1. You're supposed to be in charge, Perkins.Copy !req
2. - I am in charge.
- These men want answers.Copy !req
3. What's your plan?
This thing could kill us all.Copy !req
4. We should've left two days ago.
No one would listen to me.Copy !req
5. Nobody knew what it was then.
Nobody knows now.Copy !req
6. - Somebody has to go for help.
- What will the rest of us do?Copy !req
7. - Just wait here till help arrives?
- One of us has to hike out!Copy !req
8. That person might not make it
down to the road before nightfall!Copy !req
9. Then what? I say we make a run for it.Copy !req
10. - Split up, take our chances.
- It's suicide, Dyer.Copy !req
11. Fine. You stay here, tell us how it turns out.Copy !req
12. You're going the wrong way!Copy !req
13. - I think it's broken.
- Come on, you gotta get up!Copy !req
14. I don't think I can make it.Copy !req
15. We gotta keep moving!Copy !req
16. We're not gonna make it!Copy !req
17. - Take a good look, Scully.
- What am I looking at?Copy !req
18. 30 loggers working a clear-cutting
contract in Washington State.Copy !req
19. Rugged, manly men
in the full bloom of manhood.Copy !req
20. But what am I looking for?Copy !req
21. Anything strange, unexplainable,
unlikely... boyfriend?Copy !req
22. I don't know. I give up, Mulder.Copy !req
23. You give up? That's what
the Federal Forest Service has done.Copy !req
24. - What happened to them?
- They vanished.Copy !req
25. Or so it would appear.Copy !req
26. This is Doug Spinney and Steven Teague.Copy !req
27. They're monkey-wrenchers, the guys
who sabotage logging equipment...Copy !req
28. .. and make life miserable for lumberjacks.Copy !req
29. Eco-terrorists
or militant environmentalists.Copy !req
30. Two weeks ago,
the loggers radioed a message...Copy !req
31. .. that Spinney and Teague
had gone on a spree.Copy !req
32. Sabotaging equipment,
causing general mischief.Copy !req
33. One week later,
radio communication was cutoff.Copy !req
34. - Do they know why?
- No.Copy !req
35. The lumber company asked the Federal
Forest Service to look into it.Copy !req
36. Two officials were sent in.
No one's heard from them.Copy !req
37. The monkey-wrenchers are doing
more than mischief-making.Copy !req
38. That's what the Federal Forest
Service think.Copy !req
39. They've asked the FBI to investigate.
I had to pull strings to get the case.Copy !req
40. For an eco-terrorism case?
Do I dare ask why?Copy !req
41. In 1934, long before anyone knew...Copy !req
42. .. what an eco-terrorist was, a WPA crew...Copy !req
43. .. working that area vanished
without a trace.Copy !req
44. Not one of those men was ever found
or heard from again.Copy !req
45. And you suspect - what? - Bigfoot?Copy !req
46. Not likely. That's a lot of flannel
to choke down even for Bigfoot!Copy !req
47. Come on, Scully,
it'll be a nice trip to the forest.Copy !req
48. Hi.Copy !req
49. Fox Mulder and Dana Scully.
We're with the FBI.Copy !req
50. Larry Moore, Federal Forest Service.
You can put your gear in the back.Copy !req
51. Must be pretty rugged where we're going.Copy !req
52. Yeah.Copy !req
53. Is that a bullet hole in your windshield?Copy !req
54. - 22 calibre.
- Somebody take a shot at you?Copy !req
55. There's not much to hunt around here...Copy !req
56. - .. with 22s except Freddies.
- Freddies?Copy !req
57. The Federal Forest Service.
It's what eco-terrorists call us.Copy !req
58. Is that who you think took a shot at you?Copy !req
59. Let me get this outta the way.Copy !req
60. I have no quarrel with eco-terrorists
in principle.Copy !req
61. I'm as concerned for this forest
and the environment as anybody.Copy !req
62. It's their methods I can't condone.Copy !req
63. Would they go so far as to kill a man?Copy !req
64. There's 30 men up there unaccounted for,
each with survival experience.Copy !req
65. Something happened to 'em.Copy !req
66. Sorry I'm late.
I was talking to Bob Perkins' wife.Copy !req
67. He's one of our missing loggers.Copy !req
68. Steve Humphreys, head of security
for Schiff-lmmergut Lumber.Copy !req
69. Mulder, Scully.Copy !req
70. We've got a four-hour drive.
Plenty of time to get to know each other.Copy !req
71. Get the impression we've walked into
the middle of a war that's already started?Copy !req
72. Why do these men work
so far up in the wilderness?Copy !req
73. - That's where the trees are.
