1 00:00:07,049 --> 00:00:09,927 - They were to check in at midnight. - You try every band? 2 00:00:10,052 --> 00:00:14,223 - All audiovisual seemed to be down. - Maybe it's just a satellite glitch. 3 00:00:14,348 --> 00:00:19,394 We thought so too, until we received this... from a tracking station in Bend, Oregon. 4 00:00:19,520 --> 00:00:22,189 They picked it up on an emergency frequency. 5 00:00:25,609 --> 00:00:28,237 What are those guys doing? 6 00:00:30,656 --> 00:00:33,951 We did manage to uplink Firewalker's video camera. 7 00:00:33,992 --> 00:00:38,205 It's at base camp, so we hope it can give us a picture, tell us what's going on. 8 00:00:38,497 --> 00:00:40,958 Data feed's coming in now. 9 00:00:47,506 --> 00:00:50,676 - What's the robot doing in the volcano? - I don't know. 10 00:00:50,717 --> 00:00:52,845 There's no descent scheduled. 11 00:00:52,928 --> 00:00:56,682 Firewalker's not responding. I can't get control. 12 00:00:56,723 --> 00:01:00,853 - Someone's overriding it. - Lock camera remote and pan left. 13 00:01:05,941 --> 00:01:07,568 Stop. Stop! 14 00:01:07,818 --> 00:01:09,862 Go back. 15 00:01:11,822 --> 00:01:14,241 Tilt up and zoom in. 16 00:01:18,412 --> 00:01:20,539 Erikson. 17 00:01:21,039 --> 00:01:23,292 What the hell...? Give me that! 18 00:01:28,422 --> 00:01:32,718 There it is again. Did you see that? You saw that shadow, didn't you? 19 00:01:32,759 --> 00:01:36,305 Yeah, but what could be moving around in that kind of heat? 20 00:01:36,430 --> 00:01:38,015 I don't know. 21 00:01:39,600 --> 00:01:44,855 Maybe it was, uh, just a ghost signal. I mean, it wouldn't be the first time that... 22 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:52,074 Advertise your product or brand here contact www.OpenSubtitles.org today 23 00:01:55,741 --> 00:01:57,784 What's going on up there? 24 00:02:53,757 --> 00:02:59,513 Let's go to our science editor Eric Parker in Mount Avalon, Washington. Eric? 25 00:02:59,596 --> 00:03:02,474 I'm standing here with a group of scientists... 26 00:03:02,558 --> 00:03:07,187 ...who are excited about this device, which looks like a large titanium bug. 27 00:03:07,271 --> 00:03:11,817 Firewalker will next week make its first descent into an active volcano. 28 00:03:11,900 --> 00:03:15,362 This robot is the brainchild of volcanologist Daniel Trepkos. 29 00:03:15,445 --> 00:03:17,739 It will gather samples from the crater... 30 00:03:17,823 --> 00:03:21,159 ...which may hold scientific data about the Earth's core. 31 00:03:21,243 --> 00:03:23,704 Scientific data? 32 00:03:23,787 --> 00:03:27,249 We're talking about revisiting the very origin of the Earth. 33 00:03:27,332 --> 00:03:29,960 Peering into the fire where it all began. 34 00:03:30,878 --> 00:03:35,799 A human endeavour more important even than man's exploration of space. 35 00:03:38,552 --> 00:03:40,554 That's no mean claim. 36 00:03:40,637 --> 00:03:43,473 Daniel always had a flair for self-dramatisation. 37 00:03:43,640 --> 00:03:48,312 - I'd always heard that he was brilliant. - Brilliant doesn't go quite far enough. 38 00:03:48,395 --> 00:03:51,023 He occupies a rare place among scientists... 39 00:03:51,106 --> 00:03:55,277 ...where dreams, ambition and... great luck converge. 40 00:03:55,360 --> 00:03:57,112 You think his luck just ran out. 41 00:03:57,196 --> 00:04:03,118 The team sent a distress signal yesterday after failing to make a status report. 42 00:04:03,202 --> 00:04:05,913 They haven't responded to any of our calls. 43 00:04:05,996 --> 00:04:10,626 But by using remote telemetry, we were able to activate Firewalker's camera. 44 00:04:10,709 --> 00:04:12,836 This is what we found. 45 00:04:12,920 --> 00:04:15,881 You're looking at the floor of the volcano. 46 00:04:16,548 --> 00:04:20,177 But this is the last thing we expected to discover. 47 00:04:20,260 --> 00:04:24,515 The dead man is, uh, Phil Erikson... chief seismologist. 48 00:04:26,099 --> 00:04:28,435 Now, look at this. 49 00:04:29,603 --> 00:04:33,148 Whoa! What the hell is that? 50 00:04:34,316 --> 00:04:36,568 We don't know. 51 00:04:36,860 --> 00:04:39,029 Whatever it was disabled the camera. 52 00:04:39,112 --> 00:04:43,492 The temperature readings are upwards of 130º at this depth. 53 00:04:43,575 --> 00:04:45,994 - But that was alive. - Why weren't you there? 