1. Ugh! I got mosquito bites.Copy !req
2. I got blisters.Copy !req
3. I hate those new boots.Copy !req
4. Honey,Copy !req
5. why you so P.O.'d?Copy !req
6. Thought we had a good time.Copy !req
7. You had a good time.Copy !req
8. You had a fine timeCopy !req
9. tromping around and leaving me
a half a mile behind.Copy !req
10. Look, for future reference,
me running through the woodsCopy !req
11. after you for an entire day
is not my idea of a good time.Copy !req
12. I'm sorry.Copy !req
13. I've got longer legs.Copy !req
14. I was excited, you know?Copy !req
15. The great outdoors,
communing with nature.Copy !req
16. Your head hurt?Copy !req
17. Yeah.Copy !req
18. You can hit me in
the head with a rock,Copy !req
19. make you feel better.Copy !req
20. Fine.Copy !req
21. Go get one.Copy !req
22. I'm taking a shower.Copy !req
23. You still mad at me?Copy !req
24. No. I'm not mad.Copy !req
25. Come here.Copy !req
26. So I guess we're
never going hiking again.Copy !req
27. It's indoors forever
from now on.Copy !req
28. Angie, honey, what's up?Copy !req
29. Just hold me.Copy !req
30. Oh. Ugh.Copy !req
31. I don't know what they did
with the screen for this thing.Copy !req
32. Now, this is
Angela and Wallace Schiff.Copy !req
33. It's a young married couple
last seen hikingCopy !req
34. in the vicinity of
Brown Mountain, North Carolina.Copy !req
35. That's Angie on the right.Copy !req
36. I should add
that this is the conditionCopy !req
37. in which their bodies were foundCopy !req
38. after being missing
for only three days,Copy !req
39. in temperatures that
never got above 70 degrees.Copy !req
40. Which rules out decomposition.Copy !req
41. I'd say predation, but the...
the bones would be scattered.Copy !req
42. Not to mention that
these skeletons are not wearingCopy !req
43. any clothes.Copy !req
44. Right. Well, I'd sayCopy !req
45. it looks like a double murder,Copy !req
46. possibly one with
ritualistic overtones.Copy !req
47. The bodies may
have been strippedCopy !req
48. then skeletonized,
possibly by boilingCopy !req
49. or by the use of some
kind of acid solution.Copy !req
50. Maybe the arrangement
of the bodiesCopy !req
51. has some meaning for
the killer or killers.Copy !req
52. Uh, at any rate, I'd
term it "ritualistic."Copy !req
53. That's a pretty big operation
you're describing.Copy !req
54. There was no evidence
found at the scene...Copy !req
55. no tire tracks,
no footprints, nothing.Copy !req
56. Well, what do you think this is?Copy !req
57. Brown Mountain, Scully.
That doesn't ring a bell?Copy !req
58. Brown Mountain lights?Copy !req
59. It's a famous
atmospheric phenomenonCopy !req
60. dating back nearly 700 years,
witnessed by thousandsCopy !req
61. of people...
