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B-I-N-G-O, B-I-N-G-O, and Bingo was his name-o

There was a farmer had a dog and Bingo was his name-o

B-I-N-G-O, B-I-N-G-O

B-I-N-G-O, and Bingo was his name-o

There was a farmer had a dog and Bingo was his name-o

Oh! What's that?

Oh! Oh, my goodness, what's happening?

It's okay, it's okay.

I just had a flat.

- No problem here, honey. - Oh, no.

Darn it.

Honey, would you mind

holding the light for a second?

Paul!

Paul?

Paul!

Where are you, Paul?!

What happened?!

Paul!

Oh, Paul...!

Take a look!

Over here.

Come on, boy. Come on! Come on!

Over here! We found something!

Come on, buddy. Come on!

There you go.

- Come on, boy! - Easy, easy...

Get back!

His leg's been eaten off.

Hey, up here!

Need some help! Come on!

It's in here! It's as tall as a house!

We can smoke him out.

And then what?

I see it!

He's coming at us!

Special Investigations, Agent Stanley speaking.

Working hard, Mulder?

This woman claims

to have been taken aboard a spaceship

and held in an antigravity chamber

without food and water for three days.

Antigravity is right.

Sorry to interrupt your serious investigation...

but I just heard a story

that'd just about take your knees out.

What's that?

They found a body

in the New Jersey woods yesterday,

missing its right arm and shoulder.

They think they may have been eaten off...

by a human.

Where in New Jersey?

Just outside Atlantic City.

Not an uncommon place to lose a body part.

They think it's the Mob?

Mm-mm. It was a homeless man.

There doesn't seem to be a motive.

You feeling lucky, Scully?

Relative to whom?

It's not our case, Mulder.

The local police are handling it.

An X File?

Ever hear of something called the Jersey Devil?

Yeah... it's a beast who's supposed

to come out of the woods and attack cars, right?

Kind of like an East Coast Bigfoot?

Read the file about the case in 1947.

Save me the trouble.

It's 1947... family watches dad get dragged off into the woods.

Cops find dad with a few appendages gnawed off.

Cops corner a large, naked man in the woods, and gun him down.

Autopsy shows human flesh and bones

in the man's large intestine... a beast man.

- Is the autopsy report in here? - Requisition for a car, please.

No. The original disappeared

from the Paterson PD's files a few years after the incident.

There is a statement from the attending pathologist.

Mulder, it's the same story I've heard since I was a kid.

It's a folktale; a myth.

I heard the same story when I was a kid, too.

Funny thing is, I believed it.

Thanks, Lorraine.

Fact is, we got a cannibalized body in New Jersey.

Someone or something out there is hungry.

They say animals can develop an appetite for human flesh,

but this is no animal.

You see the teeth marks just below the clavicle?

They're human.

Who found the body?

The park ranger.

Was he alive when it happened?

Well, it's hard to tell.

There's a skull fracture,

but no sign of a struggle.

Blood-alcohol level was up.

Probably never knew what hit him.

Any ideas about that?

From the size of that bite mark...

I'd say a large, adult male.

- I'll do my best. - Uh, Detective Thompson

is handling the case.

Glenna.

Hi. I'm Special Agent Dana Scully

and this is Agent Fox Mulder.

I don't remember anybody calling the FBI in on this.

Oh, we're not here in an official capacity.

Agent Scully is a medical doctor.

We heard about your victim and

she thought she might take a look.

I'm sorry, I'm going to ask you to leave.

We have an investigation.

For God sakes, Tommy,

this is no time to get pissy.

We have jurisdiction here.

Any suspects yet, Detective?

I don't work for you, sir.

And, unless you hear different from the attorney general,

this case is a local matter.

Agent Mulder, we should go.

There's no need to get bent out of shape.

On the contrary,

I think I've been exceedingly polite.

So what's eating that guy?

He was perfectly in his rights.

The FBI has no overriding jurisdiction

on a murder case.

Anyway, you'd feel the same way

if someone was homing in on your work.

