"[Man] Hurry up!" "Next time maybe take a leak before we leave work, okay, dipwads?" "You read sign language, guy?" "Is that your I. Q, or the number of dipwads your mother had?" "Not you, too, Sandy?" "Sorry, man." "You got to hold it till you get home." "[Labored Breathing, Shuddering]" "See you tomorrow, Sandy." "[Gasping]" "[Horn Honking]" "[Knocking]" "Hey, Sandy." "Chop, chop." "Hey, Sandman?" " Hey, hot dog." "Come on." "Carpe diem." " [Claps Hands]" "[Gasping]" "[Snarling]" " [Screams] - [Scraping]" "[Snarling]" "[Screaming]" "[Mulder's Voice] Using a process that restores moisture to the documents, and by a reassembling of fragments, I should be able to recover... a large percentage of the case material that was destroyed in my office fire... several months ago." "And while this process will be tedious and ongoing, what I've already recovered will allow Agent Scully and I... to begin work on the X-Files immediately." "[Woman] Agent Mulder..." "Agent Mulder, I'm reading here a very pie-in-the-sky report... about global domination plans by vicious, long-clawed spacelings?" "Is there going to be data to back this vague, omnibus account?" " Yes." " I see your renowned arrogance has been left quite intact." "You're asking us to accept this report... of a spaceship buried under polar ice... and your death-defying escape from it?" "The ice had become superheated by the ship... as it rose beneath us, causing the ice to collapse." "This story is unintelligible and encourages unintelligible analysis." "I was hoping you'd look more closely at the reports... of my and Agent Scully's medical conditions." "These spacelings, Agent Mulder... they weren't something I saw in Men in Black?" "I didn't see Men in Black." "Well, it's a damn good movie." "As much as this sounds like science fiction, we can and will... prove the validity of our report." "And so the plot..." "I'm just trying to get this straight... the plot is for these spacelings to take over the planet... aided by a group of men here on earth?" "A shadow conspiracy within our own government." "Who are growing corn in the middle of the desert, which features... pollen which was genetically altered... to hold a virus which will be taken away by bees... whose sting transmits the virus, causing the growth... of an extraterrestrial biological entity inside the human host?" "Which we will prove now that the X-Files have been reopened." "Your presumption is greater than the case you make for that eventuality." "I'm not sure I understand." "You're here to justify your reassignment on the X-Files... with little more than a rattletrap account of high adventure in the Antarctic." "Not to mention some very questionable travel expenses." "Let us remind you that the F.B.I. Is not a school for science, nor for the grinding of personal axes." "Hopefully, you will be able to present us with some material evidence... to support a continued investigation." "Agent Scully, who was assigned to the X-Files... as a scientist, was stung by one of these bees and was infected with this virus." "She is here today with hard and incontrovertible evidence, scientific proof that the virus she was infected with... is, in fact, extraterrestrial." "Next time I'll wear a clown suit and do balloon tricks." " I was hoping it wouldn't come up." " The only reason I was in there... is because you assured me there was a scientific basis for what we saw." "Let me remind you once again, what I saw was very little." "That excuse is not gonna work this time." "You were there, and you were infected with that virus." "Yes, there is a scientific basis for what happened to me." "I was exposed to a virus." "But as it turns out, Mulder, that virus... is not what you thought." "I can't identify it." "I have run three separate tests." "But I can tell you without a doubt that virus's D.N.A. And proteins... are very much of this world." "I saw what that virus did." "I saw it generate a new being, an alien being inside a human body." "It attacks and destroys human cells, but that is all it does." "It creates nothing." "Look, I don't like telling you this, and I know that you don't want to hear it." "Not that you can't question me in what I saw, but what you can't question is the science." "There was some sloppiness in Phoenix where they found the body." "The local P.D. Got involved." "These were taken at the scene by a crime reporter." "These were run in the press?" "I trumped up a story about a crazy Indian on the loose." "Never underestimate the public's willingness to blame the red man for... anything they can't explain." " How did this happen?" " He was one of ours." "He must've accidentally injected himself while he was working on the virus." "It took just 12 hours for the creature to gestate." "This thing's alive?" "Yes." "It's killed a man." " It's out there somewhere?" " As far as I know." "God Almighty." "We can't have this thing running loose." "I'm managing the situation." "You can manage all you want." "Someone's got to find this thing." "Someone has to kill it." "The response must be equal to the threat." "Can you dispose of this problem?" "Yes." "You're wasting your time." "You need evidence to justify our reassignment." "I've just got to bring it back from the ashes." "Nothing you might restore is gonna help you." "It's over and done." "Your reassignment on the X-Files has been denied." "How can it be?" "We're the only reason the X-Files were reopened in the first place." " There's no other reason to reopen them." " I'm not arguing with you." " Then who is?" " When will you accept... that no amount of pressure or reason will