back to the Cherokee Indians.Copy !req
62. Strange multicolored lights
are seen to danceCopy !req
63. above the peak of the mountain.Copy !req
64. There's been
no geological explanation,Copy !req
65. no scientific credible
explanation at all.Copy !req
66. And what does that
have to do with these two?Copy !req
67. Well, as I said, there's been no
scientific credible explanation,Copy !req
68. but there are those of us
who believeCopy !req
69. these strange multicolored
lights are really...Copy !req
70. UFOs.Copy !req
71. Extraterrestrial visitorsCopy !req
72. from beyond who apparently have
nothing better to doCopy !req
73. than buzz one mountain over
and over again for 700 years.Copy !req
74. Sounds like crap
when you say it.Copy !req
75. I'm-I'm just wonderingCopy !req
76. if there's a connection, Scully.Copy !req
77. I mean, the conditions
of these bodies are reminiscentCopy !req
78. of certain Southwestern
cattle mutilations.Copy !req
79. Those are cases where
there's no physical evidence,Copy !req
80. and they've long been associated
with UFO activity.Copy !req
81. Mulder, can't you
just for once, just...Copy !req
82. for the novelty of it,Copy !req
83. come up with the
simplest explanation,Copy !req
84. the most logical one,
instead of automaticallyCopy !req
85. jumping to UFOs
or Bigfoot or...?Copy !req
86. Scully, in six years, how...
how often have I been wrong?Copy !req
87. No, seriously.Copy !req
88. I mean, every time
I bring you a new case,Copy !req
89. we go through
this perfunctory dance.Copy !req
90. You tell me I'm not being
scientifically rigorousCopy !req
91. and that I'm off my nut,
and then in the end,Copy !req
92. who turns out to be right,
like, 98.9% of the time?Copy !req
93. I just think I've...Copy !req
94. earned the benefit
of the doubt here.Copy !req
95. We gave them adjoining suites.Copy !req
96. I was ready to send
them on to Chapel Hill.Copy !req
97. Figured the state
medical examinerCopy !req
98. should have a look at them.Copy !req
99. We appreciate you holding off.Copy !req
100. The connective tissue
is more or less intact.Copy !req
101. Unlike everything else.Copy !req
102. I'm not sure what to make of it,Copy !req
103. considering the
short time frame.Copy !req
104. If you'll, um, pardon
an obvious question,Copy !req
105. are you sure that these are
the right two bodiesCopy !req
106. and not two others that have
lain out for six months?Copy !req
107. We triple-checked
the dental records.Copy !req
108. Angela and Wallace Schiff...
no doubt about it.Copy !req
109. Hmm.Copy !req
110. And they were both found
near Brown Mountain, right?Copy !req
111. Where exactly?Copy !req
112. Well, I could write
you some directions.Copy !req
113. Would you, uh, happen
to know what this is?Copy !req
114. Well, the remains were
found in a swampy area.Copy !req
115. Some sort of organic
material relating to that.Copy !req
116. It's bog sludge.Copy !req
117. I'm going to go check outCopy !req
118. where the bodies were found.Copy !req
119. You coming?Copy !req
120. No.Copy !req
121. You go ahead.Copy !req
122. Wallace Schiff?Copy !req
123. Wallace Schiff?Copy !req
124. We got your gas
spectrometer results.Copy !req
125. That stuff on the bones
I said was bog sludge...Copy !req
126. it isn't.Copy !req
127. Water, hydrochloric acid...Copy !req
128. electrolytes, pepsins
and trypsins.Copy !req
129. It's a digestive secretion.Copy !req
130. Stomach juices pretty much...
pretty damn close to it.Copy !req
131. Except for this.Copy !req
132. Chitinase?Copy !req
133. It's a digestive enzyme as well,Copy !req
134. but it's strictly plant,
not animal.Copy !req
135. Hello?Copy !req
136. I told you I'd seen this before.Copy !req
137. These are the two
I remember anyway.Copy !req
138. Both of these were discovered
as skeletal remains.Copy !req
139. Right. But we saw
nothing odd in that.Copy !req
140. Both were lost hikers
found months or years later...Copy !req
141. whatever it says there.Copy !req
142. It says here that the bodiesCopy !req
143. were found not far from whereCopy !req
144. Angela and Wallace
Schiff turned up.Copy !req
145. Oh, Mulder, answer your phone.Copy !req
146. The cellular
customer you are trying...Copy !req
147. Do me a favor.Copy !req
148. I want you to forward
a sample of that secretionCopy !req
149. over to the FBI lab at Quantico.Copy !req
150. I want them
to run a complete analysis.Copy !req
151. You got it.Copy !req
152. And, uh, in the meantime,
could I borrow your truck?Copy !req
153. Please...Copy !req
154. don't take me.Copy !req
155. Hey, come out here.Copy !req
156. Step closer.
I won't hurt you.Copy !req
157. You're not one of them?Copy !req
158. One of who?Copy !req
159. Are you Wallace Schiff?Copy !req
160. Well, I hate to tell you this,
Wallace,Copy !req
161. but you're supposed to be dead.Copy !req
162. They found your skeletonCopy !req
163. not 200 yards from here.Copy !req
164. It's fake.Copy !req
165. They put it there.Copy !req
166. Who put it there?Copy !req
167. You know who.Copy !req
168. The Brown Mountain lights.Copy !req
169. They abducted us...
me and my wife Angela.Copy !req
170. They took us on board their...Copy !req
171. Oh, God.Copy !req
172. Wallace...Copy !req
173. Wallace?Copy !req
174. They foundCopy !req
175. your wife Angela, too...Copy !req
176. lying right alongside
your skeleton.Copy !req
177. No.Copy !req
178. Don't you get it?Copy !req
179. They-they faked our deaths!Copy !req
180. They have
that kind of technology.Copy !req
181. Who the hell would beCopy !req
182. looking for us if they thoughtCopy !req
183. they'd already found our bodies?
You see?Copy !req
184. They returned me, but Angela,Copy !req
185. she's still up thereCopy !req
186. being experimented on,
and I-I can't...Copy !req
187. I don't know what to...Copy !req
188. What do I do?Copy !req
189. Mulder?Copy !req
190. First things first...Copy !req
191. we got to find a way
out of here.Copy !req
192. Right behind you.Copy !req
193. What the hell is going on?Copy !req
194. That was solid rockCopy !req
195. a minute ago.Copy !req
196. - Now there's nothing there.
