"We got a fire off county road D-7 two miles west of the Canyon Ridge intersection." "Suggest we dispatch fire crews." "Over." "(static)" "This is Deputy Wright." "Do you copy?" "Son of a..." "Sir?" "Sorry to disturb you, sir but we've picked up an unidentified bogey." "I think you should see the replay for yourself." "It tripped the fence at 2317 off Connecticut's coast." "Initial trajectory, north by northwest." "Then it went crazy." "Any other aircraft in the area?" "No known aircraft can maneuver like this." "Well, whatever it was dropped off the screen at 2418, sir." "Hit ground west of Lake Michigan outside Townsend, Wisconsin." "The tracking prediction team calculated impact at over 800 miles per hour." "I've instructed Chief Koretz to start her report..." "Negative." "She tracked a meteor." "It's aberrant movement was due to instrument malfunction." "But, sir..." "Your report will reflect these facts." "Is that clear?" "Yes, sir." "Good." "Code Indigo-Delta-Echo-Niner." "I have a confirmed fallen angel in sector 87." "Mobilize Operation Falcon immediately." "Wright:" "Hello?" "(screaming)" "Reporter:" "They will have no comment until the government investigation now under way is completed." "Government officials remain vague about the toxic cargo that has caused the immediate evacuation ofTownsend, Wisconsin's, 12,000 residents." "Speculation here has centered on a shipment of toxic waste." "Mulder:" "Then what happened out there if wasn't a train wreck?" "Man:" "Mr. Mulder, the continental United States is surrounded by an electronic fence that reaches 15,000 miles into space." "We use it to track and monitor the 7,087 man-made objects that orbit the earth." "Last night at 2317 that fence was breached." "This morning at 0100" "Operation Falcon went into effect led by Colonel Calvin Henderson the Air Force's reclamations expert." "Reclamations?" "During the Cold War, his job was to prevent technologies from downed U.S. Aircraft from getting into Soviet hands." "He's part of a crash retrieval unit." "Mm-hmm." "Quick response." "I'd say you have 24 hours before the entire area is sanitized." "After that, it would be like nothing ever happened." "Man:" "Alright, get the trucks rolling." "Man:" "Keep 'em going!" "(chattering)" "(soldiers chattering)" "(helicopter whirring)" "Thank you, sir." "Thank you." "Get 'er rolling." "Let's go!" "Let's go!" "Soldier:" "Alright, clear the road!" "You're late, lieutenant." "It will be dark in a half hour." "We had a flat, sir." "There's a briefing at 2200 hours." "Go to headquarters for live rounds." "Live rounds, sir?" "You got a problem with that?" "We were told this was a drill." "They told you wrong." "Sir." "Okay, everyone out!" "Come on, people, light a fire!" "(indistinct chattering)" "Man:" "Uh, roger, this is Charley-Delta-Seven Squad." "We're continuing the search, but at this time, it's negative." "(men yelling)" "(whooshing noises)" "(shutter clicking)" "(shutter clicking rapidly)" "You just made the worst mistake of your life, Agent Mulder." "I think you knocked out a filling." "You'll pay the price for putting my men at risk." "Since when does taking pictures put lives at risk?" "You violated a U.S. Government quarantine and that's a federal crime." "A quarantine?" "That's what you call this?" "We're trying to contain an ecological disaster." "That's a lot of firepower to protect Mother Nature." "I have my orders and the license to execute them as I see fit." "I suggest you forget what you saw or what you think you saw for your own well-being." "You've got a downed craft in those woods, sir and troops carrying live rounds." "We both know what's out there!" "Are you MUFON or KUFOS?" "Do you mind if I sit down?" "Let me guess." "You're wh that new group, CSICOP, right?" "Say no more." "You're a cautious man." "Trust no one... very wise." "After what happened toJ.F.K., I understand completely." "Let me introduce myself." "My name is Max Fenig." "I'm with the National Investigative Committee of Aerial Phenomenon..." "NICAP." "Pleased... pleased to make your