The X-Files 4x11

1. Quiet, quiet!

2. Listen to me!

3. It was a terrible thing.

4. You're not going to believe me

5. even when I tell you.

6. Some say it is a story...

7. a fairy tale.

8. a fairy tale.

9. But I saw it.

10. I saw it with my own eyes.

11. Quiero hombres fuertes.

12. Rapido.

13. Oye.

14. Gracias.

15. Gracias.

16. No.

17. Si.

18. No.

19. Let's go.

20. No.

21. Maria.

22. Mm-hmm.

23. Las cabras.

24. Maria.

25. Maria!

26. Maria.

27. Maria.

28. Madre de Dios.

29. Mulder, and this happened how long ago?

30. Tres dias.

31. ¿Muy incredible, no?

32. Only the smell.

33. Mulder, you brought me out here under the pretense

34. of investigating an unexplained death.

35. Can you tell me why we're standing out here

36. in the middle of a field looking at a dead goat?

37. According to eyewitnesses, the death we're investigating

38. was preceded by a fortean event.

39. That's a highly unusual or infrequent

40. That's a highly unusual or infrequent

41. meteorological phenomenon also known as a transient.

42. A transient. Yeah. Witnesses described

43. a bright flash about 30 degrees off the horizon.

44. Then a hot, yellow rain fell from a cloudless sky.

45. Fortean researchers call these liquid falls.

46. Black and red rains are the most common,

47. but there have also been reported cases of blue, purple

48. and green rains.

49. Purple rain?

50. Yeah. Great album.

51. Deeply flawed movie though.

52. Mulder, this transient,

53. as you call it—

54. this bright flash in the sky—

55. I assume you think it has some connection to...

56. I assume you think it has some connection to...

57. Fortean events have been linked

58. to alien encounters, cattle mutilations—

59. the kind of exsanguinated animal carcass

60. you were just looking at.

61. And the victim, Maria Dorantes—

62. did she die in a similar fashion?

63. I would assume so.

64. You assume?

65. Nobody's examined the body?

66. Nobody cares, Scully.

67. The victim and many of the witnesses

68. are illegal immigrants, migrant farm workers.

69. I thought it might be important

70. to talk to them before they migrated.

71. !¡La migra!

72. No, no la migra.

73. No la migra.

74. No la migra, no la migra.

75. La FBI. No la migra.

76. It's all right. We don't want to take anybody away.

77. It's all right. We don't want to take anybody away.

78. Relax. No, it's okay. Tranquile.

79. What do you want?

80. We want to know what happened to Maria Dorantes.

81. Does anybody know what happened to Maria Dorantes?

82. Did anybody see anything?

83. El chupacabra.

84. That's what happened to Maria Dorantes.

85. ¿El chupacabra?

86. Yeah, it's a Mexican folktale.

87. El chupacabra, the goat sucker.

88. It's a small, gray creature with a big head

89. and a small body and black, bulging eyes.

90. Si, si.

91. Si, si.

92. Si.

93. Light... then rain.

94. Then el chupacabra.

95. It comes and eats away Maria's eyes and face.

96. Did you see the chupacabra?

97. No.

98. But everyone here knows this is the truth.

99. This woman's a liar. There is no chupacabra.

100. Chupacabra's nothing but a story told to children.

101. I know the killer of Maria Dorantes.

102. Who would that be, sir?

103. It was my brother,

104. Eladio Buente.

105. Eladio Buente.

106. He killed Maria because she loved only me.

107. Uh, how do you explain the yellow rain then

108. and the dead goat over the hill?

109. It is a trick...

110. for fools who believe in fools' superstitions.

111. Thank you, Mr. Buente.

112. You've been very helpful.

113. Maria, Maria.

114. I just met a girl named Maria.

115. Doesn't make a whole lot of sense, Scully.

116. It makes perfect sense, Mulder.

117. Admit it, you fell for it.

118. Admit it, you fell for it.

119. Your "fortean event" turned out to be

120. nothing more than the oldest story in the world.

121. Two men, one woman. Trouble.

122. I admit there's a strong suspicion

123. of motive and intent, but the amount of detail,

124. the description of that chupacabra...

125. Mulder, what we've walked into here

126. is a Mexican soap opera— and one for the local cops.