- Oh, God.Copy !req
197. It's them.Copy !req
198. They're affecting your head.Copy !req
199. Maybe mine, too.Copy !req
200. What if I can't even tell
what's real?Copy !req
201. Wallace, let's get out of here.Copy !req
202. Come on, Wallace.Copy !req
203. They're out there, man.Copy !req
204. It's them!Copy !req
205. Wallace!Copy !req
206. Mulder?Copy !req
207. Mulder!Copy !req
208. Don't let them see you!Copy !req
209. They're gone.Copy !req
210. Yeah, for now.Copy !req
211. Thank God they didn't find us.Copy !req
212. They should have.Copy !req
213. Maybe they came
for something else.Copy !req
214. Oh, my God!Copy !req
215. Oh, my God, Angie.Copy !req
216. They brought her back.Copy !req
217. Angie, can you talk to me?Copy !req
218. Do you remember what happened?Copy !req
219. Can you tell me?Copy !req
220. It's all fuzzy and...Copy !req
221. You were with your husband,
you were with Wallace.Copy !req
222. There was a light.Copy !req
223. A bright light.Copy !req
224. Where was that light
coming from?Copy !req
225. From the mountain?Copy !req
226. Over Brown Mountain.Copy !req
227. There were strange lights
dancing over the peak and...Copy !req
228. and they took me.Copy !req
229. And Wallace, too.Copy !req
230. And then what happened?Copy !req
231. Oh, just...
it all went black.Copy !req
232. And when I woke up, I
didn't know where I was,Copy !req
233. and I couldn't see
Wallace anymore.Copy !req
234. They returned me first.Copy !req
235. This... this place
that they took you to...Copy !req
236. can you describe it to me,
tell me what it looked like?Copy !req
237. It was white.Copy !req
238. A white place.Copy !req
239. It was featureless.Copy !req
240. I was lying on a table,Copy !req
241. and I couldn't get up.Copy !req
242. I mean, nothing
was holding me down,Copy !req
243. but I couldn't move.Copy !req
244. Were there men there?Copy !req
245. Yes, there were menCopy !req
246. standing over me,Copy !req
247. but I couldn't see their faces.Copy !req
248. Did they perform tests on you?Copy !req
249. Yes. They did tests.Copy !req
250. Terrible... tests.Copy !req
251. What?Copy !req
252. You have a, uh...Copy !req
253. you have a scar back here
on the back of your neck.Copy !req
254. What?Copy !req
255. What scar?Copy !req
256. It's fresh.Copy !req
257. What is that?Copy !req
258. It's an implant.Copy !req
259. I've seen this before.Copy !req
260. Yes.Copy !req
261. The drill...Copy !req
262. I remember the drill.Copy !req
263. I couldn't see it at first.Copy !req
264. That was the worst part.Copy !req
265. But I could hear it spinning,Copy !req
266. and it was coming
out of the light!Copy !req
267. Oh, what did they put in me?Copy !req
268. Is there one in me?Copy !req
269. No, male abductees
don't usually report this.Copy !req
270. And everything she's
said so far is textbook,Copy !req
271. down to the last detail,
except for one.Copy !req
272. What?Copy !req
273. Two skeletons we found that wereCopy !req
274. identified as yours and Angie's?Copy !req
275. I don't understand that.Copy !req
276. - Doesn't make any sense to me.
- Maybe they're likeCopy !req
277. the cattle mutilations
you hear about.Copy !req
278. Maybe they're somehow related,Copy !req
279. maybe they're
part of their tests.Copy !req
280. I had that thought,Copy !req
