"(Metal Clattering)" "We're not... who... we are." "We're not... who we are." "It goes no further than this." "It stops right here... right now." "(Gunshots)" "Team captainJohn Richter here." "It's been a couple of frustrating months but after a great deal of stick-with-it-ness we're proud to report that as of a half an hour ago we surpassed the previous record for drilling down into an ice sheet." "All:" "All right!" "Mulder:" "This team of scientists made up the Arctic Ice Core Project." "They were sent to Alaska by the government's advanced research project agency nearly a year ago to drill into the arctic ice." "The samples they removed contained trapped gases, dust, chemicals..." "Evidence that could reveal the structure of the Earth's climate back to the dawn of man." "Their work was a success, nearly completed." "No reports or indications of problems of any kind until only a week later this next transmission was received." "We're not... who... we are." "We're not... who we are." "It goes no further than this." "It stops... right here... right now." "(Groan)" "What happened up there?" "Nobody's been able to reach the compound because of bad weather." "Obviously they think we're either brilliant or expendable because we've pulled the assignment." "Is it severe isolation distress?" "These were top geophysicists." "They were trained and screened for this project in every way imaginable, including psychological makeup." "We leave for Nome today." "We'll meet up with three scientists familiar with the project and then head north up to the Icy Cape." "The National Weather Service reports a three-day window to get in and get out before the next arctic storm." "Bring your mittens." "Radio:" "Fouts looks over the Raiders'defense." "Here's the snap." "Raiders blitz." "Fouts dumps it across the middle to Winslow." "He's at the 15!" "10!" "Touchdown San Diego!" "Touchdown!" "Fouts is God!" "Sorry." "My team scored." "There's no football on Wednesday." "Fouts retired in '87, didn't he?" "This is some of my all-time favorite plays on tape." "You two F.B. I?" "Agent Mulder, Agent Scully." "And you?" "Danny Murphy." "Professor of geology, U.C. San Diego." "You get much of a chance to study ice down there?" "Just what's around the keg." "Dr. DaSilva?" "Dr. Hodge?" "Agent Scully, Agent Mulder." "Nice to meet you." "How you doing?" "Can I see some identification?" "What for?" "I just want to make sure we are who we say we are." "It's me." "It's you." "It's me." "It's you." " It's me." " Thanks a lot." "Appreciate it." "It's you." "Well, now that we know who we are anybody care to take a guess as to why we're going?" "Two agents, a geologist, a medical 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 F.B.I." "You have to know more than we do." "You folks the ones going up to Icy Cape?" "Yeah." "Then I'm flying you." "My name is Bear." "The plane's across the way." "Provisions are loaded." "Grab your gear." "Oh, could we see some credentials?" "Credentials." "The only credentials I have is that I'm the only pilot willing to fly you up there." "Is that I'm the only pilot willing to fly you up there." "You don't like those credentials... walk." "Bear... see if you can get the power started." "Anything to get out of here." "Where do we start?" "Body bags are on the plane." "Before we touch anything we have to thoroughly document the scene." "Scully:" "Flashing." "Mulder:" "That's what they were drilling for." "Quarter of a million years melting away in a couple of days." "I want to preserve some samples." "(Rumbling)" "It's the generator." "Oh." "Agent Mulder... (Screaming)" "(Barking)" "Hold on." "(Groans)" "Hold it down." "That will keep him out for awhile." "You okay?" "Yeah, he didn't break the skin." "Bear, you okay?" "He got me." "Get that jacket off." "Give me the stuff." "I'll do it myself." "DaSilva:" "Is it rabies?" "I don't see any indications." "If it is rabies it's certainly not a strain I'm familiar with." "Scully:" "Look at this." "Black nodules." "Swollen lymph nodes." "Symptoms of bubonic plague." "I'll do a blood test." "We'll take it from there." "This dog has got a skin irritation on its neck." "Murphy:" "It looks like it's been scratching off its own hair." "Look at this." "Look at this!" "What the hell was that?" "(Groans)" "From the autopsies it's clear these men killed one another." "There are contusions around the throat areas of three men... evidence of strangulation." "Richter and Campbell killed