127. Local cops don't care, Scully.

128. I don't know who does.

129. Okay. Well, I care,

130. but what are we supposed to do about it?

131. Find out what killed Maria Dorantes.

132. Take a look at her body.

133. Take a look at her body.

134. While you do what?

135. Try to find this man Eladio Buente.

136. Agent Lozano?

137. I'm Special Agent Mulder.

138. I'm with the FBI.

139. The FBI? Here?

140. We're investigating the death of a migrant worker.

141. Really?

142. I'm looking for a man named Eladio Buente.

143. He hasn't been seen for three days,

144. and he's not in police custody.

145. I thought he might be in INS custody.

146. He might.

147. He might.

148. Let's see.

149. Okay. We have a Jose Feliciano.

150. We have Juan Valdez.

151. We have Cesar Chavez.

152. We have Placido Domingo here,

153. but I don't see any Eladio Buente.

154. So you are telling me

155. that no one here uses their real name.

156. What is this man wanted for?

157. What is this man wanted for?

158. Possibly the murder of a woman named Maria Dorantes.

159. Oh, man. The chupacabra?

160. Yeah.

161. You've heard of it?

162. You don't believe it?

163. No, I believe these people, but their lives are small,

164. so they have to make these fantasies

165. just to keep on going, to feel alive.

166. Because they're strangers here;

167. they feel hated, unwanted.

168. Whenever their passions become inflamed,

169. they resort to violence, and then they cannot

170. turn to the law, so they make up these fantastic tales.

171. Call it anything you want,

172. Call it anything you want,

173. but this is an age-old story.

174. I've heard that.

175. Well, let's see if we can find

176. your Eladio Buente.

177. Excuse me. Excuse me.

178. Can I help you?

179. I'm Agent Dana Scully with the FBI.

180. I'm investigating the death of a migrant worker.

181. Juan or Juanita?

182. I'm sorry?

183. Doe. A man or a woman?

184. A woman named Maria Dorantes.

185. I need to determine a cause of death

186. in order to close out an investigation.

187. It sounds vaguely familiar, but I don't think

188. It sounds vaguely familiar, but I don't think

189. I've been able to get to her yet.

190. Well, I'm a medical doctor.

191. If you show me the body, I can examine it myself.

192. It's in the fridge.

193. I don't think he's going anywhere.

194. That's her.

195. Oh, my God.

196. This must be him.

197. This must be him.

198. Why is he segregated like this?

199. ¿Por que lo tiene segregado?

200. Los otros detenidos lo molestaban mucho.

201. Ninguno se le acerca a el.

202. Le tienen un miedo terrible.

203. He said the other detainees

204. were giving him a hard time— causing trouble.

205. They don't want to go near him.

206. They think he's the chupacabra.

207. That may be, but I will tell you

208. with a tremendous degree of certainty

209. this guy is not Erik Estrada.

210. this guy is not Erik Estrada.

211. Buente.

212. El FBI.

213. Quieren hacerte unas preguntas.

214. Ask him if he killed Maria Dorantes.

215. Quiere saber si mataste a Maria Dorantes.

216. !¡No!¡No lo hice! !¡Soy innocente!

217. !¡No soy asesino!

218. What did he say?

219. "I didn't do it."

220. Ask him what happened.

221. Ask him what happened.

222. ¿Que fue lo que paso?

223. Huvo un ruido como un relampago muy cerca...

224. There was a noise like thunder but very close.

225. un rayo muy brillante...

226. And then there was lightning.

227. Very bright— it blinded me.

228. Y caigo al suelo...

229. I fell to the ground...

230. Y senti la lluvia caliente

231. cuando volvi a ver...

232. And then I felt the hot rain fall on me,

233. and when I finally could open my eyes and see...

234. !¡Via al chivo muerto y luego vi a Maria!

235. I saw the dead goat, and then I saw Maria...

236. Maria.

237. Y dijo mi nombre una vez.

238. Tirada en la lluvia amarilla.

239. She called my name once.

240. She was lying in a puddle of yellow rain.

241. Algo le habia comido la cara.

242. Algo le habia comido la cara.

243. Something had eaten at her face.

244. Pero murio en mis brazos, senor.

245. Then, I held her in my arms, and then she died.

246. Y empece a gritar y a correr.

247. And then I got up and I ran, screaming.

248. !¡Soy innocente!

