1. You're supposed to be
in charge here, Perkins.Copy !req
2. I am in charge.Copy !req
3. Well, these men
want some answers.Copy !req
4. They want to know
what your plan is.Copy !req
5. Let's face it... this thing
could kill us all.Copy !req
6. We should have
been gone two days ago.Copy !req
7. No one would listen to me.Copy !req
8. Nobody knew what it was
two days ago, Perkins.Copy !req
9. Nobody knows now.Copy !req
10. Somebody has to go for help.Copy !req
11. What about the rest of us?Copy !req
12. What are we supposed to do?Copy !req
13. Just wait here
till help arrives?Copy !req
14. We have to take a chance.Copy !req
15. One of us has to hike out.Copy !req
16. That person might not make it
in time.Copy !req
17. He might not make it down
to the road before nightfall.Copy !req
18. Then what?Copy !req
19. I say we make a run for it...Copy !req
20. split up, take our chances.Copy !req
21. - It's suicide, Dyer.
- Fine.Copy !req
22. You stay here.Copy !req
23. Tell us how it turns out.Copy !req
24. Help me!Copy !req
25. Hurry up!Copy !req
26. You're going the wrong way!Copy !req
27. I think it's broken.Copy !req
28. Come on, you got to get up.Copy !req
29. I don't think can't make it.Copy !req
30. We gotta keep moving.Copy !req
31. We're not going to make it.Copy !req
32. We're not going...
make it...Copy !req
33. Take a good look, Scully.Copy !req
34. What am I looking at?Copy !req
35. 30 loggers working
a clear-cutting contractCopy !req
36. in Washington State...Copy !req
37. rugged, manly menCopy !req
38. in the full bloom
of their manhood.Copy !req
39. Right; but what am I
looking for?Copy !req
40. Anything strange, unexplainable,
unlikely, boyfriend...Copy !req
41. I don't know.Copy !req
42. I give up, Mulder.Copy !req
43. You give up? Funny.Copy !req
44. That's apparently what
the Federal Forest ServiceCopy !req
45. has done, as well.Copy !req
46. Why? What happened to them?Copy !req
47. In a word, they vanished.Copy !req
48. Or so it would appear.Copy !req
49. This is Doug Spinney
and Steven Teague.Copy !req
50. They call themselves
"monkey wrenchers"...Copy !req
51. the guys who
drive spikes into trees,Copy !req
52. sabotage logging equipment and
otherwise make life miserableCopy !req
53. for lumberjacks
and lumber mills.Copy !req
54. Ecoterrorists or
militant environmentalists.Copy !req
55. Right.Copy !req
56. Two weeks ago, the group of
loggers I just showed youCopy !req
57. radioed a messageCopy !req
58. that Spinney and Teague
had gone on a spree...Copy !req
59. spiking trees,
sabotaging equipment,Copy !req
60. causing general mischief.Copy !req
61. One week later,Copy !req
62. all radio communication
was cut off.Copy !req
63. Do they know why?Copy !req
64. No. The lumber company
that employs the menCopy !req
65. has asked the Federal Forest
Service to look into the matter.Copy !req
66. Two officials were sent in
a week ago,Copy !req
67. and no one has heard
from them since.Copy !req
68. It appears
these monkey wrenchersCopy !req
69. are doing more than
just a little mischief making.Copy !req
70. That's what the lumber companyCopy !req
71. and the Federal
Forest Service are accusing.Copy !req
