1 00:01:55,782 --> 00:01:57,272 Argh! 2 00:03:30,043 --> 00:03:33,410 Dave can set it up, but the cost sounds a bit rich. 3 00:03:33,505 --> 00:03:37,714 If he’s putting it together, you’d be a fool to pass it up. 4 00:03:37,801 --> 00:03:40,213 I hear you. I just... 5 00:03:40,303 --> 00:03:43,636 You just what? You wanna take a dip, you gotta test the water. 6 00:03:43,765 --> 00:03:48,179 - You just don 't wanna get wet. - No, man. Dippage is sacred. 7 00:03:48,979 --> 00:03:51,095 Dippage is sacred. 8 00:03:52,149 --> 00:03:54,640 - Agent Mulder? - Yeah. 9 00:03:54,776 --> 00:03:58,769 You're relieved from your assignment. Agent Bozoff will take over. 10 00:03:59,656 --> 00:04:02,147 You've got a flight to catch in 45 minutes. 11 00:04:02,284 --> 00:04:05,492 - Where am I going? - Murder case. Newark, New Jersey. 12 00:04:06,496 --> 00:04:08,657 Treat yourself. 13 00:04:08,832 --> 00:04:12,700 Your contact in Newark is a Detective Norman. 14 00:04:12,836 --> 00:04:16,704 - How'd I draw the assignment? - Assistant Director Skinner requested you. 15 00:04:16,840 --> 00:04:19,047 Skinner requested me?! 16 00:04:42,157 --> 00:04:45,524 - Mulder, FBI. - My forensics team's just wrapping up. 17 00:04:45,660 --> 00:04:48,868 We left the body where we found it. Kenny! 18 00:04:49,915 --> 00:04:53,874 This is one case I'm gonna be happy to turn over to you guys. 19 00:05:03,678 --> 00:05:06,169 Watch yourself. 20 00:05:06,598 --> 00:05:09,431 Yeah. Wouldn't wanna step in anything. 21 00:05:13,730 --> 00:05:17,143 They say it cuts the smell if you don't breathe through your mouth. 22 00:05:17,234 --> 00:05:19,896 They lied. 23 00:05:20,028 --> 00:05:24,021 - Who found the body? - Sanitation worker. 24 00:05:24,115 --> 00:05:26,652 Looks like it's been here a while. 25 00:05:26,743 --> 00:05:30,531 - Any ID? - No. Not much to go on, either. 26 00:05:30,622 --> 00:05:33,159 Front side is pretty much eaten away. 27 00:05:33,250 --> 00:05:37,414 - Would you like us to turn him over? - No, I'll take your word on that. 28 00:05:37,921 --> 00:05:41,288 Hey, Agent Mulder! What should we do with the body? 29 00:05:41,424 --> 00:05:46,589 Wrap it up and send it to the FBI, care of Assistant Director Skinner! 30 00:06:03,864 --> 00:06:06,150 - Yes, sir. - Thank you. 31 00:06:06,241 --> 00:06:07,902 I need to speak to him. 32 00:06:07,993 --> 00:06:11,110 Mr Skinner is unavailable. If you'd take a seat... 33 00:06:11,204 --> 00:06:15,789 Will you tell him that I'm here and I need to speak to him... now? 34 00:06:16,793 --> 00:06:18,658 Certainly. 35 00:06:19,504 --> 00:06:25,465 Mr Skinner, I'm very sorry to interrupt, but Agent Mulder is demanding to see you. 36 00:06:25,552 --> 00:06:28,294 - Is there a problem, Agent Mulder? - Yeah, there is. 37 00:06:28,388 --> 00:06:30,674 Then make an appointment. 38 00:06:30,765 --> 00:06:33,973 That's hard when you're up to your ass in raw sewage,... 39 00:06:34,060 --> 00:06:36,597 ..on another meaningless assignment. 40 00:06:36,688 --> 00:06:40,397 - Excuse me? - What's next? Scrubbing bathroom floors? 41 00:06:40,483 --> 00:06:43,566 - You're out of line, Agent Mulder. - So I gathered. 42 00:06:45,572 --> 00:06:47,403 Fine. 43 00:06:47,490 --> 00:06:50,607 Come into my office, Agent Mulder. Please. 44 00:06:56,583 --> 00:06:58,448 Would you inform the room... 45 00:06:58,543 --> 00:07:02,707 ..as to why you regard your case in New Jersey as meaningless? 