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It's freezing out there.

MAN: You weren't gone long.

Did you do what I asked?

Yes.

It's important, Gary.

Promise me you did it.

You're sick, Dad.

You should be in a hospital

not stuck out here in the middle of nowhere.

You don't owe this guy Stites anything.

It's not about owing.

I freeze my butt off

checking and rechecking the locks every night.

For what?

You don't need to know.

Yeah, that's for sure.

I'm going to fiix some dinner.

( door closes )

( monitor beeping soft, slowtones )

( windows flapping )

( beeping speeds up )

( fast, rhythmic beeps )

( groans softly )

( groaning weakly )

( monitor beeping faster )

( rapid beeping )

Oh, Lord.

Gary, you didn't--

( microwave beeps )

Oh, whew.

( steady tone )

Oh, God.

Dad?

( steady tone )

( tone stops )

( soft rattling )

DOGGETT : Agent Scully.

Mmm.

Can I take your coat?

I'm not staying, Agent Doggett.

My doctor told me to take my maternity leave.

In fact, she insisted on it.

That's not bad, Agent Scully.

You could use some time for yourself.

What is it?

It's a medallion commemorating the Apollo 11 space flight.

I'd like to give this to you, Agent Doggett.

Thanks.

Because?

Agent Mulder gave it to me a few years back.

It symbolizes teamwork...

partnership.

It means no one gets there alone.

And after this past year and...

everything that we've been through, I just--

I wouldn't be here without you.

Agent Scully.

This pregnancy leave...

it's just a ""leave,'' right?

I mean...you are coming back eventually?

( footsteps approaching )

You're not gone fiive minutes, Agent Scully

and already I'm starting to feel like a stranger in my own off--

I'm sorry?

Can I help you?

I'm here to help you, actually.

I'm Leyla Harrison.

I've been looking forward to meeting you.

Uh-huh.

I've got a case here, an X-File, I think.

At least the local PD can't explain it.

A murder last night in upstate New York.

I booked us on a flight to Buffalo Niagara.

Here's the crime report.

I'm sorry, Ms. Harrison...

who are you?

Oh, gosh.

They didn't tell you?

This is... so embarrassing.

Uh, I'm... I'm your new partner.

I asked that the body be sent to D.C.

It was found in the woods

about 50 yards beyond the house.

Maybe we should begin there.

Let's begin inside the house.

Okay, then.

The deceased is Arlen Sacks, aged 72

caretaker for the estate

on which this house is situated.

There were no signs of physical trauma

but local PD suspect homicide

due to the dumping of the body.

Mr. Sacks was confiined to a wheelchair

the last few months

cared for since then by his son, Gary

who's their chief suspect.

Why?

Um... oh, because he's missing, too.

If he killed this man without leaving a mark

that would suggest premeditation

an attempt to disguise the murder.

But that doesn't fiit with dumping the body in the woods

or fleeing the scene

both of which indicate panic, haste.

That is great.

What was that last part again, about the premeditation?

What is that?

Slime?

There's a small streak of it on the floor over there, too.

So, it's not someone; it's something.

God, this really is an X-File, isn't it?

Congratulations.

I gave the slime to the Buffalo PD.

I told them we wanted to see the results right away.

How much fiield experience you have, Agent Harrison?

Um, actually, this is my fiirst time in the fiield.

Let me guess--

Deputy Director Kersh handed you this job

fiilling in for Agent Scully.

Yes. Yes, he did.

I don't know how to tell you this, Agent Harrison

but you're being used.

Deputy Director Kersh is no friend to the X-Files.

I don't think you understand something, Agent Doggett.

I begged for this assignment.

You begged for it.

I was in Accounting.

I processed Agents Mulder and Scully's travel expenses.

Then you are qualifiied.

Maybe I'm not

but I know the X-Files, Agent Doggett, inside and out.

Other people don't even want to admit these questions exist

but you face them every day.

I am just so excited to be a part of this.

Aren't you?

Mr. Sack's body was found here

but they found no footprints leading to it.

Oh, my God.

There's more of it.

Looks like it.