Yeah, chances are he's without a clue.

He'll probably be scratching his head

when they bring the next body in.

You missed your opening, Mulder.

You could have really humiliated him

and told him who the perpetrator was...

the Jersey Devil.

Hey, what do you say we grab a hotel,

take in a floor show,

drop a few quarters in the slot,

do a little digging on this case?

You're kidding, right?

Okay, we can skip the floor show.

Mulder, I have to be back in DC.

- You got a date? - No.

I have my godson's birthday party at 6:30.

What are you doing?

A little poking around.

Maybe make a weekend out of it.

Mulder, it's a three-hour drive back, by myself.

In Friday-night traffic.

Change for 50.

Change?

Found the body just over there,

lying facedown on the rocks.

32 years with the park service,

I've come across some weird stuff

but, I tell you, never anything like this.

The victim was a homeless man.

You get many of them wandering around out here?

Well, occasionally, I'll see some,

but most are scared of the woods.

Scared?

Of what?

I don't know.

The devil.

People say that's just a myth.

Depends on who you talk to.

What do you think?

Well, like I said, you know, 32 years...

I see a lot of weird stuff.

Like one time...

a little over four years ago,

I saw what I thought was a large man

come out of a copse of birch trees...

not-not a stitch of clothing.

He was about 60 yards away.

And he starts sniffing the air,

you know, like a dog?

And then he looks straight at me

and I swear, he smelled me,

because he took off into the woods so fast,

- you'd swear he wasn't human. - Really.

Yeah.

- You never saw him again? - No.

But I feel him.

And...

I've found things.

Some scat, half-buried like a cat's,

only more human.

Found a half-eaten rabbit with what looked like

a human cuspid tooth in it, and some deer bones

looked like they'd been sharpened into tools.

Do you think it might be

what's responsible for the body you found?

Well...

I got a pension coming up in a few years.

You know, you say the wrong thing...

Yeah.

You know, I'll tell you one thing:

I don't ever come out here without my weapon anymore.

How far is it into town from here?

About a mile, mile and a half.

I'm staying at the Galaxy Gateway

for the next couple days.

If you think of anything, will you call me?

Sure.

All right.

Look at this gorilla!

Where am I? I can't see!

Where am I?

Oh, come here.

It's okay. It's all right.

What happened?

Did you bump your head?

Mm...

Oh, Cruiser, stop that!

Go on.

What... what happened?

Jungle warfare.

Oh, I'm going to kill that dog.

If the hit squad doesn't get to him before you do.

I'm so glad you're here, Dana.

Get off me! Cruiser!

Get down!

Oh, you're amazing.

What?

You're such a natural at all this.

I don't know how you keep it all together.

Mommy radar.

Mm! I don't think I'm cut out for this, El.

Dana, you went through the FBI Academy.

What better training could there be

for motherhood?

Seriously.

You're great with kids.

What are you talking about?

When am I supposed to find the time?

Well, first, you have to get a life.

And, of course, it helps if you can find a man.

Know of any?

Yeah, they're disappearing

faster than the Brazilian rain forest.

What about that guy you work with?

Mulder?

Yeah, I thought you said he was cute.

He's a jerk.

He's not a jerk.

He's, um...

he's obsessed with his work.

- Hi. - Hi.

I'm Rob. I'm Scott's dad.

Oh! Come in.

Thanks.

Hey, Tiger.

How you doing?

Having a good time?

Divorced.

Did anybody here know Roger Crockett?

He was murdered two days ago.

Ma'am, can I...?

Hey, honey, you got spare change?

Roger Crockett, anybody?

What do you want to know?

Did you know Roger Crockett?

Did you hear how he died?

Yeah.

Any ideas who might have done it?

You a cop?

No. I'm FBI.

I'll show you something.

Okay.

I need some money.

What is this?

Stuck in the pocket of a jacket I found.

Does it mean anything to you?

I've seen it.

- Where? - Right here.

- Here? - Digging in the trash.

Are you hustling me?

Swear to God.

What do you think it is?

I don't know.