281. but there's no precedent for it.Copy !req
282. It's in none of the literature.Copy !req
283. Well, they didn't want
anybody to find us.Copy !req
284. I guess they didn't want youCopy !req
285. to know the truth.Copy !req
286. We got to get
out of here right now.Copy !req
287. Oh, no way.Copy !req
288. They're out there.Copy !req
289. They're always watching.Copy !req
290. If they find us, if we leave,Copy !req
291. they'll take us again.Copy !req
292. We're leaving right now.Copy !req
293. Gather your things.Copy !req
294. Angie, I'll help you up.Copy !req
295. They're coming.Copy !req
296. I can feel it.Copy !req
297. - They're here!
- Hide!Copy !req
298. They'll take you, too!Copy !req
299. We've got to hide!Copy !req
300. No!Copy !req
301. No!Copy !req
302. Scully.Copy !req
303. Mulder.Copy !req
304. Why the hell did you
leave North CarolinaCopy !req
305. without telling me?Copy !req
306. Long story.Copy !req
307. You disappear,
and then I get a furtive callCopy !req
308. that you're back here in D.C.?Copy !req
309. I'm sorry. Does anybody
know you're here?Copy !req
310. No.Copy !req
311. Scully, this is...Copy !req
312. Angela... and
Wallace Schiff.Copy !req
313. But, Mulder, it can't be.Copy !req
314. This is my partner,
Agent Scully.Copy !req
315. Mulder, I I.D.'d
their remains myself.Copy !req
316. Yeah, I think you were meant to.Copy !req
317. Agent Scully,
the aliens planted decoysCopy !req
318. so you would think we were dead.Copy !req
319. The aliens?Copy !req
320. Scully, I want you to...Copy !req
321. put aside your scientific
bias for a moment.Copy !req
322. 'Cause what I'm
about to tell youCopy !req
323. is going to change
your life forever.Copy !req
324. Your life, my life,Copy !req
325. the life of everybody
on this planet.Copy !req
326. Mulder...Copy !req
327. I was out there...Copy !req
328. and I found it.Copy !req
329. What?Copy !req
330. The truth.Copy !req
331. This couple...Copy !req
332. they were abducted by a UFO...Copy !req
333. Brown Mountain lights.Copy !req
334. They took me to a white place.Copy !req
335. There were men there.Copy !req
336. They put an implant in my neck.Copy !req
337. Just like what happened to you.Copy !req
338. Mulder, from what very little
I understand about this case,Copy !req
339. this is not what happened to me.Copy !req
340. There's more.Copy !req
341. Doesn't like the light.Copy !req
342. Who?Copy !req
343. I abducted him.Copy !req
344. It's a gray.Copy !req
345. Speaks to me.Copy !req
346. We communicateCopy !req
347. telepathically.Copy !req
348. Told me everything.Copy !req
349. I... I can hear him.Copy !req
350. Yeah.Copy !req
351. Oh, my God.Copy !req
352. I, uh...Copy !req
353. I don't know what
to say, Mulder.Copy !req
354. Where to begin.Copy !req
355. I mean, you...Copy !req
356. you were right.Copy !req
357. All these years, you were right.Copy !req
358. You think so?Copy !req
359. You were right
about the grays, about...Copy !req
360. about the abductions,
about the UFOs...Copy !req
361. the lights, the Brown
Mountain lights.Copy !req
362. What about the skeletons?Copy !req
363. They were... they were fake.Copy !req
364. They were decoys.Copy !req
365. You're buying that decoy theory?Copy !req
366. What about
that organic substanceCopy !req
367. we found on the skeletons...