bring to heel a conspiracy... whose members walk these halls with absolute impunity?" "Was there a vote?" "Unanimous against." "Excuse me." "I'm no help to you outside the majority." "Inside or out, I don't see that there's a damn thing you can do for me." "You can break their backs with proof about this virus, proof that what you say it does is true." "I don't have that proof just yet." "Maybe I can give it to you." "There's a file folder." "It's on the desk in your old office." "Is that something for me..." "Agent Mulder?" " Yeah, if you're doing my filing." " Your filing?" "What are you doing in my office, Agent Spender?" "I think there's been a miscommunication." "I think someone failed to inform you." "If you're about to tell me that you were sent down here to work on the X-Files," "I think the failure is simple judgment." "I don't care what patronage got you this job." "I put my life in here." "I'm not gonna let some brownnose just slide in and take it all away from me." "I don't believe in your work, in the paranormal mumbo jumbo, so don't presume I'm the one taking your place." " No?" "Who is?" " [Approaching Footsteps]" " Fox." " Diana." "Back on your feet." "Guess that's the only way you could stab me in the back." "I need the patient bandaged and dressed." "We'll be taking a trip." "You want him what?" "I'm sure I don't need to repeat myself." "Please get the boy ready." " But doing that now could kill him." " Let me put it to you simply." "It's him or it's us." "I just want to remind you that by not informing local P. D... we are in technical violation of state laws... prohibiting contamination of a crime scene." "Why do I bother?" "Scully, come here and take a look at this." "Ever seen anything like this?" " What are they?" " According to the investigator's notes in the file, they're from an attack by a Native American man on a scientist." " With what kind of weapon?" " It says in the file he used his bare hands." "His bare hands?" " Mulder, this is hardwood." " Uh-huh." "This kind of gouging didn't happen with anybody's bare hands... not without the use of some kind of an implement." "What is that?" "Ah." "Somebody broke a nail." " Is it animal?" " It ain't RuPaul." "The body of the other victim was found here on the sofa, his viscera torn from his torso." "But the M.E.'s report says that the times of death were hours apart, which means that this victim was dead hours before the second attack." " So the attacker never left." " There wasn't an attack." "I think it was celebrating its birthday." "The first victim must've gotten infected with the virus somehow." "Right here on the sofa was where the creature was born." " Mulder..." " That would account for the violence done to the man's torso." "The virus producing an extraterrestrial biological entity... that ripped away his chest as it birthed itself right here." "Look." "Given the scenario you just described, the rate of gestation would've been less than a day." "It would've been about 12 hours, in fact." "Forgive the scientific argument for a moment, but you're saying this was done by something newborn?" "That's exactly what I'm saying." "It was here, but it's gone now." " I should take a look." " It's not here." "Why don't you believe me when you're so afraid of me?" " I'm not afraid of you." " You think I can destroy you... for what I know, because of what I am." "You're thinking you could've destroyed me too." "And if I don't find this creature, you will." "He'll find it." "[Mulder] I don't see there's any argument here." "You admit yourself that the crime report is a lie." "Mulder, that doesn't mean that I can just accept your theory." "What does it take?" "For this thing to come up and bite you on the ass?" "I saw these creatures." "I saw them burst to life." "You would've seen 'em, too, but you were infected with that virus." "You were passed out over my shoulder." "I know what you did." "I know what happened to me." "But without ignoring the science, I can't..." "Listen, Mulder." "You told me my science kept you honest." "That it made you question your assumptions." "That by it, I'd made you a whole person." "If I change now... it wouldn't be right... or honest." "I'm talking about extraterrestrial life... alive on this planet in our lifetime... forces that dwarf and precede all human history." "I'm sorry, Scully, but this time your science is wrong." "[Man On Boom Box] Gray skies are gonna clear up" "Put on a happy face" " Brush off the clouds and cheer up" " Wake up, Homer." " Put on a happy face" " I was awake." "##[Continues, Indistinct]" " I was just thinking." " Yeah, that'd be a first." "You're ten minutes late on your systems check." "If there was a problem, we would've heard about it." "Like Arizona's gonna go without air conditioning for ten minutes." "#Pick out a pleasant outlook #" "#Stick out that noble chin #" "# Wipe off that full-of-doubt look #" " #Slap on a happy grin #" " Hey, Homer." "Got something here in the bleed cooling system." "#And spread sunshine all over the place ##" "See that?" " Five degrees off." "Might be..." " Might be in the core reactor." "No, no, no." "It's got to be a monitoring glitch." "Phone could start ringing any minute." "You might want to check it out." "All right." "Brush off the clouds and cheer up" "Put on a happy face" "[Scatting]" "Put on a happy face" "Start spreading sunshine all over the place" "And put on" "[Squishing, Dripping]" "[Slapping]" " [Creature Squeals] - [Screaming]" "[Crowd Chatter]" "[Man] Check every inch of that reactor." "[Spender] I want this place sealed off." "Yes." "Authorized officers and