You know what that could be?

It could be bile.

Bile?

From a liver-eating mutant.

Mulder and Scully chased one

into an escalator once.

It died, but, but there was--

This is not a liver-eating mutant, Agent Harrison.

It could be an alien who shed its skin.

According to Agent Mulder's case reports

they leave behind

a mucous-like residue when they, uh--

You don't think it's that either.

I'll take a sample of this.

Have it sent to the lab for comparison.

That's good thinking, Agent Harrison.

( rumbling )

( knocking )

Hey.

Ready to roll?

Yeah. I'lljust get my keys.

Hey. Don't forget this.

Relax the back.

Breathe in, breathe out.

( forceful panting )

How do you know all these things, Mulder?

I'm unemployed.

I got a lot of time on my hands.

Oprah.

I watch a lot of Oprah.

Thank you for doing this with me.

What's the matter?

I don't know. I, uh--

Maybe it's hormones or--

This is just--

I'm just feeling so strange about all this.

This having a baby, this?

No... no.

Leaving work, I guess.

I mean, I... I walked out of that offiice today

feeling like a deserter.

You've paid your dues there, Scully.

More than paid them.

You're concerned about Agent Doggett.

You know the entire time that I was down there

I had someone to watch my back.

I'm betting thatAgent Doggett can take care of himself.

He's a big boy.

You've got to worry about the little boy

or little girl.

Boy?

Or girl?

Whoa.

Agent Harrison, what are you doing here?

I followed the tr--

It's here.

It?

What ""it''?

You're armed, right?

What do you want me to do?

I want you to go outside

and I want you to stand by the front door.

Whatever it is, I'm going to try and flush it out.

Agent Harrison.

Take the safety off.

( soft rattling )

( gunshots )

Harrison.

Agent Harrison!

( creaking )

( telephone ringing )

Skinner.

Is it true?

Agent Scully.

I can't reach Agent Doggett

and someone told me he's gone missing.

He was investigating a murder.

He hasn't reported back.

Why wasn't I told?

Agent Scully, don't worry.

I'm heading into the Bureau right now.

No, you're not.

Sir, are you ordering me

not to go looking for Agent Doggett?

I've got every available law-enforcement offiicer out here.

You're on maternity leave now.

Just trust that we're doing everything that we know to do.

I know that you are...

but what if it's not enough?

- I'lljust take this to the lab. - Thank you.

Seems like old times.

You in scrubs, slicing and dicing.

What are you doing here, Mulder?

Actually I-I wandered away from my tour.

A better question is, what are you doing here?

I found something that may prove helpful

in locating Agent Doggett.

This is Arlen Sacks

the murder victim Doggett was investigating.

This old man was not murdered, Mulder.

He died of heart failure, evidently after he was blinded

by a chemical substance of some kind.

The orbits have...

residual traces of a slimy substance...

known as hydrolytic enzymes.

Venom. Produced by reptiles.

How'd you know that?

Before Agent Doggett and his partner

went missing, they sent in samples to be analyzed.

Hydrolytic enzymes. Skinner told me.

I, uh, also found some bacteria in the venom

which I'm going to do a culture on.

Let somebody else do it.

There are other concerns right now.

I know, but this is an X-File, Mulder

and you are out of the Bureau, and now if I go home

where is Skinner going to fiind someone qualifiied to look into this?

I know where he could fiind somebody.

( clattering )

( raspy crunching )

( chittering sound)

( gate opens )

Agent Doggett?

I'm right here.

Are you all right?

It sprayed my eyes with something.

My vision's all blurry.

Makes two of us.

Three, actually.

HARRISON: I think it's Gary Sacks, the son of the murder victim.

How'd you get down here?

I think it dragged me down here. I'm not sure.

So what do we do now?

I don't know.

Mulder and Scully investigated a case once in Florida.

It involved subterranean men

who took people underground.

This is not a man.

I fell through some kind of trap.

I'm guessing somebody put that there

to provide live meals for this thing.

You're not saying that includes us?

I don't intend to wait around and fiind out.

These tunnels were built by bootleggers

back in Prohibition.

