The X-Files 1x23

1. Here, let me do it.

2. Put your number in, then your card.

3. What's your number, Roland?

4. Three-fifteen.

5. See how easy it is?

6. Engine efficiency: 94%.

7. We need more.

8. How's the back pressure holding?

9. What do you think? It's climbing.

10. Increase the blade inclination.

11. I said increase the blade inclination!

12. Inclination of the blade is pi over nine.

13. We've reached maximum velocity.

14. No!

15. Let it go!

16. It will work.

17. It's just going to destroy itself!

18. I'm not going to do that.

19. It's not going to destroy itself.

20. Come on! We're almost there!

21. There's something wrong with our equations.

22. - What happened? - Nothing.

23. Because Surnow pulled the plug.

24. I'm just protecting the baby... and four years of work, Frank.

25. Four years of work that's going to add up to zilch.

26. Because, unless we show some progress,

27. they're going to pull the plug on us, Ron.

28. He's right, you know.

29. You should have continued with the test.

30. Somebody's going to crack mach 15,

31. and I want that someone to be us.

32. And I'm not going to jeopardize everything

33. just because you two guys

34. can't wait to see your name in print.

35. It's the print that gets the money, Ron.

36. If you want to go down in flames together, fine.

37. You go ahead.

38. I'm going to do the math.

39. Good night, Dr. Keats.

40. What the hell?

41. Roland.

42. Open the door.

43. Open the door!

44. Roland, I want you to listen to me very carefully.

45. We have to open this door, Roland.

46. Stop typing!

47. Roland!

48. Roland! Open the door!

49. What are you doing?

50. Open the door!

51. Roland, hit "escape." Are you listening?

52. - How was the wedding? - You mean the part

53. where the groom passed out or the dog bit the drummer?

54. Did you catch the bouquet?

55. Maybe.

56. So, is that what you couldn't

57. talk to me about over the phone?

58. The project that everyone says doesn't exist does exist.

59. The Icarus Project?

60. The next generation in jet engine design.

61. Capable of doubling current supersonic speeds

62. using half the fuel... at least in theory.

63. And Ronald Surnow was an aeronautical scientist

64. who worked on it here at the university.

65. - Yes. - How close are they?

66. I'm not sure, but Surnow's the second scientist

67. on the team to die in the last six months.

68. Okay, but how is this an X File?

69. Mulder, you don't think

70. this has anything to do with UFO technology?

71. There's something unexplainable here, Scully,

72. but it's certainly not unidentifiable.

73. Keats?

74. There.

75. Dr. Keats?

76. We're with the FBI.

77. I'm Agent Mulder. This is Agent Scully.

78. We understand you discovered Dr. Surnow this morning.

79. What was left of him.

80. How do you suppose he became trapped in the wind tunnel?

81. Someone must have shut him in.

82. The door can only be opened or locked from in there.

83. By computer?

84. We've already been through this with the police.

85. How many times do we have to rehash it?

86. Another member of your team died a short time ago.

87. - Isn't that correct? - Yes.

88. Arthur Grable.

89. He was killed in an automobile accident

90. in November.

91. I'm Frank Nollette.

92. I'm also on the project.

93. Are you certain it was an accident?

94. What are you driving at?

95. Your work seems to be

96. a perfect target for industrial espionage.

97. Who wrote this?

98. Ron was working on it when I left.

99. You see, the handwriting here

100. doesn't seem to match

101. any of the other handwriting on the board.

102. It isn't mine.

103. What about Roland Fuller?

104. Uh... Roland's the, uh... janitor.

105. Well, according to the police report,

106. he was the only other person here last night.

107. Roland didn't do that.

108. How do you know?

109. Let's just say

110. Roland isn't exactly a rocket scientist.

111. Here.

112. "Tracy."