themselves." "I also found tissue damage due to fever." "Did any of them have the black spots the dog has?" "No." "None of them had the black nodules." "So, uh, those spots didn't have anything to do with those guys killing each other, right?" "I wouldn't rule it out." "I just reexamined the dog." "The nodules are gone." "What could that mean?" "It could mean that the spots are a symptom of some disease at an early stage." "Danny?" "Danny." "Danny." "Sorry." "The play-off game against Miami, '82." "Helps to get my mind off stuff." "My interpretation of satellite remote sensing photos is a little rusty." "Murphy:" "All right, this is the Icy Cape area." "It approximates the depth of the ice sheet to be about 3,000 meters thick." "I also found this data and if I'm reading it correctly the team actually found 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, you're wrong." "I analyzed two samples." "What did you find?" "There's a presence of ammonium hydroxide in Richter's blood sample." "It's not possible." "Ammonia would vaporize at human body temperature." "I checked all the air filtration systems." "I found no evidence of any such toxins." "I have." "In the ice, and that's not all there is." "I found a high ratio of ammonia to water in the ice core." "The earth's atmosphere could never have produced such levels even a quarter of a million years ago." "Look in the scope." "Unless a foreign object was introduced into that environment." "Murphy:" "Tell me that's not a foreign object." "Scully." "That same thing is in Richter's blood." "What if that single-celled organism is the larval stage of a larger animal?" "That's kind of a leap, don't you think?" "Scully:" "The evidence is there." "Maybe the organism in the ice core somehow got into the men." "Come on." "Nothing can survive in sub-zero temperatures for a quarter million years." "Mulder:" "Unless that's how it lives." "Why are you squabbling over some bug?" "You said it yourself, Scully." "Your autopsy found those men killed each other." "That's it." "Let's just get the hell out of here." "I agree." "We'll send the bodies to a facility where they can make a definitive diagnosis." "In the event that something was missed, Agent Scully." "If those bodies are infected we can't take them back." "We can't go back without proper quarantine procedures." "We can't risk bringing back the next plague." "Let's say they came down with something." "We haven't, and I ain't waiting around until we do." "I think it's safe to go back." "There's no reason why we'd be infected." "We took the necessary safeguards." "The dog did bite Bear." "It jumped Mulder!" "There's only one way to proceed." "A doctor eliminates every possibility." "We must determine if any of us is infected." "All right." "Parasitic diagnostic procedure requires that each of us provide a blood and a stool sample." "A stool sample?" "This kind of travel always makes that tough... for me." "Mulder:" "Anybody got the morning sports section handy?" "I ain't dropping my cargo for no one." "What I'm doing is getting my gear, my plane and flying the hell out of here." "You can't go." "The dog bit you." "I got hired to fly you up here and fly you back." "No one said this might be part of the deal." "So the deal is over." "Scully:" "We can't let him leave without being checked." "Scully:" "We can't let him leave without being checked." "Who's going to stop him?" "We have to." "We can't risk infecting the population." "If he gets on that plane, I will too." "There's no time to argue." "Take a vote." "Who believes we should confine Bear until he agrees to an examination?" "All right." "Bear, we just want to check you out." "If we don't find any trace of the parasite or the virus we'll all go." "All right." "Give me the damn jar." "Murphy, get a rope." "(Bear Grunting)" "(Groaning)" "Oh, my God!" "(Groaning)" "Oh!" "Get my bag." "What are you gonna do?" "Cutting it out." "We know nothing about it." "It's killing him." "Scully, help me hold the skin." "Hold still, Bear." "(Screaming)" "Forceps." "(Moaning)" "Hodge:" "Hold still, Bear." "Just another second." "You're going to be okay." "(Groaning)" "(Agonized Moaning)" "This is the A.I.C.P. Investigative team calling Doolittle Airfield." "Come in." "D.A.F. Responding." "This is Agent Mulder." "We have a serious biological hazard." "Request air pickup and quarantine procedures." "Come in, Doolittle Airfield." "We copy." "This area is under a heavy storm." "No aircraft