Scared the hell out of me.

Has anybody else seen it?

Oh, yeah. Everybody's pretty freaked.

Anybody tell the cops?

You think they don't know?

Where you sleeping tonight?

You're standing in my bedroom.

You know the Galaxy Gateway?

Room 756.

Go ahead.

Hey, they got HBO?

Yeah, they do.

- Sir. - You got a man up on that roof.

Nothing to be afraid of. We can give you a warm place to sleep it off.

Hey, back off.

- All right, calm down. - I'm telling you,

there's a man up on that roof!

- Get in the car! - Now.

What the hell do you think you're doing?

Enjoying the night life

here in beautiful Atlantic City.

I'll go right to the D.A.'s Office, if I have to.

Obstructing an investigation, misconduct...

Let's go, let's go see her together.

And while we're at it, why don't we add

"withholding evidence" to the list.

What are you talking about?

Statements given to you describing something

stalking the back streets of Atlantic City.

This is the fishing trip

they get me up at 3:00 in the morning for?

Unbelievable.

Why else would you be sweeping the streets tonight?

You know it's out there.

I got a perpetrator out there.

Whether it's Hannibal the Cannibal or Elmer Fudd,

I've got a job to protect people.

Oh, is that your job?

Or is it to keep the dice rolling,

keep the tour buses rolling in.

You can't fill those casinos, this town disappears

like a quarter down the slot.

I've seen it.

Seen what?

You've been spending too much time

in supermarket check-out lines.

This story's as old as the hills.

Who's going to be responsible

when you lose your first tourist, Detective?

You are.

No, you are, sir,

because you're wasting my time

and impeding the solution of this case.

You want to go on a safari, go to Africa.

In the meantime, enjoy the rest of your weekend.

Agent Scully.

Agent Mulder, line three.

Where are you?

Not far from where you left me.

You're still in Atlantic City?

Uh, Scully, you got anything happening this morning?

What's that noise in the background?

That's a guy getting sick.

Mulder, where are you?

The drunk tank?

Well, it's not hard to see

why they mistook you for a vagrant.

You going to rag on me

or are you going to take me to get me something to eat?

Am I buying

or did you manage to panhandle some spare change

while you were at it?

It moved like a cat, quick and graceful.

There's no way a human could've gotten up on the roof that fast.

Mulder.

What?

What's gonna happen when word of this gets back to the Bureau?

They dropped the charges. That guy Thompson,

he ran me through the system just to spite me.

I'm talking about this Jersey Devil thing.

I saw it... it's exactly the way the ranger described.

The way it moved, the way it sniffed the air.

It's come out of the woods, probably in search of food.

Yeah, I'll say.

It was picking through the garbage, Scully.

If it was a man-eater, why didn't it come after me?

- Probably felt threatened or something, because... - Mulder, listen to yourself!

You're already ascribing it a motive and an alibi.

This thing chewed somebody's arm off.

It's not exactly a defensive posture.

But you do believe that I saw something.

- Don't you? - You saw something,

I'll give you that,

but I'm not about to go in and sell it

not when it's nothing more than a sighting in a dark alley.

I've still got a hotel room I'm paying for.

Well, I have to get back to Washington by 7:30, so, uh...

Another birthday party?

No.

I have a date.

Can you cancel?

Unlike you, Mulder, I would like to have a life.

I have a life.

Come on. I have somebody I want you to meet

on the way home.

Come on.

Hold on.

Just about every culture has one...

Yeti, Sasquatch, the Russian almas, the sonnequat.

Why is that?

It's a universal wild man myth...

a symbolic fear of our dual natures as humans

as creators of life and destroyers of it.

What's this chart?

It shows the historic entry

of man onto each continent

and the effect it had on other animal species,

which, as you see, has been disastrous.

Why?

We humans have retained hereditary traits

through evolution

that have proven to be extremely destructive.

We tend to be tribal and aggressively territorial,

oriented by selfish sexual and reproductive drives

that make cooperation beyond the family or tribe

extremely hard for us.

So we kill other species in order to survive.