72. They've asked the FBI
to investigate.Copy !req
73. I had to pull few strings
to make sure we got the case.Copy !req
74. For an ecoterrorism case?Copy !req
75. Do I dare ask why?Copy !req
76. In 1934, long before anyoneCopy !req
77. even knew
what an ecoterrorist was,Copy !req
78. a WPA crewCopy !req
79. working that same area
vanished without a trace.Copy !req
80. Not one of those men was ever
found or heard from again.Copy !req
81. And you suspect what, Bigfoot?Copy !req
82. Not likely.Copy !req
83. That's a lot of flannel
to be choking down,Copy !req
84. even for Bigfoot.Copy !req
85. Come on, Scully, it'll be
a nice trip to the forest.Copy !req
86. Hi.Copy !req
87. Fox Mulder.
This is Dana Scully.Copy !req
88. We're with the FBI.Copy !req
89. Larry Moore,
Federal Forest Service.Copy !req
90. You can put your gear
in the back of the truck.Copy !req
91. Must be pretty rugged
where we're going, huh?Copy !req
92. Yeah.Copy !req
93. What's that
in your windshield there,Copy !req
94. is that a bullet hole?Copy !req
95. .22 caliber.Copy !req
96. Somebody take a shot at you?Copy !req
97. What it would appear.Copy !req
98. There's not much
to hunt around hereCopy !req
99. with that type of ammo,
except Freddies.Copy !req
100. "Freddies"?Copy !req
101. Employees of the Federal
Forest Service.Copy !req
102. It's, uh, it's what the
ecoterrorists call us.Copy !req
103. Is that who you think
took a shot at you?Copy !req
104. Let me get this out of the way.Copy !req
105. I have no quarrel with these
ecoterrorists in principle.Copy !req
106. I mean, I'm as concerned
for this forestCopy !req
107. and the environment as anybody.Copy !req
108. It's their methods
I can't condone.Copy !req
109. Do you think they'd go
so far as to kill a man?Copy !req
110. Well, there's 30 men up there
unaccounted for,Copy !req
111. each with survival experience.Copy !req
112. Something happened to them.Copy !req
113. Sorry I'm late.Copy !req
114. I was down talking
to Bob Perkins' wife.Copy !req
115. He's one of our missing loggers.Copy !req
116. Hey, Larry.Copy !req
117. Steve Humphreys,
Head of SecurityCopy !req
118. - for Schiff-Immergut Lumber.
- Mulder. Scully.Copy !req
119. Well, we've got a four-hour
drive ahead of us...Copy !req
120. plenty of time
to get to know each other.Copy !req
121. I get the impressionCopy !req
122. we've walked into
the middle of a warCopy !req
123. that's already started?Copy !req
124. Why do these menCopy !req
125. work so far up
in the wilderness?Copy !req
126. That's where the trees are.Copy !req
127. You're kidding, right?Copy !req
128. No. Environmentalists
have pretty much made sureCopy !req
129. that all the land you
see here is untouchable.Copy !req
130. The work is to take our timber
where we can get it.Copy !req
131. Even then, we plant saplings
for every tree we take.Copy !req
132. So why do the
ecoterrorists target you?Copy !req
133. See, these tree huggers
come from the same kind of boysCopy !req
134. that had gone up to Canada
during the Vietnam War.Copy !req
135. They're cowardly,
and so are their tactics.Copy !req
136. Damn it.Copy !req
137. Homemade tire spike.Copy !req