- You're kidding, right?Copy !req
74. No, environmentalists have made sure
the land is untouchable.Copy !req
75. Force us to take timber where we can.Copy !req
76. We plant saplings for every tree we take.Copy !req
77. So why do the eco-terrorists target you?Copy !req
78. These tree-huggers are
the same kinda boys...Copy !req
79. .. who went up to Canada during
the Vietnam war. They're cowardly.Copy !req
80. Dammit!Copy !req
81. Home-made tyre spike -
clear through the sidewall. It's unfixable.Copy !req
82. - You got a spare, don't you?
- Right tyre's history, too.Copy !req
83. The monkey-wrenchers call it a caltrop.Copy !req
84. The roads are littered with them.Copy !req
85. lndiscriminate. Imagine somebody
spiking Washington's roads.Copy !req
86. Like to see how much sympathy
they'd get then!Copy !req
87. So how are we gonna get up to the camp?Copy !req
88. We're gonna have to hike.Copy !req
89. Anybody here?Copy !req
90. Someone forgot to clean their plate.Copy !req
91. It looks like they left in a hurry, too.Copy !req
92. They forgot to pack.Copy !req
93. - Find anything?
- Party favours.Copy !req
94. Vehicles have been monkey-wrenched.
Generator's busted.Copy !req
95. Someone turned this place upside down.Copy !req
96. And they didn't want the fact broadcast.Copy !req
97. The radiators are all full of rice.Copy !req
98. Sugar or sand in all the crankcases.
They really did a number.Copy !req
99. The sun's going down in an hour and a half.Copy !req
100. Better look around before dark.Copy !req
101. I'll see if I can get that generator working.Copy !req
102. - You were right about one thing.
- What's that?Copy !req
103. It definitely wasn't Bigfoot.Copy !req
104. Look at that!Copy !req
105. What is it?Copy !req
106. It looks like a hive.Copy !req
107. - Maybe a cocoon of some kind.
- Made by what?Copy !req
108. I don't know. I've never seen
anything like it.Copy !req
109. Got it.Copy !req
110. - Can you cut it down?
- Yeah, I think so.Copy !req
111. You all right, Scully?Copy !req
112. Oh, God!Copy !req
113. It feels, uh... It feels desiccated,
hard and dry.Copy !req
114. Almost... preserved.Copy !req
115. Like it's been embalmed.Copy !req
116. No, more like all the fluids
have been bled from its body.Copy !req
117. Almost like it's been cured.Copy !req
118. I think...Copy !req
119. ..it's a male.Copy !req
120. Barely.Copy !req
121. I'd say it's some kind of spider's nest...Copy !req
122. .. or insect cocoon.Copy !req
123. What kind of insect could have gotten
a man all the way up into that tree?Copy !req
124. ltsy-bitsy spider.Copy !req
125. Don't move!Copy !req
126. Who are you?Copy !req
127. Doug Spinney.
I ought to shoot you where you stand.Copy !req
128. Might as well shoot yourself.Copy !req
129. You're in a helluva spot to test me.Copy !req
130. - What happened to my men?
- What men?Copy !req
131. The men who were working this camp.Copy !req
132. I don't know. The same thing that'll
happen to us when the sun goes down.Copy !req
133. - What are you doing?
- This animal's Doug Spinney.Copy !req
134. He's responsible for the monkey-wrenching.Copy !req
135. - Probably a murderer.
- I'm no murderer.Copy !req
136. - Liar!
- Let's hear what he has to say.Copy !req
137. If we stand around here talking,
there'll be nothing left to say.Copy !req
138. I'd get that generator started.Copy !req
139. Darkness is our enemy.Copy !req
140. What's he talking about?Copy !req
141. Someone wanna give me a hand?Copy !req
142. He's giving orders? I fixed the damn thing!Copy !req
143. Hey, it's all right.Copy !req
144. Why did you say
the darkness was our enemy?Copy !req
145. That's when they come.Copy !req
146. - When who comes?
