The X-Files

Bogey at 12 o'clock! Whoo! Gotcha!

I have engagement of unidentified flying object

on Banning Ranch Road, westbound, moving like a bat out of hell.

90-degree lower altitude. Max G redirect.

Absolutely impossible.

Um...

- Oh, you idiot! - (winds on film)

Oh, this is not happening.

This is not happening!

Show.

Hey! Hey!

I come in peace.

This is not happening.

- Hi. - Hi.

You said you'd received something urgent.

You're right, I did. I think it's important you got right down here, Agent Scully.

Thanks.

Are you gonna tell me what it is?

I passed it on to AD Skinner. I'd like for him to tell you.

- Here they are. - Shall I ask Scully about her travel plans?

- No. She'll be flying with us. - (door opens)

What?

What is it?

Let's go into my office.

All right, what's going on here?

A report came in last night from Montana about a UFO encounter.

What kind of encounter?

A young man chased a bright object flying low across the sky.

Tracked it all the way to a big field where the UFO disappeared,

but where he claimed he saw an alien.

Assistant Director,

I've got drawers full of reports that begin just like that.

What's so important about this case?

Young man's named Richie Szalay.

UFO nut from Bellefleur, Oregon?

You and Agent Mulder met him out there last spring.

Are you trying to tell me this has something to do with Mulder?

He's trying to tell you that it might.

Richie Szalay didn't find an alien last night.

He found a woman.

A woman whose name you will remember - Teresa Hoese.

Teresa Hoese was the young mother who was abducted the night before Agent Mulder.

And who was returned last night.

Returned?

Hanging onto life by a thread.

- Who is Mr Skinner? - I'm Skinner. You Dr Desai?

I was just told you flew out here all the way from Washington DC.

- We're here to see Teresa Hoese. - I know.

I wish someone would tell me these things. She is in no condition...

- What is her condition? - She's circling the drain.

12 years, I have never seen anything near this level of mistreatment.

It's important we see the victim and talk to her if we can about what happened.

Just promise me, whoever did this,

you guys will do everything in your power to catch them.

By rights, this young woman shouldn't even be alive.

The medics said she asked for her baby last night,

but she hasn't said a word otherwise.

I suspect it's all she's holding on to.

What's upsetting is it's almost like someone was experimenting on her.

What exactly did they do to her?

Inside her cheeks there's tissue damage in a linear pattern.

Her chest was cut into and organ tissue in her abdomen scooped away.

In the x-rays I see damage to the soft palate.

In the x-rays did you see, um...

anything else - foreign objects?

- I'm not sure what you mean. - Little pieces of metal.

- Implants. - No, I didn't.

Agent Doggett requested a police report?

You're welcome to stay here and discuss foreign objects but...

looks like we got a suspect.

US pilots patrolling Germany...

- (Doggett) Richie Szalay? - Yeah?

...describing highly manoeuvrable balls of light which they referred to as "foo fighters".

- Richie? - Yeah.

John Doggett, FBI agent. This is Agent Scully, Assistant Director Skinner, our boss.

- You mind if we come in? - Dude, you're already in.

I know you.

- Do I know you? - You do, Richie... from Oregon.

We met late last spring, you remember?

Richie, if you live in Oregon... what are you doing in Montana?

My buddy, Gary, right? He was abducted.

Right before your partner.

I came looking for him.

So, you just came out here on a lark?

No, I was following the news.

- The news? - All that's in the last two weeks.

I go on these Internet chat rooms to talk about sightings and junk.

After Oregon there wasn't a whole lot, but then all of a sudden in Montana...

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I never thought I'd find Mrs Hoese like that. Not in a million years.

When you found her, you said you saw somebody with her - an alien.

You know what a moulage casting is, Richie?

Cops take them when they find shoe prints. They do plaster castings.

The ones they got from the field that night were from 91/2 Nikes.

- An alien in Nikes? - Doesn't mean it wasn't.

Did it occur to you that it wasn't an alien but a man?

