The X-Files

What's she doing there by herself?

- Tina? - Honey?

You're freezing. Where's yourjacket?

Where's your daddy?

ln the yard. He told me he needed some time to himself.

l'd say his time's up.

Come on, honey, l'm sure he wouldn't want you to catch cold.

Joel?

Hey, Joel, the swing set's supposed to be for your daughter, not you!

l'll call 911.

Daddy?

X-Files Season 1 Episode 11 -Eve

Death by hypovolemia.

75o/o blood loss.

That's over four litres of blood.

You could say the man was running on empty.

The man's daughter, eight years old,

was away from his side for no more than 10 minutes.

She doesn't remember anything.

There was no trace evidence.

lt would've been washed away by yesterday's rain.

There were two puncture wounds in the jugular.

Are you familiar with the phenomenon of cattle mutilations?

Since 1967,

over 34 states have reported unsolved cases of cattle mutilation.

The trace evidence is remarkably similar.

lncision marks of surgical precision.

The area around the mouth and often the sexual organs has been removed.

There's substantial blood loss

with no blood at the scene.

- How can that be? - Exsanguination.

lf you stuck a needle in the jugular, the heart itself would act as a pump.

These animals had theirjugulars punctured

in the same way as the man from Connecticut.

lt's the first time l've ever seen it on a human.

There was no sign of a struggle.

How can a man sit through a blood-letting?

The ME found digitalis,

a South American plant that can be used as a paralytic drug.

These X-Files indicate this is a UFO-related phenomenon.

Often there are sightings nearby, surface burns.

Witnesses report time loss, as in abduction cases.

That might explain why the girl remembers nothing.

Why would aliens travel light years to Earth

in order to play doctor on cattle?

For the same reason we cut up frogs and monkeys.

Besides,

they seem to have stepped up their interest.

Her mother passed away from ovarian cancer two years ago.

There's no other family.

We'll keep Tina here until we can place her with a foster family.

- Has she spoken about it? - No, not a word.

- Any nightmares? - No. At least not that l know of.

- Can we talk to her now? - Yes.

Tina,

these are the people we talked about.

This is Miss Scully and Mr Mulder. Do you think you can talk to them?

OK.

Hi.

l know you must be feeling very sad right now.

And scared.

But we wanna find out what happened so we can help stop

whoever hurt your daddy, OK?

OK.

Did you ever see any strangers with your daddy at home?

Did you ever see anyone yell at your daddy

or your daddy yell at them?

No.

Can you think of anyone who might wanna hurt your daddy?

No.

That's a nice bunny, Tina.

Can we talk about what happened that day?

About what happened in the back yard. Yeah?

Do you remember any strange sounds or lights

or anything like that?

There was red lightning.

Can you tell me more about the red lightning?

l can't remember.

lt... all went dark.

Have you ever seen anything like that before?

You have? When?

The men from the clouds - they were after my dad.

Scully.

- Where? - Why were these men after your dad?

They wanted to exsanguinate him.

Thanks. Mulder.

What?

There's been another one.

lt's like looking at a mirror image.

''The victim, Doug Reardon, was married with one daughter.''

''Cause of death - hypovolemia.''

Mulder, this is uncanny.

They also found traces of the poison digitalis.

- Puncture wound? - Yes.

On the jugular.

Time of death was estimated at 2.30pm.

The same day, only three hours earlier than the Simmons murder.

That's Pacific Standard Time. That makes it the exact same moment.

lt appears we have two serial killers working in tandem.

No, serial killers rarely work in pairs.

When they do, they kill together, not separately.

Nothing beyond your leading questions to Tina

substantiates a UFO mutilation theory.

Was Reardon's daughter here when he was murdered?

Yes.

The police report states that she remembers nothing.

She's with her mother and family in Sacramento.

- When will they be back? - Tomorrow.

Even money she'll remember red lightning.

Tina?

She was kidnapped from the Social Services home at 11pm last night.

Looks like someone was afraid she might remember too much.

Someone or something, Scully.

Connecticut state troopers set up roadblocks within half an hour.

Nothing.

Maybe they weren't looking in the right direction!

l told them to contact us in case they find her.

Tina?

No.

Wh-What's your name?

Cindy Reardon.

Do you live here, Cindy?

Ever since l was born - eight years ago.

This is the ceremonial signing...

Cindy really is a beautiful little girl, Mrs Reardon.

Doug and l wanted to spoil her.

We wanted to protect her from everything horrible in the world.

- She was daddy's little girl. - ls she an only child?

May l ask... was Cindy adopted?

No!

l gave birth to her

at San Rafael General.

l assume you have the documentation, birth certificate...

- Of course l do. - Was she the only child delivered?

What the hell kind of question is that?

Look, l have told the police everything l know.

Mrs Reardon, have you ever seen this man before?

ls this your suspect?

- No. - Did he do something to Cindy?

- No, h-he... - No.

Mrs Reardon,

this is not your daughter.

That girl's name is Tina Simmons.

She lives 3,000 miles away in Greenwich, Connecticut.

That man, her father, was killed in the same way as your husband.

Cindy is my daughter.

l can show you videos of her birth.

We tried for six years to become pregnant.

ln vitro fertilisation?

- At which clinic? - Luther Stapes Center

down in San Francisco.

Do you still believe

this is UFO related?

- Cindy didn't see red lightning. - l don't know.

The only thing similar about these girls does seem to be their appearance.

There is the possibility they have an unrelated likeness.

Who both just happen to see their fathers exsanguinated.

l'd like to get the odds on that in Vegas!

The girls are the one and only link between identical murders.

- And one girl was just abducted. - Kidnapped.

Potato, po-tah-to.

Where are you going?

lf the murders were committed by the same person,

and part of the pattern involves kidnapping the daughter...

Then you'd expect the pattern to continue.

l'll keep an eye on the girl. Check out the clinic.

See if the Simmons were in the same programme.

l'll call the San Francisco Bureau and get someone to relieve you.

OK.

ln vitro fertilisation is a procedure in which we implement fertilisation

and implantation of the embryo in the uterus.

Could a patient believe she was receiving her own egg

but receive another without knowing?

Not here. We have very strict controls.

Have you ever had patients named Claudia and Joel Simmons?

Any patient information is confidential. lt's our policy.

The Simmons are dead. Their daughter has been kidnapped.

l'd say any information you have that could help would override your policy.

You had copies of their records

transferred to Greenwich, Connecticut in 1991.

They came here nine years ago under the supervision of a Dr Sally Kendrick?

ls there a problem?

Dr Kendrick was nothing but a problem.

Hello. Welcome to the Luther Stapes Center for Reproductive Medicine.

l'm Dr Sally Kendrick,

a specialist in the exciting field of in vitro fertilisation.

She was a resident here in 1985.

Brilliant.

First in her class at Yale Med where she got her MD

after completing her doctorate in biogenetics.

We were thrilled to get her.

And now you don't sound so thrilled.

We have reason to believe

Dr Kendrick was tampering with genetic material of fertilised ova

in the lab prior to implant.

Experimenting with eugenics.

- Did you report this to the AMA? - Of course.

l fired her. l also requested an investigation from the US Health Department.

- And what happened? - The AMA censured her.

My request for an investigation was denied.