personnel only." "This is a closed area." " What happened here, Spender?" " You'll have to leave." "We received a call that a man was killed here." "A call from whom?" "Assistant Director Skinner?" "Let us through." "You are unauthorized to be here." "You've ignored your superiors and come here without cause or permission." "I'm gonna get you censured for this and demand a review of A.D. Skinner's actions." "Diana, let us in here." "I can't." "This facility has been sealed off by the N.R.C." " A man was murdered." " A workman was killed in an accident..." " in a reactor where there was a systems failure." " Then why are you here?" "We were called because of a possible connection to two previous deaths... from a case file that was stolen from our office." "There is a connection." "Let's get out of here, Mulder." "I hope you know what you're doing, Diana." " I hope you know whose errands you're running." " I think I do." "You weren't getting anywhere, Mulder." "It was only making it worse." "It's here, Scully, and they know it." "How do they know?" "Mulder, how do you know?" "Give me the keys and get in the car." "Oh, my God." "Gibson." "Sorry, sweetie." "Gibson?" "Gibson?" "Gibson, sweetheart." "Oh, God." "Frankenstein?" "Really?" "No." "No, you've been worked on by some good doctors." "They did a fine job with your stitches." "You think they were butchers." "They were butchers." "They should've changed your bandages, Gibson." "He's got some swelling and some infection." "And you've got a fever." "Why did they do this to you?" "'Cause I can read people's minds." "How'd you get in our car?" "When they weren't looking, I snuck away." "It's easy when you know what they're thinking." "Why are you here?" "They were using me, 'cause I can communicate with it." "Communicate with what?" "You already know." "You just don't want to believe it." "The kid could find this thing." " Mulder, this kid belongs in a hospital." " We could get his fever down." "You just can't take him on some snipe hunt." "He's in no condition." "He belongs in a bed under constant medical care." "Listen to me." "What I'm saying is in your best interest, okay?" "We have to take every precaution, make every effort... to ensure that nothing happens to this boy." "Because whatever he is, whatever gives him the ability to do what he does, he's your scientific evidence, just like we said." "He could be the key to everything in the X-Files." " We don't have the X-Files." " No." "But what if he could corroborate everything that you're saying?" "This boy could be our last best chance." "[Diana] Agent Mulder." "Fox, I'm going to get out of the car." "I'm alone, all right?" " What are you doing here?" " I couldn't say anything to you earlier." "I was given this assignment, Fox, okay?" "They offered it to me." " I took the chance..." " I'm listening." "To make sure someone served your interests, someone who believes in the work." "Hey, you and I found the X-Files together." "Don't forget that." " Who sent you?" " I'm here on my own." "Why?" "To convince me of your noble intentions?" "Listen to me." "That thing is somewhere inside the number four reactor building." "We can let them find it and destroy it, or go find it ourselves." "You need proof, Fox." "You're so close." "Why can't you see that?" " Mulder, what's going on?" " You take Gibson." " Where are you going?" " To find this thing." "[Diana] Agent Spender and I got a call." "We were on a plane within an hour in constant contact." " With who?" " The nuclear regulatory people." "N.R.C. Was first on the scene." "They found the victim." "But by the time we got there, it'd been removed." "We never saw the body." " Who removed it?" " I don't know." "Couldn't get a straight answer." "Then the N.R.C. Sealed off the number four reactor... due to a problem with the heat transfer systems." "I believe that was legitimate." "Maybe that's why it's there." "It wants heat." "It needs heat." "This thing gestated abnormally fast." "What if heat activates it?" "It could spur on the virus and the rapid development of the entity." " But it's still seeking heat." "Why?" " What if it's still developing?" "You're not under the impression what we're looking for makes sense in any conventional way?" "No." "You're gonna be fine, Gibson." "You're gonna be okay." "Let's get a bed ready." " You're gonna run more tests." " We're gonna get you well." "You say that, but you're gonna run more tests, just like the other doctors." "We have to run some more tests, Gibson." "You want to make me well, but you're just thinking about yourself and what you can learn from me." "You're a very special boy, Gibson." "You know that yourself." "I'm a very special lab rat." "[Diana] According to what little we could gather... the victim's body was found near here." " It's hot in here." " We're right above the core reactor." "This is part of the heat transfer cooling system." " Looks organic." " Maybe somebody's got the flu." " Aah!" " What?" "What is it?" "There's something in there." "Aah!" " [Cell Phone Ringing]" " Aah!" " [Mulder] Yeah." " Mulder, I found something you're not gonna believe." " Ditto." " We did blood tests on Gibson, and there's evidence of the virus in his system." "The same virus you were exposed to?" " I'm almost positive." " What does that mean?" "I don't know, but I think we're onto something." "We're onto something huge." "A link." " I'll call that bet and raise you." " What?" "Never mind." "Just take care of Gibson." "Never mind." "Just take care of Gibson." "There was a little boy in that room, and he's gone." "Does anybody know what happened to that