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The X-Files (1993) Season 1 Episode 4 - Conduit


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00:30Oh, my God.
01:00Oh, my God.
01:10I can't.
01:16Kevin!
01:20Ah!
01:22Ah!
01:24Ah!
01:26Ah!
01:28Ah!
01:30Ah!
01:32Ruby's gone!
01:34Ruby?
01:36Ruby!
01:38Ruby!
01:40Ruby!
01:42Ruby!
01:44Ruby!
01:46Ruby!
01:48Ruby!
01:50Ruby!
01:52Ruby!
01:54Ruby!
01:56Ruby!
01:58Ruby!
02:00Ruby!
02:02Ruby!
02:04Ruby!
02:06Ruby!
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02:12Ruby!
02:14Ruby!
02:16Ruby!
02:18Ruby!
02:20Agent Mulder's latest 302.
02:50Requesting assignment and travel expenses for the both of you.
02:56Sioux City, Iowa.
02:58That's the first I've heard of it.
03:00It came up through channels, from Mulder's ASAC to the District G14 and onto my desk.
03:07I don't understand.
03:09In essence, Mulder is petitioning the Bureau to assign a case number to a tabloid headline.
03:17He must have more evidence than...
03:19Not according to his 302, he doesn't.
03:21I admit, that is strange.
03:24Even for Mulder.
03:25Perhaps it has something to do with this.
03:39Take a look.
03:41An X file?
03:42Has he shared any of this with you?
04:04There's no need to protect him.
04:06He's the agent of record.
04:07He initiated the file himself.
04:08She was his sister.
04:14She disappeared 21 years ago.
04:17He was 12 and she was 8.
04:20He claims that he was in the room when it happened.
04:24He recalls a bright light outside the window and a presence in the room.
04:31In your opinion, has Agent Mulder's personal agenda clouded his professional judgment?
04:40In my opinion, no.
04:42But you can't see how it might appear that way.
04:46As you know, Agent Mulder's preoccupation with fringe matters has been a big source of friction in the Bureau.
04:54Well, this is another case in point.
04:57I'm going to disallow the 302.
05:00With respect, sir, at least let me talk with him and make a recommendation.
05:05It just doesn't seem substantial enough to warrant an investigation.
05:14Okay, Scully, so we disagree.
05:16It's not the first time and it won't be the last.
05:18Well, at least if we had a legitimate source, we could...
05:21This is the essence of science.
05:23You ask an impertinent question and you're on your way to a pertinent answer.
05:27But what makes this case any more credible than the 100-year-old mother with the lizard baby?
05:33Because the lizard baby wasn't born anywhere near Lake Okoboji.
05:39Oko-what?
05:40Boji.
05:42Okoboji.
05:45Is that supposed to mean something to me?
05:48Do you know anything about trout fishing?
05:50Or UFO hotspots?
05:54Define hotspot.
05:56Four sightings in 1967, August, including one by a National Weather Service plane.
06:04This is a light-blasted, digitally-enhanced enlargement.
06:08The pilot took that photograph?
06:10Try a Girl Scout with an Instamatic.
06:12Four of the nine girls in the troop claim to have seen something.
06:15Five, if you include the den mother.
06:17The Air Force said it was a weather balloon caught in a windshear.
06:21But there wasn't a weather balloon launched that day within 700 miles.
06:25Now, read me the names of those Girl Scouts from 1967.
06:34Lisa Terrell, Bonnie Winston, Doreen McAllister, Darlene Moore.
06:38It's the same, Darlene Morris.
06:43It's the same, Darlene Morris.
06:43The Air Force?
06:49Yeah.
06:49Go into it.
06:57Go into it.
06:59Go into it.
07:02Come into it.
07:03Come into it.
07:04Miss Arlene Morris, I'm Major Scully, and this is Agent Fox Mole.
07:24Did we talk with you on the phone last night?
07:27Please, come in.
07:28Well, I knew that if I screamed loud and long enough that someone would listen, but I never
07:39expected the FBI.