249. This guy is better than Erik Estrada.

250. !¡Chupacabra!

251. What's going to happen to him?

252. He'll get his 45 seconds before the judge,

253. and he'll be placed on a southbound bus.

254. There any way to delay that?

255. Why would you want to do that?

256. Try to solve an unexplained death.

257. I would think the FBI's got better things to do.

258. File your paperwork.

259. By the time they process it,

260. he'll probably be back here anyway.

261. Put him in the front.

262. Up front here.

263. Okay, vamos, let's go.

264. Did you find Eladio Buente? Yeah. I found him.

265. Did he confess to the murder of Maria Dorantes?

266. Not exactly, no.

267. Not exactly, no.

268. Did he tell you what happened?

269. Flash of light, yellow rain...

270. Maria! Maria!

271. He didn't kill her, Mulder.

272. I examined the body of Maria Dorantes,

273. and I believe that her cause of death was natural,

274. albeit strange.

275. She seems to have succumbed to a massive fungal infection.

276. A fungus?

277. Aspergillus, according to the coroner.

278. It's a mold that's found in dead leaves, compost,

279. It's a mold that's found in dead leaves, compost,

280. even household dust.

281. And it can kill?

282. Not normally. It's actually very common

283. and quite harmless.

284. You don't think that's weird?

285. Well, aspergillus can be lethal

286. to people with immunodeficiencies,

287. like AIDS patients

288. and transplant recipients.

289. And I found high levels of

290. methyl bromide in her blood workup.

291. It's a pesticide

292. that's used for soil sterilization.

293. Highly toxic.

294. I think that her body was so ravaged by pesticides

295. that a normally benign fungus

296. may have compromised her whole immune system.

297. may have compromised her whole immune system.

298. Still doesn't explain the flash of light

299. and the yellow rain.

300. And el chupacabra.

301. Mulder, I know you don't want to hear this,

302. but I think the aliens in this story are not the villains,

303. they're the victims.

304. Look at that.

305. Isn't that the INS bus?

306. Mulder.

307. What does it look like?

308. Appears this man died of systemic shock

309. brought on by what appears to be

310. another massive fungal infection.

311. The same fungus that killed Maria Dorantes?

312. No. It looks dissimilar.

313. I don't know what this is,

314. but its speed and its aggressiveness are frightening.

315. The infection's covered 90% of his body, Mulder,

316. The infection's covered 90% of his body, Mulder,

317. through both layers of skin.

318. Did you find him?

319. We were able to round up most of the people

320. who escaped from this vehicle,

321. but Eladio Buente wasn't among them.

322. No one knows where he ran?

323. Agent Lozano, this is my partner, Agent Scully.

324. They all ran the other way, away from el chupacabra,

325. the man they say is responsible for this tragedy.

326. Eladio Buente didn't kill this man; he didn't kill anybody.

327. I'm not so sure about that, Scully.

328. Mulder, this is the work of a pathogen,

329. of some kind of a highly virulent strain.

330. I'm not questioning that, but right now,

331. Eladio Buente is the only connection we have

332. Eladio Buente is the only connection we have

333. to this death and to the death of Maria Dorantes—

334. which is why I need you to spare any manpower you can

335. to try to find him. Manpower?

336. We don't have the resources to go

337. chasing after one poor illegal.

338. Mulder, whatever you hope to learn

339. by finding this man, we have to first

340. make a definitive classification

341. of the fungi taken from the victims.

342. I need to isolate it and I need to get a sample of it

343. to a mycologist as quickly as possible.

344. Good. You should do that,

345. while Agent Lozano and I try to find el chupacabra.

346. Te molesta que te vea asi.

347. ¿No es cierto?

348. ¿Por que habia de molestarme?

349. Soy tu mujer.

350. Senor.

351. Pero no me di cuenta.

352. Te diste cuenta perfectamente

353. pero eso no importa.

354. Lo importante es como lo mirabas tu a el.

355. Federico...

356. !¡Si, lo mirabas!

357. Senor? What do you want?

358. You want to go back?

359. You want to go back?

360. ¿Estas loco?

361. We haul mucha basura with that truck.

362. What makes you think we haul it back?

363. How long have you been in this country?

364. How long have you been in this country?

365. !¡Ni credito!