- I don't know what it is.Copy !req
147. They come from the sky.Copy !req
148. They take a man off his feet
and devour him alive.Copy !req
149. - I saw it happen.
- Happen to who?Copy !req
150. I need to eat. I haven't eaten in three days.Copy !req
151. What kinda BS story is that, huh?
You believe that?Copy !req
152. - We found something in the forest.
- What?Copy !req
153. A man caught
in some kind of insect cocoon.Copy !req
154. - What happened here?
- We camped two valleys over.Copy !req
155. - Four of us, three now.
- More rats in the woodpile.Copy !req
156. Our truck has a dead battery.Copy !req
157. We drew straws for who'd hike here
to steal one from the loggers.Copy !req
158. - Why not just hike out?
- It's more than a day's hike.Copy !req
159. No way we'd want
to be caught out after dark.Copy !req
160. Not after what happened to Teague.Copy !req
161. The man you said was devoured alive?Copy !req
162. Yeah.Copy !req
163. - What are you guys doing out here?
- Camping.Copy !req
164. The kind of camping you do
is a federal offence.Copy !req
165. - Hold off a second.
- He's right.Copy !req
166. This man's a felon.
He could be placed under arrest.Copy !req
167. What about your offence, my friend, huh?Copy !req
168. The offence against nature!Copy !req
169. We operate within the law.
We pay for the right to take those trees.Copy !req
170. Oh, yeah? Your logging crew is taking trees
that nobody has a right to.Copy !req
171. Trees that are marked! So don't talk
to me about breaking the law... sir!Copy !req
172. - They've been taking marked trees?
- Yes sir.Copy !req
173. Old-growth trees?
Know anything about that, Steve?Copy !req
174. No.Copy !req
175. Gonna take this man's word over mine?Copy !req
176. You don't wanna go out in the night.
Take my word on that.Copy !req
177. It's out there.Copy !req
178. If I go out, somebody will attack me,
eat me alive and spin me in its webCopy !req
179. Yes.Copy !req
180. It's too polite to come in here and get me?Copy !req
181. For some reason, it's afraid of the light.Copy !req
182. - "It's afraid of the light"!
- There may be something to it.Copy !req
183. He's a murderer and just clever enough
to make up that story.Copy !req
184. Even to whip up that cocoon
to save a few trees.Copy !req
185. And I'm gonna prove I'm right.Copy !req
186. This is ridiculous!Copy !req
187. Where is it, Spinney?Copy !req
188. I thought it was gonna come...Copy !req
189. .. and devour me!Copy !req
190. Hey, here I am!Copy !req
191. Come out, come out, wherever you are!Copy !req
192. Aaw, don't be shy.Copy !req
193. Come on!Copy !req
194. Huh?Copy !req
195. It's just like I told you. There's nothing
out here but a bunch of trees.Copy !req
196. Trees this man values more than human life.Copy !req
197. I'm gonna see him tried on murder charges.Copy !req
198. What do you think?Copy !req
199. I think I'm gonna suggest
that we sleep with the lights on.Copy !req
200. See this Douglas fir?Copy !req
201. It's been here since before time
and your men out it down.Copy !req
202. - Who marks these trees?
- Forest Service.Copy !req
203. You're only supposed to cut trees
marked with a blue X.Copy !req
204. This tree must be hundreds of years old.Copy !req
205. You must get a lot of lumber from a big tree.Copy !req
206. Thousands of board feet.
Helluva lot easier than taking smaller trees.Copy !req
207. Monkey-wrenchers like Spinney
are not above marking trees.Copy !req
208. This tree's 500 years old if it's a day.Copy !req
209. Look at this.Copy !req
210. What would this represent?Copy !req
211. I don't know.
I've never seen a ring like that before.Copy !req
212. Those center rings are the older rings?Copy !req
213. Every ring represents a season of growth.Copy !req
214. You see these? These are 500, 600 years old.Copy !req
215. They're a recorded history
of rainfall and climate.Copy !req
216. But this one... I don't know.
I should take a core sample.Copy !req
217. We finished this nature walk? I wanna know
what happened to the loggers.Copy !req
218. - We're determining that, sir.
- Looking at a tree stump?Copy !req
219. - Interrogate this man.