46 00:07:03,924 --> 00:07:06,256 It's a simple drugland body dump,... 47 00:07:06,343 --> 00:07:09,676 ..not the type of case the FBI wastes time or manpower on. 48 00:07:11,181 --> 00:07:17,017 Given your recent history, you're not one to judge what is or is not a waste of time. 49 00:07:17,270 --> 00:07:18,601 Sir, my work on the X-Files... 50 00:07:18,688 --> 00:07:22,055 The X-Files have been closed, Agent Mulder. 51 00:07:22,150 --> 00:07:24,607 You will carry out new assignments,... 52 00:07:24,694 --> 00:07:29,484 ..and investigate them to the best of your ability. Is that not clear? 53 00:07:29,574 --> 00:07:31,610 Yeah. 54 00:07:31,701 --> 00:07:36,195 And I'll be anticipating your field reports on your current homicide case. 55 00:07:36,289 --> 00:07:38,371 Thank you. 56 00:07:51,805 --> 00:07:54,091 Is this seat taken? 57 00:07:54,975 --> 00:07:59,765 No. But I should warn you, I'm experiencing violent impulses. 58 00:07:59,854 --> 00:08:02,971 Well, I'm armed, so I'll take my chances. 59 00:08:11,658 --> 00:08:16,493 I hear you really endeared yourself to Assistant Director Skinner today. 60 00:08:18,206 --> 00:08:23,451 Sometimes it's hard to smile when they ask you to bend down and grab your ankles. 61 00:08:24,004 --> 00:08:27,542 It's not as if you've ever tried to fit into the programme. 62 00:08:27,632 --> 00:08:29,293 No. 63 00:08:29,926 --> 00:08:33,043 No, I've been thinking a lot about that lately. 64 00:08:34,597 --> 00:08:38,306 - I've been thinking about leaving. - The Bureau? 65 00:08:38,393 --> 00:08:40,099 What would you do? 66 00:08:40,186 --> 00:08:43,269 Pursue my work in the paranormal, somehow. 67 00:08:44,774 --> 00:08:49,894 You could request a transfer to Quantico. Come back to the behavioural science unit. 68 00:08:50,530 --> 00:08:53,146 They don't want us working together, Scully. 69 00:08:53,241 --> 00:08:55,948 And that's the only reason I can think of to stay. 70 00:08:56,036 --> 00:08:58,743 What about this case you're working on? 71 00:08:58,830 --> 00:09:02,368 - It's a zero. - Where's the body? 72 00:09:03,001 --> 00:09:06,789 In our forensics lab. Look, I know what you're trying to do. 73 00:09:06,921 --> 00:09:09,082 Maybe I can request to do the autopsy. 74 00:09:09,174 --> 00:09:14,168 It's an exercise. Skinner is just rubbing my nose in this one. 75 00:09:14,262 --> 00:09:16,378 There's nothing to it. 76 00:09:16,473 --> 00:09:19,681 There's a dead body, isn't there? 77 00:09:31,196 --> 00:09:32,652 Oh! 78 00:09:39,329 --> 00:09:45,245 Examination and autopsy of John Doe number 1-0-1-3-5-6. 79 00:09:45,335 --> 00:09:48,873 Case number DP1-1-2-1-4-8. 80 00:09:50,006 --> 00:09:53,123 Special Agent Fox Mulder, field investigator. 81 00:09:54,052 --> 00:09:59,297 Body is an adult male with advanced tissue decomposition,... 82 00:09:59,390 --> 00:10:03,133 ..weighing 165 pounds in extremis,... 83 00:10:03,812 --> 00:10:06,394 ..69 inches in length. 84 00:10:07,232 --> 00:10:11,145 Intact skin is mottled and discoloured,... 85 00:10:11,236 --> 00:10:15,855 ..due to submergence in and exposure to a highly bacterial environment. 86 00:10:15,949 --> 00:10:18,656 Cause and time of death... 87 00:10:19,035 --> 00:10:20,525 ..unknown. 88 00:10:20,620 --> 00:10:23,908 Possible identifying mark on right forearm. 