There's got to be one that leads back to the house.

Something up there, I think.

Some kind of light.

I can't tell how high up that is.

Mulder, you're not supposed to be out here.

I'm not out here.

What happened to the search?

Police in West Seneca found Doggett's car

parked at a convenience store about a half hour from here.

How'd it get there?

I don't know, but we're redirecting our search.

Where are you going?

I think I'll take a walk in the woods.

We've already had 40 people looking

around out there, Mulder.

What the hell?

I'm out of a job already, right?

I'm out of a job already, right?

( grunting )

( grunting )

( grunting )

( metallic clinking )

MAN: Thought all you people left.

You are?

Herman Stites. I own this property.

You're just the man I wanted to speak to, Mr. Stites.

Have you seen anything unusual around here?

Unusual? How?

Dangerous animals...

reptiles.

I'm confused.

I thought the police were looking for a man.

Arlen's son, Gary.

That is what they're looking for.

Agent Doggett?

I'm all right.

MULDER: I don't think Gary Sacks committed

this murder, Mr. Stites.

I think he may be a victim himself.

I didn't catch your name, Agent.

Kersh, Alvin Kersh.

I'm a scientist, Mr. Kersh.

What kind of a scientist are you?

A biologist

so I know something about animals.

They don't generally carry men off into the woods

like poor Mr. Sacks.

I don't think this was an animal.

I think it was a man

using some kind of reptile venom to blind them fiirst.

That would be quite a trick.

You'd really have to know what you were doing.

You'd have to be, say, a scientist.

Are you accusing me of something, Mr. Kersh?

No. I'm just thinking out loud, Mr. Stites.

( grunting )

I need a hand.

Agent Doggett, what happened?

I lost my grip

with a little help from the man upstairs.

( distant clang )

Hey!

Hey!

Hey!

I'm a federal agent!

I don't understand.

Why would he want to keep us down here?

You wanted to face the unknown, Agent Harrison.

Well, you're facing it now.

But who is he?

Some kind of scientist, I think.

I saw some books and papers on biology

in his library.

It could be some kind of symbiotic relationship

between this man and this creature.

Mulder and Scully--

Mulder and Scully

aren't here, Agent Harrison, we are.

And wild speculation isn't going to help us fiind a way out.

You think I'm pretty foolish, don't you?

I appreciate your enthusiasm, but you want to take leaps

that aren't supported by the facts.

What I want you to do is

stay with that guy right there

while I look for another way out.

If this thing comes near you...

I want you to shoot.

Agent Doggett.

He's gone.

What do you mean he's gone?

I don't know.

It must have taken him.

( phone ringing )

Mulder.

Mulder, what are you doing?

I'm spitting sunflower shells on Herman Stites's driveway.

What are you doing, Scully?

I just got off the phone with Skinner

who is furious.

This man Stites just called him saying that

you've been impersonating Deputy Director Kersh

and making baseless accusations.

What's he mad about

me impersonating Kersh or me harassing Stites?

Mulder, the victim had reptile venom in his eyes.

Are you now saying

that it was a man who did this?

What are you saying it is, Scully?

I know this may be hard to believe

coming from me

but some kind of reptile attack is

the only explanation consistent with the scientifiic evidence.

I don't think it's a monster that we're dealing with here.

I think it is a man.

And why do you say that?

You regifted.

I'm sorry?

My Apollo medallion.

You found it?

Yeah. I found it on the grass on Stites's estate.

Doggett must be around here somewhere.

( door opens )

Agent Scully?

I got to go.

What am I looking at?

As you asked

we cultured the bacteria from the hydrolytic enzymes

that were sprayed into the old man's eyes.

Looks like they're breaking down the tissue.

That's exactly what they're doing.

The venom blinds its victim, then the bacteria excretes

protease and collagenase throughout the victim's body.

Digestive enzymes.

Muscle, bone, all of it is slowly liquefiied

for easy digestion

while the victim's skin is made hard and brittle

forming a sack or shell

from which the reptile can drink.

So the reptile sprays its victim

and then all it has to do is wait.