- I don't think he did it.Copy !req
220. - I want him arrested.
- He's not going anywhere.Copy !req
221. Not with a gun on him. What happens
if his three buddies show up...Copy !req
222. .. and do to you what they did...Copy !req
223. ..to those Federal Forest officials?Copy !req
224. I just wanna take a core sample.Copy !req
225. I got families who want answers
about loved ones and so do you!Copy !req
226. They won't be found in that tree!Copy !req
227. The only crime is the death of that tree.Copy !req
228. Yeah, well, we'll see about that.Copy !req
229. - Where are you going?
- Down to your truck.Copy !req
230. I'll get on the horn and get people
up here who'll take some action.Copy !req
231. - Steve!
- Oh, let him go.Copy !req
232. Let him find out for himself.Copy !req
233. This is odd.Copy !req
234. This yellow ring's got something living in it.Copy !req
235. Some kind of...Copy !req
236. .. tiny bug.Copy !req
237. It doesn't make sense.Copy !req
238. Why not?Copy !req
239. Well, parasites attack a tree
in a variety of ways,Copy !req
240. .. but they always attack the living parts.Copy !req
241. The leaves, the roots, the new growth rings.Copy !req
242. Even if they're borers of some kind,Copy !req
243. .. they wouldn't work so deep.Copy !req
244. They seem to be feeding
on this ring's wood.Copy !req
245. Can you identify them?Copy !req
246. It's a wood mite of some kind.
Nothing I've ever seen.Copy !req
247. Can they have been there centuries?Copy !req
248. I don't see how.
These inner rings are essentially dead wood.Copy !req
249. The tree's vascular system
is limited to the outer few rings.Copy !req
250. They need water to survive.Copy !req
251. They appear to be hatching
out of the porous wood.Copy !req
252. Maybe when you drilled this core,
you tapped into a larger nest.Copy !req
253. Can they build a cocoon?Copy !req
254. Right after that tree was cut down
was when Teague died.Copy !req
255. It's about the same time
when the loggers disappeared.Copy !req
256. You think mites killed them?Copy !req
257. Maybe they were dormant for hundreds
of years. Maybe they woke up hungry.Copy !req
258. Dammit!Copy !req
259. All right, you monkey-wrenchers,
come on out!Copy !req
260. I know what you're up to!Copy !req
261. Humphreys should've been back by now.Copy !req
262. These bugs aren't moving any more.Copy !req
263. They're either dead or they're asleep.Copy !req
264. They don't like the light.Copy !req
265. That's weird.
Usually bugs are attracted to light.Copy !req
266. These obviously are not your ordinary bugs.Copy !req
267. To say the least.Copy !req
268. - What do you know about insects?
- Just what I learned in biology courses.Copy !req
269. That they're the foundation
of our ecosystem,Copy !req
270. .. that there are lots of them:Copy !req
271. 200 million per person on Earth.Copy !req
272. And they've been around a long time, right?Copy !req
273. About 600 million years.Copy !req
274. Even before the dinosaurs. Why?Copy !req
275. And this tree is - what? - 5, 6, 700 years old?Copy !req
276. Yeah.Copy !req
277. And these rings represent climatic changes.Copy !req
278. So in this year or season
in the life of the tree,Copy !req
279. ..a strange event
produced an abnormal ring.Copy !req
280. - Like what, exactly?
- A volcanic eruption.Copy !req
281. This chain of mountains running from
Washington to Oregon is still active.Copy !req
282. - Remember Mount St Helens?