Yeah, humans are top carnivores.

We sit at the top of the food chain

and we reduce other species' chances of survival.

Well, nice to know Dana left here with more than a degree.

But what if something entered the food chain above us?

Nah. It won't happen.

Our intelligence virtually ensures

that, barring the introduction of some alien life-form,

we will live out our days as rulers of the world.

But-but what if, through some fluke of nature,

a human was born

who reverted to its most animal instincts?

A kind of carnivorous Neanderthal.

Wouldn't he occupy a space above us

on the food chain?

Oh, sure.

All he'd have to do

is wait outside any fast-food restaurant

and eat us on the way in.

Right, yeah, and-and... and haven't there been cases

where men have been raised in the wilderness by animals

who have no language and hunt like predators?

Oh, yes, several... but cannibalism is rare

even among the lower mammals.

But even when faced with extinction?

Maybe in the jungles of New Guinea or...

It's just highly unlikely that what you're suggesting

could have survived civilization or evolution

out in the woods of New Jersey?

Highly unlikely,

but not outside the realm of extreme possibility?

Well, it would be an amazing discovery.

Well, the hard thing was when my wife remarried. I...

Suddenly I felt very competitive for my son's attention.

It was weird.

I'm sure.

I became a superdad on the weekends with Scott.

I had this unconscious fear

of being replaced.

I actually had dreams

where I was running over his stepfather with my car.

You'll understand when you have kids.

Having kids changes everything.

That's what they say.

Maybe some weekend, if you're up for it,

we could take the kids out to the beach for the day.

Yeah.

Great.

Thank you.

So, can I ask about the case you're on

or can't you say?

Well...

I don't think it's a case we should discuss over dinner.

I don't suppose you'd want to hear

about the finer points of estate planning and taxation?

Mulder.

Agent Mulder, this is Peter Brullet

of the Jersey Parks Department.

- Oh, yeah. Hi. - Hi.

I found a body out in the woods today.

It looks like it's been dead six to eight months.

A long-haired male

missing the same tooth I found in that rabbit awhile back.

It could be your devil.

Where's the body now?

I turned it over to the coroner's office.

You're sure it was a male?

Well, it had all the plumbing.

Excuse me.

Mm-hmm.

I'm sorry.

Excuse me.

Certainly.

Scully.

Mulder.

Sorry to interrupt your evening.

That's okay.

What's up?

I just had an amazing thought.

Maybe it isn't a beast man we're looking for after all.

Well, if they picked it up,

nobody logged the body on the chart.

I sure haven't seen it.

I don't understand.

What else would they have done with it?

I'm afraid we may have

called you down here for nothing.

They're gonna try to sweep

this whole thing under the carpet.

Why?

Any publicity

and you've got the streets crawling

with kind of people who aren't here to play the crap tables.

Word gets out there's something

still on the loose, forget it.

You said it was a female?

The body they found was a male.

There's a 50-50 chance there was a mate.

We may never know unless we find out ourselves.

If it's true...

what are the chances of capturing it alive?

If it is a primate,

it would have a natural fear of heights.

It would also want

to stay close to its food source.

This thing has no fear of heights.

We'll stay together and start with the lower floors.

How much time will that dart give us?

It will put down

a 500-pound bear for an hour...

if I hit it.

What the hell's a park ranger vehicle doing here?

I don't know.

Check it out.

Can you run a check for me on...?

Something here!

It's blood.

She could be bringing her killing here.

She could be injured.

Roger. Zebra team in position.

What if it is a female, Scully?

How close is she to you or me?

Does she feel emotion?

Or are her days just spent looking for food?

Maybe she spends her days shopping.

Eight million years out of Africa...

I don't think we're all that different.

Mulder, we've put men into space.

We've built computers

that work faster than the human mind.

While we overpopulate the world

and create new technologies to kill each other with?

Maybe we're just beasts with big brains.

What?

No, I was just...

thinking about my godson's birthday party.

Eight little six-year-old boys running around.

Talk about primitive behavior.