little boy?" "His name is Gibson Praise." "He was just in that room." "God!" "Does anybody know what the hell is going on?" "Whoa, whoa, whoa." "Let's just calm down." "That little boy that I brought in is missing." " He can't be missing." "He should still be in his bed." " He's not here!" "It's here." "Where?" "Somewhere." " [Banging]" " Open the door, you son of a bitch!" "Open the door, damn it!" "Open it!" " Open the door, you..." " Fox!" "I'm gonna go see if there's some other way in." "Open it!" "Open this door!" "[Heavy Breathing]" "I told you it was here." " [Squealing] - [Screams]" "Gibson!" "Gibson!" "Gibson!" "Gibson!" " [Alarm Blaring] - [Man Yells, Indistinct]" "There he is!" "Gibson!" "Gibson!" "Gibson!" "Gibson!" "[Maslin] As I said, and as I am forced to reiterate, Agent Mulder, the F.B.I. Is not here for vendettas... or for the grinding of personal axes." "This holds not just for you but for everyone at the bureau." "You force us to put a point on this, to make some hard changes." "You and Agent Scully will cease all material association with the X-Files." "Refusal to do so will end in immediate dismissal." "Aprobationary period will be set." "You will now report to Assistant Director Kersh." "You're not supposed to come here." "It's what was agreed to." " It's the deal you made." " [Cigarette-Smoking Man] I had to congratulate you." "Commend how you handled things." " How you handled Mulder." " I did what I was asked." "You did well, son." "He's on very thin ice now, you know." "Mulder will be back." "As long as he lives, he won't give up." "There are solutions, of course." "Simple but extreme solutions." "I've used these methods." "They have their place." "But not here." "You've killed men." "You can kill a man, but you can't kill what he stands for." "Not unless you first break his spirit." "That's a beautiful thing to see." "[Door Opens]" "It'd help if you shut the door." "It'd make it harder for them to see... that I'm totally disregarding everything I was told." "Everything we were told, Mulder." "They can't take away the X-Files, Scully." "They tried." "You know, Agent Fowley's report to O.P.R. Painted the facts in an interesting way." "I hope you haven't been betrayed." "Agent Fowley's report was a means to an end." "Trying to protect the work." "Protect the X-Files." "Mulder, Agent Fowley's report states that the man you saw attacked... was bludgeoned by an unknown subject." "She makes no mention of a little boy who, as it happens, is nowhere to be found." "It would seem that her report protects everything but you." "Agent Fowley took me to that plant at great risk to herself, where I saw something that you refuse to believe in... saw it again, Scully." "And though it may not say it in her report, Diana saw it too." "And no matter what you think, she's certainly not gonna go around saying... that just because science can't prove it, it isn't true." "I don't doubt what you saw, Mulder." "I don't doubt you." "I'm willing to believe, but not in a lie, and not in the opposite of what I can prove." "It comes down to a matter of trust." "I guess it always has." "You're asking me to make a choice?" "I'm asking you to trust my judgment." "To trust me." "I can't accept that, not if it refutes what I know to be true." "Mulder, these are test results," "D.N.A. From the claw nail we found, matching exactly the D.N.A. From the virus you believe is extraterrestrial." "That's the connection." "Which matches exactly D.N.A. That was found in Gibson Praise." "I don't understand." "You're saying Gibson Praise is infected with the virus?" "No." "It's a part of his D.N.A." "In fact, it's a part of all of our D.N.A." "It's called a genetic remnant." "It's inactive junk D.N.A., except in Gibson, it's turned on." "If that were true, that would mean that Gibson is in some part extraterrestrial." "It would mean that all of us are." "[Child] I made this!" "[Man] We interrupt this program for a breaking news bulletin." "[Male Reporter] Ninety miles and counting." "That's how far officers of the Nevada Highway Patrol... have pursued the blue car on your screen... in a wild chase right through the heart of Elko... at speeds approaching 100 miles an hour." "Live on the scene in Carlin is Chuck Pickering in the Fox 11 News chopper." "Chuck, what can you tell us?" "[Pickering Over Radio] Benjamin, we're heading west following Route 766, where it feeds off the l-80." "Now, just under an hour ago, troopers attempted to pull over the blue car, which we understand is stolen." "That occurred on the 80 east of Wells." "Now, since then, this driver has stopped for nothing and nobody." "[Buckley] Any word yet on who the driver is?" "Not at this time." "What we do think, though, and what we've passed on to the highway patrol, is that from our vantage point, we see another person in that car." "See?" "Right there." "A hand." "It-It just moved." "See in the back seat?" "Now, we could possibly have a hostage situation here." "And obviously, the sooner they bring this vehicle to a stop..." " [Sobbing] - [Sirens Wailing]" "[High-Pitched Frequency]" "[Groaning]" "Unit 6, ready at milepost 13." "[Man] Coming your way, 6." "[Tires Screeching]" "[Pickering] Well, that did the trick." "The, uh, automobile seems to be coming to a stop." "[Buckley] Chuck, what did they just use there?" "It looked to be a special tire-puncturing chain." "And now, the officers are approaching the car." "One of them has opened the door, and he has hold of the suspect." "He's pulling him out." "He-He doesn't seem to have a weapon." "[Buckley] Well, he may not be armed, but from our