54 00:04:46,078 --> 00:04:50,749 I left the project six weeks ago. Trepkos and I nearly came to blows. 55 00:04:51,583 --> 00:04:55,170 - Over what? - Well, I wish I could explain. 56 00:04:55,254 --> 00:04:57,631 Daniel and I, uh... 57 00:04:59,049 --> 00:05:04,805 I always played Salieri to his Mozart. I was never quite on his plane of intellect. 58 00:05:04,888 --> 00:05:07,099 But this time I found him slipping. 59 00:05:07,474 --> 00:05:09,560 Into madness. 60 00:05:10,352 --> 00:05:14,147 - He controlled the others... - You think he's responsible for this? 61 00:05:14,231 --> 00:05:17,401 Whatever there is between me and him, I pray that he isn't. 62 00:05:17,484 --> 00:05:22,447 We've got 20 million tax dollars in this project. If word of it were to get out... 63 00:05:22,531 --> 00:05:26,618 ...it could destroy years of work. I'm afraid to go through proper channels. 64 00:05:26,702 --> 00:05:29,830 Yeah. We're not exactly proper channels. 65 00:05:31,290 --> 00:05:35,460 - How soon can we get up there? - There's a flight waiting to take us to Seattle. 66 00:05:35,544 --> 00:05:39,047 From there, a helicopter will fly us to Mount Avalon. 67 00:05:40,632 --> 00:05:42,551 Scully? 68 00:05:42,634 --> 00:05:47,431 - I don't think it's a good idea for you to go. - Mulder, I appreciate your concern... 69 00:05:47,514 --> 00:05:50,809 ...but I'm ready - I wanna work. 70 00:05:51,476 --> 00:05:54,313 Well, maybe you should take some time off. 71 00:05:54,980 --> 00:05:57,566 I've already lost too much time. 72 00:06:12,539 --> 00:06:14,625 There it is! 73 00:07:21,400 --> 00:07:24,236 This was Firewalker's satellite relay. 74 00:07:25,070 --> 00:07:29,283 We installed field instruments here. Seismographs, tiltmeters... 75 00:07:29,366 --> 00:07:31,827 We'll look here after we've checked inside. 76 00:07:31,910 --> 00:07:37,291 The instruments are worth millions of project dollars. I'm accountable to the USGS for 'em. 77 00:07:37,374 --> 00:07:42,087 - Shouldn't we find the descent team first? - I just wanna take a quick damage survey. 78 00:07:42,171 --> 00:07:44,673 I'll catch up with you in a few minutes. 79 00:08:03,567 --> 00:08:05,652 Hello? 80 00:08:38,852 --> 00:08:43,690 Looks like somebody wanted to put this operation permanently out of commission. 81 00:10:09,484 --> 00:10:11,361 Mulder! 82 00:10:11,445 --> 00:10:14,531 - Wait! Wait! - What's going on? 83 00:10:14,615 --> 00:10:18,285 - This isn't what it looks like! - He just about took my head off. 84 00:10:19,036 --> 00:10:22,414 I told you, I made a mistake, OK? I'm sorry, all right? 85 00:10:22,498 --> 00:10:26,293 - Who the hell are you? - I'm... I'm Ludwig. I'm Jason Ludwig. 86 00:10:26,376 --> 00:10:30,172 - I'm the robotics engineer. - Do you always greet people this way? 87 00:10:30,255 --> 00:10:33,717 I heard a noise. I thought it was him. I was protecting myself. 88 00:10:33,800 --> 00:10:35,594 You know, self-preservation? 89 00:10:35,677 --> 00:10:39,848 Who did you think I was that you thought you had to protect yourself? 90 00:10:39,932 --> 00:10:42,017 Trepkos. 91 00:10:48,732 --> 00:10:55,113 Sometimes he wouldn't talk to us for days. Then, boom! You couldn't get him to shut up. 92 00:10:55,197 --> 00:10:57,282 Don't get me wrong, OK? 93 00:10:57,366 --> 00:11:00,160 No one revered the man more than me. 94 00:11:00,244 --> 00:11:03,205 I mean... he was a prophet... 95 00:11:04,206 --> 00:11:05,833 ...an oracle. 96 00:11:05,916 --> 00:11:07,626 He saw things. 97 00:11:07,709 --> 00:11:11,338 I-I... I mean, he... he saw things that you and me... 98 00:11:12,339 --> 00:11:14,550 ...we only dream about... 99 00:11:14,633 --> 00:11:17,761 ...and then forget when we wake up. 100 00:11:25,769 --> 00:11:30,148 Well, it's OK, you can come out now. The cavalry's here. 101 00:11:34,862 --> 00:11:38,156 This is Peter Tanaka, our systems analyst. 102 00:11:43,412 --> 00:11:46,790 And, uh, this is Jesse O'Neil. 103 00:11:48,667 --> 00:11:50,627 Are you the rescue team? 104 00:11:50,711 --> 00:11:53,547 - No, we're with the FBI. - FBI? 105 00:11:54,464 --> 00:11:56,550 But you're taking us back, right? 106 00:11:56,842 --> 00:12:00,721 - After we've investigated what happened. - Trepkos is what happened. 