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


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00:00This is my first video, I'm going to show you the most important part of this video.
00:06I am going to show you how to make a copy of this video.
00:12I am going to show you how to make a copy of this video.
00:18Oh, my God.
00:48Oh, my God.
01:02Oh, my God.
01:08I can't.
01:10Kevin!
01:12Ah!
01:16Ah!
01:18Ah!
01:20Ah!
01:22Ah!
01:24Ah!
01:26Ruby's gone!
01:30Ruby?
01:32Ruby?
01:34Ruby!
01:36Ruby!
01:38Ruby!
01:40Ruby!
01:42Ruby!
01:44Ruby!
01:46Ruby!
01:48Ruby!
01:50Ruby?
01:52Ruby?
01:54Ruby!
01:56Ruby!
03:00I don't understand.
03:04In essence, Mulder is petitioning the Bureau to assign a case number to a tabloid headline.
03:12He must have more evidence than...
03:14Not according to his 302, he doesn't.
03:16I admit that is strange.
03:19Even for Mulder.
03:20Perhaps it has something to do with this.
03:34Take a look.
03:36An X file?
03:55Has he shared any of this with you?
03:57There's no need to protect him.
04:01He's the agent of record.
04:02He initiated the file himself.
04:06She was his sister.
04:09She disappeared 21 years ago.
04:12He was 12 and she was 8.
04:15He claims that he was in the room when it happened.
04:19He recalls a bright light outside the window and a presence in the room.
04:27In your opinion, has Agent Mulder's personal agenda clouded his professional judgment?
04:34In my opinion, no.
04:37But you can't see how it might appear that way.
04:41As you know, Agent Mulder's preoccupation with fringe matters has been a big source of friction in the Bureau.
04:49This is another case in point.
04:52I'm going to disallow the 302.
04:55With respect, sir, at least let me talk with him.
04:59And make a recommendation.
05:03It just doesn't seem substantial enough to warrant an investigation.
05:09Okay, Scully, so we disagree.
05:11It's not the first time and it won't be the last.
05:13Well, at least if we had a legitimate source, we could...
05:16This is the essence of science.
05:18You ask an impertinent question and you're on your way to a pertinent answer.
05:22What makes this case any more credible than the 100-year-old mother with the lizard baby?
05:29Because the lizard baby wasn't born anywhere near Lake Okoboji.
05:34Oko-what?
05:35Boji.
05:38Okoboji.
05:40Is that supposed to mean something to me?
05:43Do you know anything about trout fishing?
05:45Or UFO hotspots?
05:48Define hotspot.
05:51Four sightings in 1967, August.
05:55Including one by a National Weather Service plane.
05:59This is a light-blasted, digitally enhanced enlargement.
06:03The pilot took that photograph?
06:05Try a Girl Scout with an Instamatic.
06:07Four of the nine girls in the troop claim to have seen something.
06:10Five, if you include the den mother.
06:11The Air Force said it was a weather balloon caught in a windshear.
06:16But there wasn't a weather balloon launched that day within 700 miles.
06:20Now read me the names of those Girl Scouts from 1967.
06:29Lisa Terrell, Bonnie Winston, Doreen McAllister, Darlene Moore.
06:33The Air Force adult.
06:36It's the same, Darlene Morris.
06:41Yep, yep, yep.
06:42Oh, my God.
07:12Miss Darlene Morris, I'm Major Scully, and this is Agent Fox Mulder.
07:19We talked with you on the phone last night.
07:22Please, come in.
07:27Well, I knew that if I screamed loud and long enough that someone would listen,
07:33but I never expected the FBI...
07:38This is Kevin. Kevin, say hi.
07:42Would you like some coffee?
07:46Mm-hmm.
07:48Come on.
07:56Come on.
07:57Come on.
08:00Oh, my God.
08:30and Kevin has been acting so strange.
08:36I don't know what to do anymore.
08:39I just want her back again.
08:42Miss Morris, during the divorce, was there a custody battle?
08:48Charles had nothing to do with this.
08:51How can you be so sure?
08:53Because I know what happened.
08:57It's just like it was before.
08:59Summer of 1967, the Girl Scout troop.
09:02How did you know about that?
09:04Your name's on record at the Center for UFO Studies in Evanston, Illinois.
09:09Really?
09:10Yeah, a pilot for the National Weather Service
09:12made a similar sighting over the same area on the same day.
09:16They took her, didn't they, Mr. Mulder?
09:18You said that, um, Kevin was there the night it happened?
09:29He didn't see anything. He was asleep.