that gooCopy !req
368. you were so interested in?Copy !req
369. It was nothing.
It was bog sludge.Copy !req
370. That, uh...Copy !req
371. doesn't sound like you, Scully.Copy !req
372. It, uh...Copy !req
373. God, I can't believe
you're buying this.Copy !req
374. Mulder, I'm admitting
that I was wrong.Copy !req
375. Are...Copy !req
376. are you all right?Copy !req
377. How are you feeling?Copy !req
378. Uh, this doesn't make any sense.Copy !req
379. What?Copy !req
380. These two.
Their story.Copy !req
381. Their skeletons.
None of it.Copy !req
382. Mulder, if I, of all people,
can believe this,Copy !req
383. then why can't you?Copy !req
384. Did you go inside the cave?Copy !req
385. Yeah. I looked. It's empty.Copy !req
386. It's as if he just vanished.Copy !req
387. He's got to be around.Copy !req
388. We'll catch up to him.Copy !req
389. I know this area pretty well.Copy !req
390. Doctor...Copy !req
391. it's more of that
digestive material.Copy !req
392. Looks like it's coming up
from out of the ground.Copy !req
393. Agent Scully?Copy !req
394. I got tracksCopy !req
395. going in and out.Copy !req
396. They were onlyCopy !req
397. going in before.Copy !req
398. Oh, I guess you missed him.Copy !req
399. How? I mean, this-this cave's
not much moreCopy !req
400. than a hole in the rock.Copy !req
401. Agent Scully?Copy !req
402. The courier just arrived.Copy !req
403. They brought
your partner's charts.Copy !req
404. I'm sorry.Copy !req
405. I know it's difficult.Copy !req
406. That, um...Copy !req
407. that digestive secretion
that we keep finding...Copy !req
408. could it... could it
have done this to him?Copy !req
409. I'm not sure I follow.Copy !req
410. Well, it's... it's
chemically similarCopy !req
411. to gastric juices, right?Copy !req
412. I mean, maybe he
fell in it or...Copy !req
413. may-maybe it's
a product of a...Copy !req
414. of a particular vegetation
that grows in the area.Copy !req
415. That all sounds
plausible, I guess,Copy !req
416. except for one thing.Copy !req
417. There's no sign of it
on these remains.Copy !req
418. It... it was
on the Schiffs.Copy !req
419. I just think we need to look
for the simplest explanation.Copy !req
420. The most logical.Copy !req
421. What is the most
logical explanation?Copy !req
422. I'd say we're looking
at a murder...Copy !req
423. one with ritualistic overtones.Copy !req
424. I think his body was strippedCopy !req
425. and then skeletonized.Copy !req
426. Possibly by boiling
or use of an acid solution.Copy !req
427. Don't worry, Agent.Copy !req
428. We'll take care
of the arrangements.Copy !req
429. What arrangement?Copy !req
430. We'll have the remains
sent on to Washington.Copy !req
431. I appreciate the thoroughnessCopy !req
432. of your report.Copy !req
433. Especially given
the circumstances.Copy !req
434. Might be best if you
took some time off...Copy !req
435. a short leave.Copy !req
436. Agent?Copy !req
437. Sir...Copy !req
438. you're satisfied with
my conclusions in this case?Copy !req
439. Absolutely.Copy !req
440. I take it you're not.Copy !req
441. Well...Copy !req
442. I was unable to determine
a clear cause of death,Copy !req
443. nor was I able to fully accountCopy !req
444. for the condition
of Agent Mulder's body.Copy !req
445. You concluded he was a victim
of a ritual killing.Copy !req
446. No.Copy !req
447. I mean, that wasCopy !req
448. one possible scenario
that I mentioned, but...Copy !req
449. in my mind, it-it was
the least plausible.Copy !req