acquaintance." "I wish we could shake on it, you know." "Firm grip, look right in the eye... you learn a lot about a guy that way." "Can I, um...?" "Can I ask you a question?" "Go ahead." "Did you see anything?" "Did you get close?" "Me, I saw nothing." "I didn't see anything!" "Nada, zip." "A hundred yards past the roadblock they nailed me." "I have no idea how they did it." "I'm telling you it's like the Roswell cover-up all over again." "What makes you so sure there's something out there?" "Same thing that makes you so sure?" "I didn't order room service." "This isn't funny, Mulder." "Did you meet Max?" "Who?" "Max from NICAP." "Oh." "They must have released him." "Another intrepid soul in search of a close encounter." "Is that what this is about?" "What else?" "Try explaining that to Section Chief McGrath." "He's ordering a full inquiry with a recommendation..." "Mulder, he wants to shut down the X-Files and he wants you out of the Bureau." "What else is new?" "I don't understand you, Mulder... why you're always defying protocol ignoring jurisdiction." "Because I know what I saw, Scully." "There weren't train tracks anywhere near that site." "So how could it have been a derailed container?" "Because it wasn't." "What you saw was not a toxic spill." "But it wasn't a U.F.O., either." "Okay, I'm all ears." "What was it?" "It was a downed Libyan jet with a nuclear warhead." "(chuckling)" "Over U.S. Airspace?" "They've been picking up radiation indicating that the plutonium casing may have cracked." "So to avoid mass panic..." "You really believe that story?" "That story happens to be highly classified." "A highly classified lie." "(helicopter whirring)" "They're searching for someone, Scully." "Probably the pilot." "You think they'd roll out all this material for one Libyan fighter jock?" "Besides, no human pilot walked away from that wreckage." "Well, maybe he ejected." "Maybe." "Scully:" "You can't be serious." "As long as we're here in Townsend, why not?" "The hearing is tomorrow morning." "That gives us 24 hours to investigate." "My assignment is to bring you back... not to help you dig yourself in deeper." "The Last Detail starring Dana Scully." "(phone off the hook)" "What's going on?" "Looks like housekeeping hasn't been here yet." "Who would...?" "(banging)" "Shh." "(banging)" "Max?" "Get your hands up!" "Whoa, don't shoot!" "Don't shoot!" "Max?" "Ahem." "My apologies." "Forgive me." "I'm a curious man." "I had to know." "Know what?" "If it was really you." "You don't know me." "We just met last night." "We at NICAP have been following your career closely since your involvement with X-Files." "Following my career?" "How?" "The Freedom of Information Act." "Your travel expenses are a matter of public record." "So this must be the enigmatic Agent Scully." "How did you recognize me?" "I saw your picture in a trade publication once and I read your article in Omni about the Gulf Breeze Sightings." "I published that under a pseudonym." "M.F. Luder." "I know." "It's an anagram for F. Mulder." "You really didn't think that would fool us, did you?" "I didn't think anybody was paying attention." "Somebody is always paying attention, Mr. Mulder." "Amazing." "Amazing?" "Hardly." "You want to see something amazing come with me." "Enigmatic Dr. Scully." "This is my, uh..." "Right this way." "Excuse the mess." "Okay." "Where's those, uh..." "Let me turn this off." "They were right here." "Oh, here they are." "The latest crop circle photos from Project Argus." "Huh?" "Your opinion... fact or fraud?" "Mulder:" "Fraud." "Max:" "Explain the anomalous blisters on the plants." "Mulder:" "Some unreported weathering effect common to wheat or a systematic reaction by the plant tissue to being lodged in one position." "Max:" "You've read the literature." "Mulder:" "I try to keep up." "You said you had something to show us." "Oh, yeah." "The Wolf's Ear 2000." "Ever hear of this?" "Yeah." "Wolf industries supplies the C.I.A." "With all of its surveillance equipment." "State-of-the-art search and intercept... up to 100 channels