can get out for the next day." "Maybe the military base in Kotzebue can set up a quarantine." "Advise immediate evacuation." "The storm is bearing in your direction." "We were told we'd have three clear days of weather." "Welcome to the top of the world, sir." "Is Bear in any condition to fly?" "If we don't get out of here in an hour we don't get out for days." "He's dead." "Hodge:" "It's similar to a tapeworm in that it has a scolex with suckers and hooks." "You can deal with it?" "What?" "No." "Very different from any organism... at least that I know of." "Have you figured out how it's transmitted yet?" "Exchange of fluids, touch, air, all of the above?" "I don't know." "All the other dead bodies had the creature." "This is the only one that's still alive." "Were they 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 is what produces violent, aggressive behavior." "That might be a connection." "Everybody that's been infected certainly seems to act aggressively." "Maybe the worm feeds on acetylcholine which floods our capacity to control violent behavior." "A parasite shouldn't want to kill its host." "It doesn't kill you until it's extracted." "Then it releases a poison." "You're saying it's possible the worm makes you want to kill other people which is maybe what happened to the first team." "Or what could happen to us." "It's just a theory." "We don't have definite proof." "Except five dead men." "If the worm makes people violently aggressive then 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 will be good to get a fresh start in the morning." "I don't want to waste a second finding a way to kill this thing." "I don't know if we should kill it." "This area of the ice sheet is formed over a meteor crater." "The worm lives in ammonia." "It survives sub-zero temperatures." "Theorists in alternative life designs believe in ammonia-supported life systems on planets with freezing..." "No." "The meteor that crashed here may have carried that type of life to earth." "Mulder, that pilot developed surface symptoms within a few minutes." "Within a few hours that parasite had total control." "What would happen if this got into the population?" "A city the size of New York could be infected within a few days." "Exactly." "But what do we know about it?" "This organism might be lying dormant in another crater." "If we don't kill it now, we run the risk of becoming Richter and Campbell with guns to our heads." "If we kill it, we won't know how to stop anything like it in the future." "Scully:" "Future!" "(Indistinct Arguing)" "Tell me it's hot in here." "Don't worry." "You don't have a fever." "Heating system's malfunctioning." "Outside, it's 40 below, and in here it's sweltering." "Can you hear what they're arguing about?" "They're probably discussing their little government secrets." "You think they knew what was here before we arrived?" "I'm sure of it." "Scully:" "...biological hazard." "You know, Bear's infected blood did get on Scully." "It also got on you." "How do you know it can't be contained?" "It can!" "By extermination." "We should take those bodies... worms and all..." "outside and incinerate them." "Something going on we should know about?" "Agent Scully, you all right?" "Yes, I'm fine." "It's nothing." "You seem a little stressed out." "What the hell are you saying?" "Let's all settle down." "It's been a hard day." "We're all tired and scared." "Let's not turn on one another." "At least not without a good reason." "Mulder:" "We should all get some sleep." "You kidding?" "You think any of us could sleep right now?" "Guys, let's face it... we got to check for spots." "Any person or persons who has them should be confined." "Are we agreed on that?" "Are you going to do the exams?" "No." "We do them in front of each other." "No secrets." "Before anyone passes judgement, may I remind you we are in the arctic." "Sleep tight." "Don't let the bedbugs bite." "DaSilva:" "Yeah." "Good night." "Good night, Mulder." "Good night, Scully." "At least everyone's okay." "Don't forget." "The spots on the dog went away." "Ball on the three-yard line." "Fourth and goal with only 15 seconds left in the game." "He moves over the ball." "Here's the snap." "He goes over..." "(Gasps)" "(Door Closes)" "(Barking)" "(Dripping)" "Mulder, what are you doing?" "Murphy's dead." "You killed him." "I found him like this." "I heard one of the doors close." "I came out to check it out." "It was one of you." "You could have done it