450. Not only is it plausible,
it's-it's...Copy !req
451. it's likely.Copy !req
452. Why are you questioning
your own findings?Copy !req
453. My role in the X Files
has always been to provide a...Copy !req
454. a rational scientific
perspectiveCopy !req
455. to cases that would seem
to defy explanation...Copy !req
456. a counterpoint to Agent Mulder.Copy !req
457. And you have done that.Copy !req
458. You have performed admirably.Copy !req
459. Have I?Copy !req
460. How many X FilesCopy !req
461. has my scientific approachCopy !req
462. fully and satisfactorily
explained?Copy !req
463. Your reports have consistently
made senseCopy !req
464. of his conclusions.Copy !req
465. Sir, this one makes
no sense at all.Copy !req
466. Are you suggesting this is
anything other than a murder?Copy !req
467. That's what Agent Mulder
would have thought.Copy !req
468. You think
he would have been right?Copy !req
469. Given Mulder's life work,Copy !req
470. it's tempting to attribute
his death to the paranormal,Copy !req
471. the unexplained, the unknown,Copy !req
472. but that's simply
not the case here.Copy !req
473. You need to see this
for what it is.Copy !req
474. And given that,Copy !req
475. I promise you we'll get
the bastard who did this.Copy !req
476. I'm sorry.Copy !req
477. Agent Scully, how
are you holding up?Copy !req
478. I, uh...Copy !req
479. I still can't believe it.Copy !req
480. Neither can we.Copy !req
481. I half expect Mulder to
come knocking at that door.Copy !req
482. "Surprise."Copy !req
483. This will dull the pain.Copy !req
484. No, thank you.Copy !req
485. Just so you know...Copy !req
486. we've launched our
own investigation.Copy !req
487. I was beginning to think
that I was the only oneCopy !req
488. who was a little suspicious.Copy !req
489. We'll find him.Copy !req
490. We'll find him,
and we'll make him pay.Copy !req
491. Find who?Copy !req
492. The son of a bitch
who killed Mulder.Copy !req
493. I hope you're not offended,Copy !req
494. but we, uh, managed
to get ahold of your report.Copy !req
495. I must say, we were impressedCopy !req
496. by the thoroughness of it.Copy !req
497. Especially given
the circumstances.Copy !req
498. I don't understand.Copy !req
499. We concur with your findings.Copy !req
500. Clearly, this was
a ritualistic murder.Copy !req
501. Those were not my findings.Copy !req
502. You guys believe that, too...Copy !req
503. that Mulder was murdered?Copy !req
504. It's the obvious answer.Copy !req
505. No, it is not
the obvious answer!Copy !req
506. We believe
his body was stripped,Copy !req
507. then skeletonized,
possibly by boilingCopy !req
508. or the use of an acid solution.Copy !req
509. We'll make that monkey pay.Copy !req
510. What the hell is wrong
with everybody?Copy !req
511. You guys, there are
unanswered questions here!Copy !req
512. Am I the only one
that's asking them?Copy !req
513. I could use a drink.Copy !req
514. You three, of all people!Copy !req
515. You should be all
over this, not buyingCopy !req
516. the party line.Copy !req
517. Look, something elseCopy !req
518. is going on here.Copy !req
519. Am I the only one
who thinks that?Copy !req
520. Are you all right?Copy !req
521. I think you needCopy !req
522. to go home and get some rest.Copy !req
523. I'll call you a cab.Copy !req
524. What have you done with him?Copy !req
525. Scully, you're
emotionally distraught.Copy !req
526. You need to calm down
and get some rest.Copy !req
527. Where is Mulder?