107 00:12:00,846 --> 00:12:04,141 - Did he kill Erikson? - He flipped out. 108 00:12:05,309 --> 00:12:08,604 Right after the descent, he just flipped out. 109 00:12:08,687 --> 00:12:13,108 Can you think of anything that might've caused or contributed to his behaviour? 110 00:12:13,192 --> 00:12:16,695 - You're asking me? - Daniel was sick. 111 00:12:17,487 --> 00:12:22,117 He had a bipolar disorder. I think that's what it was. 112 00:12:22,201 --> 00:12:26,622 It wasn't a secret, but it's not something he advertised either. 113 00:12:26,705 --> 00:12:29,416 But with his medication he was just fine. 114 00:12:30,334 --> 00:12:33,962 Well, I think Erikson's wife might disagree with that. 115 00:12:36,173 --> 00:12:38,717 You're part of the team, Jesse? 116 00:12:39,760 --> 00:12:44,389 Daniel was my thesis advisor at the university. 117 00:12:45,057 --> 00:12:47,643 He asked me to assist him on this project. 118 00:12:49,561 --> 00:12:53,106 - Are these his notes? - Oh... yeah. 119 00:12:53,899 --> 00:12:56,276 Well, whatever's left of 'em. 120 00:12:57,778 --> 00:13:00,322 First thing he did was destroy all his own work. 121 00:13:00,405 --> 00:13:03,784 You know, his field journals, his computer disks. 122 00:13:04,993 --> 00:13:07,621 We salvaged what we could, but... 123 00:13:07,704 --> 00:13:10,749 ...I don't really think you'll find much in there. 124 00:13:10,874 --> 00:13:13,168 Of use, anyway. 125 00:13:39,945 --> 00:13:42,531 Hello? 126 00:13:43,782 --> 00:13:46,285 Anyone there? 127 00:13:59,756 --> 00:14:01,842 Scully. 128 00:14:07,723 --> 00:14:10,726 What d'you make of Mr Trepkos's neighbourhood? 129 00:14:10,809 --> 00:14:15,189 - What d'you mean? - Isn't their behaviour bizarre? Paranoid? 130 00:14:15,272 --> 00:14:19,902 - After what they've been through, no. - They're practically climbing the walls. 131 00:14:19,985 --> 00:14:22,946 They've been living in the middle of nowhere for a year. 132 00:14:23,030 --> 00:14:25,741 One is dead, probably at the hands of another. 133 00:14:25,824 --> 00:14:29,369 You have to expect some heightened level of emotional distress. 134 00:14:29,453 --> 00:14:32,873 It's more than that. There's something they're not telling us. 135 00:14:32,956 --> 00:14:35,250 Based on what? 136 00:14:35,334 --> 00:14:38,795 Based on when Ludwig tried to play T-ball with my head. 137 00:14:38,879 --> 00:14:41,340 He knew I wasn't Trepkos. 138 00:14:42,216 --> 00:14:46,762 - Now Mulder, you're sounding paranoid. - Pierce knows these people. 139 00:14:46,845 --> 00:14:49,848 Let's find out what he thinks. 140 00:14:49,932 --> 00:14:51,850 OK. 141 00:15:17,459 --> 00:15:20,337 No one... can leave. 142 00:15:32,850 --> 00:15:34,268 Pierce! 143 00:15:34,351 --> 00:15:36,937 - He's not here. - Pierce! 144 00:15:37,020 --> 00:15:40,649 - Something's happened! - Oh, my God! 145 00:15:40,732 --> 00:15:45,571 Get over here. He's over here! I've found him! I've found him! 146 00:15:46,405 --> 00:15:48,490 I've found him! 147 00:15:53,704 --> 00:15:56,748 - That should do it. - What shall we do with the body? 148 00:15:56,832 --> 00:15:58,542 - Do you have a freezer? - Yeah. 149 00:15:58,625 --> 00:16:02,296 - Radio for the helicopter. I'm almost done. - Let me help you. 150 00:16:02,379 --> 00:16:04,798 No, that's OK, we got him. 151 00:16:10,721 --> 00:16:13,182 - We can't leave, Scully. Not yet. - Why not? 152 00:16:13,265 --> 00:16:16,768 - Trepkos is still out there. - He killed Pierce and probably Erikson. 153 00:16:16,852 --> 00:16:19,813 - We should come back with a larger party. - No. 154 00:16:20,480 --> 00:16:25,819 I've been going over Trepkos's work. I found references to a subterranean organism. 155 00:16:25,903 --> 00:16:28,655 - What? - An organism existing within the volcano. 156 00:16:28,739 --> 00:16:30,991 No specific description... 157 00:16:31,074 --> 00:16:33,869 Mulder, nothing can live in a volcanic interior. 158 00:16:33,952 --> 00:16:37,748 Not only because of the intense heat, but the gasses would be toxic. 159 00:16:37,831 --> 00:16:40,209 What does this say? 160 00:16:41,126 --> 00:16:46,048 It describes the metabolism from hydrogen sulphide into silicon dioxide. 161 00:16:46,131 --> 00:16:48,050 A silicon-based life form? 162 00:16:48,133 --> 00:16:51,803 The basic building block for every organism known to man is carbon. 