and not known." "He said he didn't." "I have no symptoms." "You checked him." "Six hours ago." "It was one of you." "Stop it!" "Shut up!" "Put the gun down and let" "Hodge give you a blood test." "He'll doctor the results." "I won't let him stick a needle in me." "He has to be confined now." "Turn around and let us take a look at your neck." "I'm not turning my back on anyone." "As far as I'm concerned, you're all infected!" "Hodge is right." "We ought to lock him up." "Mulder..." "Scully, get that gun off me." "You have to understand." "Put it down!" "You first!" "Scully!" "For God's sakes, it's me." "Mulder, you may not be who you are." "In here I'll be safer than you." "(Gasping)" "What were you doing?" "You know what I was doing." "I can't help thinking, Agent Scully you're the only one with a gun." "If you get infected, we don't stand a chance, do we?" "Okay." "Was there something there?" "Hodge:" "You're okay, Nancy." "We're all okay." "Now is not the time for the three of us to break down and turn on each other." "There's four of us." "Mulder isn't one of us." "If Mulder is infected, it's not his fault." "We can't turn our backs on him now." "He needs us to help him." "She's right." "Who knows what prolonged exposure to the parasite could do?" "It could damage him to the point of permanent psychosis." "If he is infected, he doesn't go back." "I won't risk the possibilities." "This is A.I.C.P. Calling Doolittle Airfield." "Please come in." "(Static)" "This is the Arctic Ice Corps Project sending a general distress call." "Please respond." "(Static)" "Nancy, put a drop of the uninfected blood on the slide of the blood drawn from the pilot." "Run that by me again." "Put the uninfected blood on the infected blood." "No!" "Damn it!" "What did I just tell you?" "You infected already infected blood." "We have to start over again." "I made a mistake." "Don't yell at me." "Wasted hours of work." "Maybe you should do it by yourself!" "Damn it!" "I'm not your assistant!" "Hodge." "What?" "Come take a look at this." "The larvae from 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:" "But the species needs another to procreate." "Worms are hermaphroditic." "It can reproduce itself." "Look at the evidence in the microscope." "This thing does not like company." "What are you saying?" "The way to kill it is to introduce another worm into an already infected body?" "(Whining)" "It sounds okay." "It passed the worms in its stool." "They're dead." "I want to talk to him first." "Try and make this voluntary." "What?" "You can't go in alone." "If anything happens, you come inside." "I can't do this to him until I'm sure." "(Door Opening)" "It's just you?" "Yes." "It's one of them." "No one's been killed since you've been in here." "So?" "We found a way to kill it." "Two worms in one host will kill each other." "You give me one worm, you'll infect me." "If 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 want to trust you." "Okay." "But now they're not here." "This is the last one." "She's not going to let us give it to him." "Well, she'll have to if he's infected." "He'll convince her somehow." "I just examined him." "He's uninfected." "So is she." "Which means that it must be one of you." "All right." "Let's go over to the main building." "I'd like to check him myself." "Then he can examine both of us." "You want to lead the way?" "No!" "Get the worm." "Don't!" "Oh, my God." "(Screaming)" "It's her!" "No!" "No!" "Scully!" "It's DaSilva." "(Screaming Hysterically)" "DaSilva:" "No!" "Hodge!" "Now!" "Mulder." "After this, there won't be any left." "They're all going to be dead!" "Do it!" "(DaSilva Screaming)" "No!" "Shh, shh." "No!" "Shh, shh." "Shh, shh." "(Moaning)" "It's all right." "It's all over." "It all stops right here." "Right now." "Okay, lock her down." "She's being put in quarantine along with the dog." "We'll keep her there until we're sure she won't infect the rest of the population." "Our tests came back normal, so we've been released." "Plane ready." "It will take you as far from the ice as you want to go." "I'm going back to the site." "This time I'm going fully prepared with proper equipment." "There's a lot of research to be done on the genetic structure on its origins..." "Mulder, don't you know?" "Know what?" "45 minutes after they evacuated us they torched the place." "There's nothing left." "Who did that?" "The military... the Center for 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."