per second." "I'm jacked into local fire and police departments cellular phone pathways and when the weather's right air traffic control from Whitmarsh air force base." "What have you got, Max?" "Mobile unit broadcast in scan mode" "Townsend Sheriff's Department two nights ago." "We got a fire off county road D-7 two miles west of the Canyon Ridge intersection." "Suggest we dispatch fire crews." "Over." "This is Deputy Wright." "Do you copy?" "And then this, 35 minutes later presumably from the fire crew." "Reception got wiggy for some reason." "This is Unit 53." "Man down." "Request medevac." "I said request medevac." "You're breaking up." "Barely... bad..." "Very bad." "Wait a second." "What the hell?" "Charlie, we got a situation here." "We put up a tight net." "Yes, sir, every inch of ground is being covered dug up, squeezed, and sifted." "No, sir." "It will not get away." "Not this time." "Mrs. Wright?" "Hi." "I'm Fox Mulder." "This is Dana Scully." "We're from the F.B.I." "We'd like to ask you about your husband." "He's dead." "What else is there to know?" "I'm sorry about your husband." "Oh, please." "Mrs. Wright, we want to help you." "Then leave me alone." "Let us help you." "I don't know anything." "Don't you understand?" "They won't even release the body so I can give him a proper burial, okay?" "The government can't do that." "I'm sure if we appealed..." "No!" "You can't." "You're entitled to the truth." "I can't afford the truth." "They said if I spoke to anyone they would withhold my husband's pension and I have a child to take care of." "(static screeching)" "Picking up extremely high frequency signal... 200,000 megahertz." "Sir, target on the northeast side." "Foot speed... seven miles per hour, sir." "Beta team..." "Copy." "Target entering your section from the southwest." "Search and destroy." "Repeat... search and destroy." "Yes, sir." "Jackson?" "Nothing." "Must have been an animal." "I'm sorry, but unless you have a subpoena" "I can't discuss patient information." "Does that mean Jason Wright was your patient?" "It means I have nothing more to say." "What about to his wife and child, Doctor?" "Would you have anything to say to them?" "Because whoever got to you also got to her." "They must have made some pretty big threats." "What did they hold over your head... your medical license, the I.R. S?" "I hate fascists." "Excuse me?" "The men who came in here..." "The way they pushed us all around." "Dr. Oppenheim, tell us about the deputy." "You saw him that night didn't you?" "Yes." "And three others from a fire crew." "They were all D.O.A. With fifth- and sixth-degree burns over 90% of their bodies." "But they weren't like any burns I've ever seen." "They took the bodies away before we could perform any pathology." "Did you note any cadaveric heat rigor or stiffening?" "Quite a bit of flexion in the limbs." "How do you know so much about it?" "I did my residency in forensic medicine." "In your opinion could those burns have been caused by ionizing radiation?" "Well, I hadn't thought." "I suppose it's possible if the exposure was sufficiently intense." "Let's say those men died from radiation exposure." "Couldn't it have been from the cracked core of a nuclear warhead?" "I've read about these kinds of burns." "So have I... in Hiroshima at ground zero." "I'm talking about close encounter mortalities." "I have a stack of X-Files reporting the same results." "I don't claim to know all the answers but if we don't make the O.P.R. Inquest by tomorrow morning there may not be any more X-Files." "(moaning)" "(moaning)" "Start an I.V. Here, stat." "Mulder:" "Tell us what happened." "Whatever happened has nothing to do with you." "Wrong, Colonel." "We want the same thing, only you want it dead." "Can't you see that chasing it down leaves it no choice but to defend itself?" "How many more have to die before you rethink your approach?" "Listen to me 'cause I'm not wasting another breath on this." "If you and your partner aren't out of here in 30 seconds..." "Agent Scully stays here." "We're undermanned, she's