163 00:16:51,887 --> 00:16:56,558 - From bacterium to redwood trees. - Silicon is the closest element to carbon. 164 00:16:56,642 --> 00:17:01,063 It reacts identically with other elements - it combines to form complex molecules. 165 00:17:01,146 --> 00:17:04,816 A silicon-based life form is one of the holy grails of modern science. 166 00:17:04,900 --> 00:17:06,235 Maybe Trepkos found it. 167 00:17:06,318 --> 00:17:11,615 Mulder, that is science fiction. It's... an elaborate construct from a delusional mind. 168 00:17:11,698 --> 00:17:13,909 This doesn't prove anything. 169 00:17:13,992 --> 00:17:17,663 Trepkos said he had evidence. It's gotta be here somewhere. 170 00:17:17,746 --> 00:17:23,544 - Whatever evidence he had, he destroyed. - Maybe it wasn't Trepkos who destroyed it. 171 00:17:23,627 --> 00:17:27,381 - What if it was one of the others? - Why would they do that? 172 00:17:28,131 --> 00:17:32,678 All of these people are suffering to varying degrees from post-traumatic stress. 173 00:17:32,761 --> 00:17:38,517 And from a medical point of view, we have to get them out of here sooner rather than later. 174 00:17:50,362 --> 00:17:52,447 Jesse? 175 00:17:53,699 --> 00:17:55,784 Can I talk to you? 176 00:18:01,915 --> 00:18:04,001 Are you OK? 177 00:18:06,211 --> 00:18:08,922 I hate this place. 178 00:18:09,464 --> 00:18:12,176 What happened here, Jesse? 179 00:18:14,428 --> 00:18:16,847 You can trust me. 180 00:18:18,932 --> 00:18:21,435 After the first descent... 181 00:18:21,518 --> 00:18:23,604 ...Daniel changed. 182 00:18:23,687 --> 00:18:25,981 He became withdrawn and paranoid. 183 00:18:26,064 --> 00:18:30,277 He locked himself in the lab for three days and wouldn't let any of us in. 184 00:18:30,360 --> 00:18:33,155 Do you think the descent triggered his breakdown? 185 00:18:33,238 --> 00:18:35,449 Well, that's what I thought. 186 00:18:35,532 --> 00:18:38,327 And then... I found out... 187 00:18:39,828 --> 00:18:42,623 ...that he's not taking his pills. 188 00:18:44,333 --> 00:18:46,710 Lithium carbonate. 189 00:18:46,793 --> 00:18:49,922 Yeah, he said that they were polluting his brain. 190 00:18:50,005 --> 00:18:52,966 And... he said I was polluting his body. 191 00:18:57,387 --> 00:18:59,765 I'm scared. 192 00:18:59,848 --> 00:19:03,560 - I don't wanna die here. - What are you so afraid of, Jesse? 193 00:19:03,769 --> 00:19:05,854 Daniel. 194 00:19:08,774 --> 00:19:12,653 The only reason I even came here was because of him. 195 00:19:14,446 --> 00:19:18,200 He promised me that this would be an adventure. 196 00:19:20,494 --> 00:19:22,955 That it would change my life. 197 00:19:27,584 --> 00:19:33,006 But eight months is a long time, and I just wanna go home now. 198 00:19:33,340 --> 00:19:35,175 Where's home? 199 00:19:35,843 --> 00:19:38,178 Anywhere but here. 200 00:19:42,891 --> 00:19:48,689 Samples 7, 12 and 22 also contain trace evidence of the organism. 201 00:19:48,772 --> 00:19:53,986 The possibility of this new, or perhaps unfathomably old, life form... 202 00:19:54,069 --> 00:19:59,491 ...has left me sleepless, wondering if I haven't lost all perspective. 203 00:20:00,409 --> 00:20:06,623 If my intense desire to find the truth hasn't finally eclipsed the truth itself. 204 00:20:06,707 --> 00:20:11,962 Our meddling intellect misshapes the beauteous forms of things. 205 00:20:12,045 --> 00:20:14,131 We murder to dissect. 206 00:20:15,549 --> 00:20:19,553 My mind is a tangled knot I can no longer untie. 207 00:20:19,720 --> 00:20:24,391 Daily, I fight the urge to sever it completely to stop this descent. 208 00:20:43,911 --> 00:20:46,205 What caused that tremor? 209 00:20:46,997 --> 00:20:50,667 There's been a lot of seismic activity in the northeast rift zone. 210 00:20:50,751 --> 00:20:55,672 If Trepkos hadn't destroyed our instruments, we might have learned something from it. 211 00:20:55,756 --> 00:20:58,258 You feeling all right? 212 00:21:01,553 --> 00:21:02,763 Yeah. 213 00:21:02,846 --> 00:21:06,141 Agent Scully's a medical doctor. Let her take a look at you. 214 00:21:06,225 --> 00:21:08,435 - I'm fine. - Just let her take a look... 215 00:21:08,519 --> 00:21:09,937 No! 216 00:21:13,732 --> 00:21:16,652 I'll go get Scully. 