89 00:10:30,213 --> 00:10:32,920 Body cavities appear normal. 90 00:10:35,135 --> 00:10:37,626 Interior organs intact,... 91 00:10:38,304 --> 00:10:41,421 ..consistent in rate of decomposition. 92 00:10:45,395 --> 00:10:47,886 Removing the ribcage. 93 00:10:57,115 --> 00:11:00,232 Condition of heart and lungs are good. 94 00:11:01,452 --> 00:11:05,445 No sign of thrombi, natural or degenerate diseases. 95 00:11:05,540 --> 00:11:08,657 Indicate victim was probably a young adult. 96 00:11:10,211 --> 00:11:13,203 The liver shows some nodular hardening,... 97 00:11:13,298 --> 00:11:15,960 ..consistent with incipient alcoholism. 98 00:11:16,342 --> 00:11:17,878 Oh, God! 99 00:11:43,953 --> 00:11:46,535 - It's on the way! - Got it! 100 00:11:48,333 --> 00:11:49,994 OK. 101 00:12:17,278 --> 00:12:20,486 Need a big piece of 30-gauge and some baling wire. 102 00:12:20,698 --> 00:12:23,314 I gotta go back up top for the screen. 103 00:12:47,100 --> 00:12:48,556 Frank! Help! 104 00:12:49,811 --> 00:12:52,518 Frank! Frank! 105 00:12:53,356 --> 00:12:55,221 Frank! 106 00:12:56,526 --> 00:12:59,188 Frank! Hurry! 107 00:12:59,737 --> 00:13:01,728 Hold on! 108 00:13:01,823 --> 00:13:04,530 - Frank! - Come on! 109 00:13:04,617 --> 00:13:05,857 Frank! 110 00:13:06,995 --> 00:13:10,112 Hold on till I tie the line! Hold on! 111 00:13:10,790 --> 00:13:13,623 Pull up, come on! Come on! Come on! 112 00:13:15,128 --> 00:13:16,993 Pull up! 113 00:13:23,261 --> 00:13:24,922 My God! 114 00:13:27,098 --> 00:13:29,384 I'm gonna get help! 115 00:13:44,073 --> 00:13:48,032 I'm gonna give you a tetanus booster, just as a precaution. 116 00:13:49,037 --> 00:13:54,077 I'd be happy if you just give me something to get this taste out of my mouth. 117 00:13:55,209 --> 00:13:57,165 Let me take a look. 118 00:13:57,253 --> 00:13:58,538 Ah. 119 00:13:59,088 --> 00:14:01,750 - Any trouble swallowing? - Uh-uh. 120 00:14:05,678 --> 00:14:07,760 It'll go away. 121 00:14:09,140 --> 00:14:11,631 - Agent Mulder? - Yeah. 122 00:14:12,560 --> 00:14:16,599 Newark PD referred me to you. I'm surprised the FBI is involved. 123 00:14:16,689 --> 00:14:21,353 - Is there something here I should know? - I don't know. Maybe you can tell me. 124 00:14:22,278 --> 00:14:28,069 He's a sanitation worker. He claims he was attacked by something down in the sewer. 125 00:14:28,159 --> 00:14:31,401 - Attacked? By what? - We've been unable to determine. 126 00:14:31,496 --> 00:14:36,206 I thought it was a bogus disability claim, but he appears to be telling the truth. 127 00:14:36,292 --> 00:14:39,534 - What's his condition? - He's in satisfactory health. 128 00:14:39,629 --> 00:14:45,169 I've given him a heavy course of antibiotics, and we're checking for hepatitis. 129 00:14:45,259 --> 00:14:48,251 He does have a strange wound on his back. 130 00:14:49,806 --> 00:14:54,300 - What kind of wound? - It could be some kind of bacterial infection. 131 00:14:54,394 --> 00:14:57,886 Frankly, I can't say I've ever seen anything like it. 132 00:15:04,862 --> 00:15:08,525 - This is Agent Mulder of the FBI. - Any idea what attacked you? 133 00:15:08,616 --> 00:15:11,153 I've been thinking it might've been a python. 134 00:15:11,244 --> 00:15:12,529 A python? 135 00:15:12,620 --> 00:15:18,160 Or a boa constrictor. Somebody probably flushed their pet snake down the toilet. 