138. Clear through the sidewall.Copy !req
139. It's unfixable.Copy !req
140. You got a spare, don't you?Copy !req
141. Right tire's history too.Copy !req
142. Monkey wrenchers call it
a caltrop.Copy !req
143. The roads back here
are littered with them.Copy !req
144. Indiscriminate terrorism.Copy !req
145. Can you imagine somebody
putting these downCopy !req
146. or spiking the roads
of Washington, DC?Copy !req
147. I'd like to see how much
sympathy they'd get then.Copy !req
148. So how are we going
to get up to the camp?Copy !req
149. We're going to have to hike.Copy !req
150. Anybody here?Copy !req
151. Someone forgot
to clean their plate.Copy !req
152. Looks like they left
in a hurry too.Copy !req
153. They forgot to pack.Copy !req
154. Find anything?Copy !req
155. Party favors.Copy !req
156. Vehicles have all been
monkey wrenched.Copy !req
157. Power generator's busted.Copy !req
158. Somebody really turned
this place upside down.Copy !req
159. Whoever did it didn't want
the fact broadcast, either.Copy !req
160. Radiators are all full of rice.Copy !req
161. Looks like sugar or sand
in all the crankcases.Copy !req
162. They really did a number here.Copy !req
163. Well, the sun's going down
in an hour and a half.Copy !req
164. Better take a look around
before it gets dark.Copy !req
165. I'll see if I can get
that generator working.Copy !req
166. You were right about one thing.Copy !req
167. What's that?Copy !req
168. Definitely wasn't Bigfoot.Copy !req
169. Look at that.Copy !req
170. What is it?Copy !req
171. It looks like a hive.Copy !req
172. Maybe a cocoon of some kind.Copy !req
173. Made by what?Copy !req
174. I don't know.Copy !req
175. I've never seen
anything like it.Copy !req
176. Got it.Copy !req
177. Can you cut it down?Copy !req
178. Yeah, I think so.Copy !req
179. You all right, Scully?Copy !req
180. Oh, my...Copy !req
181. Kind of feels, uh...Copy !req
182. it feels desiccated,
hard and dry,Copy !req
183. almost preserved.Copy !req
184. Like it's been embalmed.Copy !req
185. No, more like all the fluids
have been bled from its body.Copy !req
186. Almost like it's been cured.Copy !req
187. I think...Copy !req
188. it's a male.Copy !req
189. Barely.Copy !req
190. I'd say it's some kind
of spider's nestCopy !req
191. or insect cocoon.Copy !req
192. What kind of insect
could have gotten a manCopy !req
193. all the way up into that tree?Copy !req
194. Itsy-bitsy spider.Copy !req
195. Don't move.Copy !req
196. Who are you?Copy !req
197. Doug Spinney.Copy !req
198. I ought to shoot you
where you stand.Copy !req
199. Might as well
shoot yourself too.Copy !req
200. You're in a hell of a spot
to be testing me.Copy !req
201. What happened to my men?Copy !req
202. What men?Copy !req
203. The men who were
working this camp.Copy !req
204. I don't know
what happened to them.Copy !req
205. Probably the same thing
will happen to usCopy !req
206. when the sun goes down.Copy !req
207. What are you doing?Copy !req
208. This animal's Doug Spinney.Copy !req
209. He's the man responsible
for all the monkey wrenching.Copy !req
210. - He's probably a murderer, as well.
- I'm no murderer.Copy !req
211. - You're a liar.