217 00:21:19,988 --> 00:21:23,492 - Come on, get up. She'll help you. - I don't want her to! 218 00:21:23,575 --> 00:21:26,453 Of course you do! It's for the best. 219 00:21:26,954 --> 00:21:29,206 We have to get out of here. 220 00:21:29,957 --> 00:21:34,253 He just collapsed after the tremor. He seems pretty bad. 221 00:21:36,630 --> 00:21:39,299 - He's burning up. - What is it? 222 00:21:39,383 --> 00:21:43,262 An infection or a toxic reaction. We've gotta get him to a hospital. 223 00:21:43,345 --> 00:21:46,807 - I'll get a stretcher. - We can't just leave Trepkos. 224 00:21:46,890 --> 00:21:49,309 Give me the shortwave. 225 00:21:52,604 --> 00:21:57,818 This is Agent Scully with the Firewalker team. Come in, Search and Rescue. 226 00:21:59,069 --> 00:22:02,114 I'll get O'Neil and meet you at the landing site. 227 00:22:02,197 --> 00:22:03,866 This is Search and Rescue. 228 00:22:03,949 --> 00:22:07,035 Request dispatch of medevac immediately. 229 00:22:07,119 --> 00:22:11,123 We have an Asian male, mid-thirties, spiking a high-grade fever. 230 00:22:32,853 --> 00:22:35,647 Tanaka's collapsed. We're getting him out. 231 00:22:50,871 --> 00:22:53,332 - Tanaka! - Peter! 232 00:22:53,415 --> 00:22:56,001 Peter, come on, get back here! 233 00:23:32,079 --> 00:23:33,956 There. 234 00:23:38,836 --> 00:23:41,004 - Come on. - Don't go down there! 235 00:23:41,088 --> 00:23:44,842 - Let me go! What're you doing? Let go of me! - Don't go down there. 236 00:23:44,925 --> 00:23:47,511 For God's sakes, he needs our help! 237 00:24:17,833 --> 00:24:20,919 So what is it, Scully? What are we dealing with? 238 00:24:21,003 --> 00:24:24,256 Without better imaging equipment, I can't say for sure. 239 00:24:24,339 --> 00:24:26,842 I'll take any theory you've got. 240 00:24:26,925 --> 00:24:31,471 - It appears to be some kind of a fungus. - Anything you recognise? 241 00:24:31,555 --> 00:24:36,727 Well, I'm not a botanist, but I think it's fair to guess that it's an unknown genus. 242 00:24:37,519 --> 00:24:39,688 - What am I looking at here? - Spores. 243 00:24:39,771 --> 00:24:42,691 I scraped them off the tip of the fungus. 244 00:24:43,692 --> 00:24:49,615 It appears as if one of the spores grew inside Tanaka until it reached reproductive maturity. 245 00:24:49,698 --> 00:24:51,783 Essentially outgrowing its host. 246 00:24:51,867 --> 00:24:57,122 But by then it had caused massive tissue damage, particularly to the respiratory tract. 247 00:24:57,206 --> 00:25:01,001 - That accounts for the sand in his lungs. - You found sand in his lungs? 248 00:25:01,084 --> 00:25:05,297 Silicon dioxide. The waste product of a silicon-based organism. 249 00:25:05,464 --> 00:25:10,969 Wait a second. There... there's no such thing as a silicon-based organism. 250 00:25:11,053 --> 00:25:13,430 Maybe now there is. 251 00:25:13,722 --> 00:25:17,935 But we won't have proof until we determine its molecular structure. 252 00:25:18,018 --> 00:25:20,938 Come on. How else do you explain the sand in his lungs? 253 00:25:21,021 --> 00:25:25,317 It's the best trace evidence we could ask for. Trepkos was right. 254 00:25:25,859 --> 00:25:28,320 Daniel knew about this? 255 00:25:28,403 --> 00:25:31,990 He discovered a spore in the samples Firewalker brought up. 256 00:25:32,074 --> 00:25:33,492 He would've told us. 257 00:25:33,659 --> 00:25:38,247 Not if what he discovered was too disturbing even for him to understand. 258 00:25:38,330 --> 00:25:43,126 This might explain something else. The spore could explain Trepkos's dementia. 259 00:25:43,210 --> 00:25:46,213 Fungi contain alkaloids that affect the nervous system. 260 00:25:46,296 --> 00:25:50,092 Yeah, but what about us? I mean... we weren't exposed. 261 00:25:50,175 --> 00:25:54,888 We don't know that. If it was an airborne microbe, any of us could've inhaled a spore. 262 00:25:55,138 --> 00:25:57,307 So we're not going home, right? 263 00:25:57,391 --> 00:26:00,727 Not until we know how it's transmitted, how it incubates. 264 00:26:00,811 --> 00:26:05,983 If even one of us is infected, we could risk infecting a much larger population. 265 00:26:13,574 --> 00:26:16,451 Search and Rescue, this is Agent Mulder. Do you copy? 266 00:26:16,535 --> 00:26:19,705 This is Search and Rescue. We're in a holding pattern. Over. 267 00:26:19,788 --> 00:26:25,794 Notify FBI District HQ in Spokane that we're in quarantine due to possible contagion. 