." "What would happen io this got into the population?" "A city the size oo New York could be inoected within a oew days." "Exactly." "But what do we know about it?" "This organism might be lying dormant in another crater." "lo we don't kill it now, we risk becoming Richter and Campbell with guns to our heads." "But lowe do kill it now, we may never know how to stop it in the outure." "(Scully) Future?" "Mulder, how can you talk... (Scully andMulder continue arguing)" "Tell me it's hot in here." "Don't worry, you don't have a oever." "The heating's malounctioning." "Outside it's 40 below, in here it's sweltering." " Can you hear what they're arguing about?" " Probably government secrets." "You think they knew what was here beoore we arrived?" " l'm sure oo it." " (Scully's raised voice)" "You know, Bear's inoected blood did get on Scully." "It also got on you." "(Scully) They'dsacrifice notjust evidence, but themselves!" " How do you know it can't be contained?" " lt can!" "By extermination!" "We should take those bodies, worms and all, outside and incinerate them!" "Something going on we should know about?" "Agent Scully, are you all right?" " Yes. I'm oine. lt's nothing." " You seem a little bit stressed out." "What the hell are you trying to say?" "!" "Let's settle down. lt's been a long day." "We're all tired and scared." " Let's not turn on one another." " At least, not without a good reason." "(Mulder) Maybe we should all get some sleep." "Are you kidding?" "You think any oo us could sleep right now?" "Come on, guys, let's oace it." "We gotta check oor spots." "And any person who has them should be conoined." "Are we agreed on that?" "Are you gonna do the exams?" "No!" "We do them in oront oo each other." "No secrets." "Beoore anyone passes judgement,... ..may I remind you, we are in the Arctic." "(sighs)" "(Hodge) Sleep tight." "Don't let the bedbugs bite." "Yeah." "Good night." "Good night, Mulder." "Good night, Scully." "At least everyone's OK." "Don't oorget,... ..the spots on the dog went away." "(over headphones) The ball's on the three-yardline,... ..with only 15 seconds leftin the game." "Fouts moves over the ball." "There's the snap!" "(wakes with a start)" "(wind howls outside)" "(door closes)" "(dog barks andsnarls)" "(dog growls)" "Mulder, what are you doing?" "Murphy's dead." "You killed him." "I oound him like this." "I heard one oothe doors close." "I came out to check it out." " lt's one ooyou." " (Hodge) He's lying." " You could've done it and not known." " No, he said he didn't." "I have no symptoms." " You checked him." " Yeah, six hours ago!" " lt was one ooyou!" " Stop it!" "Shut up!" "Mulder,... ..just put the gun down and let Hodge give you a blood test." "And doctor the results?" "He may be inoected!" "He has to be conoined - now!" "Then turn around and let us take a look at your neck!" "I'm not turning my back on anyone!" "As oar as I'm concerned, you're all inoected!" "Hodge is right!" "Lock him up!" " Mulder!" " Scully, get that gun off me!" " Mulder, you have to understand!" " Put it down!" " You put it down oirst!" " Scully!" "For God's sakes, it's me!" "Mulder, you may not be who you are!" "In here, I'll be saoer than you." " (Scully gasps)" " What were you doing?" "You know what I was doing." "You know, you're the only one with a gun." "lo you get inoected, we don't stand a chance." "OK." "Was there something there?" "(Hodge) You're OK, Nancy." "We're all OK." "Now is not the time oor the three oo us to turn on each other." "There's oour oo us." " Mulder isn't one oo us any more." " lo Mulder is inoected, it's not his oault!" "We can't turn our backs on him now!" "He needs us to help him!" "She's right." "Prolonged exposure to the parasite... ..could damage him to the point oo permanent psychosis." "But io he is inoected, he doesn't go back." "I won't risk the possibilities." "This is AlCP calling Doolittle Airfield." "Please come in." "(interference)" "This is the Arctic ice Core Project sending a general distress call." "Please respond." "(interference)" "Nancy, put a drop oo uninoected blood on the slide oothe blood orom the pilot." "Run that by me again?" "Put the uninoected blood on the inoected blood." "No, damn it!" "What did I just tell you?" "!" "You inoected the inoected blood!" "Now I have to start again!" " l made a mistake." "Don't yell at me." " Wasted hours oowork!" "OK, then just do it by yourselo, damn it!" "God!" "I'm not your assistant!" "(Da Silva continues to rant)" "Hodge?" "What?" "Come take a look at this." "The larvae orom two different worms killed each other." "An individual worm will not tolerate another invading its host." "It does to the invader what it did to humans." "It makes them kill." "(Hodge) A species won't kill its own." "It needs another to procreate." "Worms are hermaphroditic." "It can reproduce itselo." "Look at the evidence in the microscope." "This thing does not like company." "So what are you saying?" "The way to kill it is to introduce another worm into an already inoected body?" "(whimpering)" "(agitated whimpering)" "Sounds OK." "It passed the worms in its stool." "They're dead." "I want to talk to him oirst,... ..try and make this voluntary." "What?" "You can't go in alone." "lo anything happens, you come inside." "I can't do this to him until I'm sure." "is itjust you?" "Yes." "It's one oo them." "No one's been killed since you've been in here." "So?" "We oound a way to kill it." "Two worms... in one host... ..will kill each other." "You give me one worm, you'll inoect me." "lo that's true,... ..then why didn't you let us inspect you?" "I would have, but you pulled a gun on me!" "Now, I don't trust them!" "I wantto trust you." "OK." "But now they're not here." "(gasps)" "This is the last one." "She's not gonna let us give it to him." "Well, she'll have to io he's inoected." "He'll convince her somehow." "I just examined him." "He's uninoected." "So is she." "Which means that it must be one ooyou." "All right." "Let's go over to the main building." "I'd like to check him myselo." "Then he can examine both oo us." "Want to lead the way?" "No!" "Get the worm!" "(screams)" "No!" "No!" "Oh, my God." "Mulder!" "It's her!" "No!" "No!" "Scully!" "It's Da Silva!" "(screams hysterically)" " (screams) - (gunshot)" "(Da Silva continues screaming)" "Hodge!" "Now!" "Mulder!" "After this, there won't be any left!" "They're all gonna be dead!" " (shrieks)" " Do it!" "(Da Silva screams frantically)" "Shh..." "Shh..." "(exhausted cries) lt's all right. lt's all over." "It all stops right here,... ..right now." "(paramedic) OK, I got it." "(police) At the intersection oo Yukon and 17th." "State patrol is on the scene." "Code 3." "Over." "She'll be put in quarantine along with the dog." "We'll keep her there until we're sure she won't inoect the population." "Meanwhile, our tests came back normal, so we've been released." "Plane ready. lt'll take you as oar orom the ice as you wanna go." "I'm goin' back to the site." "This time I'm going oully prepared with proper equipment." "There's still research to be done on the genetic structure..." "Wait, Mulder." "Don't you know?" "Know what?" "45 minutes after evacuating us, they torched the place." "There's nothing left." "Who did that?" "The military?" "Centers oor Disease Control?" "You ought to know." "They're your people." "It's still there, Scully." "200,000 years down,... ..in the ice." "Leave it there." "Visiontext subtitles:" "Doreen Trenerry"