a doctor... she stays." "If that's okay." "Of course." "If you don't mind you just take care of my men and let me do my work." "Outside this emergency room you can do whatever you want but in here I call the shots... assuming, of course you want me to take care of your men." "Get this man out of my sight." "Where do I scrub up?" "Max." "Hey, Max." "Max." "Hey..." "Max." "Who are... who are you?" "Max, it's me, Fox Mulder." "You okay?" "What are you doing here?" "You were having some kind of seizure." "Seizure?" "That's impossible." "You were lying on the floor unconscious, convulsing." "That's odd." "I haven't had an episode in seven years... not since I went on medication." "Let's get you to the hospital." "No." "I mean, I mean it's not necessary." "You sure?" "Yeah." "I lived with epilepsy all my life." "I'm not in any danger." "Yeah, it started in South Dakota when I was ten." "The doctor said I must have incurred a head injury." "I don't remember ever hitting my head." "You have no memory of your seizures?" "As a kid I used to wake up in strange places with no idea where I was or how I got there." "(sighs)" "Sorry." "I..." "I got to, I got to go to sleep." "All right." "(sighing)" "Rough night, huh?" "It was terrible." "We lost all but two and they're still in critical condition on their way to the burn unit atJohns Hopkins." "So what do you think, Scully?" "What's going on out there?" "I don't know, and under other circumstances" "I would like to find out but we have a plane to catch in just over an hour." "I want you to take a look at something first." "What?" "Max." "There's an unusual incision behind his left ear." "I've seen this incision twice before." "Two women... a thousand miles apart no way of knowing each other, no relation." "Both claim to have been abducted by aliens." "Are you saying Max Fenig is an abductee?" "Mulder the man is taking powerful antipsychotic drugs." "I saw them in his R.V." "They're for his epilepsy." "Dilantin is an anti-convulsant but Mellaril is used exclusively to treat schizophrenia." "More than likely, Max is delusional." "You don't seem to understand, Scully." "Max doesn't believe he was abducted by aliens." "I believe he was." "Now, could you at least take a look at the scar and give me your medical opinion?" "Okay." "You pack." "I'll take a look at Max on the way to the airport." "Sir, I have flash traffic at 24-18." "Repeated calls for I.D. Go unanswered and it's not in the orbital or sub-orbital inventory." "24-18... isn't that where...?" "Same exact spot, sir though I am reading a much larger craft." "Meteor, Ms. Koretz." "A much larger meteor, sir." "Hold on a second." "We have a confirm." "Whitmarsh Air Force Base is tracking." "Where is it?" "Well, sir, the meteor seems to be hovering over a small town in eastern Wisconsin." "Come on, Mulder, let's get this over with." "Hey, Max." "Max." "Max?" "Hey, Max." "Max?" "Mulder, look at this." "Mulder:" "What is that?" "Blood?" "Man:" "Falcon Patrol reporting unidentified trespass." "Repeat." "Falcon Patrol reporting unidentified trespass at the waterfront" "Mulder!" "Come on." "Where do you think you're going?" "If we go to the airport now, we might make the plane which would give you half a chance of defending yourself." "Think about it." "Max is a gypsy, nomad, right?" "Yes." "So what?" "He intercepted Wright's last call to his dispatcher which means he was here in Townsend, Wisconsin the night of the crash." "Of all the places he could have been, he was here." "If Max was abducted that would go a long way to explaining his obsessions." "If we figure that out, you can be sure Henderson has." "Do you have the keys?" "(panting)" "Don't do this." "Sir, we've apprehended the target, a civilian." "Negative, Falcon patrol." "Take him with extreme caution." "They're dead." "(Max groaning)" "Max:" "It hurts." "Stop." "Why?" "Why?" "Why?" "It hurts." "Max?" "It hurts." "Stop." "It hurts." "It hurts." "It hurts." "It's all right." "Stop it!" "...It hurts." "No, no, it's me they..." "They're coming for me." "No, I know