vantage point, it looks like he doesn't wanna get out of that car." "Vicky!" "Vicky!" " Vicky!" " Please get it out of my head." "Please." "Let me go!" "Let me go!" "Vicky!" "Vicky!" "No!" "[Buckley] The hostage appears to be okay." "The highway patrol has her now, but Chuck, it looks like that driver is still fighting." "[Pickering] Yes, he's definitely putting up a bit of a fight." "He seems to be a man with a few choice words on the subject, as you can see." "They're trying to restrain him." "I tell you what." "We're gonna move back and try to get a wider angle." "See, there's the woman." "What the heck?" "She's..." "Vicky!" " Vicky!" " [Groaning]" "There, see?" "She's banging her head against the window." " What the hell just happened?" " [Man] Hey!" "Cut!" " Yeah?" " [Scully] Uh, Virgil Nokes?" "I'm Agent Scully." "This is Agent Mulder." "We're with the F.B.I." " Jehovah's Witness?" " No, sir." "Federal Bureau of Investigation." "But we do have a free copy of The Watchtower for you, if you'd like." "Uh, sir, this is just a routine check, but, uh, we understand that you recently placed an order for 5,000 pounds... of ammonium nitrate fertilizer." "Oh, you people." "Come on in." " Sugar beets." " Excuse me?" "I grow sugar beets." "I figure I got better things to do with my fertilizer... than go around blowin' government buildings sky high." "No, well, as we said, sir, this is just routine." "So routine it numbs the mind." "I've got my AG card and my papers around here somewhere." " [Man On TV]... strange death on a Nevada highway." " Help me look for 'em, will ya?" "As we reported earlier, a wild police pursuit ended in tragedy this morning... with the death of a 36-year-old female hostage." "This was the scene west of Elko, Nevada one hour ago," " as the hostage died mysteriously while in custody." " Scully, take a look at this." "We once again want to warn our viewers, this footage is extremely graphic." "[Pickering] Now, the hostage is still inside the car." "It appears as though she's banging her head against the window." "[Reporter] At this time, highway patrol officials... are refusing to identify the woman or to speculate on how she died, though they do stress it was not the result of a gunshot." "A preliminary coroner's report isn't expected for a day or more." "Meanwhile, residents of northern Nevada..." "Thank you, Captain." "That's no problem." "We'd be happy to help." " Mm-hmm." "See you soon." " We'll be happy to help what?" "Mulder, we're not going to Nevada." " Come on, Scully." "Just one quick side trip." " No." "Sorry, Mulder." "We have a whole new assignment." "Running down people that buy fertilizer?" "This is scut work." "Bozo work." "This is the F.B.I. Equivalent of being made... to wear an orange jumpsuit and pick up trash by the side of the highway." "They mean to humiliate us." "Look, Mulder, like it or not, humiliated or not, we're on domestic terrorism now." "And yes, this is..." "this is a punishment." "But if we wanna get back to where we wanna be, we have to follow orders." " We can't freelance." " You saw that news report." "What did you make of that?" "I think that the obvious assumption is that the woman was shot, regardless of what the police say." " Maybe it was a sniper." " In the words of their captain," ""She just sort of popped."" "And what about this guy who supposedly tried to take her hostage?" "Her husband?" "Looked to me like he was trying to warn the cops before she died." "Now, the sun will rise in America tomorrow, regardless of whether or not we're at yet another farm... investigating yet another enormous pile of doo-doo." "We can be in and out in a day." "Nobody has to know." "[High-Pitched Frequency]" "[Gasping]" "S-S-Somebody!" "Please!" "It's starting!" "Please!" " Why can't we see him?" " Well, hopefully later." "He pitched quite a fit in his cell... screamin' a bunch of nonsense that we were gonna kill him the way we killed his wife." "You know, he's not a particularly stable individual." " Captain, he may need medical attention." " He's getting it." "Our doctor's with him now." "I mean, after whatever happened to his wife... which I'd like to stress was not our fault... we're not gonna take any chances, you know?" "Patrick Garland Crump of Montello, Nevada." "[Mulder] 40-year-old roofer." "No history of mental illness." " No prior record." " He's got one now." "That Barracuda he jacked on the Utah state line?" "He yanked some teenager out of the window, threw his wife in back and took off." "Excuse me." "What do you think?" "I'm thinking while we're here, I might take a look at Mr. Crump's wife." "I'm gonna stay here and see if I can see Crump." "Captain, where's Montello?" "Little town right here." "So that's where it started..." "that's Crump's home." "Then he headed east in this direction on the 5... about ten miles to the Utah border, where he stole the car." " You got it." " But you caught up with him in Wells." "Where's that?" "That's here." "So that means that he started off in this direction." "Then all of a sudden, he turned around and he headed west to Wells." "Why?" "The former VickyJenkins Crump." "I'm hoping you can tell me what I'm looking at, 'cause this is a new one on me." "There's no gunpowder residue." "No carbon stippling." "There seems to be no evidence of an entry wound whatsoever." "There is none." "It's all exit." "But how that could be..." "I'm finding what look like fragments of petrous bone... embedded in the remaining portion of the auditory canal." "In fact, I seem to be looking straight through... to the osseous labyrinth, or what's left of it." "It's