136 00:15:19,419 --> 00:15:23,003 We found an alligator in the sewer a couple of years ago. 137 00:15:23,089 --> 00:15:27,674 Stronger than hell, I'll tell you that. Clamped onto me like a vice. 138 00:15:28,302 --> 00:15:30,793 It almost looks like a bite. 139 00:15:37,228 --> 00:15:39,640 Excuse me. 140 00:15:41,149 --> 00:15:43,765 - Mulder. - Mulder, it’s me. I need to see you. 141 00:15:43,860 --> 00:15:46,101 I've got something you should know about. 142 00:15:46,195 --> 00:15:49,813 - What is it? - Some kind of parasite in your John Doe. 143 00:15:49,907 --> 00:15:52,740 I should know more by the time you get here. 144 00:15:53,035 --> 00:15:57,074 I'm in Jersey. I should be taking the shuttle in about an hour. 145 00:15:57,165 --> 00:15:59,998 Can I get outta here? I'd like to go home. 146 00:16:00,084 --> 00:16:02,040 Excuse me. 147 00:16:02,128 --> 00:16:05,791 - Scully, this is a bad time for me to talk. - Mr Mulder? 148 00:16:06,591 --> 00:16:07,546 Yeah? 149 00:16:07,633 --> 00:16:12,172 I think you should know... you have a friend at the FBI. 150 00:16:14,807 --> 00:16:17,139 Who is this? 151 00:16:19,520 --> 00:16:24,355 Agent Mulder? If you don't have any more questions, I'm gonna release this man. 152 00:16:24,442 --> 00:16:26,524 OK. Go ahead. 153 00:16:37,747 --> 00:16:40,238 Close the door. 154 00:16:45,004 --> 00:16:49,964 It's called Turbellaria, commonly known as a fluke, or flatworm. 155 00:16:50,051 --> 00:16:52,258 This was living inside the body? 156 00:16:52,345 --> 00:16:57,590 It had attached itself to the bile duct and was feeding off the liver. 157 00:16:57,683 --> 00:16:58,889 Lovely! 158 00:16:58,976 --> 00:17:03,720 Believe it or not, some 40 million people are infected worldwide. 159 00:17:03,814 --> 00:17:08,353 This isn't where you tell me some terrible story about sushi, is it? 160 00:17:08,444 --> 00:17:12,528 Maybe you'd rather hear what you can catch from a nice rare steak. 161 00:17:12,615 --> 00:17:15,948 So, what? The murder weapon was a top sirloin? 162 00:17:16,452 --> 00:17:19,489 Flukes are endemic in unsanitary conditions. 163 00:17:19,580 --> 00:17:23,619 It's more likely that the victim contracted it down inside the sewer. 164 00:17:23,709 --> 00:17:27,247 - Before or after he died? - I don't know. 165 00:17:28,089 --> 00:17:32,173 My sources say it's unlikely a single parasite could have killed him. 166 00:17:32,260 --> 00:17:37,721 He was a young man. But the weird thing is, there's no other discernible cause of death. 167 00:17:38,307 --> 00:17:41,344 How do these parasites attach themselves? 168 00:17:41,477 --> 00:17:46,813 They have what's called a scolex, a sucker-like mouth with four hooking spikes. 169 00:17:46,899 --> 00:17:49,515 - Anything like this? - Where'd you get that? 170 00:17:49,610 --> 00:17:53,694 Something attacked a workman in a New Jersey sewer this morning. 171 00:17:53,781 --> 00:17:55,237 And you're asking me if this is from a fluke? 172 00:17:55,324 --> 00:17:57,360 Could it be? 173 00:17:57,451 --> 00:18:00,534 The scolex is a tiny organ. This is a huge bite mark. 174 00:18:00,663 --> 00:18:04,121 - How big can these things get? - Mulder, I... 175 00:18:06,711 --> 00:18:08,497 I'm sorry. 176 00:18:08,588 --> 00:18:11,625 It felt like old times there for a second. 177 00:18:14,594 --> 00:18:19,759 Flatworms are what are known as obligate endoparasites. 178 00:18:19,849 --> 00:18:22,340 They live inside of the host,... 