The X-Files

Yeah, this is Roky. I checked all the connections.

I don't know why all the power's down out here.

I'm gonna have to come in and get some more equipment.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I'll need several of those.

All right!

Um...

I don't wanna scare you, but... I think I'm madly in love with you.

I mean, you're all I think about. You're my whole world.

Harold, I like you a lot too, but this is our first date.

I mean, I think that we need more time to get to know one another.

What happened?

Oh, my God!

Harold! What are those things?

How the hell should I know?

- Jack, what is that thing? - How the hell should I know?

I had never thought much about it before.

I guess that's because I felt like such an alien myself...

...that to be concerned with aliens from... other planets...

...that just seemed so... redundant.

I'd never considered it much myself before I started this job.

Yes, now, if I understand it correctly...

...your partner is the actual expert?

Yes, and I feel that I must apologise for his refusal to speak with you, Mr Chung.

I must admit, I probably wouldn't have myself

if I wasn't such an admirer of your work.

The Lonely Buddha is one of my favourite novels.

And here I was thinking you were just some brainy beauty.

Now I find out that you also have... good taste.

Why did you write a book on alien abduction if you're not that interested in the subject?

Actually, it was my publisher's idea.

At first I was reluctant, until I realised that I had an opportunity here...

...to create an entirely new literary genre:

a nonfiction science fiction.

Now, see, that gimmick alone will guarantee its landing on the best-seller list.

In short, to answer your question... money.

Just as long as you're attempting to record the truth.

God, no! How can I possibly do that?

- What do you mean? - I spent three months in Klass County.

Everybody has a different version of what "truly" happened.

Truth is as subjective as reality.

That will help explain why, when people talk about their UFO experiences...

...they always start off with "I know how crazy this is gonna sound, but..."

So, you're here to get my version of the truth?

Exactly. Now, when did you first find out about the case?

Well, not right away, of course. Um...

Not enough time had elapsed to consider it a missing persons case...

...before the girl was found the following morning.

She was suffering from what my partner calls "missing time".

She recalled nothing of the previous night,

nor how she had arrived at her whereabouts.

Her body exhibited signs of physical abuse...

...and all of her clothes were on inside out and backwards.

Hm. Have I had my share of mornings like that(!)

But these are the characteristics of someone who has, uh...

Do you prefer the term "abductee" or "experiencer"?

Actually, I prefer neither, but my partner uses "abductee".

My preference is for the other.

"I've just had a, uh... little alien experience"...

...as opposed to "I've just been abducted!"

Regardless, the girl was considered neither at the time.

She appeared more to be the victim of date rape than anything else.

She was given a physical exam and her statement was taken.

Later that night, she received her "visitation".

- Oh, Chrissy, thank God you're all right. - How dare you come here?

- Chrissy, I did everything I could! - Don't I know it, you bastard!

- Chrissy, don't you remember? - (man) Who the hell's out there, damn it?!

Chrissy, I love you!

The girl's father informed the police, who apprehended the boy back at his home.

We... We were abducted by aliens.

You don't sound so sure of it.

It all seems so crazy. And I don't know why Chrissy doesn't remember it.

Are you willing to take a lie-detector test to prove you were abducted by aliens?

Yes, I am.

Well, too bad! Cos I don't need no lie detector to tell me...

...the only thing you were abducted by were your rampaging hormones, you punk!

But he did take a test, and passed it?

And he stuck to his story, until we got there.

If she says I raped her, then I guess I raped her.

You don't sound so sure of that.

It all seems so crazy.

And I don't know why Chrissy remembers it that way.

Would you be willing to take a lie-detector test to prove that you raped her?

- No. I'm not. - Well, that's too bad.

The next rape you experience will probably be your own... in prison.

That should have ended our interrogation.

But Mulder brought the girl in for questioning.

Are you having trouble sleeping?

Are you experiencing muscle pains? Vision problems?

Nose bleeds? When you look at a particular object...

...do you receive the sudden flash that you're looking at something else - an alien's face?

Yes!

My partner was convinced she had what he calls "Post-Abduction Syndrome".

You don't believe in that?

I think stress of any kind can cause all of those physical ailments.

In any case, Mulder convinced the girl and her parents to let her be hypnotised.

What is your opinion of hypnosis?