07:43This is Kevin.
07:44Kevin, say hi.
07:50Would you like some coffee?
07:58Come, come, come.
08:28Some days I can't even get myself up out of bed, and Kevin has been acting so strange.
08:42I don't know what to do anymore.
08:44I just want her back again.
08:48Miss Morris, during the divorce, was there a custody battle?
08:54Charles had nothing to do with this.
08:56How can you be so sure?
08:58Because I know what happened.
09:02It's just like it was before.
09:04Summer of 1967, the Girl Scout troop?
09:07How did you know about that?
09:09Your name's on record at the Center for UFO Studies in Evanston, Illinois.
09:14Really?
09:16Yeah, a pilot for the National Weather Service made a similar sighting over the same area on
09:20the same day.
09:20They took her, didn't they, Mr. Mulder?
09:30You said that, um, Kevin was there the night it happened?
09:34He didn't see anything.
09:36He was asleep.
09:37Do you think I might talk to him anyway?
09:41Thanks.
09:41You know, I've told a story so many times now.
09:56I go to the newspapers and the police.
09:59And every time I tell it, people get this look in their eye.
10:06I'd just like the look that you've got right now.
10:15Hey, buddy.
10:18Mind if I sit down?
10:19Thanks.
10:25Your mom tells me you've been having nightmares.
10:28I guess so.
10:30You want to tell me about them?
10:31No.
10:33All right.
10:39What are you doing?
10:44You making something?
10:45You can't take a look at it.
10:54Thanks.
11:01It's coming from there.
11:06The TV?
11:15I don't know what it is.
11:19Maybe a binary sequence of some kind.
11:22Could be anything.
11:23Could be nothing.
11:25I know you're busy.
11:26Look, um, I know a friend who knows a friend who knows a friend
11:29who can get you a ticket to a Redskins game.
11:32You got it.
11:33All right.
11:34You know where to find me?
11:36Thanks, Danny.
11:36So, as I was telling your partner, we found no evidence of kidnap.
11:42No phone call.
11:44No ransom note.
11:45Since we didn't turn up a body.
11:47You assume she ran away.
11:49Well, it wouldn't be the first time Ruby Morris ran away from home.
11:53Well, how do you explain what her mother saw?
11:57Well, I think that Darlene has a very active imagination.
12:01I've been listening to those stories since the first grade.
12:03So, basically, you ignored her statement.
12:09I included it in my report.
12:11But you didn't bother to check it out.
12:13We went out to the campsite.
12:15We didn't find anything.
12:16Let me tell you something.
12:18Darlene's little girl was no prom queen.
12:21I can't count the number of times I pulled her out of parked cars
12:24or found her puking her guts out by the side of the road.
12:27It was just a matter of time before...
12:29Before what?
12:33Before something bad happened to her.
12:35And if Darlene needs to make up crazy stories to get past that, fine.
12:38But don't tell me to treat it as the truth.
12:40I'm not going to waste my time.
12:45I just think it's a good idea not to antagonize local law enforcement.
12:49Who, me?
12:49I'm Mr. Congeniality.
12:51You never know.
12:52We might need his help one of these days.
12:54I'll send him a bun cake.
12:55I'll send him a bun cake.
13:25You're looking for Ruby, right?
13:36That's right.
13:38Who are you?
13:40Doesn't matter.
13:42Are you a friend of Ruby's?
13:45Ruby didn't have friends.
13:47She just had people she liked to hang with.
13:49And she liked to hang out with you?
13:54Guess we had some times.
13:55Like the night she disappeared?
13:58It was Greg.
13:59She was supposed to see him that night.
14:01Who's Greg?
14:03Her boyfriend, Greg Randall.
14:06Supposed to meet up at the lake.
14:09We had stuff to talk about.
14:10What kind of stuff?
14:11Greg got Ruby pregnant.
14:15I don't know.
14:16Whatever.
14:16She got herself pregnant.
14:19Do you know what they were planning to do about it?
14:23We're going to leave town.
14:25At least that's what Ruby told me.