09:32Do you think I might talk to him anyway?
09:35Mm-hmm. Thanks.
09:46You know, I've told this story so many times now.
09:51I go to the newspapers and the police.
09:54And every time I tell it, people get this look in their eye.
10:03Just like the look that you've got right now.
10:10Hey, buddy.
10:12Mind if I sit down?
10:14Thanks.
10:20Your mom tells me you've been having nightmares.
10:22I guess so.
10:24You wanna tell me about them?
10:26No.
10:27It's all right.
10:34What are you doing?
10:39You making something?
10:43Can I take a look at it?
10:49Thanks.
10:50It's coming from there.
11:01The TV?
11:13I don't know what it is.
11:14Maybe a binary sequence of some kind.
11:17Could be anything.
11:18Could be nothing.
11:20I know you're busy.
11:21Look, um...
11:22I know a friend who knows a friend who knows a friend
11:24who can get you a ticket to a Redskins game.
11:27You got it.
11:28All right.
11:29You know where to find me?
11:31Thanks, Danny.
11:33So...
11:34As I was telling your partner,
11:35we found no evidence of kidnap.
11:38No phone call.
11:39No ransom note.
11:40Since we didn't turn up a body...
11:42You assume she ran away.
11:45Well, it wouldn't be the first time Ruby Morris ran away from home.
11:48Well, how do you explain what her mother saw?
11:51Well, I think that Darlene has a very active imagination.
11:55I've been listening to those stories since the first grade.
11:58So, basically, you ignored her statement?
12:01They included it in my report.
12:06But you didn't bother to check it out.
12:08We went out to the campsite.
12:10We didn't find anything.
12:11Let me tell you something.
12:12Darlene's little girl was no prom queen.
12:15I can't count the number of times I pulled her out of parked cars...
12:19or found her puking her guts out by the side of the road.
12:22It was just a matter of time before...
12:24Before what?
12:28Before something bad happened to her.
12:30And if Darlene needs to make up crazy stories to get past that, fine.
12:33But don't tell me to treat it as the truth.
12:35I'm not gonna waste my time.
12:36I just think it's a good idea not to antagonize local law enforcement.
12:43Who, me?
12:44I'm Mr. Congeniality.
12:45You never know.
12:46We might need his help one of these days.
12:48I'll send him a bun cake.
13:06You're looking for Ruby, right?
13:31That's right.
13:33Who are you?
13:34It doesn't matter.
13:37Are you a friend of Ruby's?
13:39Ruby didn't have friends.
13:41She just had people she liked to hang with.
13:44And she liked to hang out with you?
13:47I guess we had some times.
13:50Like the night she disappeared?
13:52It was Greg.
13:54She was supposed to see him that night.
13:56Who's Greg?
13:57Her boyfriend, Greg Randall.
13:59Supposed to meet up at the lake.
14:02We had stuff to talk about.
14:05What kind of stuff?
14:07Greg got Ruby pregnant.
14:09I don't know.
14:10Whatever.
14:11She got herself pregnant.
14:12Do you know what they were planning to do about it?
14:15We're gonna leave town.
14:16At least that's what Ruby told me.
14:17You know Greg from school?
14:18Greg?
14:19School?
14:20I don't think so.
14:21All he ever did since we met him was pour beer.
14:28The Pennsylvania pub.
14:30All he ever did since we met him was pour beer.
14:33The Pennsylvania pub.
14:35The Pennsylvania pub.
14:36The Pennsylvania pub.
14:37.
14:40.
14:41não
14:42.
15:16Excuse me.
15:20Do you know where we can find Greg Brandl?
15:22Who's asking?
15:29What kind of troubles he got himself into now?
15:32Actually, we were hoping you could tell us.
15:35Greg called in sick about three weeks ago, man.
15:37I haven't seen or heard from him since.
15:39Any ideas where he might have gone?
15:42No, but if you find him, you tell him he's fired.
15:45This is the hotel we'll be staying at, if you hear of anything.
15:56Hey, that's a nice tattoo.
15:58What is that?
16:00What's it look like?
16:02Flying saucer.
16:04You don't really believe in that stuff, do you?
16:07I take it you don't?
16:09No, I think it's all just a bunch of crazy people howling at the moon.
16:14So, you haven't been out to Lake Okoboji, have you?
16:16No, I haven't.
16:18Why?
16:20We should ride with you sometime.
16:22You might see something that will change your mind.
16:29Get a killer sunburn in the middle of the night.
16:31Yeah.
16:56All right.
17:26Where's Mulder?