I know that it has its therapeutic value,

but it has never been proven to enhance memory.

In fact, it actually worsens it...

...since people in that state are prone to confabulation.

When I was doing research for my book The Caligarian Candidate...

One of the greatest thrillers ever written.

Thank you.

I was interested in how the CIA...

...when conducting their MKULTRA mind-control experiments...

...back in the '50s...

...had no idea how hypnosis worked.

- Or what it was. - No one still knows.

Still, as a storyteller...

...I'm fascinated.

How a person's sense of consciousness can be so transformed...

...by nothing more magical than listening to words.

Mere words.

You are feeling very sleepy.

Very relaxed.

As your body calmly drifts...

...deeper and deeper into a state of peaceful relaxation...

...you will respond only to the sound of my voice.

Chrissy? Can you recall where you are?

I'm in a room...

...on a spaceship...

...surrounded by aliens.

What do the aliens look like?

They're small.

But their heads and their eyes are big. They're grey.

- (hypnotist) Are you alone? - (Chrissy) No. Harold's on another table.

But... he seems really out of it.

Like he's not really there.

What are the aliens doing now?

They seem to be... arguing.

I can sort of hear them, but I can't understand what they're saying.

Except the leader. I can understand him.

When the leader speaks to you, does his mouth move?

No. But I hear him in my head.

What does he say?

That this is for the good of my planet, but...

But what?

I don't like what he's doing. It's like he's inside my mind, like...

...like he's stealing my memories.

The description of the aliens, the physical exam...

...a human being that appears switched off, it's characteristic of a typical abduction.

That's my problem with it, Mulder. It's all a little too typical.

Abduction lore has become so prevalent...

...that if you ask someone to imagine being abducted,

they'd concoct that exact scenario.

Yeah, if it were only one person.

We have two individuals, each verifying the other's story.

Well, thanks a lot! You really bleeped up this case.

- He didn't actually say "bleeped". He said... - I'm familiar with, uh...

...Detective Manners's colourful phraseology.

- Are you gonna hold the boy? - You bet your blankety-blank bleep I am!

- The victim seems to confirm his alibi. - The hell she did!

Those kids' stories couldn't be more bleepin' different.

Aagh!

Chrissy? Chrissy?

What do you want with us?

- What do you want with us?! - How did the alien respond?

Well... all he did was...

What...?

- What's happening? - Don't worry. It'll be OK.

I'm here to protect you. I'll never let anything happen to you.

What was the other alien - the grey - what was it doing during all this?

He was just... talking.

Telepathically?

No. In English. He just kept saying the same thing over and over again.

This is not happening. This is not happening.

This is not happening. This is...

Would you shut up already?!

This is not happening. This is not happening.

I don't know where I was taken, because the whole time I was like this... in pain.

Because the other alien was conducting torturous experiments on you?

No. No, it was like... You know when you're a kid...

...and you tore the legs off a bug for no reason?

I guess I was the bug.

Anyways, the next thing I remember, I was suddenly outside...

...like I was flying through the air.

- Then what? - Then I think I hit the ground.

When I came to, I ran to Chrissy's to make sure she was there, and that she was OK.

Harold. Did you and Chrissy engage in consensual sexual intercourse that night?

If her father finds out, I'm a dead man.

He said it happened before the abduction. And so what if they had sex?

So we know that it wasn't an alien that probed her.

You've got two kids having sex before they're mature enough to handle it.

So you think all this is just a case of sexual trauma?

It's a lot more plausible than an alien abduction.

Especially in light of their contradictory stories.

Hey! I just got a call from some crazy bleep-head...

...claiming he was an eyewitness to this abduction.

You feel like talking to this blank-hole?

I know how crazy all this sounds, but I don't care.

What I have to say has to be said.

Why did you wait till now to tell us this? Two kids' lives may be affected by it.

Well, it's bigger than a couple of kids.

It has to do with the entire planet, the universe, and who knows what-all?

- Why don't you tell us what happened? - This. It's all here.

After seeing what I saw that night, I rushed home and wrote it all down.

48 hours straight. I didn't wanna forget a single detail.

But I feel I should warn you. I don't wanna be overly dramatic...

...but by looking at this you're putting your lives in danger.

- Why is that? - Last night the weirdest thing happened.