14:26You know Greg from school?
14:31Greg?
14:32School?
14:34I don't think so.
14:36All he ever did since we met him was pour beer.
14:39The Pennsylvania pub.
14:41We're going to leave town.
15:11We're going to leave town.
15:21Excuse me.
15:25You know where we can find Greg Randall?
15:27Who's asking?
15:32What kind of troubles he got himself into now?
15:37Actually, we were hoping you could tell us.
15:39Greg called in sick about three weeks ago, man.
15:42I haven't seen or heard from him since.
15:44Any ideas where he might have gone?
15:47No, but if you find him, you tell him he's fired.
15:50This is the hotel we'll be staying at if you hear of anything.
16:01Hey, that's a nice tattoo.
16:03What is that?
16:05What's it look like?
16:07Flying saucer.
16:09You don't really believe in that stuff, do you?
16:11I take it you don't?
16:13No, I think it's all just a bunch of crazy people howling at the moon.
16:19So, uh, you haven't been out to Lake Okoboji, have you?
16:22No, I haven't. Why?
16:25We should ride with you sometime.
16:26You might see something that'll change your mind.
16:34Get a killer sunburn in the middle of the night.
16:39Get a killer, man.
16:40You're gonna have to.
16:47Keep it together, man.
16:51Get a killer sunburn in the middle of the night.
16:53I'm so scared.
16:54Yeah?
16:55I'm so scared.
16:55I'm so scared.
16:56I'm so scared.
16:56I'm so scared.
16:57I won't be a man.
16:58I'm so scared.
16:59Yeah, Tim.
17:07Same thing downstairs.
17:08Alright.
17:29Where's Mulder?
17:38Where did you get the document?
17:40Well, if you explain to me what you're talking about, maybe I can help you out.
17:52This is a document?
17:54Just looks like a bunch of ones and zeros to me.
17:59Tell me where you got it.
18:01Tell me what it is.
18:03Keep playing games, Mulder. I'll haul your ass up in front of the D6.
18:06You can explain to them what you're doing obstructing justice.
18:09That's your call, Holtzman.
18:11Unless they tell me otherwise, I'm not accountable to anybody outside my subcommittee.
18:16I don't care if it's the NSA or the Vatican police.
18:22It's a defense satellite transmission.
18:25You're kidding.
18:26Just a fragment, but highly classified.
18:29We need to know where it came from.
18:31Well, sure. I'll let you know as soon as I find out.
18:35That's it, Mulder. You just bought yourself a one-way back to Washington.
18:41We got it.
18:48Great.
18:49Great.
18:54What?
18:55You shouldn't have told them.
18:56They have no jurisdiction.
18:58Mulder, they're NSA.
19:00They think the boy may be a threat to national security.
19:03Come on.
19:04How can an eight-year-old boy who can barely multiply be a threat to national security?
19:08People call me paranoid.
19:10Well, how did Kevin obtain top-secret information?
19:14I mean, where do you think he got it from?
19:17Well, what, for my life literally is losing to the distance.
19:19So I'll see you there as it will.
19:20Well, I wanted to know when the guard was in the middle of the scene.
19:21All right, wanna be careful?
19:22Why did you think that first number is coming?
19:23What?
19:24The officer said you did not clear on the other Does he anyway too?
19:25A lot of people are undenetzted him.
19:26Let's go.
19:56It'll be okay, baby. Don't worry. It'll be okay.
20:02Come on with me, son.
20:04Get in the car, please, ma'am.
20:07It'll be all right, baby.
20:10Watch your head, please.
20:26You guys do really delicate work.
20:42Let's get this to cryptography.
20:46Think we got what we needed? Thank you.
20:56What is it?
21:04I'm not sure.
21:26We scanned all 77 pages through the mainframe in Washington.
21:41And none of the information is actionable?
21:43Other than the satellite transmission, nothing can be construed in any way as a national security risk.
21:48As far as I know, the boy's being released this afternoon.
21:51So it was just a random set of ones and zeros?