almost like a little bomb went off in her ear." " May I?" " Please." "There seems to be some kind of tumefaction within the lateral sinus." "[Gasps]" "Look out." "Can you give us a little room here?" "No, he just went rammy on me." "AccuChek is normal." "We did a Narcan push, but he keeps gettin' worse." "I.V. Beta blocker and topical nitro." "I don't know if you're gonna get to talk to this fellow after all." "Five's a crowd, buddy." "[Siren Wailing]" "[Monitor Beeping Rapidly]" " [Beeping Slows]" " Whoa." "Something must've worked." " Heart rate's dropping." " B.P.'s headed south." " I don't understand." "What'd you just do?" " Hell if I know." "But I'll take it." "[Tires Screeching]" "[Sighs] Oh, God." "[Line Ringing]" "Come on, Mulder." "Hey, you, out!" "This lab is quarantined!" "Go!" " Mulder?" " [Mulder] Yeah?" "Mulder, it's me." "You know how to pick 'em, I'll tell you that." "Look, I have no idea what killed this woman," " but I have to assume it's communicable." " Yeah?" "Another body has been found just outside of Montello." "Same apparent cause of death." "Some kind of massive aneurysm or rupture." " Uh-huh." " And Mulder, I've called the C.D.C." "They're on their way, but Patrick Crump may be infected." "So you need to quarantine his cell and make sure... that anybody who's had any close contact with him whatsoever... has been quarantined as well, and that means you, Mulder." "You're to have no contact with him whatsoever." "[Sighs] Mulder?" " Well, that's gonna be a little tough, Scully." " [Sirens Wailing]" "Drive." "[Cell Phone Ringing]" " Where are they?" " Route 789, heading west." "We're keeping 'em in visual, plus we're in phone contact, not to mention the strings we've pulled with stations..." " to keep this thing off local TV." " Where are they going?" "Crump won't say." "Wherever it is, though, he ain't gettin' there." " We'll see to that." "We'll shut him down east of Tuscarora." " Roadblock?" "Nice, clean, remote space we can own." "All right." "I want the C.D.C. On site." "I want the officers making the arrest to be wearing... level two or better anti-contamination suits." "I want the car decontaminated." "I want Agent Mulder and Crump decontaminated," " and I want them quarantined separately." " You got it." "[Inaudible]" "Crump says that if we don't pull back our escort, he's gonna shoot your partner." "Just leave me the hell alone!" "Now!" "How about if, uh, we just pull over and let me out too, huh?" "I must be cramping your style." "Just shut up." "It's you people." "It figures." " What figures?" " Shut up." "[Cell Phone Ringing]" "Hey!" "No!" "No!" "That is... so stupid, Crump." " That is so stupid." " Shut up!" "You shut up and drive." "You understand?" " What are you doing?" " What?" "What am I doing?" " What the hell are you doing?" " I'm composing a sonnet." "What does it look like I'm doing?" "I'm slowing down for a light." "Go!" "Go!" "[Horns Honking]" "Crump?" "Is this what happened to your wife?" "This same thing?" "If you stop moving, you die?" "I think I saw this movie." "Why didn't you tell anybody?" "Why didn't you tell the police?" "Oh, geez." "Look, I don't know how well you recall the last 30 seconds, but your life is in my hands regardless of whether or not you hold that gun." " It's right here, boy." " Just tell me everything you know." " That may be the only way I can help you." " You people put me here!" "Shut up!" "I'm guessing we got two or three miles before the roadblock." "What roadblock?" "I got rid of the cops." "Check your window." "Man, if we get stopped..." "[Woman Over Police Radio] Please be advised pursuit now headed west on 80." "Fourteen, come in." "Fourteen, be advised vehicle's heading your way." "[Man Over Radio] Subject's turning off 789... about a mile east of your position and is heading north on a fire road." " Looks like he's gonna miss you." " Say what?" "What's the report, Captain?" "They lost 'em." "They were last seen on a forestry service road." "Trees were too thick." "Our helicopter lost sight of'em." " Well, how did Crump know to avoid the roadblock?" " That's the question." "I was hoping your Agent Mulder would manage to steer him toward it, but..." "Well, maybe Agent Mulder steered him away from it." "Why would he do that?" "Maybe he knew something that we don't." "[Man] Agent Scully, I've got the cell cultures from the second victim." "Anything?" "So far, I'm seeing no evidence of infection in either victim." "So then, we're in the clear?" "No." "No, not necessarily." " I mean, something killed these people." " [Cell Phone Ringing]" "I'm sorry." "Excuse me." "Scully." "[Woman] Agent Scully, please hold for Assistant Director Kersh." " [Kersh] Agent Scully." " Yes, sir." "How's southern Idaho?" "Agent Scully?" "Southern Idaho?" "Think carefully." "Sir, I am not currently in the state of Idaho." " No, you're not." " In the course of prosecuting our assignment in Idaho," "Agent Mulder and I came across a situation in Nevada... which we both strongly felt needed our immediate attention." "I eagerly await your report." "In the meantime, agents of our Las Vegas field office... will be available to assist you in tracking down Agent Mulder." " Thank you, sir." " Oh, Agent Scully." "I think at this point I want to see him alive even more than you do." "[Line Clicks]" "Can I see that for a minute?" "This man worked at Silver State Power reading meters." " Yes." " What if he read the meter at Vicky Crump's place?" "Crump?" "Crump, what else can you tell me about what's happening to you?" "Mr. Crump." "You call me by my last name, you say "Mister" in front of