366. Ni caridad.

367. Aqui es America, you dumb wet.

368. Truck stop at dusk.

369. No dinero, no ride.

370. ¿Comprende?

371. Si. Dinero.

372. Dinero.

373. Construction.

374. I need two construction workers— dos.

375. Okay. You two in the back.

376. Let's go.

377. I only need two, amigo.

378. Dos.

379. Hey, out of the truck.

380. I got work to do.

381. Hey! Where are you going?

382. You'll have to do.

383. What you're looking at, Agent Scully,

384. is the most ubiquitous fungal spore

385. known to mankind— dermatophytosis.

386. Athlete's foot?

387. One of the great survivors of countless extermination efforts.

388. Historically underrated

389. and unfairly overshadowed by the ever-popular cockroach.

390. But our body has natural defenses

391. against this kind of invasion.

392. I mean, even in the absence of an immuno-response,

393. I mean, even in the absence of an immuno-response,

394. fungi like this one

395. or like the aspergillus sample that I gave you—

396. don't they need the right environment to multiply?

397. Yes.

398. Unless they have help.

399. What's this?

400. It's an enzyme I isolated from both your specimens,

401. but that's about all I can tell you.

402. It's unlike any enzyme I've ever seen.

403. So it's not the fungi but the enzyme that kills.

404. Acting as a catalyst.

405. As an accelerant.

406. Let me show you.

407. Let me show you.

408. This is Puccinia graminis.

409. Black stem rust.

410. It's been the cause of a fairly containable

411. crop blight here in the valley.

412. Now...

413. Oh, my God.

414. I must say,

415. I must say,

416. if this were to get out

417. into the environment,

418. dermatophytosis might give the cockroach

419. a run for its money. Hmm?

420. Culver, Culver, se llama.

421. Gracias.

422. He was here, all right.

423. They say he got into the truck of a foreman named Culver.

424. Story's out.

425. Oh, yeah. I told you.

426. These people love their stories.

427. It's the one thing that keeps them from going mad

428. when they're out there standing on a street corner

429. all day waiting for work.

430. So they really don't think he's the chupacabra?

431. No. They're certain of it.

432. Did you tell them about the fungal infection?

433. Yeah. They wouldn't listen.

434. They are only interested

435. in what will become of Eladio Buente.

436. What will become of him?

437. When his brother finds him?

438. He'll kill him.

439. Yes, probably.

440. A man cannot live with vengeance in his heart.

441. So we got to find him first.

442. So we got to find him first.

443. My mother used to say

444. that blood should be left to cleanse itself.

445. God curses the man who stands between two brothers.

446. Well, in this case, he'll curse the man who doesn't.

447. ¿Senor? ¿Senor?

448. ¿Jefe?

449. ¿Jefe?

450. ¿Senor Culver?

451. ¿Jefe?

452. Hey, jefe?

453. Eladio Buente?

454. Eladio?

455. Eladio Buente.

456. !¡Asesino!

457. Gabrielle!

458. Gabrielle!

459. Gabrielle!

460. Gabrielle, por favor.

461. Eladio!

462. Mulder, it's me.

463. Hey, Scully, where are you?

464. I'm at the state university bio department.

465. Mulder, listen to me. I think you're right.

466. I think Eladio Buente is responsible

467. for those two deaths.

468. Responsible how?

469. By spreading an enzyme produced by what appears to be

470. a new strain of conidial fungi.

471. How's he spreading it?

472. My guess is by touch.

473. I saw this man, Scully. He was unaffected.

474. He could be just a carrier then—

475. a kind of Typhoid Mary.

476. Are you saying it's a new strain?

477. Yes.

478. Mulder, it is extremely important

479. Mulder, it is extremely important

480. that you not come into direct contact with this fungus.

481. You must not inhale it, you must not touch it...

482. Lozano. Careful. No.

483. Scully, I've been thinking.

484. I know that's dangerous, but just bear with me.

485. These fortean transients— what the women described—

486. they could have been caused by an object falling

487. at a high rate of speed through the atmosphere

488. creating a sonic boom and a flash of light—

489. what astronomers call a bolide.

490. A bolide?

491. Created by a meteorite

492. or a piece of extra-planetary material,

493. of which 2,000 tons fall to the earth every day.

494. of which 2,000 tons fall to the earth every day.