17:35Where did you get the document?
17:37Well, if you explain to me what you're talking about, maybe I can help you out.
17:48This is a document?
17:51Just looks like a bunch of ones and zeros to me.
17:54Tell me where you got it.
17:56Tell me what it is.
17:58Keep playing games, Mulder. I'll haul your ass up in front of the D6.
18:02You can explain to them what you're doing obstructing justice.
18:05It's your call, Holtzman.
18:07Unless they tell me otherwise, I'm not accountable to anybody outside my subcommittee.
18:12I don't care if it's the NSA or the Vatican police.
18:17It's a defense satellite transmission.
18:20You're kidding.
18:22Just a fragment, but highly classified.
18:24We need to know where it came from.
18:27Well, sure. I'll let you know as soon as I find out.
18:30That's it, Mulder. You just bought yourself a one-way back to Washington.
18:36We got it.
18:44Great.
18:44What?
18:50You shouldn't have told them.
18:52They have no jurisdiction.
18:54Mulder, they're NSA.
18:55They think the boy may be a threat to national security.
18:58Come on.
18:59How can an eight-year-old boy who can barely multiply be a threat to national security?
19:04People call me paranoid.
19:06Well, how did Kevin obtain top-secret information?
19:10I mean, where do you think he got it from?
19:12They think he got it from, what?
19:13I think he got it.
19:15Well, that's it.
19:39It's okay, baby. Don't worry. It'll be okay.
19:57Come on with me, son.
20:01Get in the car, please, ma'am.
20:02It'll be all right, baby.
20:05Watch your head, please.
20:09You guys did really delicate work.
20:37Let's get this to cryptography.
20:39Let's go.
20:41Think we got what we needed? Thank you.
20:58What is it?
21:00I'm not sure.
21:00I'm not sure.
21:10I'm not sure.
21:14We scanned all 77 pages for the mainframe in Washington.
21:36And none of the information is actionable?
21:38Other than the satellite transmission, nothing can be construed in any way as a national security risk.
21:43As far as I know, the boy's being released this afternoon.
21:46So it was just a random set of ones and zeros?
21:49On the contrary, there was nothing random about it.
21:51I don't understand.
21:53All information can be rendered digitally in a series of ones and zeros.
21:57When we downloaded the data, we found an amazing range of...
22:00Well, see for yourself.
22:02Da Vinci's a universal man.
22:08A DNA double helix.
22:10Oh, there's lots more.
22:19That's from the Brandenburg concertos.
22:21But they're just fragments.
22:22A few notes here, a few notes there.
22:24Some lines from the Koran, a Shakespearean sonnet.
22:26Almost like someone's switching channels, huh?
22:28Mrs. Morris.
22:44I have nothing to say to you.
22:45Mrs. Morris, please give me a minute to explain.
22:52Would you please just wait right over there for Mama?
22:55I'll be right there.
22:55I thought you were both supposed to be here to help us.
23:02This has been a terrible mistake.
23:04And I assure you that the government will pay for all repairs and damages.
23:08I don't want your money.
23:09I want my daughter back.
23:11And I want you to leave us alone.
23:13But your son has seen something.
23:16You stay away from me.
23:17And you stay away from my child.
23:19Come on, honey.
23:29It's okay.
23:30Let's go now.
23:30I thought we were headed back into town.
23:51Where are we going?
23:56The boy is the key, Scully.
23:58I know it.
23:59The key to what?
24:00Finding Ruby.
24:03Just think about it for a minute.
24:04This is a boy who is receiving all kinds of digitized data from a television screen.
24:09Agent Hatsumi said it was a statistical aberration.
24:12Okay, I admit it's not much of an explanation.
24:18I think that Kevin is a conduit of some kind.
24:21A conduit?
24:23A link or a connection to whoever or whatever took Ruby that night.
24:30But how?
24:31If there was an abduction, it's likely that Kevin was touched in some way.
24:39Mulder, I know what you're thinking.
24:45I know why this is so important to you.
24:50I know.
24:53But there is no evidence indicating an abduction.
24:58That's why we're going to Lake Okoboji.
25:01That's why we're going to take a look at it.
25:02That's why we're going to take a look at it.
25:07According to the police photos, Ruby and Kevin were sleeping right here.
25:12Just a stone strobe from the forest wall.
25:15Meaning what?
25:17Meaning anybody could have come out of the forest to grab her.
25:24Have you noticed the tree line?
25:28Evidence of extreme heat.
25:31Or an electrical storm.
25:34Besides which, there's nothing to connect it to the night of Ruby's disappearance.