Now, look, his name is Mulder

and he's a Federal agent.

You ever hear of him?

No.

- You know him? - No.

Well, what are you doing here?

I'm a professor of anthropology.

Mulder. Does that sound familiar to you?

Look, I know he's here somewhere.

Will you check upstairs, Andrew? Go check upstairs?

I want this place searched top to bottom.

Make a move!

Move, move!

Mulder...

Mulder, where are you?

Mulder?

Scully...!

Lay back.

Oh, Mulder, you're hurt.

You should have seen her.

She was beautiful.

Yeah, well, she just about ripped your lungs out.

She could have torn my head off, Scully, but she didn't

- Try to hold still. - 'cause she sensed that I wasn't a threat.

Yeah, I need to talk to someone

who can give me Federal jurisdiction on this case.

- Mulder! - How old would you say she was?

- What? What? - The U.S. Assistant D.A. is on the phone

with the Bureau right now.

He wants to know what the hell is going on

up here in Atlantic City.

Tell him he's got a real live Neanderthal on the loose.

She was young... I don't know, it's hard to say exactly.

The Atlantic City Major Crime Unit has filed a complaint

that we're endangering a murder investigation.

- That is such crap... - Hey, Mulder, they got her...

they got her cornered in a building.

Let's go.

- Can you see it? - It crawled into the wall.

Get a man in there.

That's affirmative.

And keep these people out of here.

- You can take her alive. Aah! - Out of here!

What's going on in there?

I've got a man down.

We got a naked woman just jumped

from a second-story window.

Suspect is headed south into the woods on foot.

Good boy. Come on.

I know these woods.

If she's going for cover, she'll be down by the rocks.

Look.

Can you reach her from here?

I can try.

- I got it! - Good shot.

Look! Up ahead!

She tried to take my arm off.

That's it. Right there.

Looks like she's trying to bury herself.

Why did you have to kill her?

Same reason you kill a rabid animal.

Hi.

This just came through.

It's the posthumous medical exam of the woman's body.

They found fragments of human bone

still in her digestive tract.

They estimated her age to be 25 to 30 years.

Now, they allowed Dr. Diamond to do a medical exam of the body

but he found nothing

that suggested prehistoric bone structure

or physiology.

Now, the ACPD has her listed as a Jane Doe,

and a search for her identity

and state psychiatric records has begun in earnest.

Good luck.

They have also released the medical exam

from the male body that they found.

His age is estimated to be about 40 years.

There would have been offspring.

The medical exam of the woman's uterus

does seem to indicate

that she may have given birth.

She was just protecting her children, Scully.

It all makes sense.

The male dies and she comes out of the woods

in search of food.

Mulder, will you do me a favor?

Will you just go out and have a beer?

Will you take the day off?

I'll cover for you.

Will you just take some time for yourself.

Thanks for the offer, but I've got an appointment

at the Smithsonian with an ethnobiologist.

I can't wait to tell him about this.

Mulder.

Yeah, just a second.

It's for you.

Hello?

Hi, Dana. It's Rob.

Oh, hi.

Sorry to call you at work,

it's just I have I have Scott for the night

and we have two extra tickets for Cirque du Soleil.

We thought maybe you'd like to ask Ellen

if you could take Trent and join us.

Requisition for a car, please, Fran.

Thank you.

Who was that on the phone?

- A guy. - A guy.

Same guy as the guy you had dinner with the other night?

Same guy.

You going to have dinner with him again?

I don't think so.

No interest.

Not at this time.

Thanks, Fran.

What are you doing?

Going with you to the Smithsonian.

Don't you have a life, Scully?

You keep that up, Mulder, and I'll hurt you

like that beast woman.

Eight million years out of Africa.

And look who's holding the door.

Dad, did you just see something down there?

- Where? - Over there.

No. I'm sure it was nothing.

No. I saw something.

Hey, did you ever hear the story of the Jersey Devil?

You know, when I was a kid,

my dad used to tell this story

about a creature

who lived out there in the woods.

It was half man, half animal.

I used to believe...