- Let's just hear what he has to say.Copy !req
212. If we stand around here talking,Copy !req
213. there will
be nothing left to say.Copy !req
214. I'd start thinking about how to
get that generator started.Copy !req
215. Darkness is our enemy.Copy !req
216. What's he talking about?Copy !req
217. Someone want to give me a hand?Copy !req
218. Now he's giving orders?Copy !req
219. I'm the one who fixed
the damn thing.Copy !req
220. Hey, it's all right.Copy !req
221. Why did you say
that darkness was our enemy?Copy !req
222. That's when they come.Copy !req
223. When who comes?Copy !req
224. I don't know what it is.Copy !req
225. They come from the sky,Copy !req
226. take a man right off his feet
and devour him alive.Copy !req
227. I saw it happen.Copy !req
228. Happen to who?Copy !req
229. I need to eat.Copy !req
230. I haven't eaten in three days.Copy !req
231. What kind of BS story
is that, huh?Copy !req
232. You believe that?Copy !req
233. We found something
in the forest.Copy !req
234. What?Copy !req
235. A man caught in some kindCopy !req
236. of insect cocoon.Copy !req
237. What happened here?Copy !req
238. We camped two valleys over,
four of us.Copy !req
239. Three now.Copy !req
240. More rats in the woodpile.Copy !req
241. Our truck has a dead battery,Copy !req
242. so we drew straws to see
who would make the hikeCopy !req
243. over here to steal one
from the loggers.Copy !req
244. Why not just hike out?Copy !req
245. It's over a day's hike.Copy !req
246. No way we wanted to be caught
out in the forest after dark,Copy !req
247. not after
what happened to Teague.Copy !req
248. That's the man that you said
was devoured alive?Copy !req
249. Yeah.Copy !req
250. What are you guys
doing out here?Copy !req
251. Camping.Copy !req
252. Yeah, right...
the kind of campingCopy !req
253. you do is a Federal offense.Copy !req
254. Just-just hold off
a second, okay?Copy !req
255. No, he's right.Copy !req
256. This man is an admitted felon.Copy !req
257. He could be placed under arrest.Copy !req
258. What about your offense,
my friend, huh?Copy !req
259. What about your offense
against nature you perpetrate?Copy !req
260. We operate
completely within the law.Copy !req
261. We pay for the right
to take those trees.Copy !req
262. Oh, yeah?
Well, I got news for you...Copy !req
263. your logging crew
is taking treesCopy !req
264. that nobody has a right to.Copy !req
265. Trees that
are marked and protectedCopy !req
266. so don't talk to me
about breaking the law...Copy !req
267. sir.Copy !req
268. They've been taking
marked trees?Copy !req
269. Yes, sir, marked in orange.Copy !req
270. Old growth trees?Copy !req
271. You know anything
about that, Steve?Copy !req
272. No.Copy !req
273. You going to take
this man's word over mine?Copy !req
274. You don't want to go
out in the night.Copy !req
275. Take my word on that.Copy !req
276. It's out there.Copy !req
277. What, if I go out that door,Copy !req
278. something's going
to attack me, eat me aliveCopy !req
279. and spin me in its web?Copy !req
280. Yes.Copy !req
281. But it's too polite
to come in here and get me?Copy !req
282. For some reason, it's, uh, it's
afraid of the light.Copy !req
283. It's afraid of the light.Copy !req
284. There may be something
to what he's saying, Steve.Copy !req
285. You know what I think?Copy !req
286. I think this man
is a liar and a murderer,Copy !req
287. and just clever enough
to make up a story like thatCopy !req
288. even to whip up that cocoon
just to save a few treesCopy !req
289. and I'm going
to prove I'm right.Copy !req
290. This is ridiculous.Copy !req
291. Where is it, Spinney?Copy !req
292. I thought it was going to comeCopy !req
293. and, uh, devour me.Copy !req
294. Hey! Here I am!Copy !req
295. Oh, come out, come out,
wherever you are.Copy !req
296. Aw, don't be shy.Copy !req
297. Come on!Copy !req
298. Huh?Copy !req
299. Just like I told you.Copy !req
300. There's nothing out here