268 00:26:25,878 --> 00:26:29,173 Have CDC send up an evacuation unit on high alert. 269 00:26:29,256 --> 00:26:31,758 What's the nature of the contagion? 270 00:26:33,886 --> 00:26:36,138 Agent Mulder? 271 00:26:36,221 --> 00:26:40,976 Tell them it's a biological agent... of unknown origin. 272 00:26:41,059 --> 00:26:43,353 That's affirmative. Standing by. 273 00:26:45,355 --> 00:26:48,108 Maybe you should go check up on O'Neil. 274 00:27:07,294 --> 00:27:09,796 I'm gonna go find Trepkos. 275 00:27:12,799 --> 00:27:17,763 - What if he's already dead? - He'll find it tough answering my questions. 276 00:27:17,846 --> 00:27:20,224 I've gotta find out what he knows. 277 00:27:20,307 --> 00:27:24,102 It could change our understanding of the origin and evolution of life. 278 00:27:24,186 --> 00:27:27,648 He's dangerous, Mulder. He's already killed two men. 279 00:27:27,731 --> 00:27:31,568 - Then I have to find out why. - Will you at least let me go with you? 280 00:27:31,652 --> 00:27:32,945 No. 281 00:27:33,028 --> 00:27:37,491 Look, I know what you're thinking, but you have to get past that. We both do. 282 00:27:37,574 --> 00:27:40,994 I'm back... and I'm not going anywhere. 283 00:27:41,954 --> 00:27:45,123 You have to finish the autopsy on Tanaka. 284 00:27:45,207 --> 00:27:50,587 Hopefully that'll give us a better idea of what we're dealing with-whatever it is. 285 00:27:50,671 --> 00:27:54,800 I'm counting on you to keep us all from ending up on that slab. 286 00:28:17,072 --> 00:28:20,200 - Do like we said, OK? - Mm-hm. Mm-hm. 287 00:28:20,284 --> 00:28:22,411 You know what to say, right? 288 00:28:24,663 --> 00:28:26,957 I could use a little help. 289 00:28:27,708 --> 00:28:29,793 Excuse me. 290 00:28:31,712 --> 00:28:36,091 - So what do you need? - Directions, a contour map, USGS survey. 291 00:28:36,175 --> 00:28:38,677 Anything that can help me get here. 292 00:28:39,887 --> 00:28:41,972 Oh. 293 00:28:43,974 --> 00:28:46,643 These are the steam caves. 294 00:28:47,853 --> 00:28:51,690 They feed into the Sherman Crater. That's how we access the caldera. 295 00:28:51,773 --> 00:28:54,401 - How did you get these? - Firewalker. 296 00:28:54,484 --> 00:28:59,490 They were transmitted right before Trepkos destroyed his camera. 297 00:28:59,573 --> 00:29:01,116 Oh! 298 00:29:01,200 --> 00:29:04,036 So you're finally gonna go after Trepkos? 299 00:29:06,788 --> 00:29:09,208 Well, I'll tell you one thing. 300 00:29:09,291 --> 00:29:12,252 You won't find him with those. 301 00:29:12,336 --> 00:29:16,548 - And you won't find him with any map either. - How will I find him? 302 00:29:16,632 --> 00:29:18,717 You won't. 303 00:29:20,677 --> 00:29:23,680 - Not without a guide. - A guide? 304 00:29:23,764 --> 00:29:26,934 Yeah, a guide. I've been up here for almost a year. 305 00:29:27,017 --> 00:29:29,436 I spent months in those caves... 306 00:29:29,520 --> 00:29:33,941 ...charting every fissure, every crevice, so Firewalker wouldn't trip. 307 00:29:34,024 --> 00:29:37,027 If Trepkos is there, I can find him. 308 00:29:37,110 --> 00:29:40,823 - Why are you so eager to help me find him? - Oh, I'm... I'm not eager. 309 00:29:40,948 --> 00:29:47,204 I just don't want to wait around for Trepkos to do to me what he did to Pierce and Erikson. 310 00:29:47,287 --> 00:29:49,623 Plus, you've got the gun. 311 00:29:51,375 --> 00:29:54,920 You're the only one who can get us out of this place. 312 00:30:14,439 --> 00:30:16,942 Whatever I'm smelling, is it toxic? 313 00:30:17,025 --> 00:30:22,447 Between the heat and the sulphur, it can get pretty nasty in here. But it won't hurt you. 314 00:30:22,531 --> 00:30:24,908 You'll get used to it. 315 00:30:25,951 --> 00:30:31,957 - How far does the cave extend? - Three quarters of a mile, to the crater rim. 316 00:30:33,417 --> 00:30:35,878 Let's head in. 317 00:30:36,920 --> 00:30:41,508 It twists around quite a bit till you get there. Lots of dead ends... 318 00:30:42,885 --> 00:30:45,012 ...and blind drops. 