- How does that explain the bugs?Copy !req
283. After Mount St Helens erupted,
radiation was unleashed...Copy !req
284. .. from inside the Earth.Copy !req
285. Strange things started to grow.Copy !req
286. They discovered an amoeba
that can suck a man's brains out.Copy !req
287. Oh, a brain-sucking amoebaCopy !req
288. It's true. In Spirit Lake,
there's cases of swimmers being infected.Copy !req
289. A single-celled amoeba can be mutated.Copy !req
290. But an insect is complex. A mutation
would take years and years to evolve.Copy !req
291. Maybe what we're dealing with
isn't a mutation at all.Copy !req
292. What if it's some kind of extinct
insect larvae in that ring,Copy !req
293. .. deposited during volcanic activity,
brought up through the root system?Copy !req
294. Ancient insect eggs,Copy !req
295. .. thousands, maybe millions of years old,
lying dormant until...Copy !req
296. Until those loggers cut down that tree.Copy !req
297. That would be poetic justice,
don't you think?Copy !req
298. Unleashing the thing
that would end up killing 'em.Copy !req
299. And your friend Humphreys.Copy !req
300. And, who knows... maybe us.Copy !req
301. Sweet dreams.Copy !req
302. Humphreys might've just hiked outta here.
We don't know he didn't.Copy !req
303. Maybe we're letting ourselves get
carried away with this bug story.Copy !req
304. Yeah, maybe.Copy !req
305. Going somewhere?Copy !req
306. - No, I was...
- Doing an auto repair.Copy !req
307. Looks like you're planning on cutting out.Copy !req
308. I got to save my friends.Copy !req
309. They could only keep
their generator going 15, 20 hours max.Copy !req
310. - They're gonna die.
- So why are you sneaking around?Copy !req
311. The Forest Service guy wouldn't go for it.
He'd never trust me.Copy !req
312. He's got no reason to. Neither do I.Copy !req
313. I can save us all, man.
We've got a jeep just two valleys over.Copy !req
314. All it needs is a battery.
I could be back in the morning.Copy !req
315. We can all drive out tomorrow.Copy !req
316. You gotta trust me, man.Copy !req
317. Radio's back up.Copy !req
318. It's working?Copy !req
319. I'm not getting any reception,
so the receiver could be trashed.Copy !req
320. And transmissions?
Can you send a message?Copy !req
321. We could try.Copy !req
322. This is a call for help.
Is there anyone at this frequency?Copy !req
323. This is Special Agent Mulder, FBI.Copy !req
324. We have an emergency and a possible
quarantine situation. Our position is...Copy !req
325. What happened to the generator?Copy !req
326. - I turned it off.
- Turn it back on.Copy !req
327. - What happened to the gas can?
- Spinney took it.Copy !req
328. He took it? You mean he's gone?Copy !req
329. He took a battery and some gas.
He'll come back in the morning.Copy !req
330. He gave you his personal guaranteeCopy !req
331. He gave me his word, yeah.Copy !req
332. The man who gave you his word...Copy !req
333. .. has made an art out of sabotage
and defying authority.Copy !req
334. He's probably the same man
who put a bullet through my windshield.Copy !req
335. At least now we've got one chance
of getting out alive.Copy !req
336. One more chance than we had before.Copy !req
337. - Or one less.
- What do you mean?Copy !req
338. Mulder let him leave
with the last of the gas.Copy !req
339. This generator's got a quarter tank left.Copy !req
340. What about the trucks?Copy !req
341. Their tanks were ruptured
or filled with sugar.Copy !req
342. By the same man we are now trusting
to keep his word.Copy !req
343. Then we gotta get back on the radio,
send out a Mayday.Copy !req
344. Every drop of fuel is fuel that'll
keep this genny powered tonight.Copy !req
345. I don't wanna be hoping
somebody heard that transmission...Copy !req
346. .. when this thing quits running
about two in the morning.Copy !req
347. Do you?Copy !req
348. - Mulder...
- Look, it's done.Copy !req
349. I shouldn't have let him go.
Let's just move past it, OK?Copy !req
350. Fine.Copy !req
351. What do you suggest?Copy !req
352. I don't know. We'll think of something.Copy !req
353. I think we have a pretty good idea
what happened to those loggers...Copy !req
354. .. and what happened to the group in 1934.Copy !req
355. - They only found one cocoon.
- It's a very big forest.Copy !req
356. What would you have done?Copy !req
357. Would I have made a decision alone
that affected the group?Copy !req
358. Cut the sanctimonious crap!Copy !req
359. What do you want me to say?
Let's face it, we might die up here.Copy !req
360. They may find our bodies
spun up in a tree,Copy !req
361. .. or they may not find us at all!Copy !req
362. You're right.
And we're wasting time arguing about it.Copy !req
363. - What are you gonna do?
- Button this place up.Copy !req
364. If we gotta spend the night in here,Copy !req
365. .. we gotta do everything we can
to make sure the bugs stay out there.Copy !req
366. Be careful with that.
It's the only bulb that works.Copy !req
367. I can see them.Copy !req
368. You guys, look at this.Copy !req
369. They're coming through the wall...Copy !req
370. .. down where it's dark, you see them?Copy !req
371. Ugh!Copy !req
372. - They're on me!