but a bunch of trees...Copy !req
301. trees that this man values
more than human life.Copy !req
302. I'm going to see him
tried on murder charges.Copy !req
303. What do you think?Copy !req
304. I think I'm going to suggestCopy !req
305. that we sleep
with the lights on.Copy !req
306. You see this Douglas fir?Copy !req
307. It's been standing here
since before timeCopy !req
308. and your men cut it down.Copy !req
309. Who marks these trees?Copy !req
310. Federal Forest Service.Copy !req
311. You're only supposed
to cut treesCopy !req
312. marked with a blue "X."Copy !req
313. This tree must be
hundreds of years old.Copy !req
314. At least.Copy !req
315. Must get a lot of lumber
from a big tree like this.Copy !req
316. Thousands of board feet...
hell of a lot easierCopy !req
317. than taking a lot
of smaller, younger trees.Copy !req
318. Well, let me remind youCopy !req
319. that monkey wrenchers
like Spinney hereCopy !req
320. are not above marking treesCopy !req
321. with their own paint.Copy !req
322. This tree's 500 years old
if it's a day, Steve.Copy !req
323. Look at this.Copy !req
324. What would this represent?Copy !req
325. I don't know.Copy !req
326. I've never seen a ring
like that before.Copy !req
327. Those center rings
are the older rings, right?Copy !req
328. Yeah. Every ring represents
a season of growth.Copy !req
329. And you see these?Copy !req
330. These are 500, 600 years old.Copy !req
331. They're a recorded history
of rainfall and climate.Copy !req
332. This one... I don't know.Copy !req
333. I should take a core sample.Copy !req
334. Are we finished
with this nature walk?Copy !req
335. I want an answer to what
happened to those loggers.Copy !req
336. That's what we're
trying to determine, sir.Copy !req
337. Looking at a tree stump?Copy !req
338. Don't you think you should be
interrogating this man?Copy !req
339. I don't think he did it.Copy !req
340. Well, I think he did and
I want him arrested.Copy !req
341. Well, he's not going anywhere.Copy !req
342. No, not with a gun on him.Copy !req
343. But what happens if you're
poking around,Copy !req
344. his three buddies show upCopy !req
345. and do to you
what they probably didCopy !req
346. to those two Federal
forest officials, huh?Copy !req
347. Larry?Copy !req
348. I just want to take a core
sample of this tree, Steve.Copy !req
349. Hey, I got families down thereCopy !req
350. who want some answers about
loved ones, and so do you...Copy !req
351. answers that aren't gonna
be found in that tree.Copy !req
352. The only crime here
to investigateCopy !req
353. is the death of that tree.Copy !req
354. Yeah, well,
we'll see about that.Copy !req
355. Steve, where are you going?Copy !req
356. I'm hiking down to your truckCopy !req
357. and get some people up hereCopy !req
358. who will take action.Copy !req
359. Steve!Copy !req
360. Oh, let him go.Copy !req
361. Let him find out for himself.Copy !req
362. This is odd.Copy !req
363. This yellow ring's got
something living in it,Copy !req
364. some kind of...Copy !req
365. tiny bug.Copy !req
366. It doesn't make sense.Copy !req
367. Why not?Copy !req
368. Well, parasites attack
a tree in a variety of ways,Copy !req
369. but they always attack
the living parts:Copy !req
370. the leaves, the roots,
the new growth rings.Copy !req
371. Even if they're borers
of some kind,Copy !req
372. they wouldn't be working
so deep in the tree.Copy !req
373. Maybe the wood
in this ring is different.Copy !req
374. They seem to be feeding on it.Copy !req
375. Can you identify them?Copy !req
376. It's a wood mite of some kind.Copy !req
377. I mean, it's nothing
I've ever seen before.Copy !req
378. Could they have been living
in that treeCopy !req
379. for hundreds of years?Copy !req
380. I don't see how.Copy !req
381. These inner rings
are essentially dead wood.Copy !req
382. The tree's vascular systemCopy !req
383. is limited to
the outer few rings.Copy !req
384. They need water to survive.Copy !req