319 00:30:45,095 --> 00:30:49,892 Unless you know where you're going, you're... like a rat in a maze. 320 00:30:59,109 --> 00:31:01,361 Argh! Argh! 321 00:31:01,695 --> 00:31:03,780 Argh! 322 00:31:32,684 --> 00:31:34,770 Your gun. 323 00:31:38,565 --> 00:31:40,776 Back. Get back. 324 00:31:47,783 --> 00:31:50,953 Why are you doing this, Trepkos? He's already dead. 325 00:31:51,036 --> 00:31:54,331 How many times do you have to kill him? 326 00:32:00,420 --> 00:32:03,090 It's not him I'm trying to kill. 327 00:32:38,125 --> 00:32:43,088 I have attempted to culture the spore, using temperatures ranging from human basal... 328 00:32:43,172 --> 00:32:46,592 ...to those approximating the volcanic interior. 329 00:32:46,675 --> 00:32:50,137 I have used nutritive mediums containing... 330 00:32:50,888 --> 00:32:55,058 ...human tissue, blood and saliva. Even sulphur. 331 00:32:55,142 --> 00:32:57,644 However, none of the seven trials... 332 00:32:57,728 --> 00:33:01,940 ...have successfully grown the fungus that killed Tanaka. 333 00:33:02,024 --> 00:33:07,404 Based on this preliminary data, I have come to the following hypothesis: 334 00:33:08,989 --> 00:33:13,327 ...That unless the spores are ingested or inhaled by the host organism... 335 00:33:13,410 --> 00:33:16,330 ...immediately upon their release... 336 00:33:16,413 --> 00:33:18,707 ...they become harmless... 337 00:33:18,790 --> 00:33:21,001 ...effectively dead. 338 00:33:27,799 --> 00:33:29,885 Jesse? 339 00:33:35,182 --> 00:33:37,476 What is it? 340 00:33:37,559 --> 00:33:41,939 I thought you'd like to know-the chances are good that none of us were infected. 341 00:33:43,899 --> 00:33:49,613 We were a safe distance from Tanaka. When Mulder and Ludwig come back, we can leave. 342 00:33:49,696 --> 00:33:53,951 I... I just need to run a few more tests, but I think we're gonna be OK. 343 00:33:57,329 --> 00:33:59,414 Ow. Oooh. 344 00:34:00,999 --> 00:34:03,377 OK, Jesse? Jesse? 345 00:34:08,131 --> 00:34:10,634 What went wrong, Trepkos? 346 00:34:13,387 --> 00:34:17,015 Firewalker carried something back to the surface. 347 00:34:18,267 --> 00:34:20,978 Firewalker brought up an elephant. 348 00:34:22,938 --> 00:34:25,107 The truth... 349 00:34:25,190 --> 00:34:28,735 ...is an elephant described by three blind men. 350 00:34:30,362 --> 00:34:33,991 The first man touches the tail and says it's a rope. 351 00:34:34,908 --> 00:34:39,288 The second man feels the rough leg and says it's a tree. 352 00:34:41,165 --> 00:34:44,168 The third man feels the trunk and says it's a snake. 353 00:34:44,376 --> 00:34:47,504 What about you? What do you say it is? 354 00:34:49,423 --> 00:34:53,635 I say the earth holds some truths best left buried. 355 00:34:54,094 --> 00:34:56,513 Like the spore? 356 00:35:00,392 --> 00:35:04,855 - Who are you? - I'm Special Agent Mulder. I'm with the FBI. 357 00:35:05,772 --> 00:35:07,649 You don't look like a policeman. 358 00:35:07,733 --> 00:35:10,819 I came down here to investigate Erikson's death. 359 00:35:10,903 --> 00:35:13,405 That's not why you're here. 360 00:35:14,948 --> 00:35:20,496 You still believe you can petition heaven and get some penetrating answer. 361 00:35:21,872 --> 00:35:24,374 If you found that answer... 362 00:35:26,877 --> 00:35:29,171 ...what would you do with it? 363 00:35:33,091 --> 00:35:36,970 I just wanna know what happened after the first descent. 364 00:35:39,014 --> 00:35:41,308 What did you find? 365 00:35:46,146 --> 00:35:48,440 It was porous... 366 00:35:51,568 --> 00:35:53,654 ...obsidian. 367 00:35:54,530 --> 00:35:59,868 Erikson thought it was some sort of rock, so I told him to pulverise it for analysis. 368 00:35:59,952 --> 00:36:03,622 - Erikson released the spore? - He discovered a new life form. 369 00:36:03,705 --> 00:36:08,210 In a single moment, all that science held sacred suddenly turned on its head. 370 00:36:08,293 --> 00:36:14,341 - What about Erikson? lf... if he was infected... - I was too immersed in the work to notice. 371 00:36:15,342 --> 00:36:20,472 I'd been alone in the lab for three days... when I heard their screams. 372 00:36:23,934 --> 00:36:26,436 They were all gathered around him. 373 00:36:27,354 --> 00:36:32,359 By the time I realised what was happening, they were already changing. 374 00:36:32,442 --> 00:36:36,989 The spore... grew in each of them until it became... 375 00:36:37,072 --> 00:36:39,491 What do you mean? 376 00:36:40,534 --> 00:36:42,911 It's a parasite. 377 00:36:42,995 --> 00:36:45,873 It lives to find a host. 378 00:36:45,956 --> 00:36:48,709 - But you weren't infected? - No. 379 00:36:50,043 --> 00:36:52,588 You destroyed your work, the equipment. 