The X-Files

- All in favour. - Aye.

All right.

Starting Monday...

...the track around the athletic field will be closed to joggers at 8.30pm instead of 10.

Any other items before we call it a night?

Yeah. Uh...

I got wind that for the spring drama production...

...Howard Roberts intends to put on Jesus Christ Superstar.

You know how he is. Howard's just trying to do things the kids like.

My point exactly.

I don't think that play is appropriate for this high school.

If he wants to be young, I have no problems with Grease or Annie, or...

- Doesn't Grease have the f-word? - Look, I'll talk to Howard.

Let's adjourn till next week. Deborah, why don't you lead us in the prayer.

- Jim, the game is on. - It'll only take a minute.

We've been letting it slip.

Paul, why don't you get the door.

In the name of the lords of darkness,

rulers of the earth, kings of the underworld...

...I command the forces of darkness to bestow their infernal power upon me.

May the black powers of our forefathers make us strong.

Hail. Hail to the lords of darkness.

- (girl) How much further? - (boy) It's just up here a ways.

I heard the altar is a hollow stump.

When they get freaked...

...you get Kate. I take Andrea.

Those mittens are givin' me a gingrich!

This is it.

OK, I need a personal object from everyone.

All right. Now, Andrea, you get to stand over here...

...and face Jerry, like this.

- Closer. - Why like this?

Well, that's so, uh... that's so that we're calling the spirits up of every direction.

Kate, you stand here and face me.

Do you really think someone used this place for black magic?

- Come on, Dave! - Shh.

In the name of the lords of darkness, rulers of the earth, kings of the underworld, rise.

Rise to this place.

Uh, Azazel.

Know ye all who dwell in the light of professed righteousness...

...that the others who know the keys and the angels have opened the gate.

- Forget this! - Andrea!

Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus!

Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death!

Andrea! Wait!

A hunter found him early this morning.

Couldn't have been dead more than 12 hours.

- They say this area is used by witches. - "They"?

Well, everybody around here knows about the things that go on.

They say people control things.

Any evidence to substantiate those rumours, Sheriff Oakes?

Agent Scully, look at the body. The eyes and heart have been cut out.

Many homicides involve victim desecration.

I know he and his friends listen to devil music.

"The Night Chicago Died"?

You know what I mean. Those heavy-metal bands that influence kids.

Was Jerry Stevens ever witnessed participating in witchcraft?

- No. - More rumours.

This stump here is supposed to be the ceremonial altar.

What do you think?

With turquoise chips, a picture of John Wayne and three cans of shellac...

...it'd make a pretty nice coffee table.

(sheriff I You see all that wax? Someone's been burning candles in there.

- Any idea who Jerry Stevens was with? - We assume he was alone.

Most people don't set out to drink two six-packs by themselves.

I also found this. It has purple ink on the edge like a library identification stamp.

The end of the title says "in America". I'm surprised you people overlooked it.

I'm sorry, I... I gotta apologise here. You're right.

I admit, we're a little rattled here. That's why I called the FBI.

This may involve a deeper conspiracy.

See, I grew up around here... Ever since I was a kid I heard... stories.

This is a weird area. It has a strange air that I could chalk up to imagination...

...till today.

I'll have my staff start checking libraries for you, Agent Scully.

Better hide your Megadeth albums.

Theories like that are why I can't take him seriously.

The homicide had a ceremonial presentation.

The manner in which the body was displayed.

I got the impression you didn't believe him.

I didn't want to incite his aggravated imagination...

...but there is a weird feel to this place. Maybe there's truth in the rumours.

I think he incited your imagination.

I think it's nothing more than a murderer taking advantage of local folklore.

There's nothing odd about...

So...

- Lunch? - Mulder, toads just fell from the sky!

I guess their parachutes didn't open.

You were saying something about this place not feeling odd?

The weather service says there are tornadoes in Massachusetts.

The wind probably picked up the animals into the storm.

"Witch Hunt: A History of the Occult in America."

That's checked out to a Dave Duran.

OK, people, may I have your attention, please?

Mr Kingery is out sick today, so I'll be substituting.

My name's Mrs Paddock. I'm gonna take the roll.

FBI. We'd like to speak with a Dave Duran.