385. They appear to be hatching
out of the porous wood.Copy !req
386. Maybe when you
drew out this coreCopy !req
387. you tapped into a larger nest.Copy !req
388. Can they build a cocoon?Copy !req
389. Right after that tree was
cut down is when Teague died.Copy !req
390. It's about the same time that
the loggers disappeared too.Copy !req
391. You think mites killed the men?Copy !req
392. Maybe they been lying there
dormant for hundreds of years.Copy !req
393. Maybe they woke up hungry.Copy !req
394. Damn it!Copy !req
395. All right, you monkey wrenchers,Copy !req
396. come on out now.Copy !req
397. I know what you're up to!Copy !req
398. Humphreys should have been
back by now.Copy !req
399. These bugs aren't moving
anymore.Copy !req
400. They're either dead,
or they're asleep.Copy !req
401. It's the light.Copy !req
402. They don't like the light.Copy !req
403. That's weird.Copy !req
404. I mean, usually, bugs
are attracted to light.Copy !req
405. These obviously
are not your ordinary bugs,Copy !req
406. to say the least.Copy !req
407. What do you know
about insects, Scully?Copy !req
408. Uh, just what I learned
in my biology courses.Copy !req
409. That they're the foundation
of our ecosystem.Copy !req
410. That there are lots of them,
something likeCopy !req
411. 200 million per person
on this planet.Copy !req
412. And they've been around
a long time, right?Copy !req
413. Yeah, something like
600 million years...Copy !req
414. even before
the dinosaurs. Why?Copy !req
415. And this tree is what,
500, 600, 700 years old?Copy !req
416. Yeah.Copy !req
417. And these rings represent
a history of climatic changes,Copy !req
418. which means that, in
this year or seasonCopy !req
419. in the life of the
tree, there wasCopy !req
420. some kind of strange event
that producedCopy !req
421. an abnormal ring.Copy !req
422. Well, like what, exactly?Copy !req
423. A volcanic eruption.Copy !req
424. This whole chain of mountainsCopy !req
425. running from Washington
to OregonCopy !req
426. is still extremely active.Copy !req
427. Remember Mount Saint Helens?Copy !req
428. Yeah, but how does that
explain the bugs?Copy !req
429. Well, after Mount Saint Helens
erupted,Copy !req
430. there was a large amount
of radiation that was unleashedCopy !req
431. from inside the earth.Copy !req
432. Strange things started to grow.Copy !req
433. There's actually this lakeCopy !req
434. where they've discovered
a kind of amoebaCopy !req
435. that can literally suck
a man's brains out.Copy !req
436. Oh, a brain-sucking amoeba.Copy !req
437. No, it's true... in Spirit Lake...
and there's documented casesCopy !req
438. of swimmers being infected.Copy !req
439. But an amoeba isCopy !req
440. a single-celled organism.Copy !req
441. It can be mutated.Copy !req
442. An insect is a complex animal.Copy !req
443. A-A mutation
would takeCopy !req
444. years and years to evolve.Copy !req
445. Well, then,
maybe what we're dealing withCopy !req
446. isn't a mutation at all.Copy !req
447. What if it's some kind
of extinct insect larvaeCopy !req
448. in that ring,Copy !req
449. deposited during a period
of volcanic activity,Copy !req
450. brought up through the
tree's root system?Copy !req
451. Ancient insect eggs...Copy !req
452. thousands, maybe millions
of years old,Copy !req
453. - lying dormant until...
- Until those loggers cut downCopy !req
454. that tree.Copy !req
455. That would be rather
poetic justice, don't you think?Copy !req
456. Unleashing the very thing
that would end up killing themCopy !req
457. and your friend Humphreys?Copy !req
458. And who knows?Copy !req
459. Maybe us.Copy !req
460. Sweet dreams.Copy !req
461. Humphreys might have
just hiked out of here.Copy !req
462. We don't know that he didn't.Copy !req
463. Maybe we're letting ourselves
get carried awayCopy !req
464. with this bug story.Copy !req
465. Yeah, maybe.Copy !req
466. Going somewhere?Copy !req
467. - No, I was just...