179 00:18:22,435 --> 00:18:26,519 ..entering the body through the ingestion of larvae or eggs. 180 00:18:26,606 --> 00:18:29,973 They are not creatures that go around attacking people. 181 00:18:30,067 --> 00:18:33,059 That's good. I didn't wanna tell Skinner... 182 00:18:33,154 --> 00:18:36,942 ..his murder suspect was a giant bloodsucking worm. 183 00:18:37,033 --> 00:18:38,364 No. 184 00:18:39,827 --> 00:18:45,618 Well, at the very least, this'll be interesting to the Newark Department of Sanitation. 185 00:18:49,837 --> 00:18:54,797 Look, I don't know who you shared our conversation with the other night, but... 186 00:18:54,884 --> 00:18:58,502 ..I'd prefer it if you didn‘t try to launch a campaign for me. 187 00:18:58,596 --> 00:19:01,212 - Excuse me? - I don't know who you talked to. 188 00:19:01,307 --> 00:19:05,801 - I didn't talk to anybody. - Somebody told me I had a friend at the FBI. 189 00:19:07,980 --> 00:19:14,442 Look, Mulder, I... I don't know what to say. But I... I wouldn't betray a confidence. 190 00:20:43,576 --> 00:20:46,158 The city runs on different systems,... 191 00:20:46,245 --> 00:20:49,408 ..some new, some built at the turn of the century. 192 00:20:49,498 --> 00:20:53,241 - Almost as old as Charlie. Right, Charlie? - Oh, yes, sir. 193 00:20:53,544 --> 00:20:58,083 - What part of the sewer was I in? - An older section. Big eight-foot tunnels. 194 00:20:58,632 --> 00:21:01,248 It looked more like a catacomb than a sewer line. 195 00:21:01,343 --> 00:21:04,710 The new sections are concrete pipe, mostly 24 inches. 196 00:21:04,972 --> 00:21:07,679 And all the sewage comes through this plant? 197 00:21:07,767 --> 00:21:12,557 560,000 people a day call my office on the porcelain telephone. 198 00:21:13,939 --> 00:21:16,555 Have you ever seen one of these? 199 00:21:19,570 --> 00:21:22,403 It looks like a big old worm. 200 00:21:22,490 --> 00:21:25,948 It's called a fluke. It came from the body in the sewer. 201 00:21:26,285 --> 00:21:28,116 Wouldn't surprise me. 202 00:21:28,204 --> 00:21:31,992 No telling what's been breeding down there in the last 100 years. 203 00:22:28,556 --> 00:22:30,638 Ray here. 204 00:22:31,058 --> 00:22:33,299 Charlie, slow down. 205 00:22:37,147 --> 00:22:40,310 I'm backflushing the system. It's in there. 206 00:22:40,401 --> 00:22:43,734 - What is it? - I don't know. It just swam right past me. 207 00:22:43,821 --> 00:22:45,686 There it is. 208 00:23:08,262 --> 00:23:14,553 Turbellarian flatworms are carnivorous scavengers, less than 3cm in length,... 209 00:23:14,643 --> 00:23:18,886 ..found in fresh and sea water. They are hermaphroditic,... 210 00:23:18,981 --> 00:23:24,396 ..with complex reproductive systems, capable of internal fertilisation. 211 00:23:24,486 --> 00:23:28,479 Many species require more than one host to complete a life cycle. 212 00:23:28,574 --> 00:23:33,489 Although the wound on the sanitation worker suggests scolex attachment... 213 00:23:33,579 --> 00:23:38,664 ..the sheer size of the wound precludes involvement of the common fluke worm. 214 00:24:58,372 --> 00:25:00,829 - Scully. - Scully, it's me. 215 00:25:00,916 --> 00:25:03,157 - You know that fluke you caught? - Yeah. 216 00:25:03,252 --> 00:25:05,413 It must've been the runt of the litter. 217 00:25:07,589 --> 00:25:09,830 I don't see it. 218 00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:16,884 There it is. Tucked away in the far corner behind the pipes. 