it." "Mister." "Got you." "Not Crump." "Mr. Crump." "I can think of something else I'd like to call you." "I could put "Mister" in front of that too, if you'd like." "You know, what kind of name is Mulder anyway?" "What is it, like..." "likeJewish?" " Excuse me?" " Jewish." "It is, right?" "It's Mr. Mulder to you, you peanut-pickin' bastard." "Now, Mr. Crump, what can you tell me about what's happening..." " [Yells]" " What?" " You're goin'... the wrong way." " What do you mean, this is the wrong way?" " Go this way!" "Go this..." "Go this way!" " I can't..." "I can't go left." "There's only trees there." " [Yelling]" " Crump!" "[Yelling Continues]" "[Horn Honking]" "[Yelling]" "Crump?" "It's west, huh?" "West." "You gotta head west." "It's just like you did with your wife." "You took her and you headed west." "It's not just motion." "It has to be in one direction." "Is that right?" "What the hell happened to you?" "Okay, I want a thorough search..." " with an eye to the usual disease factors." " [Man] You got it." "[Screaming]" "[Dog Barking]" "I think we're witnessing the same pathology here." "[Barking, Yelping]" " We need to get a blood sample." " Yeah." "Let's go." " Hold him down!" " [Dog Yelps]" "Try to hold him still." "Let me sedate him." "[Yelps]" "[Mulder] One more time." "You woke up this morning." "Then what?" "We have been through this." "You woke up this morning, but you didn't go to work." "Why?" "It was raining." "You don't shingle in the rain." "I was up at 6:00 reading the paper." "What was your wife doing?" "Cooking, man." "Breakfast." "She was just putting breakfast on the table when the..." " You looked up." " I looked up, and I saw that she had this nosebleed she didn't even know she had." " What caused it?" " What do I..." "Am I like Quincy?" "How the hell should I know what caused it?" "It just happened." "Ten, fifteen minutes later, she just... starts getting sick." "Said she got a headache that just... keeps gettin' worse and worse." "She starts... screamin'." "I didn't know what the hell to do." "I just, uh..." "I got her in the truck and..." "taken her to the hospital." "But then it seemed like the faster we went, the better she'd do." "But just as soon as I try to slow down or stop..." "I'm sorry about your wife." "Sure you are, you and the rest of yourJew F.B.I." " Crump..." " Oh, yeah." "You think I don't know, huh?" "You think I'm just some ignorant pud-knocker, don't you?" "But I get it, man!" "I see what this is." "I am not sick, and I do not have the flu." "Vicky and me were just some kind of... government guinea pigs." " You think the government did this to you?" " Oh, hell, yeah." "Who else?" "You see it all the time on the TV." "They're dropping Agent Orange, they're puttin' radiation in little retarded kids gonads." "Oh, yeah." "You sons of bitches sneakin'around my woods at night." "I seen you." "You think I don't know?" "Well, on behalf of the InternationalJewish Conspiracy," "I just need to inform you that we're... almost out of gas." "The trailer looks clean." "No readily apparent vectors." "Dogs, housewives." "Whatever this thing is, it doesn't discriminate." "There are zoonotic pathogens which spread among species." "Look at that." "The Crumps have a neighbor." "[Knocking]" "Hello?" "Hello?" "Doctor?" "Hello?" "Hello?" "[Man On TV, Indistinct]" "[Screaming]" "Oh, no, it..." "It's okay, ma'am." "It's okay." " Who are you?" " It's all right." "I'm sorry." "[Mumbling Incoherently]" " [Mumbling Continues]" " It's okay." "It's okay." " Hey, Crump, we got about one more mile." " [Dings]" "I'll make it fast." "You ready?" "Here goes nothing." "Turn on the pump!" "Number four!" "Three!" " [Groaning]" " Number three!" "Turn it on!" "You gotta pay before you pump, buddy." "[Engine Starts]" "Hey, damn it, that's my car!" "Where in the hell do you think you're goin'?" "Damn it!" "Stop!" "[Muttering]" "We're gonna take care of you." "Watch your step, now." "We just have to examine you." "One deaf woman survives unscathed, while everything else around her dies." "Why?" "Wait." "What are you doin'?" "The pathology of this thing... it affects the inner ear." "And this area right here is ground zero." "What if what we're looking for is some kind of a sound?" "Seriously?" "[Cell Phone Ringing]" "[Ringing Continues]" "Excuse me." " Scully." " It's Van Gelder." "Agent, I don't know what the hell your partner's thinking, but not only is he actively evading my officers, now he's stolen a car." " Come again?" " You heard right." "He left behind a crazy note addressed to you." "You there?" "Yeah, yeah, yeah." "Read it to me." ""Crump sick." "Will die if stopped, same as wife." "Must head west to keep alive." "No roadblocks."" "Exclamation point." "This make any sense to you?" "Take him at his word." " Let him through." " Let him through?" "Look, no offense, Agent Scully, but how about you run that by your superiors?" "'Cause frankly, I think they'll say different." "I'll take that under advisement." "[Van Gelder Continues, Indistinct]" "[Static, Line Breaking Up]" "Faster." " I'm doin' 70." " Man, you gotta go faster." "It's getting worse." "Yeah, yeah, that's good." "Okay." "Hey, uh, theJew stuff?" "No offense." "I mean, uh, a man can't help who he's born to." "That was an apology, right?" "Gee, I don't know if I can see to drive." "My eyes are tearing up so bad." "Whatever, man." "Why are you doing this?" " Why am I doing what?" " This." "It's not in your best interest to make me question that right now." "How do I know you ain't doing exactly what they want you to?" "Hmm?" "Driving me all around creation, experimenting' on