- Doing a little auto repair?Copy !req
468. Looks to me like you're planning
on cutting out of here.Copy !req
469. I got to save my friends.Copy !req
470. They only had enough gasCopy !req
471. to keep their generator
running 15, 20 hours max.Copy !req
472. They're going to die if
I don't get back there.Copy !req
473. So, why you sneaking around?Copy !req
474. The Freddy.Copy !req
475. Forest Service guy
wouldn't go for it.Copy !req
476. He'd never trust me.Copy !req
477. He's got no reason to.Copy !req
478. Neither do I.Copy !req
479. Look, I can save us all, man.Copy !req
480. We've got a jeep over there...
it's just two valleys over.Copy !req
481. All it needs is a battery.Copy !req
482. Now, I could get there, I could
be back here in the morning.Copy !req
483. We can all drive out tomorrow.Copy !req
484. You got to trust me, man.Copy !req
485. Radio's back up.Copy !req
486. It's working?Copy !req
487. I'm not getting any reception,Copy !req
488. so the receiver
could be trashed.Copy !req
489. What about transmissions?Copy !req
490. Can you send a message?Copy !req
491. I could try.Copy !req
492. This is a call for help.Copy !req
493. Is there anyone
at this frequency?Copy !req
494. This is Special Agent
Mulder of the FBI.Copy !req
495. We have an emergency and a
possible quarantine situation.Copy !req
496. Our position is...Copy !req
497. What happened to the generator?Copy !req
498. I turned it off.Copy !req
499. Well, turn it back on.
I got the radio working.Copy !req
500. What happened to the gas can?Copy !req
501. Spinney took it.Copy !req
502. He took it?Copy !req
503. You mean, he's gone?Copy !req
504. He left earlier this morning.
He took a battery and some gas.Copy !req
505. He's gonna come backCopy !req
506. for us in the morning.Copy !req
507. What, did he give you his
personal guarantee on that?Copy !req
508. He gave me his word, yeah.Copy !req
509. You stop to think that the man
who gave you his wordCopy !req
510. has made an art out of sabotage
and defying authorityCopy !req
511. and is probably the same manCopy !req
512. who put that, tha-that bullet
through my windshield?Copy !req
513. Well, what would you have done?Copy !req
514. At least now
we've got one chanceCopy !req
515. of getting out of here alive,Copy !req
516. which is one more chance
than we had before.Copy !req
517. Or one less.Copy !req
518. What do you mean?Copy !req
519. Your partner let Spinney leave
with the last of the gas.Copy !req
520. This generator's got about a
quarter tank left, maybe less.Copy !req
521. What about the gas
in the trucks?Copy !req
522. There is no more gas.
The other tanksCopy !req
523. have all been ruptured
or filled with sugar.Copy !req
524. By the same man
who we are now trustingCopy !req
525. to keep his word
and come back for us.Copy !req
526. Well, then, we got to get back
on the radio.Copy !req
527. We got to send out a Mayday.Copy !req
528. Every drop of fuel we waste isCopy !req
529. fuel that's going to keep
this gennie powered tonight.Copy !req
530. I don't want to
be waiting around,Copy !req
531. hoping somebody heard
that transmissionCopy !req
532. when this thing quits running
about 2:00 in the morning.Copy !req
533. Do you?Copy !req
534. - Mulder...
- Look, it's done.Copy !req
535. I shouldn't have let him go.Copy !req
536. Let's just move past it, okay?Copy !req
537. Fine.Copy !req
538. What do you suggest?Copy !req
539. I don't know.Copy !req
540. We'll think of something.Copy !req
541. Look, I think we both
have a pretty good ideaCopy !req
542. of what happened
to those loggersCopy !req
543. and what happened to
the group in 1934.Copy !req
544. They only found one cocoon.Copy !req
545. It's a very big forest.Copy !req
546. Look, Scully,
what would you have done?Copy !req
547. You mean, would I have made
a decision by myselfCopy !req
548. that would have affected
the whole group?Copy !req
549. Oh, will you cut
the sanctimonious crap?Copy !req
550. Well, what do you want me
to say?Copy !req
551. Let's face it, Mulder,
we might die up here.Copy !req
552. If we're lucky, they'll find
our bodies spun up in a treeCopy !req
553. or they may not find us at all!Copy !req
554. You're right... and we're
wasting time arguing about it.Copy !req
555. What are you going to do?Copy !req
556. Button this place up.Copy !req
557. If we got to spend
the night in here,Copy !req
558. we got to do everything we canCopy !req
559. to make sure the
bugs stay out there.Copy !req
560. I'd be careful with that.Copy !req
561. It's the only bulb that works.Copy !req
562. I can see them.Copy !req
563. You guys, look at this.Copy !req
564. Look. They're coming through
the wall down where it's dark.Copy !req
565. You see them?Copy !req
566. They're on me!Copy !req
567. It's all right, Scully.Copy !req
568. Scully...Copy !req
569. - Get them off me!
- Stop.Copy !req
570. - Scully, stand still.
- Whoa, watch it, watch it!Copy !req
571. - Get them off me!