380 00:36:52,671 --> 00:36:55,716 You killed Pierce... so no one could leave. 381 00:36:56,341 --> 00:36:58,594 No one can leave. 382 00:37:04,349 --> 00:37:06,977 What about O'Neil? 383 00:37:07,060 --> 00:37:08,854 Jesse? 384 00:37:08,937 --> 00:37:13,358 - Was she exposed to the spore? - They were all exposed. 385 00:37:15,986 --> 00:37:19,948 - All of them. - I have a colleague, a friend... 386 00:37:20,616 --> 00:37:23,327 ...who's with O'Neil right now. 387 00:37:23,410 --> 00:37:27,456 - Let me go to her. - She may already be infected. 388 00:37:33,962 --> 00:37:36,173 I can't let you leave. 389 00:37:37,466 --> 00:37:40,093 Then you're gonna have to shoot me. 390 00:37:40,928 --> 00:37:43,430 Because I'm walking outta here. 391 00:38:27,850 --> 00:38:29,935 Jesse? 392 00:38:46,410 --> 00:38:48,078 Oh! 393 00:38:48,829 --> 00:38:51,582 God, you scared me! 394 00:38:51,957 --> 00:38:55,210 Jesse? 395 00:38:55,294 --> 00:38:58,213 Are you OK? 396 00:38:58,297 --> 00:39:01,300 Jesse, what's wrong? Jesse? 397 00:39:03,635 --> 00:39:06,138 Jesse, what are you doing? 398 00:40:45,195 --> 00:40:46,613 Scully? 399 00:40:48,240 --> 00:40:50,159 Scully? 400 00:40:50,242 --> 00:40:52,327 I'm OK. I'm OK. 401 00:40:56,874 --> 00:40:59,293 - You all right? - I'm OK. 402 00:41:15,642 --> 00:41:16,894 Yeah. 403 00:41:20,105 --> 00:41:22,441 Mulder, look... 404 00:41:23,192 --> 00:41:26,945 ...she was infected. I don't know how. 405 00:41:27,029 --> 00:41:29,406 Erikson was the original host. 406 00:41:29,490 --> 00:41:33,911 When the fungus shed its spores, everyone was at ground zero, except for Trepkos. 407 00:41:33,994 --> 00:41:36,330 Did you find him? 408 00:42:02,564 --> 00:42:06,610 I told her... it would change her life. 409 00:42:19,206 --> 00:42:22,167 Search and Rescue, this is Agent Mulder. Do you copy? 410 00:42:22,251 --> 00:42:25,796 This is Army Biohazard. How many are in your party? 411 00:42:33,095 --> 00:42:36,139 We have two survivors - Agent Scully and myself. 412 00:42:36,223 --> 00:42:39,768 Copy that. Our ETA is seven minutes. 413 00:42:40,894 --> 00:42:44,690 Mulder, what are you doing? They're gonna wanna question him. 414 00:42:45,899 --> 00:42:48,277 It's all over, Scully. 415 00:42:49,153 --> 00:42:51,488 He won't talk. 416 00:43:05,419 --> 00:43:08,463 Scully and I are in the third day of a month's quarantine... 417 00:43:08,547 --> 00:43:11,466 ...undergoing level four decon procedures. 418 00:43:11,550 --> 00:43:15,721 We are, so far, without symptoms of fungal contamination. 419 00:43:18,891 --> 00:43:25,439 Our specimens and field notes were taken by the biohazard corps prior to our evacuation. 420 00:43:25,522 --> 00:43:31,361 Their presence is delayed indefinitely for the arrival of the USGS data retrieval team. 421 00:43:31,445 --> 00:43:36,366 I suspect, though, there will be little left for them to retrieve. 422 00:43:36,450 --> 00:43:42,623 There are no plans to explore the volcanically active mountains in the Cascade range... 423 00:43:42,706 --> 00:43:45,083 ...including Mount Avalon. 424 00:43:46,960 --> 00:43:51,798 All access points to that volcano have been sealed off by army engineers. 425 00:43:53,967 --> 00:43:57,012 Of the members of the Firewalker descent team... 426 00:43:57,095 --> 00:44:00,349 ...only Trepkos and O'Neil remain unaccounted for. 427 00:44:00,432 --> 00:44:04,561 They are presumed dead, and the search for them has been abandoned. 428 00:44:05,979 --> 00:44:08,398 Firewalker, however, was recovered... 429 00:44:08,482 --> 00:44:13,987 ...though its sensory and locomotive systems were found to be irreparably damaged. 430 00:44:14,071 --> 00:44:18,200 The data it collected from the Earth's interior will never be known. 431 00:44:18,283 --> 00:44:23,914 And of the events that occurred at Mount Avalon between 11 and 13 November 1994... 432 00:44:25,958 --> 00:44:28,836 ...mine stands as the only record. 433 00:44:39,096 --> 00:44:42,307 Visiontext Subtitles: Claire Bates 434 00:45:04,204 --> 00:45:05,956 I made this! 435 00:45:06,039 --> 00:45:07,875 ENGLISH SDH 436 00:45:08,305 --> 00:45:14,465 Please rate this subtitle at www.osdb.link/3sadp Help other users to choose the best subtitles