113. With stars.

114. Roland.

115. There are some people here who would like to talk with you.

116. Uh-oh.

117. I went off the paper.

118. Sorry.

119. That's all right, Roland.

120. Tracy?

121. Would you like to come help me in the TV room?

122. Okay.

123. Thank you.

124. Hi, Roland.

125. You mind if we sit down?

126. Eh...

127. Thanks.

128. You mind if we ask you a couple questions?

129. Do you remember working last night?

130. Uh-huh.

131. Do you remember seeing anything unusual?

132. Seeing any strangers?

133. Did, um... did Dr. Surnow

134. or Dr. Keats or Dr. Nollette do anything unusual?

135. Nope.

136. You must like stars.

137. One hundred and forty-seven.

138. Sorry?

139. Stars.

140. You like numbers, too, huh?

141. Roland, let me help you.

142. One, two,

143. three, four, five,

144. - six, seven... - Roland?

145. Is everything okay?

146. eight, nine...

147. Roland, are you all right?

148. ten, eleven,

149. twelve, thirteen...

150. What happened?

151. What did you say to upset him so?

152. sixteen, seventeen...

153. It's definitely the work

154. of a fourth and distinct individual.

155. Dr. Surnow's, Dr. Keats'

156. and Dr. Nollette's cursive standards

157. don't match what you found on the white board.

158. Will you do me a favor and try this?

159. What is it?

160. That's something Roland was doodling at the home.

161. You don't really think that Roland...

162. Besides Nollette and Keats, he's the only person

163. we can prove was in the lab that night.

164. Yes, but we're talking

165. about a sophisticated fluid dynamics equation.

166. Roland Fuller barely has an IQ of 70.

167. Well, you saw his facility with mathematics.

168. Don't some autistic individuals display unusual abilities?

169. Yes, but even savants

170. behave only as human calculators.

171. I mean, they can perform certain functions,

172. but they can't tell you the value of anything

173. or even the meaning of a number.

174. I hate to take sides, guys,

175. but the bottom line is no.

176. The terminal stroke on the six,

177. the roof on the five...

178. I'm sorry.

179. He didn't write it.

180. An organic object exposed to liquid nitrogen

181. at minus 320 degrees will become frozen,

182. exhibiting great tensile strength,

183. but is vulnerable to stress from compression or impact.

184. Now, I've seen this demonstrated on a fish before...

185. I don't think they'll be performing

186. this experiment on Beakman's World.

187. Has this been dusted?

188. Treat yourself.

189. Thanks.

190. Hey, Scully, look at these files.

191. "KMAN" must be Keats.

192. His file was turned off at 12:31 last night.

193. But look. Someone else entered a file

194. under the name "Arthur" after 12:31.

195. And worked on it for nearly five hours.

196. Well, it couldn't have been Keats.

197. Judging from the rigor of the body,

198. he was dead around 12:30.

199. So you're saying that someone came in here,

200. killed Keats, and then just did some work

201. on an old Dr. Arthur Grable file?

202. Well, I can't access the Arthur file.

203. We're going to need the password.

204. Try 15626.

205. How did you know that that was...?

206. This is Arthur Grable's work

207. on the same fluid dynamics equations

208. the others were working on.

209. Look at all those entries.

210. Someone has been continuing his work

211. for the six months since he died.

212. How did you know what the password was?

213. Wave good-bye. Wave good-bye.

214. Come on. We've got to go.

215. Wave good-bye. Bye-bye.

216. Wave good-bye.

217. Roland?

218. Why did you sleep in your clothes last night?

219. Well, let's get you dressed.

220. You have visitors.

221. I'm not supposed to talk to them.

222. Who told you that?

223. Remember that talk we had

224. about being shy?

225. These are nice people, Roland.

226. Hey, Roland, you got more shirts than I do.

227. I think this one would look stylin' today.

228. What do you think?

229. The green one.

230. Green one?

231. Please.

232. Mrs. Stodie, can I talk to you a second?

233. See you later, Roland.

234. This one?

235. Here you go.

236. So, do you like your job at the college, Roland?

237. Yes.

238. I hear you're very good at it.

239. Do you remember how you got your job?

240. A man talked to Mrs. Stodie.

241. What man?

242. Dr. Grable.

243. Was Dr. Grable nice to you?

244. Yes.

245. When was the last time you spoke to him?

246. Last week?

247. Day before?

248. Dr. Grable died.

249. I'm sorry.

250. Yes.

251. People die.

252. They go away,

253. and they're not supposed to come back.