219 00:25:18,517 --> 00:25:21,179 - Oh, my God. - I don't know if you can see,... 220 00:25:21,270 --> 00:25:24,854 ..but it has no sex organs. It's genderless. 221 00:25:24,940 --> 00:25:28,432 Platyhelminthes are often hermaphroditic. 222 00:25:28,569 --> 00:25:30,434 Mulder, this is amazing! 223 00:25:30,696 --> 00:25:35,281 Its vestigial features seem parasitic, but it has primate physiology. 224 00:25:35,367 --> 00:25:37,699 - Where did it come from? - I don't know. 225 00:25:37,786 --> 00:25:43,531 But I'll have to tell Skinner that his suspect is a giant bloodsucking worm after all. 226 00:25:44,626 --> 00:25:48,460 All we're missing is the identity of the body in the sewer. 227 00:25:48,547 --> 00:25:53,041 He was a Russian. An engineer on a cargo freighter. 228 00:25:53,135 --> 00:25:58,550 He had a tattoo on his forearm. I didn't make the connection until I detected... 229 00:25:58,640 --> 00:26:03,555 ..that that was the name Dmitri, spelled in Cyrillic lettering. 230 00:26:03,645 --> 00:26:06,603 How did you make the connection at all? 231 00:26:07,274 --> 00:26:10,766 Somebody shoved this under my door. 232 00:26:13,739 --> 00:26:17,277 I guess you really do have a friend in the FBI. 233 00:26:21,163 --> 00:26:23,279 And, Mulder,... 234 00:26:23,791 --> 00:26:27,249 ..when you see Skinner to hand in your field report,... 235 00:26:27,336 --> 00:26:30,749 ..I know that it's your decision, but I hope that you know... 236 00:26:30,839 --> 00:26:36,084 ..that I'd consider it more than a professional loss if you decided to leave. 237 00:27:10,504 --> 00:27:13,211 Everything looks in order. 238 00:27:16,385 --> 00:27:18,717 Is something wrong, Agent Mulder? 239 00:27:18,846 --> 00:27:23,556 That's an unexpected response, considering the bizarre nature of the case. 240 00:27:23,642 --> 00:27:25,382 And of the suspect. 241 00:27:25,477 --> 00:27:29,140 The strangeness of the criminal and the crime are not lost on me. 242 00:27:29,231 --> 00:27:35,318 I had my reaction to them in a conversation about how to process the suspect. 243 00:27:35,404 --> 00:27:38,146 This meeting is to evaluate your work. 244 00:27:43,829 --> 00:27:46,241 There's no way you'll prosecute this. 245 00:27:46,331 --> 00:27:51,746 The Justice Department wants the suspect transferred to a psychiatric institution. 246 00:27:51,879 --> 00:27:55,588 This is not a man, it's a monster! You can't put it in an institution. 247 00:27:55,674 --> 00:27:58,757 What do you do with it, Agent Mulder? Put it in a zoo? 248 00:27:58,886 --> 00:28:01,172 It killed two people. 249 00:28:03,223 --> 00:28:04,679 Two? 250 00:28:05,058 --> 00:28:07,765 The sanitation worker who was attacked was found dead at home 251 00:28:07,853 --> 00:28:10,515 as a result of his injuries. 252 00:28:16,778 --> 00:28:22,114 You know, you had a pair of agents that could've handled a case like this. 253 00:28:22,743 --> 00:28:26,952 Agent Scully and I might've been able to save his life, but you shut us down. 254 00:28:27,039 --> 00:28:29,121 I know. 255 00:28:29,917 --> 00:28:32,624 This should have been an X-File. 256 00:28:36,215 --> 00:28:39,878 We all take our orders from someone, Agent Mulder. 257 00:28:41,803 --> 00:28:43,964 That'll be all. 258 00:29:13,502 --> 00:29:15,584 You're secure! 