There are precedents for this sort of thing in nature.

Yeah, but there are no species that can do all of this.

At least not yet.

What do you mean?

Talk about the blind leading the blind.

I owe you an apology, Agent Doggett.

You're doing fiine, Agent Harrison.

Hang tough.

You were right.

I'm not qualifiied.

We're going to fiind a way out of here, Agent Harrison.

I don't think I am.

Why, what is it?

Whatever happened to Sacks--

I think it's happening to me.

I'm completely blind now.

( moist, squishy noises )

( gunshots )

Oh, God, Agent Doggett!

I think it's Gary Sacks.

( ringing )

Mulder.

You were right about Herman Stites, Mulder.

What'd you fiind?

Stites is a crypto-biologist

specializing in reptile genetics.

Listen to this:

It says here that he published a monograph last year

claiming to be on the verge

of creating a new species of reptile.

You don't think he succeeded, do you?

I don't know.

He dropped out of sight and never published a follow-up.

But, Mulder, the bacteria inside this venom--

if Stites is genetically altering reptile breeds

it may explain the peculiar properties.

Mulder, are you listening to me?

Mulder?

Mulder?

I think Mr. Stites might have a lot more than that to explain.

Mulder? Mulder?

Mr. Stites!

Mr. Stites, open up!

Mr. Stites, open the door!

( pounding )

Mr. Stites!

Mr. Stites!

( pounding continues )

Mr. Stites!

( dialing )

What do you want?

Where is it, Mr. Stites?

This thing you're protecting--

this creature of yours?

I don't think you meant for it to

but it got out last night

and attacked the caretaker and his son

and then it attacked my colleagues.

Now, I can have 50 men in here

to comb this place within the hour.

Where are they, Mr. Stites?

( gasps )

It's all right.

It's just me.

Doesn't make any damn sense.

There's no exit except that door.

Maybe it does.

( pounding )

MULDER: Agent Doggett?

Right here!

It's all right, Agent Doggett.

We're going to get you out of here.

Who's that with you?

It's the man that lives here.

He's been protecting this thing.

He's kept us down here.

- Agent Doggett, I know-- - It's him.

He's not protecting it.

He is it.

Agent Mulder?

Agent Doggett, I don't have a weapon.

I'm coming to get yours.

No, I'm not.

Mulder, I can't see.

Mulder, where is it?

It's right above you.

It's coming this way.

Where, Mulder? I can't see!

Aim down.

Aim at the sound of my voice.

No, I'll shoot you!

You're not going to shoot me.

I can't see!

Aim at the sound of my voice.

Where is it?

Aim at me!

Fire when I tell you to fiire.

No!

Fire!

( gunfiire )

Agent Mulder?

Agent Mulder?

I'm right here.

I'm right here, Agent Doggett.

SCULLY: Agent Doggett?

Is this it?

- No. - No.

We just came by

to visit Agent Harrison.

How is she?

She's on the same antivenin treatment I got.

Her eyesight's pretty much back.

Doctors say she's going to be fiine, physically.

Skinner said she won't be returning to the X-Files.

That was her choice.

Just going to be me for a while.

I want to return something to you

that I think you deserve to keep.

I appreciate the gesture

but if it's all the same to you

there's someone else who should have it.

No way.

This means--

I can't tell you what this means to me.

Can I ask you something?

Sure.

When you went to Antarctica

to save Agent Scully from being taken by that spaceship

and you ran out of gas in your Snow-Cat--

how did you get back?

Um, well, fiirst of all

it was never actually proven that it was a spaceship.

It wasn't?

No, what happened was that

we fell off of something that rose out of the ice.

And what do you think that was?

Well, I don't know what it was

but we didn't actually see a spaceship.

I can't believe you're saying it's not a spaceship.

It could have been a spaceship.

Of course it was a spaceship.

We don't know that it--

But you don't have a picture of it or anything.

You know it was a spaceship. You saw it.

No, no, remember, I was unconscious.

And when I woke up

there was no spaceship.

Mulder, no, no, no.

And you were frozen.

And remember, I hugged you

until you were not frozen anymore--

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