21:53On the contrary, there was nothing random about it.
21:55I don't understand.
21:57All information can be rendered digitally in a series of ones and zeros.
22:02When we downloaded the data, we found an amazing range of...
22:05Well, see for yourself.
22:07Da Vinci's Universal Man.
22:13A DNA double helix.
22:17There's lots more.
22:23That's from the Brandenburg Concertos.
22:25But they're just fragments.
22:27A few notes here, a few notes there.
22:29Some lines from the Koran, a Shakespearean sonnet.
22:31Almost like someone's switching channels, huh?
22:33Mrs. Morris.
22:35I have nothing to say to you.
22:37Mrs. Morris, please give me a minute to explain.
22:44Would you please just wait right over there for Mama?
22:46I'll be right there.
22:47I thought you were both supposed to be here to help us.
23:02I thought you were both supposed to be here to help us.
23:07This has been a terrible mistake.
23:09And I assure you that the government will pay for all repairs and damages.
23:13I don't want your money.
23:14I want my daughter back.
23:15And I want you to leave us alone.
23:18But your son has seen something.
23:21You stay away from me.
23:22And you stay away from my child.
23:24Come on, honey.
23:34It's okay.
23:35Let's go now.
23:35I thought we were headed back into town.
23:59Where are we going?
24:00The boy is the key, Scully.
24:03I know it.
24:04The key to what?
24:05Finding Ruby.
24:08Just think about it for a minute.
24:09This is a boy who is receiving all kinds of digitized data from a television screen.
24:14Agent Atsumi said it was a statistical aberration.
24:20No.
24:21Okay, I admit it's not much of an explanation, but I...
24:23I think that Kevin is a conduit of some kind.
24:26A conduit?
24:27A link or a connection to whoever or whatever took Ruby that night.
24:35But how?
24:37If there was an abduction, it's likely that Kevin was touched in some way.
24:41Mulder, I know what you're thinking.
24:46I know why this is so important to you.
24:55I know.
24:56But there is no evidence indicating an abduction.
25:02That's why we're going to Lake Okoboji.
25:05Unlike the police, he's just talking about her.
25:07I know.
25:10Oh, I know.
25:11I know.
25:12But I couldn't imagine baby.
25:13I don't see me that the other person being around me.
25:16But Iagina?
25:17I don't see my hair.
25:18I don't see me.
25:18I don't see me.
25:19I don't know what you're talking about.
25:20Meaning what?
25:22Meaning anybody could have come out of the forest to grab her.
25:29Have you noticed the tree line?
25:33Evidence of extreme heat.
25:36Or an electrical storm.
25:39Besides which, there's nothing to connect it to the night of Ruby's disappearance.
25:44That's true.
25:50Do you think a lightning strike could have caused this?
25:54Do you have any idea at what temperature sand solidifies into glass?
25:592500 degrees Fahrenheit.
26:02Something was out here, Scully.
26:04Something hot enough to turn sand into glass,
26:06to singe those trees and the blister of the roof of that camper.
26:20Thatہ!
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26:3955
26:40What is it?
27:08It's a grave, shallow by the smell of it.
27:19Mulder, what are you doing?
27:23Mulder, you are disturbing a crime scene.
27:29Stop!
27:32What if it's her?
27:35I need to know.
27:50Hi.
27:53You okay, Mulder?
27:59Fine.
28:00Looks like a male Caucasian.
28:06Sir?
28:20Victim's name was Greg Randall.
28:25Ruby's boyfriend.
28:26Ruby had a lot of boyfriends.
28:28Before you put that away, can I take a look at it?
28:30Go right ahead.
28:35Here we go.
28:38I've got three of them.
28:41All right.
28:42And I'm here.
28:44We've got a lot of books.
28:46I've got a lot of books.
28:48I've got some books, you go over here.
28:50I've got some books in the books, and I can't cancel this.
28:53They'll all expect that...
28:57Look at that.
29:10It's her.
29:12The girl from the library.
29:13Who?
29:14We didn't get her name, but she claimed Greg and Ruby had run off together.