Where is he?Copy !req
528. What have you done with him?Copy !req
529. Listen to me. He's gone.Copy !req
530. You need to accept that.Copy !req
531. Look, something else
is going on here!Copy !req
532. Where is he?Copy !req
533. Where's Mulder?Copy !req
534. Scully.Copy !req
535. We were in the cave
when the light came.Copy !req
536. It was a blinding,
blue-white light.Copy !req
537. Then they took me.Copy !req
538. I was abducted.Copy !req
539. I found myself in some
kind of medical bay.Copy !req
540. It was white, featureless.Copy !req
541. It was justCopy !req
542. as the Schiffs had described it.Copy !req
543. Mulder, the Schiffs are dead.Copy !req
544. No, actually, they're not.Copy !req
545. Mulder, their remains
were discovered in a field.Copy !req
546. That's... that's what
brought us to this caseCopy !req
547. in the first place.Copy !req
548. I found your remains
in that same field.Copy !req
549. Me... I'm here.Copy !req
550. How did you get here?Copy !req
551. Aliens brought me back here.Copy !req
552. From North Carolina
direct to your apartment door?Copy !req
553. Mulder, you don't remember
getting here, do you?Copy !req
554. Neither do I.Copy !req
555. Doesn't change what happened.Copy !req
556. Mulder, why did you knock?Copy !req
557. This is your apartment.Copy !req
558. And you don't seemCopy !req
559. the least bit surprised
to find me here.Copy !req
560. And what about the Schiffs?Copy !req
561. I mean, if they're... if they're
alive, as you say, then...Copy !req
562. then where are they?Copy !req
563. Where'd they go?Copy !req
564. Mulder, five minutes ago...Copy !req
565. this room was filled with people
attending your wake.Copy !req
566. Well, what can I say, Scully?Copy !req
567. I'm here. I'm real.Copy !req
568. Mulder, this is not reality.Copy !req
569. This is a hallucination.Copy !req
570. It has to be.Copy !req
571. And either I am having it
or you are having itCopy !req
572. or we are having it together.Copy !req
573. Brought on by what?Copy !req
574. Something that we found
in that field, Mulder,Copy !req
575. because that's where it began.Copy !req
576. Wild mushroom.Copy !req
577. Wild mushrooms, Mulder.Copy !req
578. They were growing there.Copy !req
579. I stepped on one,
and it gave off spores.Copy !req
580. Several varieties
of-of mushroomsCopy !req
581. are known for their
hallucinogenic properties.Copy !req
582. If we inhaled it...Copy !req
583. Whatever happenedCopy !req
584. to the most logical explanation?Copy !req
585. This is it, Mulder.Copy !req
586. What if we're still there,Copy !req
587. if we're still in that cave
in North Carolina...Copy !req
588. that we're not hereCopy !req
589. in this apartment right now?Copy !req
590. Whoa, Scully.Copy !req
591. No, Mulder, bear with me.Copy !req
592. I think this is making sense.Copy !req
593. I think that Angela
and Wallace SchiffCopy !req
594. were digested by that substanceCopy !req
595. that I found
all over that field.Copy !req
596. That they were dissolved
and then expelled upCopy !req
597. out of the ground.Copy !req
598. What if that substanceCopy !req
599. and this hallucinogen are
from one and the same organism?Copy !req
600. A giant mushroom?Copy !req
601. A giant fungal organism, Mulder.Copy !req
602. We already know that they exist.Copy !req
603. Biologists have found
specimens that rangeCopy !req
604. dozens of acres,Copy !req
605. that weigh hundreds of tons.Copy !req
606. And what if this one