254. Has Roland ever mentioned

255. the name "Arthur"?

256. That was Dr. Grable's first name,

257. but we only called him Dr. Grable.

258. I doubt Roland even knew his first name was Arthur.

259. Mrs. Stodie, can I get a copy

260. of Roland's file and past history?

261. Our patients' histories are confidential.

262. I understand, but I have grounds to obtain them,

263. and the less time we have to spend in court,

264. the more time we have to help Roland.

265. Roland Fuller was hired by Arthur Grable.

266. He went to the halfway house

267. specifically to find a mentally challenged person.

268. Are you suggesting that Arthur Grable

269. hired Roland in order to use him?

270. Then are you suggesting that Arthur Grable is not dead?

271. Well, if he had intentions

272. of killing Nollette, Keats and Surnow,

273. why not set it up to appear the least likely suspect?

274. Yeah, but by the look of this, he's hamburger.

275. Maybe he staged it.

276. That would explain why his work is continuing on

277. six months after his "death."

278. This obituary says

279. that Arthur Grable was born in Seattle.

280. His father was a big banker.

281. His mother was active in a number of charities.

282. Only child.

283. Summa cum laude in physics.

284. Doctoral and postdoctoral

285. in aeronautical engineering at Harvey Mudd.

286. Brilliant future, tragically cut short.

287. Roland's also from Seattle.

288. He spent most of his life at the Heritage halfway house.

289. The identity of his parents has been sealed by the courts.

290. There's very little information on Roland

291. before the age of three.

292. That's when he was put in the Heritage program.

293. Does it say when he was born?

294. July 15, 1952.

295. That's also Arthur's birth date.

296. Don't you wish you could fly?

297. I can.

298. When I dream.

299. People can do anything in a dream, you know.

300. Once...

301. one time, I had a dream we were married

302. and lived in a house.

303. Do you have dreams, Roland?

304. You can tell me.

305. Roland?

306. Who's Arthur?

307. I'm sorry, Roland.

308. I'm sorry.

309. Roland!

310. Roland?

311. Go away!

312. Roland, what's the matter?

313. Go away!

314. I don't want to hurt you!

315. Go away!

316. Go away.

317. Is that you?

318. Yes.

319. Cool do.

320. What's the story here?

321. Um... a quantum physics professor of mine

322. at Harvey Mudd flunked me.

323. He challenged the tenets of one of my theories...

324. a theory I later published in Nature.

325. Anyway, to get back at him

326. one afternoon, we decided to take his car apart

327. and put it back together again in his office

328. and left it running.

329. Hmm, an egghead classic.

330. It was Arthur Grable's idea.

331. Is that Arthur Grable there, sitting on the chair?

332. Yeah.

333. Was he a practical joker?

334. Atop of all his brilliance

335. he had a genius for executing elaborate schemes.

336. Could he be making it seem like a man with a 70 IQ

337. is gaining access to and operating

338. his old computer files?

339. Arthur would still have to be alive.

340. Could he have faked his own death?

341. - No. - The police report

342. on the auto accident that killed Arthur Grable

343. is woefully incomplete.

344. It was a dry road surface, no mechanical problems found.

345. The body was never admitted to a county morgue

346. and there was no funeral.

347. If, uh, you are trying to suggest

348. that Arthur Grable killed Surnow and Keats

349. and is after me next, you're way off.

350. Art could not have done the murders.

351. How can you be so certain?

352. This is Arthur Grable.

353. Because of the massive internal damage to his body

354. caused by the car accident, we could only preserve the head.

355. Wouldn't your client find it somewhat inconvenient

356. to be thawed out in the future, only to discover

357. he had no functional mobility?