29:18Well, Doc Fowler's a buddy of mine.
29:21Delivered both my kids.
29:23I can find out who had that appointment.
29:27Have a seat, Tessa.
29:44We know that you lied to us the other day.
29:59We know that you had the appointment with Dr. Fowler on August 7th.
30:04We know that you're the one that's pregnant, not Ruby.
30:07And you don't know nothing, do you?
30:08We can prove it, Tessa.
30:11And we can prove that Greg was the father.
30:14So what if he was the father?
30:16This is very serious.
30:19Do you understand how serious this is?
30:23Now, you've waived the right to an attorney.
30:26So if you lie to us here today,
30:29you could be charged with perjury.
30:33He promised me we'd be in L.A. by Christmas.
30:43He had a friend there.
30:45And I'd never seen the ocean.
30:48You said that he and Ruby were seeing each other.
30:51You said that they were planning to meet at the lake.
30:53Is that true?
30:54Look, I was nowhere near the lake that night, okay?
30:59Sure you were, Tessa.
31:00Tessa, you knew they were meeting.
31:05So you sat there and you waited for them.
31:07You were angry and you were jealous.
31:09I wasn't.
31:10You sat there and you waited.
31:12And when they showed, you killed him first.
31:14Isn't that how it went?
31:14No.
31:15You snuck up from behind him and you shot him in the back.
31:18Bam!
31:22And then you killed Ruby.
31:24Bam!
31:25Bam!
31:25What was she doing right before she died, Tessa?
31:31Was she pleading for her life?
31:33Was she running away?
31:34I didn't kill her.
31:35Where's she buried, Tessa?
31:37I don't know.
31:38You don't know where you buried her, Tessa?
31:40I didn't kill her!
31:41You didn't!
31:42She wasn't even there that night!
31:48Well, how would you know that, Tessa?
31:51If you weren't there yourself.
31:52Moldy, you're not seeing the whole picture here.
32:02Which is?
32:03Which is that in all likelihood, Ruby is dead.
32:06Is that your conclusion or the conclusion of the Sioux City Sheriff's Department?
32:10They're searching the National Park and the rescue dive team is coming in from Des Moines to drag the lake.
32:15They're wasting their time.
32:17Do you really think Tessa Sears is telling the truth?
32:20Why not?
32:21What if Ruby never did show up that night?
32:24She lied to us in the library.
32:25She lied to us about her pregnancy.
32:27What makes you think she wouldn't lie to us about killing Ruby?
32:30Because something was out there in those woods.
32:35We have a suspect in custody.
32:37We have a confession to one mother.
32:39And we have a statement which speaks to the intent to commit another.
32:42It's over, Molder.
32:44It's time to go home and turn this over to local law enforcement.
32:48I can't do that.
32:52Molder, where are you going?
32:54To talk to the boy.
32:55Darlene won't even let you in the door.
32:57Well, I've got to see him.
32:58They don't want to have anything to do with us.
33:01Molder, stop.
33:02Stop running after your sister.
33:04This won't bring her back.
33:12Come with me or don't come with me.
33:14But until they find a body, I'm not giving up on that girl.
33:31Hello?
33:32Hello?
33:34Mrs. Morris?
33:38Kevin?
34:04What does it mean?
34:24I don't know.
34:29I'm going to check upstairs.
34:30I'm going to check upstairs.
34:34Oh, my God.
34:44What is it?
34:46Just come up here.
34:55Look.
34:59It's her.
35:01It's Ruby.
35:02Ruby.
35:02This is a long shot, Molder.
35:20They could be anywhere.
35:24You know, when I was a kid, I had this ritual.
35:28I'd close my eyes before I walked into my room.
35:35Because I thought that one day when I opened them, my sister would be there.
35:39Just lying in bed.
35:41Like nothing ever happened.
35:46You know, I'm still walking into that room.
35:50Every day of my life.
35:51You know.
36:00Scully.
36:01You know.
36:01You know.
36:03That's me.
36:08You know.