259 00:29:43,699 --> 00:29:47,942 This is vehicle 49-40 requesting immediate backup and assistance. 260 00:29:48,036 --> 00:29:50,197 Roger, 49-40. 261 00:33:56,952 --> 00:34:00,285 - What have you got? - A dead marshal and an escaped prisoner. 262 00:34:00,455 --> 00:34:02,446 Other than that, bupkis. 263 00:34:02,582 --> 00:34:04,868 We got a police line in a two-mile radius. 264 00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:09,545 Watch any access to the sewer system. It's gonna try to get back underground. 265 00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:14,633 - Mulder. - Mr Mulder, I'll make this brief. 266 00:34:15,136 --> 00:34:18,003 Success in your current assignment is imperative. 267 00:34:18,139 --> 00:34:22,132 - Who am I speaking to? - Are you hearing me, Mr Mulder? 268 00:34:22,477 --> 00:34:24,638 Yes. Why is it imperative? 269 00:34:24,813 --> 00:34:28,146 Reinstatement of the X-Files must be undeniable. 270 00:34:30,360 --> 00:34:33,568 - Canine unit Six-Four, copy. - Six-Four, copy. 271 00:34:33,655 --> 00:34:36,522 We 're at a campsite a quarter-mile from you. 272 00:34:36,616 --> 00:34:38,948 The dogs tracked a scent to a chemical toilet. 273 00:34:39,035 --> 00:34:42,027 - I looked inside, but it's empty. - The tanker. 274 00:34:42,205 --> 00:34:45,993 - Hold on, Six-Four. - What if he's on the tanker truck? 275 00:35:04,394 --> 00:35:08,808 The company that owns the truck doesn't keep detailed service records. 276 00:35:08,898 --> 00:35:14,109 They had five trucks out this morning. Three of them have deposited their loads. 277 00:35:14,195 --> 00:35:18,063 - So he could have been here and gone. - If he hasn't, he will be. 278 00:35:18,199 --> 00:35:21,566 - And every tanker dumps its load here? - It's a state law. 279 00:35:21,703 --> 00:35:25,070 - Everything's processed through this plant? - Yep. 280 00:35:25,206 --> 00:35:28,289 - Then what? - It empties through an outlet pipe,... 281 00:35:28,376 --> 00:35:30,492 ..about five miles out to sea. 282 00:35:30,587 --> 00:35:33,795 - Could it have escaped through that pipe? - Doubtful. 283 00:35:33,882 --> 00:35:39,627 The system‘s full of filters. Nothing bigger than your little finger's gonna get through. 284 00:35:39,721 --> 00:35:43,714 If it's here, it's going to be trapped here. 285 00:35:43,850 --> 00:35:46,216 I guess all we can do is wait. 286 00:36:28,937 --> 00:36:31,178 - Mulder. - It's me. Where are you? 287 00:36:31,272 --> 00:36:34,890 The treatment plant. I thought it might be back in the system. 288 00:36:34,984 --> 00:36:37,691 - How? - Forget it. It's stupid. 289 00:36:37,779 --> 00:36:41,567 - Well, you won't like what I have to tell you. - Why not? 290 00:36:42,951 --> 00:36:48,321 It hadn't occurred to me, but the fluke in the corpse might have been an incubating larva. 291 00:36:48,790 --> 00:36:53,784 This creature, or whatever it is, transmits its eggs or larvae through its bite. 292 00:36:54,337 --> 00:36:59,047 - You mean it's trying to reproduce? - It's looking for hosts. 293 00:36:59,134 --> 00:37:04,424 It attacks because the victims' bodies provide generative nourishment. 294 00:37:04,514 --> 00:37:06,846 - Mulder... - Yeah. 295 00:37:06,975 --> 00:37:10,433 - If it finds a new host... - I know. It could multiply. 296 00:37:10,520 --> 00:37:15,514 Agent Mulder! Linesman spotting something down in a section of pipe! 297 00:37:15,650 --> 00:37:17,606 Where? 