me." "How do I know it ain't that?" "I guess you don't." "I ain't saying you are." "I'm just saying that's no way to treat a man, take away his dignity like that." "It ain't right." "Better just to kill him." "That's all I'm saying." "Hey, you gotta stay alive if you wanna stick it to the government." "If you die, you let them off the hook." "Am I right?" "Huh?" "You're right." "You're damn straight." "We'll figure this out." "You'd better figure quick." "We're runnin' out of west." "Lieutenant Breil?" "My name is Dana Scully." "I called in regards to the electrical equipment..." " the navy is maintaining in the town of Montello." " Right." "Listen, I don't know if there's been some miscommunication... between you and your Washington office, but, uh..." " My Washington office?" " Yeah." "I was under the impression that I'd explained this to the F.C.C.'s satisfaction." "Oh." "I'm-I'm... so sorry to make you run through it again, uh, for my official report to the, uh, to the F.C.C." "Okay." "At 6:17 yesterday morning... during a test of our ground conduction radio system, a situation arose in which our equipment experienced a brief power surge." "That's what interrupted television reception in the four-state area." "However, steps have already been taken to ensure this won't happen again." "The ground conduction radio..." "that-that would be Project Seafarer?" "The specifics of what we do here are classified, ma'am." "Sure, sure." "Um... would you happen to know what effect such a surge might have... on, uh, on an organism?" "Say, um, say a human being?" "Theoretically speaking." "Theoretically speaking?" "Well, that's classified as well, ma'am." "Crump?" " Mr. Crump." " Mr. Crump." "What is it, Mr. Mulder?" "Mulder, are you okay?" "Yeah, aside from terminal cell phone withdrawal." "That and I gotta pee." "Where are you?" "I'm just about to board a Justice Department jet." "Hopefully, I'll overshoot you." " Headed where?" " I don't know, Mulder." "You tell me." "I'm guessing wherever the hell Route 36 ends." "But we can't stop, Scully, and I'm kind of at a loss as to what to do next." "[Sighs] Well, I think I have a loose theory as to what caused this." " Well, lay it on me." " Okay." "Mulder, you know what E.L.F. Waves are?" " Extremely low frequency radio transmissions?" " Yeah." "It uses an antenna, like, 50 miles long." "The military uses it to communicate with the trident submarine." "Project Seafarer, Project Haarp." "Well, Seafarer has an antenna array... stretching beneath the edge of Patrick Crump's property." "Now, E.L.F. Fields have been shown... to produce biological effects in human tissue... inducing electrical currents, altering chemical reactions." "Not to mention that it's a potential weapons application." "It's been referred to as "electrical nerve gas,"" "or may be behind the so-called "Taos Hum."" "What if some overload..." "some-some hum from this system... could somehow match the resonant frequency of the human skull?" "I mean, what if it could induce a like hum... that could somehow exert a rising pressure... on the labyrinth of the inner ear, in a sense shattering it?" "But with constant movement somehow ameliorating that pressure, making it bearable." "But why only westward movement?" "I don't know, Mulder." "I don't know." "I mean..." "I mean, maybe it has to follow certain lines of force, electrical or magnetic." "But the big question, Scully, is what do we do about it?" "Well, I think I know, Mulder, but it's nothing that Mr. Crump is gonna like." "We'll be there." "What?" "Well, whether they did this to you intentionally or not, you were right." "They did it to you." "So what do we..." "what do we do?" "Your one chance is that we meet my partner at the end of the highway." "There, she will insert a long, large-bore needle into your inner ear, hopefully relieving the pressure." "And when we get there, she's gonna have to work fast." "She's only gonna have one chance." "She's not gonna be able to use any anesthetic, and it will probably leave you deaf." "But I'll live, right?" "Well, that's what it's all about." "All right, man, let's do it." "Mr. Mulder, could you go a little faster, please?" " Just a little more is all I need." " Sure." "Just a little bit faster." "[Siren Wailing]" "Get ready!" "[Kersh] "Justice Department jet." ""2.6 turbine hours round trip at $ 1,400 an hour." ""Car rental." "Over mileage, out-of-state use penalties..." ""$346." ""Compensation to one Walter R. Duncan... for unauthorized use of his 1968 Caprice station wagon... $500."" "Why don't you bill me?" "I'll bill your partner instead." "You too obviously relish the role of martyr." "Okay, so are we done here?" "Back to the bozo work investigating huge piles of manure?" "You can always quit." " [Door Slams Shut] - [Sighs]" "Sir, Agent Mulder has been through a lot." "And you apologize for him a lot." "I've noticed that about you." "I'm not apologizing for this." "Because of his work, the D.O.D. Is shutting down... their antenna array in northeastern Nevada." "Our participation in this case has saved lives." "I don't see you proving that." "The Department of Defense... admits no culpability whatsoever." "Furthermore, they say the closing of the facility was coincidental." "Right." "Don't misunderstand me, Agent." "I don't care if you and your partner... saved a school bus full of doe-eyed urchins on their way to Sunday Bible camp." "You no longer investigate X-Files." "You are done." "And the sooner you and Mulder come to recognize that, the better for both of you." " Big piles of manure." " [Door Slams Shut]" "[Child] I made this!"