25:39That's true.
25:46Do you think a lightning strike could have caused this?
25:48Do you have any idea at what temperature sand solidifies into glass?
25:552,500 degrees Fahrenheit.
25:58Something was out here, Scully.
25:59Something hot enough to turn sand into glass,
26:02to singe those trees and to blister the roof of that camper.
26:05I'm going to see you.
26:06Mom?
26:15Mom?
26:17Mom?
26:17Hold her.
26:19I'll come over.
26:24Mom?
26:27Mom?
26:28Mom?
26:28Mom?
26:29Mom?
26:30Mom?
26:30Mom?
26:31Mom?
26:32Mom?
26:32Mom?
26:32Mom?
26:33Mom?
26:34What is it?
27:04It's a grave, shallow by the smell of it.
27:15Mulder, what are you doing?
27:19Mulder, you are disturbing a crime scene.
27:24Stop!
27:28What if it's her?
27:31I need to know.
27:42Hi.
27:53You okay, Mulder?
27:55Fine.
27:59Looks like a male Caucasian.
28:06Sir?
28:10The victim's name was Greg Randall.
28:20Ruby's boyfriend.
28:21Ruby had a lot of boyfriends.
28:23Before you put that away, can I take a look at it?
28:25Go right ahead.
28:37Make sure you bag that right there.
28:41Take your hat.
28:44Take your hand.
29:03Look at that.
29:05It's her.
29:07The girl from the library.
29:08Who?
29:09We didn't get her name, but she claimed Greg and Ruby had run off together.
29:14Well, Doc Fowler's a buddy of mine.
29:16Delivered both my kids.
29:18I can find out who had that appointment.
29:38Have a seat, Tessa.
29:44We can prove it, Tessa.
30:05And we can prove that Greg was the father.
30:09So what if he was the father?
30:12This is very serious.
30:14Do you understand how serious this is?
30:18Now, you've waived the right to an attorney.
30:21So if you lie to us here today,
30:24you could be charged with perjury.
30:28He promised me he would be in L.A. by Christmas.
30:38He had a friend there.
30:40And I'd never seen the ocean.
30:43You said that he and Ruby were seeing each other.
30:46You said that they were planning to meet at the lake.
30:48Is that true?
30:49Look it.
30:51I was nowhere near the lake that night.
30:53Okay?
30:54Sure you were, Tessa.
30:55You knew they were meeting.
31:00So you sat there and you waited for them.
31:02You were angry and you were jealous.
31:04I wasn't.
31:05You sat there and you waited.
31:07And when they showed, you killed him first.
31:09Isn't that how it went?
31:10No.
31:10You snuck up from behind him and you shot him in the back.
31:13Man!
31:17And then you killed Ruby.
31:19Man!
31:20What was she doing right before she died, Tessa?
31:26Was she pleading for her life?
31:28Was she running away?
31:29I didn't kill her.
31:30Where's she buried, Tessa?
31:32I don't know.
31:33You don't know where you buried her, Tessa?
31:35I didn't kill her!
31:36You didn't!
31:37She wasn't even there that night!
31:43Well, how would you know that, Tessa?
31:46If you weren't there yourself.
31:47Mulder, you're not seeing the whole picture here.
31:57Which is?
31:58Which is that in all likelihood, Ruby is dead.
32:01Is that your conclusion or the conclusion of the Sioux City Sheriff's Department?
32:05They're searching the National Park and the rescue dive team is coming in from Des Moines to drag the lake.
32:10They're wasting their time.
32:12Do you really think Tessa Sears is telling the truth?
32:15Why not?
32:16What if Ruby never did show up that night?
32:19She lied to us in the library.
32:20She lied to us about her pregnancy.
32:22What makes you think she wouldn't lie to us about killing Ruby?
32:25Because something was out there in those woods.
32:30We have a suspect in custody.
32:32We have a confession to one murder.
32:34And we have a statement which speaks to the intent to commit another.
32:38It's over, Mulder.
32:40It's time to go home and turn this over to local law enforcement.
32:43I can't do that.
32:44Mulder, where are you going?
32:49To talk to the boy.
32:50Then they won't even let you in the door.
32:52Well, I've got to see him.
32:53They don't want to have anything to do with us.
32:56Mulder, stop.
32:57Stop running after your sister.
32:59This won't bring her back.
33:07Come with me or don't come with me.
33:09But until they find a body, I'm not giving up on that girl.
33:12Hello?
33:26Hello?
33:29Mrs. Morris?
33:33Kevin?
