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!
Oh, this is not happening.
This is not happening!
Shoot!
Hey! Hey!
I come in peace.
This is not happening.
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.
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...
- 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...
I never...
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 traveling 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 specialization 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 all together 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.
I thought you'd be out combing the hills with Agent Doggett.
I'm on my way out to see him. I just wanted to see film on Teresa Hoese's injuries.
Is there something you're looking for, Agent Reyes, in particular?
Implants or signs of them.
Implants? I don't understand.
Metallic implants, placed in the body, oftentimes in the nasal cavity,
sometimes made of bone or cartilage, making detection difficult.
- Yeah, I'm well aware of how they work. - You said you didn't understand.
I don't understand your interest in evidence of alien abduction as a disbeliever.
I'm not a disbeliever.
Excuse me, I... I'm very confused. I know what I heard.
I heard you say that what we're dealing with is nothing more than a UFO cult.
There's the confusion. I still believe that.
But it doesn't mean I don't believe in the phenomena.
You believe in extraterrestrials?
Let's just say I don't not believe.
As I said, I try to stay open.
What is it you specialize in again? Ritualistic crime?
Right. Satanic ritual abuse.
Or, I should say, claims of it. We've never found any evidence.
We should talk sometime.
Not that I don't believe in it.
I was something of a black sheep in the field office in New Orleans
because of my beliefs.
And what beliefs are those?
I just have certain spiritual notions.
I believe there are energies in the universe.
It might sound kind of cosmic, but I think I'm sensitive to them.
I mean, I get these feelings.
And do you have any feelings about Agent Mulder?
I don't know Agent Mulder, and I don't have any feelings about him.
But I am feeling your fear.
And fear's not gonna help you find him, or anyone else.
Maybe you can try and stay open, too.
No frickin' way.
Two, three, up.
Stop there!
I'm a federal agent!
Examination of victim Gary Edward Cory reveals cuts and abrasions
from ligature or binding devices,
accompanied by distal and proximal bruising
radiating in a symmetrical pattern around the ankles,
the wrists,
and the face.
Oh, my God. Gary.
You can go now, Richie.
They just need you to sign a form.
Dana...
I'm OK.
There's work to do here.
You're hurting for her, I know.
Agent Scully.
I don't know how she's doin' it in there.
With everything she's feelin'.
What she's afraid of.
You know all too well.
Let's leave the past in the past.
It was your fear, too.
Those three days we looked for your son.
The fear of finding what we did.
I understand.
It's why you're so determined to find Mulder alive.
It's why I can't stand here and listen to all this mumbo jumbo about spaceships.
I saw what I saw, John. I'm not gonna lie to you.
But whatever it was, it led to this.
That's the man I saw in the field. He goes by the name Absalom.
A religious zealot who escaped a shoot-out in Idaho,
where he was the leader of a doomsday cult
who believed aliens would take over the world at the millennium.
Disgraced when they didn't, he fled, then tried a more ecumenical scam -
credit-card fraud.
I ran the plate on the pick-up truck.
It's registered to a farm about an hour from here.
- Get everyone inside. - What?
What is it?
They're coming.
Who?
Who's coming?
You can't let them find him.
Federal agents! Nobody move!
- Hands on your heads! - FBI! Please remain calm!
We have a search warrant! You are surrounded by law officers
who are armed and prepared to shoot if necessary.
Stop there!
Hands on your head.
Turn around so I can see you.
Move! Go on!
Move! On the ground now!
FBI! Don't move!
Please don't panic. You are in no danger if you stay calm and where we can see you.
Teresa?
Agent Scully.
You'd better get AD Skinner in to see this.
And Agent Doggett.
I said I can't explain why it happens, or how. Only where.
We got 46 of your followers rounded up out there at your compound.
You make me go to them for a straight answer, it'll only make it worse for you.
- How many times can I tell you? - It's early.
The coffee's hot.
The ships come in,
drop the abductees, all messed up.
I go and get them so I can help them.
Just like you helped Teresa Hoese when you left her for dead?
Agent Doggett.
You say that these abductees are returned with severe injuries.
But that doesn't fit the pattern of any alien-abduction model.
That's what I'm trying to explain.
I predicted there would be an alien invasion at the millennium.
I was right, it turns out.
Cos that's when this all started.
Sir, given the criminal charges against you, you couldn't be a less credible witness.
So stop trying to validate your theories and just give us the truth.
I am telling you the truth. I only want to help these people.
So, these video cameras that you have around your compound, how do they help?
Abductees live in fear of being taken again.
The cameras give them a sense of security.
Or makes them afraid to leave.
Do you have video tape of how you happened to heal Teresa Hoese?
No.
I asked you to give me the truth.
Do you have video tape of this man?
He's hiding something.
Yeah, that's for sure.
Agent Scully?
What?
What is it?
I saw him.
I saw something.
I reviewed the tapes.
There are some things here I want you all to see.
- They've got a body in there. - Who is it?
- You can't tell from this angle. - Then where's another angle?
This is the only angle I could find.
Wait a minute. Stop it.
That man.
I know that man.
Good, because here he is again.
- Who is he? - His name is Jeremiah Smith.
Agent Mulder knew him. He believed he had the ability to heal people.
What do you mean, heal people?
Like he did Teresa Hoese.
Well, whoever he is, take a look at this.
- What the hell just happened? - That's what I'd like to know.
Wow. That's still Jeremiah Smith.
The hell it was. That's me. I never went in that building.
Exactly. We have to get back out there.
Halt. Identify yourself.
We're looking for someone. A man who may be one of the detainees.
We need some bodies out here to help search the woods.
FBI.
Where is he? Jeremiah Smith. Look, I know he's here.
Jeremiah Smith. I need to speak with him.
You, in the back.
Step out.
Come with me.
Take a seat.
Are you Jeremiah Smith?
- No, I... - Did you heal these people?
- No. - Did you heal Teresa Hoese?
Look, I know who you are.
Agent Scully.
I'll be right outside.
You're going to expose me.
You're putting people in danger,
abductees all over the country.
I save them. I'm the only one.
- Where's Mulder? - You came crashing in here.
- I was trying to help him, too. - Where is Mulder?
You'd better come with us.
You must protect me.
What is it?
It's Mulder.
Where is he?
- Agent Scully, he's over there. - How bad is he? How bad is he hurt?
No.
No!
- He needs help. - It's too late.
Agent Scully!
Jeremiah?
No. This is not happening!
No!
I made this!