358. We believe that, by the time science figures a way

359. to revive our clients...

360. You'll also know how to clone new bodies for them.

361. Exactly.

362. This technology is progressing faster

363. than anyone thought possible.

364. Ask anyone here at the university.

365. So, while for us, the passing of each second

366. brings our bodies closer to death,

367. for our clients, it brings them closer to life.

368. These fluctuations in temperature...

369. - do they happen often? - No. We've had some problems

370. with Dr. Grable's capsule, and our technicians

371. have checked it for possible malfunctions,

372. but they've found nothing.

373. Is it possible the brain is causing the fluctuation?

374. No, but we are looking for the explanation.

375. The patient's in no danger.

376. He remains perfectly preserved

377. as long as there's liquid nitrogen in the capsule.

378. May we take a look at Arthur Grable's records?

379. Thank you.

380. Dr. Barrington,

381. in your conception of future medical science,

382. what requirements will exist

383. to be an organ or tissue donor?

384. Same requirements as there are today.

385. Compatible genetic makeup.

386. It's best if the donor is related.

387. Mulder...

388. Arthur Grable put down only one donor.

389. Roland Fuller and Arthur Grable had the same birthday.

390. I think they're twins.

391. Older or younger?

392. Same age,

393. just less hairy and with better eyesight.

394. Got you, and the moustache?

395. No. Lose the whole beard.

396. Next?

397. Close-cropped hair

398. with a slightly receding widow's peak.

399. Lose the glasses.

400. That's Roland.

401. Give or take a few pounds.

402. Tell me about your dreams, Roland.

403. It's all right. I won't tell anybody.

404. You know, I had a dream last night.

405. I dreamt I was swimming in this pool

406. and I could see my father underwater,

407. but when I dove down, the water stung my eyes.

408. Then there was another man at the pool, watching me.

409. He upset me.

410. He was asking me questions I didn't want to answer

411. and I had to leave.

412. I couldn't find my father.

413. I can't tell you my dreams.

414. Why not?

415. Bad.

416. Your dreams are bad, Roland,

417. not you.

418. You're a good person.

419. I hit Tracy.

420. Your dreams make you hit Tracy?

421. You know how to work this toy, Roland?

422. Here.

423. You see, the way you work that toy

424. is like what's happening to you.

425. You're the spaceship, Roland,

426. and your dreams are the controls.

427. Who...?

428. Who runs the controls?

429. Have you seen this man recently?

430. Come on, Arthur, we have to say bye-bye to Roland.

431. Bye.

432. Roland.

433. Roland.

434. Roland, stop.

435. Roland!

436. Roland.

437. Roland.

438. We need to arrange to keep Roland under observation.

439. Roland.

440. - He's trying to get away. - Roland.

441. Roland.

442. Roland!

443. Roland!

444. Roland! Roland!

445. Roland!

446. Nollette's gone.

447. We should arrange a security guard to find him.

448. Mulder, no one's going to provide you with anything

449. once you explain your theory

450. on how Roland Fuller is capable of these murders.

451. You've got a brother, don't you, Scully?

452. Yeah, I've got an older one and a younger one.

453. Well, have you ever thought about calling one of them

454. all day long, and then all of a sudden the phone rings,

455. and it's one of them calling you?

456. Does this pitch somehow end with a way for me

457. to lower my long distance charges?

458. I believe in psychic connections,

459. and evidence suggests that it's stronger between family members,

460. strongest of all between twin siblings

461. that shared the same womb.

462. Okay, maybe, but in this case

463. one sibling has closer ties to a frozen Fudgsicle

464. than he does to his own brother.

465. Arthur Grable is not dead.

466. He's in a state of consciousness

467. that no human has ever returned from.

468. And what if that state allows one to develop psychic ability

469. to a potential that the conscious mind

470. is too preoccupied to explore

471. or believe in?

472. He could use that ability to control his brother

473. to kill those scientists.