- It's all right, Scully.Copy !req
373. - Scully, Scully...
- Get them off me!Copy !req
374. - Get them off me!
- Stand still!Copy !req
375. - Stop it, stop it!
- Can you see them?Copy !req
376. - Get them off me!
- They're not just on you.Copy !req
377. That's what that greasy residue is.Copy !req
378. We were supposed to be safe in the light!Copy !req
379. We are! I think the light
keeps them from swarming.Copy !req
380. We'll be safe as long as we stay in the light.Copy !req
381. How are you feeling?Copy !req
382. I'm OK.Copy !req
383. They're oxidising enzymes.Copy !req
384. Just like fireflies.Copy !req
385. Maybe that's why they cocoon their prey.Copy !req
386. So they can oxidise the proteins
taken from the fluids in the body.Copy !req
387. What if the generator goes?Copy !req
388. Are they gonna swarm in
and drain the life out of us?Copy !req
389. We got an hour and a half till sunrise.Copy !req
390. Then what? It's over a day's hike
out of here.Copy !req
391. We won't make it on foot by nightfall.Copy !req
392. Maybe someone heard our transmission.
Help could be on the way.Copy !req
393. You sent that call hours ago.
I mean, help would've been here by now.Copy !req
394. Well, I'm not gonna give up on Spinney.Copy !req
395. He gave me his word
he'd come back to get us.Copy !req
396. And if he doesn't?Copy !req
397. We'll think of something.Copy !req
398. You got a patch kit
or an extra tube in your truck?Copy !req
399. Maybe we can patch this.
And with the spare in your truck,Copy !req
400. .. maybe we can limp down the mountain.Copy !req
401. If not, we can get on the radio
and warn them what's out there.Copy !req
402. - You see it?
- Yeah.Copy !req
403. Listen.Copy !req
404. You hear that?Copy !req
405. It's a car.Copy !req
406. No, it's a jeep!Copy !req
407. - We gotta move! Let's go, let's go!
- Wait!Copy !req
408. What about Humphreys' body?Copy !req
409. Leave it. I've radioed for help.Copy !req
410. - What happened to your friends?
- They didn't make it.Copy !req
411. We're not gonna make it either
unless we haul ass! Let's go!Copy !req
412. Oh!Copy !req
413. Dammit!Copy !req
414. I don't believe it!Copy !req
415. And you talk about
shooting yourself in the foot!Copy !req
416. - Agghh!
- Get outta there!Copy !req
417. - Get back in the car!
- Agghh, agghh!Copy !req
418. Emergency evacuation situation.Copy !req
419. Requesting quarantine facility...Copy !req
420. .. for two, possibly three victims
with undiagnosed infection...Copy !req
421. .. or exposure to unknown biological vectors.Copy !req
422. Repeat, emergency evacuation situation:
two, possibly...Copy !req
423. Attention all personnel.Copy !req
424. High-level bio-clearance
required on third floor.Copy !req
425. - How are you feeling?
- Better.Copy !req
426. How did the tests come back?Copy !req
427. Your respiratory charts were good.Copy !req
428. We were concerned about the extent
of damage through inhalation.Copy !req
429. There were large concentrations
of the chemical luciferin.Copy !req
430. Which is?Copy !req
431. The enzyme found in fireflies
and bioluminescent insects.Copy !req
432. Our entomologists are trying
to determine the epithet...Copy !req
433. .. of the insects you encountered.Copy !req
434. Scully?Copy !req
435. How's she doing?Copy !req
436. She's still not out of the woods.
She lost a lot of fluids.Copy !req
437. Two or three more hours of exposure,
she might not have made it.Copy !req
438. I told her it was gonna be
a nice trip to the forest.Copy !req
439. How are you gonna contain it to the forest?Copy !req
440. What if the swarm migrates?Copy !req
441. The government has initiated
eradication procedures.Copy !req
442. By using a combination of
controlled burns and pesticides,Copy !req
443. .. they will be successful.Copy !req
444. And if they're not?Copy !req
445. That is not an option, Mr Mulder.Copy !req
446. I made this!Copy !req