495. Now, now, this yellow rain—

496. the space debris could've fallen in a nearby lake,

497. superheating the water and sending it skyward,

498. which would mean that this is alien.

499. Mulder,

500. I think this is beside the point right now.

501. Oh, and the fungus...

502. Mulder, let me work on the fungus, okay?

503. What you need to do right now is

504. to find the man who may be spreading it.

505. Okay.

506. So, you got your own stories, too, huh?

507. Hey. It's El Barbera.

508. Hey. It's El Barbera.

509. Hey, Lozano.

510. I hear you're looking for the chupacabra.

511. For a modest fee,

512. I can tell you where he might be found.

513. Eladio.

514. Stop!

515. Don't touch him.

516. Don't touch him.

517. Hey!

518. I lost him!

519. More goats.

520. Agent Lozano...

521. how does this man keep eluding us?

522. These people are invisible.

523. You look at them, and you don't see them.

524. Just workers—

525. cheap labor to pick crops and clean houses.

526. To most people, they are aliens

527. in the true sense of the word.

528. Ay, chupacabra.

529. Okay, calm down.

530. Calm down.

531. Can a man do this?

532. Can Eladio Buente do this?

533. Eladio— he went to his cousin Gabrielle's house

534. asking for money.

535. When? Today.

536. He said he kill nobody.

537. But, Soledad— he went to Gabrielle's house

538. trying to kill Eladio.

539. Calm down.

540. ¿Quien es?

541. Gabrielle Buente?

542. This is Agent Lozano, INS.

543. Open up.

544. Where is he?

545. ¿Que?

546. Don't give me your que.

547. You know who.

548. Where is he— Eladio?

549. He is not here, please.

550. I would not let Eladio Buente in here.

551. Please, you must believe me.

552. Maybe you should check the back.

553. What about his brother, Soledad?

554. No.

555. He's not here!

556. No one is here! I'm alone!

557. Have you seen either of them?

558. Si.

559. But I'm afraid

560. because of what they say about Eladio.

561. About el chupacabra.

562. There is no el chupacabra, Gabrielle.

563. Eladio is a very sick man.

564. If he comes here, you must not let him in.

565. If he comes to this door, you must call the police.

566. Do you understand?

567. Do you understand?

568. There's nobody.

569. I'm going to be watching you, chiquita,

570. every move.

571. ¿Comprendes?

572. Si.

573. I think we should hold up a minute.

574. For what?

575. Something's going on here.

576. Something's going on here.

577. Hey, Jose, this ain't no restaurant!

578. You know you have to pay for all that.

579. Hey! What the hell you think you're doing?

580. Come back here!

581. Hey, you're going to have to clean that up!

582. Hey!

583. That's our man.

584. Eladio Buente?

585. No, that's his brother, Soledad.

586. Bueno.

587. Eladio?

588. Si, Gabrielle.

589. Eladio?

590. Eladio?

591. Soledad Buente!

592. Stop, stop!

593. Drop your weapon! Drop the gun!

594. Drop it! !¡Fuetala!

595. Put it down! Now!

596. !¡Apurate!

597. Drop it! !¡Fuetala!

598. !¡Solo quiero vengarme, pues!

599. Eladio!

600. Mulder.

601. He's been here.

602. ¿Quien es?

603. Eladio.

604. Eladio?

605. No.

606. No.

607. Mira.

608. No.

609. No!

610. No! No!

611. No! No!

612. Eladio? Eladio Buente?

613. He's not here.

614. He's gone.

615. Gone where?

616. To Mexico...

617. where he can hide his terrible face!

618. How's he going to get to Mexico?

619. I gave him all my money.

620. You gave him your money?

621. Yes, because I was afraid.

622. I was afraid the chupacabra would kill me, too.

623. What can I say?

624. How are we going to find this man?

625. Good luck.

626. I'm going to go process the brother.

627. You know, what she said

628. about Eladio Buente, about his face...

629. I don't know what to believe anymore, Scully.

630. I don't know what to believe anymore, Scully.

631. These people sure love their stories.

632. Mulder, he could be anywhere right now.

633. If he were to enter a metropolitan area

634. with what he's carrying...

635. He won't.

636. If he's going to Mexico...

637. She's lying. If this man really thinks

638. he killed Maria Dorantes, he won't be going to Mexico.

639. Then where is he going?

640. The same place Agent Lozano

641. and Eladio's brother are going.