474. But why? He's been working with these colleagues for years.

475. Well, that's a question that only Dr. Nollette can answer.

476. Okay, let's go.

477. I have to call my brother.

478. We've got to find Nollette.

479. Let's talk to Campus Security.

480. We go this way?

481. No, we go left.

482. Well, wherever you are, Arthur,

483. I'm sure you'll appreciate this.

484. Arthur and Roland Grable.

485. Born at Puget Presbyterian to Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Grable

486. on July 15, 1952.

487. Arthur was four minutes older than Roland.

488. Identical twins.

489. Which means that they're the result

490. of a single egg fertilized by a single sperm.

491. I've read studies which suggest that,

492. in some cases, the identical twin arises

493. very early in the embryonic stage

494. when a mutation in one cell

495. is rejected by the other cells

496. as foreign.

497. So, then, maybe Roland's condition

498. is the result of a damaged chromosome

499. rejected by one of Arthur's cells?

500. In a way, that would explain Arthur's genius

501. and Roland's strange mathematical gift.

502. In a way.

503. Agent Scully.

504. This is Larry Barrington at the Avalon Foundation.

505. We've, uh, got a situation here.

506. Uh-huh.

507. Last night we had a break-in at the facility.

508. That's right, yeah.

509. It's Arthur Grable's storage unit.

510. His internal thermostat's been compromised.

511. Was there any tissue damage?

512. We're trying to assess that now.

513. The temperature's still rising.

514. Something's blocking our access

515. to the cooling program.

516. Someone tampered with Arthur Grable's capsule.

517. They're attempting to stabilize it now.

518. Nollette.

519. What is it?

520. "If I have seen further than other men,

521. it's because I have stood on the shoulders of giants."

522. No.

523. This isn't yours.

524. It's amazing.

525. There's this body sitting there

526. in front of me talking,

527. but you're controlling it, Arthur.

528. You took my work.

529. What good was your work going to do you?

530. You died before you could finish it,

531. before you could publish it.

532. It was mine!

533. And a brilliant piece of work, too.

534. When I saw the writing on the white board,

535. I knew someone had found the key.

536. Mach 15 was within our reach.

537. Our futures were guaranteed.

538. Ironic, isn't it?

539. You did all the work

540. and I get all the glory.

541. No!

542. Yes.

543. Yes, Arthur.

544. I was here working on the intake problem,

545. moments away from a solution, when you attacked me.

546. Fortunately I was carrying a gun.

547. After the murder of my colleagues,

548. who could blame me?

549. No.

550. Oh, that's, that's interesting.

551. I've got it.

552. That's it.

553. I've got it.

554. Arthur!

555. Arthur, open the door!

556. Arthur!

557. Arthur, how do you stop this?

558. Tell me how!

559. - Arthur! - Wait!

560. Roland, we need you to help us.

561. Please, we need you to help us

562. to stop the machine.

563. Bye, Roland.

564. Arthur, say good-bye

565. to your brother.

566. Try to remember how.

567. Roland, you've got to help him or he's going to die.

568. Wave good-bye, Arthur.

569. Come on, Roland.

570. I can't remember.

571. He'll be held

572. in psychiatric custody for evaluation.

573. Is he being charged with a crime?

574. The D.A. hasn't made that determination yet.

575. But we've recommended that he be remanded to your custody

576. as soon as the court deems it appropriate.

577. How could this happen?

578. Roland never exhibited any violent tendencies.

579. It's my belief that he wasn't acting under his own volition.

580. What do you mean?

581. This is the work of Arthur Grable,

582. Roland's brother.

583. It's a new theory of jet propulsion,

584. unfinished at the time of his death.

585. In the last two weeks

586. Roland has completed the calculations.

587. How?

588. We're not sure, Mrs. Stodie.

589. All we know is that Roland was somehow able

590. to finish his brother's research.

591. Roland?

592. Where are you going?

593. Roland, don't go.

594. I have to.

595. Okay. Bye.

596. Tracy...

597. wait.

598. Keep my stars.

599. I love you.

600. Me, too.