I'm not into that stuff at all, I swear.

Jerry was my best friend.

Look, I swear I've never done anything like that.

What made you go to a place you heard was a witches' altar?

We were just trying to get some.

I told you.

Why did you take the book?

I don't know a thing about witchcraft, and we wanted it to sound good.

I never thought...

You never thought what?

That it would work.

If you didn't kill Jerry Stevens, why did you run away from us?

I'm scared, man.

- Of us? - Of it. That ceremony.

I'm afraid we called up some devil or something.

One of you killed Jerry Stevens.

Who?

He was displayed according to the rites of Azazel.

Who else would know about the ritual?

- We stopped doing this because... - I went out there.

We were supposed to have a Mass. No one else showed, so I left.

- It wasn't any of us. - Something is here.

A presence amongst us... angry. I can feel it.

- You're letting them go? - There's no evidence to warrant an arrest.

- They never leave evidence. - We heard how Jerry died. An occult ritual.

They've reached into our area from outside.

"They" again.

Those three kids are obviously under a cult influence.

They reach into our children, in music, television, books.

They prey on children's innocence.

The FBI did a seven-year study...

...and found no evidence of the existence of occult conspiracies.

And J Edgar Hoover never admitted to the existence of the Mafia.

If the murders attributed to occult conspiracies were true...

...it would mean thousands of people killing tens of thousands...

...without evidence, without being exposed.

It would be the greatest criminal conspiracy in the history of civilisation!

Finally... you people understand what we're up against.

Our investigation is ongoing.

Mulder, this is mass hysteria.

And our presence here gives validity to their fears of occult murders.

- The water. - What's wrong with it?

It's going down the drain counterclockwise.

Coriolis force in the northern hemisphere dictates it should go down clockwise.

- That isn't possible. - Something is here, Scully.

Something is making these things possible.

Girls... may I have a word?

I heard on the grapevine about what happened.

I know how hard it is to talk to adults, even though you feel like you want to.

Well, because you're young adults...

What I'm trying to say is, if you feel like talking, I'm here to listen, OK?

- Thanks, Mrs Paddock. - Hang in there.

Your records indicate a high incidence of students with depression...

...headaches, eating disorders...

This is high school. It's normal for students to display abnormal behaviour.

You're familiar with the indications of repressed memory?

A headache doesn't mean a repressed memory.

In your counselling, you've found no evidence of past ritual abuse?

None.

Would it be possible for me to speak to students who've had chronic complaints?

That would be a betrayal of the doctor/patient relationship. Sorry.

He was pretty quick to dismiss my concerns.

Maybe there's nothing here.

Or he's hiding something.

Take a look at this. I found this on the Internet.

"The discovery of a mutilated teenage boy in the forest...

...has police distressed about the possibility of an organisation of dark forces."

Where's that from? The local paper?

"The Jew is known to remove organs

and sacrifice teens in their religious ceremonies."

It's taken from Vdlkischer Beobachter. A Nazi newspaper in 1934.

Same rumours, but the blanks have been filled in with whoever is feared at the time.

In this case it's occultists.

Modern witches, known as Wiccan, are a religion.

They revere all life and nature. They do not cast harmful spells.

They don't worship Satan. The Church of Satan renounced murder and torture.

Their influence here wouldn't account for the frogs or the water...

...or, most importantly, the murder.

Well, if not witches, then what?

For your final exam,

your grade will be based on your diagram of a dissected pig embryo.

These are actually hog embryos, belonging to the order of the artiodactyl...

...or creatures with hooves.

Be sure to remove the heart and lungs and draw diagrams.

Be neat.

Extra credit will be given for dissecting the heart.

You have until the end of the period.

I'll cut it open, if you do the heart.

OK.

I've had this happen before. Some kids just have trouble dissecting things.

Shannon, I'm trying to reach your father and get him to pick you up.

No!

- I'm sure he'll be here soon. - No!

- Shannon! - Shannon, honey, come back!

Shannon! You're remembering!

Tell me what you remember.

You, um... know who my stepdad is, right?

Jim Ausbury on the PTC.

All right, well...

My mom, she's a teacher.

Well... was a teacher.

My real dad, he, um...

He ran away.

And... my mom met Jim at some seminar or something.