36:08For a while.
36:09Good.
36:09And a little sport.
36:10You know.
36:11You should over.
36:12For a while.
36:13I must hold my hands.
36:15In her feet.
36:15Look, there's the trailhead.
36:25Oh!
36:38Are you okay?
36:39It's here.
36:40I saw it too bad.
36:41Where's Kevin?
36:42I couldn't keep up with him.
36:43Go ahead.
36:45Kevin!
36:59Kevin!
36:59Kevin!
37:29Are you okay?
37:48She's back.
37:51Kevin, I'm sorry, but I don't...
37:53She's here.
37:54I know it.
37:56Kevin, I don't think she is.
37:58I know how much you wanted it to be her.
38:00I do too.
38:07Ruby!
38:13Ruby!
38:14She's unconscious, but she's still alive.
38:16I'll get help.
38:27Nurse says she's been awake for almost an hour.
38:29Any ideas what caused the coma?
38:32There's no sign of head trauma, no narcotic traces or electrolyte abnormalities.
38:37But her white blood cell count was sky high.
38:39By any chance, was there an attendant reduction in the lymphocyte population or release of glucocorticoids?
38:47Um...
38:47Actually, both.
38:50How did you know that?
38:51They're symptoms of prolonged weightlessness.
38:54Shuttle astronauts have reported similar imbalances.
38:56Hi.
39:16Hi.
39:21Hi, Ruby.
39:21Who are you?
39:27We're with the FBI.
39:29I'm Special Agent Dana Scully, and this is Fox Mulder.
39:35Well, my mom said you might be coming by.
39:38How are you feeling?
39:41Fine, I guess.
39:44Where were you, Ruby?
39:45Can you tell us?
39:49It's okay, Ruby.
39:51He knows.
39:55I'm not supposed to tell.
39:58They told me not to say.
40:00Who told you?
40:05Ruby, who told you?
40:08Sweetheart, you don't have to say anything.
40:13You're right.
40:15We should wait till Ruby gets a little stronger.
40:18Can we speak outside for a moment?
40:21I think that it's best that we put all of this behind us.
40:36I mean, hasn't Ruby been through enough already?
40:38I know how disoriented she must seem right now, but in a couple weeks, maybe even a few days, we could...
40:44I don't want her talking to you, or anyone.
40:47She should be encouraged to tell her story, not to keep it inside.
40:51It's important that you let her.
40:53Important to who?
40:54Oh, I have my daughter back.
40:57I don't want any more trouble.
40:59Besides, she can hardly remember anything.
41:01She will remember one day, one way or another, even if it's only in dreams.
41:05And when she does, she's going to want to talk about it.
41:07She's going to need to talk about it.
41:09Like I did.
41:13Listen to me.
41:14All of my life, I have been ridiculed for speaking my mind.
41:18But it was the truth, Darlene.
41:20The truth has caused me nothing but heartache.
41:23I don't want the same thing for her.
41:25It doesn't have to be that way for Ruby.
41:29As far as I'm concerned, she spent the last month on the back of a Harley Davidson.
41:33Is that what you're going to tell Kevin?
41:39I'm sorry.
42:03But your eyes are open.
42:14Yeah, they're open.
42:16It's like nothing's happening.
42:18Try turning your head.
42:20I can't.
42:22Why not?
42:24I don't know.
42:26I can't move.
42:29So I don't.
42:30I just lie there in bed.
42:35Can you see your sister?
42:37No.
42:40But I can hear her.
42:42What is she saying?
42:44She's calling out my name over and over again.
42:50She's crying out for help.
42:53But I can't help her.
42:55I can't move.
42:58Are you scared?
42:59I know I should be, but I'm not.
43:03Do you know why?
43:06Because of the voice.
43:08The voice?
43:09The voice in my head.
43:10What's it telling you?
43:12Not to be afraid.
43:15It's telling me that no harm will come to her.
43:19And that one day she'll return.
43:22Do you believe the voice?
43:26I want to believe.
43:27I made this.
43:39I made this.
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