- Stand still!Copy !req
572. Stop it, stop it!Copy !req
573. Can you see them?Copy !req
574. Mulder, get them off me!Copy !req
575. They're not just on you.Copy !req
576. They're everywhere.
I think that's whatCopy !req
577. that greasy residue
is over everything.Copy !req
578. I thought we were supposed
to be safe in the light.Copy !req
579. We are!Copy !req
580. I think the light keeps
them from swarming.Copy !req
581. We'll be safe as long
as we stay in the light.Copy !req
582. How you feeling?Copy !req
583. I'm okay.Copy !req
584. They're oxidizing enzymesCopy !req
585. just like fireflies.Copy !req
586. Maybe that's why they
cocoon their prey...Copy !req
587. so that they can
oxidize the proteinsCopy !req
588. taken from the
fluids in the body.Copy !req
589. And what if the generator goes?Copy !req
590. Are they all going
to swarm in hereCopy !req
591. and drain the life out of us?Copy !req
592. We got an hour and a half
till sunrise.Copy !req
593. And then what?Copy !req
594. It's over a day's hike
out of here.Copy !req
595. We won't make it on foot
by nightfall.Copy !req
596. Well, maybe somebody heard
our radio transmission.Copy !req
597. Help could be on the way.Copy !req
598. You sent that call hours ago.Copy !req
599. I mean, help would have
been here by now.Copy !req
600. Well, I'm not going
to give up on Spinney.Copy !req
601. He gave me his word
he'd come back to get us.Copy !req
602. And if he doesn't?Copy !req
603. We'll think of something.Copy !req
604. You got a patch kit
or an extra tubeCopy !req
605. - in your truck?
- Yeah.Copy !req
606. Maybe we can patch this or at
least get it to hold some air.Copy !req
607. With the spare in your truck,
maybe we can limpCopy !req
608. down the mountain.Copy !req
609. If not, at least
we can get on the radioCopy !req
610. and warn them what's out there.Copy !req
611. See it?Copy !req
612. Yeah.Copy !req
613. Listen.Copy !req
614. You hear that?Copy !req
615. It's a car.Copy !req
616. No, it's a jeep.Copy !req
617. We got to move.Copy !req
618. Let's go! Let's go!Copy !req
619. Wait, what about the
body... Humphreys' body?Copy !req
620. Leave it. I've radioed for help.Copy !req
621. What happened to your friends?Copy !req
622. They didn't make it.Copy !req
623. We're not gonna make it
either unless we haul ass.Copy !req
624. Let's go.
Come on.Copy !req
625. Oh!Copy !req
626. Damn it!Copy !req
627. I don't believe it.Copy !req
628. When you talk about
shooting yourself in the foot.Copy !req
629. Get out of there!Copy !req
630. Get back in the car!Copy !req
631. We have an emergency
evacuation situation.Copy !req
632. Requesting quarantine facilityCopy !req
633. for two, possibly three victimsCopy !req
634. with undiagnosed infection
or exposureCopy !req
635. to unknown biological vectors.Copy !req
636. Repeat, that's an emergency
evacuation situation.Copy !req
637. Two, possibly three victims...Copy !req
638. Attention, all personnel.Copy !req
639. High-level bio clearance
required on the third floor.Copy !req
640. How are you feeling?Copy !req
641. Better.Copy !req
642. How did the tests come back?Copy !req
643. Your respiratory charts
were good.Copy !req
644. We were concerned
about the extentCopy !req
645. of damage due to inhalation.Copy !req
646. There were large concentrationsCopy !req
647. of a chemical we determined
was luciferin.Copy !req
648. Which is what?Copy !req
649. The same enzyme
we find in firefliesCopy !req
650. and other
bioluminescent insects.Copy !req
651. Our entomologists
are still trying to determineCopy !req
652. the specific epithetCopy !req
653. of the insects you encountered.Copy !req
654. Scully?Copy !req
655. How's she doing?Copy !req
656. She's still not
out of the woods, so to speak.Copy !req
657. She lost a lot of fluids.Copy !req
658. Two or three more hours
of exposure, she might notCopy !req
659. have made it.Copy !req
660. I told her it was going
to be a nice trip to the forest.Copy !req
661. How you going to contain it
to the forest?Copy !req
662. What if the swarm migrates?Copy !req
663. The government has initiated
eradication procedures.Copy !req
664. They're quite certain that,
by using a combinationCopy !req
665. of controlled burns
and pesticides,Copy !req
666. they will be successful.Copy !req
667. And if they're not?Copy !req
668. That is not an option,
Mr. Mulder.Copy !req