298 00:37:17,694 --> 00:37:21,027 - Here. - That's near where we found the first body. 299 00:37:21,156 --> 00:37:24,114 Right. Except this is an old overflow system... 300 00:37:24,200 --> 00:37:27,112 ..that dumps into the harbour during heavy rainfall. 301 00:37:27,203 --> 00:37:30,161 That must be where it got into the system. 302 00:37:30,957 --> 00:37:33,869 It's working its way back out to sea. 303 00:38:24,552 --> 00:38:28,670 That's the overflow pipe. It leads to another vault like this one,... 304 00:38:28,765 --> 00:38:32,007 ..then about three quarters of a mile to the sea. 305 00:38:32,101 --> 00:38:34,843 Let's see if we can get that gate closed. 306 00:38:54,916 --> 00:38:57,282 It's rusted in position. 307 00:38:57,418 --> 00:39:00,876 Let's see if I can get some leverage here. 308 00:39:18,773 --> 00:39:20,434 Agh! 309 00:39:20,817 --> 00:39:22,728 Hey! 310 00:39:26,114 --> 00:39:29,231 - Goddammit! - You all right? 311 00:39:29,325 --> 00:39:31,657 Yeah. I... I lost my glasses. 312 00:39:45,466 --> 00:39:49,300 - Give me your hand! - Get me outta here! 313 00:39:49,679 --> 00:39:51,465 Grab it! 314 00:39:57,186 --> 00:39:59,768 We need some help down here! 315 00:40:21,836 --> 00:40:23,701 I'll get you outta here! 316 00:40:29,177 --> 00:40:31,293 Hold on! Hold on! 317 00:40:31,888 --> 00:40:34,630 Are you all right? Are you OK? 318 00:41:13,012 --> 00:41:15,344 - Is this seat taken? - No. 319 00:41:15,431 --> 00:41:18,719 But I should warn you, I may reek a bit of the sewer. 320 00:41:18,851 --> 00:41:21,183 I'll take my chances. 321 00:41:28,611 --> 00:41:31,694 You talked to Skinner yesterday? 322 00:41:31,781 --> 00:41:34,363 Success in our work is imperative, Scully. 323 00:41:34,450 --> 00:41:38,363 Reinstatement of the X-Files must be undeniable. 324 00:41:38,454 --> 00:41:41,821 - That came from Skinner?! - No. 325 00:41:42,250 --> 00:41:45,037 We have a friend in the FBI. 326 00:41:47,296 --> 00:41:52,962 I thought you might be interested in the lab results on the biology of the fluke larva. 327 00:41:53,886 --> 00:41:57,299 Dissection and analysis indicates... 328 00:41:57,390 --> 00:42:00,928 ..reproductive and physiological cross-traiting,... 329 00:42:01,019 --> 00:42:04,261 ..resulting in a sort of quasi-vertebrate human. 330 00:42:04,772 --> 00:42:06,012 Human? 331 00:42:06,107 --> 00:42:12,068 Yes, but still capable of spontaneous regeneration, like any fluke or flatworm. 332 00:42:12,864 --> 00:42:14,820 How does that happen? 333 00:42:14,907 --> 00:42:17,649 Radiation. Abnormal cell fusion. 334 00:42:17,744 --> 00:42:20,861 The suppression of natural genetic processes. 335 00:42:22,040 --> 00:42:25,532 Mulder, nature didn't make this thing. We did. 336 00:42:44,353 --> 00:42:46,139 I know these. 337 00:42:49,025 --> 00:42:51,892 These are from Chernobyl. 338 00:42:51,986 --> 00:42:55,979 That creature came off of a decommissioned Russian freighter... 339 00:42:56,074 --> 00:43:00,488 ..that was used in the disposal of salvage material from the meltdown. 340 00:43:00,620 --> 00:43:05,239 It was born in a... in a primordial soup of radioactive sewage. 341 00:43:10,296 --> 00:43:14,585 You know, they say three species disappear off the planet every day. 342 00:43:14,675 --> 00:43:17,883 You wonder how many new ones are being created. 343 00:45:05,453 --> 00:45:06,989 I made this!