642. He's going to face his brother.

643. I don't understand.

644. "God curses the man who stands between two brothers."

645. Get on your cell phone and have a hazmat team assemble.

646. Eladio Buente!

647. Come on out!

648. Be a man and face your brother!

649. Madre de Dios.

650. Eladio, no!

651. Y me dicho la chupacabra.

652. They came from the sky.

653. More chupacabras

654. coming to save Eladio.

655. I slammed the door and prayed

656. that they would not come to kill me, too.

657. What will happen to Soledad?

658. He was taken up by a chupacabra.

659. He will suffer for his treachery.

660. He will suffer for his treachery.

661. He's made to suck the blood

662. of only the sick and dying goats

663. when the chupacabra comes to feed.

664. But that's not what Gabrielle said.

665. What does Gabrielle know?

666. I was there.

667. I saw it with my own eyes.

668. Gabrielle said that she lied to la FBI,

669. so that her cousin Eladio might live.

670. But la migra Lozano knew Soledad could not live

671. with vengeance in his heart.

672. !¡Alto!

673. Turn around and face the man whose love you killed!

674. Turn around and face the man whose love you killed!

675. You killed Maria

676. because she wouldn't love you—

677. because her heart belongs to only one man.

678. Don't make me shoot you in the back, Eladio!

679. Turn!

680. See my tears!

681. Turn around like a man!

682. No.

683. "Shoot! Shoot!" la migra shouted,

684. "Shoot! Shoot!" la migra shouted,

685. but Soledad began to cry.

686. "No! No!" cried Soledad.

687. "I cannot shoot my brother!

688. "He is my brother.

689. My flesh, my blood."

690. Shoot him! He's el chupacabra!

691. shouted la migra.

692. Cannot let him go!

693. "He is the goatsucker,

694. and he must be killed!"

695. But, Soledad— he could not kill Eladio

696. because he knew I would never forgive him.

697. because he knew I would never forgive him.

698. !¡Cobarde! No, no!

699. La migra Lozano tried to pull the gun from Soledad's hand,

700. calling him a coward!

701. "No!" cried Soledad.

702. "He is my brother!"

703. And the gun went off!

704. Bang! Bang!

705. And la migra Lozano fell dead.

706. !¡Pero, no!

707. La migraLozano brought Soledad to kill Eladio

708. La migraLozano brought Soledad to kill Eladio

709. so that he would not be cursed.

710. So, God...

711. cursed Soledad for his treachery

712. and turned him...

713. into a chupacabra

714. like his brother.

715. No.

716. Together,

717. they run...

718. to Mexico.

719. El chupacabra?

720. Yes, sir.

721. Frankly, I'm confused by this story.

722. I don't blame you.

723. We can't exactly explain it ourselves, sir.

724. At any rate, we arrived just after the hazmat team.

725. They established a perimeter that secured the area.

726. An eyewitness was found, but her testimony was questionable.

727. The hazmat team were able

728. The hazmat team were able

729. to contain the fungal infection within the migrant camp.

730. No other casualties were reported,

731. and we found no other traces of the accelerating enzyme.

732. Except on the body of Agent Lozano.

733. We found him dead at the scene

734. with a bullet wound to the chest.

735. And with the fungal infection

736. already starting to eat away at him.

737. What happened to the brothers?

738. They were nowhere to be found.

739. Lozano's revolver turned up ten miles away,

740. near the car of a man known locally as "El Barbera."

741. Apparently, the brothers paid this man

742. for a ride to Mexico, but they didn't get very far.

743. for a ride to Mexico, but they didn't get very far.

744. So these men are still at large

745. carrying a highly contagious fungus

746. that can kill a man in his tracks?

747. It's not a fungus, sir.

748. Actually, it's an enzyme,

749. to which the brothers had an abnormal tolerance,

750. and which came from what I believe to be

751. an anti-enzyme gene.

752. And this enzyme came from where?

753. Outer space, sir.

754. So this is the story you're asking me to report?

755. You would think with the resources we have,

756. we'd be able to find these men.

757. I'm not hearing a good explanation

758. I'm not hearing a good explanation

759. why this hasn't happened.

760. Well, sir, they, um...

761. they have a way of being almost invisible.

762. The truth is...

763. nobody cares.

764. I made this!

765. I made this!