Then what about his spaceship?

Agent Doggett?

- What was that in there? - Pressing a witness to get to the truth.

You refuse to believe that anything other than a man could have done this.

Done what we saw to that woman in the hospital.

It's not worth arguing about. The point here is to find Mulder.

For months we've been looking for a break, which is what we've got here.

What we've got is hope.

But let's be honest, Agent Scully, about what, no one wants to say.

Bad as you want to find Mulder, you're afraid to find him, too.

What if he's dead?

I'm sorry.

I just had a bad dream.

Let me get some clothes on.

I once had a talk with Mulder about starlight.

How it's billions of years old.

Stars that are now long dead whose light is still travelling through time.

It won't die, that light.

Maybe that's the only thing that never does.

He said that's where souls reside.

I hope he's right.

If you're trying to prepare yourself, I want you to stop.

Nothing says that we're gonna stumble over him in some field.

Nothing says he won't be fine.

May I help you, sir?

Yes, I want to have a patient transferred.

- Teresa Hoese. - To be transferred?

To another facility. I'd like to get her ready as soon as we can.

OK.

Yeah?

Hold on.

Who took her?

Has anybody talked to the doctor and asked him why, or where?

Where's Agent Doggett now?

- Did you find her? - No.

No? I don't understand. You called us all the way out here.

- To get another point of view. - Another point of view?

- We have a patient missing. - You should just hear her out.

Hear who out?

Her name's Monica Reyes. I worked a case with her once.

- She's FBI? - Yeah.

She's got some expertise we might take advantage of.

- In what? - She's got her master's in religious studies.

- Her specialisation is ritualistic crime. - Ritualistic crime?

Are we working the same case here?

Agent Reyes.

Assistant Director Skinner, Agent Scully...

Monica Reyes.

Hi.

Beautiful country out here.

I know it's not very FBI of me, but I'm really trying to quit.

Agent Doggett's taken me through the case. Interesting.

- Interesting? - What do you think happened?

- Isn't that what you're here to tell us? - I have my own thoughts.

What we think happened and what happened aren't always the same.

- But not altogether insignificant. - I'm sorry, this feels like therapy.

What happened is different from what we want to have happened.

What who wants to have happened?

Well, I'm told this case involves you.

It may involve someone close to me. Can we stick to the facts, please?

It's clear the woman found out here did not inflict her own injuries,

that she was dropped here by someone,

and whoever it was cared about her enough not to kill her.

Did you happen to know the peculiar nature of her injuries?

Yes, they were peculiar,

but not very different from your typical cult ritualistic abuse.

Agent Reyes, we're dealing with abductions here... not by any cult.

OK. Good. I mean, if it's not.

But you think that it is?

Well, I go on what I know, of course, but I try to stay, you know, open.

What do you think happened?

I'm told Agent Mulder and the others who were taken were true believers,

convinced in the abduction phenomenon.

If this is about staging their own abductions...

No, it's about people coming together. Like minds, as a group.

So you're basically saying that Mulder has joined some sort of UFO cult?

- Call it a group. - For what?

We all know the stories about transport to a mother ship,

the idea of a giant mother wheel, the whole Heaven's Gate thing.

- I see. - It'd make sense.

The leader of the cult leaves this woman out here to die. Learning she's alive,

he comes back to kidnap her again for fear of exposure.

It'd make sense, too, that if we find this guy, maybe we find Mulder.

Are you asking me to believe this?

No, that's not what I said. I don't think he left her to die.

- I don't think she's dead. - Based on what?

Nothing, really. It's just a feeling.

Why are you walking away? It makes some kind of sense.

I'm glad you agree with her because I'm not even sure she agrees with you.

Nor has she made sense of how the doctor who removed Teresa from the hospital

seems to have been in two places at once.

I know where you're going with this.

But if you tell me this is another alien bounty hunter,

this is where we part company.

Enjoy your new company.

How is she?

We were almost too late.

Hi.