that... that's why they're here." "They're coming for me." "(helicopter whirring)" "It hurts." "(moaning)" "Alpha team, secure the roof." "Hold it right there!" "Put your hands up and come with us!" "Alpha team, ready on the roof." "Roger, Alpha." "Delta team, report." "Delta team in position, sir." "What are you doing?" "You have a very sick man in there." "We're not in the hospital now, Dr. Scully." "Omega team, report." "He's a delusional schizophrenic." "Keep her clear." "Sir, this is Alpha team leader." "I'm picking up three forms inside the structure." "Henderson:" "Did you say three forms?" "That's affirmative." "Two are proximate the third approaching from 40 meters." "All teams prepare for go in 30 seconds." "Come on." "Come on, Max." "Why... stop." "Why..." "I'm here to help you." "I'm scared." "I know." "Don't let them take me." "Mulder:" "I won't let them take you." "Come on, Max." "Come with me." "No!" "Max!" "Max!" "Max!" "Max!" "Sir, this is Alpha team leader." "Except for our men" "I'm only picking up one figure inside." "I do not copy that." "We indicate only one figure inside the building." "What?" "Soldier:" "Blow the door!" "Take him!" "(soldiers chattering)" "That's your unit, sir." "Where is he?" "He's gone." "They got to him first." "They beat us, Colonel." "Arrest him." "And keep looking." "Agent Scully to the best of your knowledge, was Agent Mulder ever assigned to investigate matters related to the evacuation ofTownsend, Wisconsin?" "No, sir." "At any time were you aware of his submitting a Form 302 requesting said assignment or travel expenses?" "No, sir." "While in Wisconsin did Agent Mulder drive a blue Ford Taurus registered to the State Car rental agency?" "Yes, sir." "Thank you, Agent Scully." "Sir, request permission to make a statement." "Request denied." "Sir, it's unfair to judge Mulder by the same criteria..." "You're dismissed." "But, sir..." "That will be all." "You hear that noise, Scully?" "Hammer and nails." "They're building a gallows in the town square." "Don't worry." "It was only a matter of time." "I'm surprised I lasted this long." "Good luck." "I'll break a leg." "McGrath:" "As well as insubordination and misconduct." "How do you respond to these allegations, Agent Mulder?" "Over a dozen men lost their lives and you want me to respond to issues of protocol?" "You failed to obtain proper authorization for your actions." "I knew it wouldn't be forthcoming." "You also violated a Federal quarant..." "A cover-up was underway..." "Exposing yourself and possibly others to toxic contamination!" "Oh, toxic contamination." "Are we back in that?" "You read my report." "Explain Max Fenig's disappearance." "Your report is not the subject of this inquiry." "X rays taken while Mr. Fenig was institutionalized showed an object lodged in his cerebellum." "That is irrelevant, Agent Mulder." "The man was abducted." "Everybody in this room knows it." "Colonel Henderson's written testimony states that Fenig's body was found two hours later in a cargo container." "Then what can I say?" "How can I disprove lies that are stamped with an official seal?" "That will be all, Mr. Mulder." "(sighing)" "You can deny all the things I've seen all the things I've discovered, but not for much longer 'cause too many know what's happening out there and no one, no government agency has jurisdiction over the truth." "Why did you countermand our decision?" "Mulder's conduct was in clear violation not only of Bureau procedures, but of Federal Law." "Yes." "I don't understand." "The committee's case was airtight." "You've ruined the last best chance we had to get rid of him." "I appreciate your frustration but you and I both know that Mulder's work... his, uh... singular passion... poses a most unique dilemma but his occasional insubordination is in the end far less dangerous." "With respect, sir... less dangerous than what?" "Than having him exposed to the wrong people... what he knows... what he thinks he knows." "(sighing)" "Always keep your friends close, Mr. McGrath but keep your enemies closer."