needs to feedCopy !req
607. on living tissue, Mulder?Copy !req
608. There is carnivorous plant life.Copy !req
609. There's the Venus flytrapCopy !req
610. and the pitcher plant.Copy !req
611. Mulder, what if this one
puts off an hallucinogen...Copy !req
612. To lure its prey into the cave?Copy !req
613. To make it complacent.Copy !req
614. To keep it still
while it devours it.Copy !req
615. What if we're still
underground, Mulder?Copy !req
616. What if we're moving
deeper into the cave?Copy !req
617. Or being moved?Copy !req
618. Mulder,
what if we're being digested?Copy !req
619. Right now.Copy !req
620. The exact size of this organism
has yet to be determined?Copy !req
621. That's, uh, correct, sir.Copy !req
622. We know that the organism
extends for at least ten acres.Copy !req
623. Though it's mostly subterranean,Copy !req
624. so it may be far larger.Copy !req
625. We've contacted
Fish and Wildlife.Copy !req
626. We've contacted
the North CarolinaCopy !req
627. State Health Department,Copy !req
628. as well as the local
FBI field office in Raleigh.Copy !req
629. And we've contacted
a mycologist at the SmithsonianCopy !req
630. for good measure.Copy !req
631. We think we have
our bases covered.Copy !req
632. The lab results determinedCopy !req
633. that the spores
we were exposed toCopy !req
634. have a chemical structure
similar to LSD.Copy !req
635. They also containCopy !req
636. an alkaloid which induces
a state of narcosis.Copy !req
637. It's a rare dayCopy !req
638. when the two of you sign off
on the same report.Copy !req
639. Agent Mulder?Copy !req
640. I'm just thinking.Copy !req
641. Uh, I'm not exactly clearCopy !req
642. on how we escaped.Copy !req
643. What's not clear?Copy !req
644. Once you recognizedCopy !req
645. that we were under
a chemical influence,Copy !req
646. then it simply kind of...
broke its spell?Copy !req
647. That's right.Copy !req
648. Scully, how could we simplyCopy !req
649. will ourselves out of
a chemical hallucination?Copy !req
650. Well, the fact remains, we did.Copy !req
651. Did we?Copy !req
652. Can you name me
one drug that losesCopy !req
653. its effect once the user
realizes it's in his system?Copy !req
654. I assume the effectsCopy !req
655. wore off to the point
that you wereCopy !req
656. both able to make your escape.Copy !req
657. Scully, how long
were we underground?Copy !req
658. Hours? Half a day?Copy !req
659. How come our bodies
don't show any effectsCopy !req
660. of being burned
by the digestive fluids?Copy !req
661. We were covered in
hydrochloric acid,Copy !req
662. yet look at our skin... nothing.Copy !req
663. Agent Mulder,Copy !req
664. where are you going with this?Copy !req
665. Scully...Copy !req
666. we never escaped.Copy !req
667. We're still trapped underground.Copy !req
668. Mulder, we did escape.Copy !req
669. I think you're suffering
from post-traumatic stress.Copy !req
670. No, I'm not.Copy !req
671. This is not real.Copy !req
672. You, you're not real.Copy !req
673. Mulder, I...Copy !req
674. I'll prove it, Scully.Copy !req
675. Prove it.Copy !req
676. Mulder!Copy !req
677. Over here!Copy !req
678. Here!Copy !req
679. Hey!Copy !req
680. He's alive.Copy !req
681. Hurry up!Copy !req
682. Get him out! Get him out!Copy !req
683. Keep digging!Copy !req
684. She's down here!Copy !req
685. Pull her up.Copy !req
686. Get her out!Copy !req
687. Mushroom.Copy !req
688. We found it.Copy !req
689. Just take it easy, Agent.Copy !req
690. I made this!Copy !req