33:34Kevin?
33:34Kevin?
33:34Kevin?
33:34Kevin?
33:35Kevin?
33:38Kevin?
33:39Let's go.
34:09What does it mean?
34:19I don't know.
34:24I'm going to check upstairs.
34:36Oh, my God.
34:39What is it?
34:41Just come up here.
34:50Look.
34:53It's her.
34:56It's Ruby.
34:57This is a long shot, Mulder.
35:15They could be anywhere.
35:16You know, when I was a kid, I had this ritual.
35:23I'd close my eyes before I walked into my room, because I thought that one day when I opened
35:32them, my sister would be there, just lying in bed like nothing ever happened.
35:37You know, I'm still walking into that room, every day of my life.
35:46Scully.
35:54Scully.
35:54Darleen?
36:09Look, there's a trailhead.
36:13Are you okay?
36:34It's here.
36:35I saw it.
36:36Where's Kevin?
36:37I couldn't keep up with him.
36:38Go ahead.
36:43Kevin!
36:54Kevin!
36:54Kevin!
37:13Kevin!
37:24Kevin!
37:26Kevin!
37:30Kevin!
37:32Are you okay?
37:43She's back.
37:46Kevin, I'm sorry, but...
37:48She's here. I know it.
37:51Kevin, I don't think she is.
37:53I know how much you wanted it to be her.
37:55I do, too.
38:02Ruby!
38:08Ruby!
38:09She's unconscious, but she's still alive.
38:12I'll get help.
38:21Nurse says she's been awake for almost an hour.
38:24Any ideas what caused the coma?
38:27There's no sign of head trauma,
38:28no narcotic traces or electrolyte abnormalities.
38:30But her white blood cell count was sky high.
38:35By any chance, was there an attendant reduction
38:36in the lymphocyte population
38:38or release of glucocorticoids?
38:42Um...
38:42Actually, both. How did you know that?
38:46They're symptoms of prolonged weightlessness.
38:49Shuttle astronauts have reported similar imbalances.
38:57Isolation.
39:00Hi.
39:16Hi, Ruby.
39:20Who are you?
39:21We're with the FBI.
39:23I'm Special Agent Dana Scully,
39:26and this is Fox Mulder.
39:30Well, my mom said you might be coming by.
39:33How are you feeling?
39:36Fine, I guess.
39:39Where were you, Ruby?
39:40Can you tell us?
39:41It's okay, Ruby.
39:46Ruby, he knows.
39:50I'm not supposed to tell.
39:53They told me not to say.
39:55Who told you?
40:00Ruby, who told you?
40:03Sweetheart,
40:04you don't have to say anything.
40:06You're right.
40:10We should wait till Ruby gets a little stronger.
40:13Can we speak outside for a moment?
40:15I think that it's best that we put all of this behind us.
40:31I mean, hasn't Ruby been through enough already?
40:34I know how disoriented she must seem right now,
40:37but in a couple weeks, maybe even a few days, we could...
40:39I don't want her talking to you, or anyone.
40:42She should be encouraged to tell her story,
40:44not to keep it inside.
40:46It's important that you let her.
40:48Important to who?
40:50I have my daughter back.
40:52I don't want any more trouble.
40:54Besides, she can hardly remember anything.
40:56She will remember one day, one way or another,
40:58even if it's only in dreams.
41:00And when she does, she's going to want to talk about it.
41:02She's going to need to talk about it.
41:05Like I did.
41:08Listen to me.
41:09All of my life, I have been ridiculed for speaking my mind.
41:13But it was the truth, Darlene.
41:15The truth has caused me nothing but heartache.
41:18I don't want the same thing for her.
41:20It doesn't have to be that way for Ruby.
41:24As far as I'm concerned,
41:26she spent the last month on the back of a Harley Davidson.
41:30Is that what you're going to tell Kevin?
41:34I'm sorry.
41:35I'm sorry.
41:35I'm sorry.
41:39But your eyes are open.
42:09Yeah, they're open, but it's like nothing's happening.
42:13Try turning your head.
42:15I can't.
42:17Why not?
42:19I don't know.
42:21I can't move.
42:24So I don't.
42:27I just lie there in bed.
42:30Can you see your sister?
42:32No.
42:33No.
42:35But I can hear her.
42:37What is she saying?
42:39She's calling out my name over and over again.
42:45She's crying out for help, but I can't help her.
42:50I can't move.
42:53Are you scared?
42:55I know I should be, but I'm not.
42:58Do you know why?
43:01Because of the voice.
43:03The voice?
43:04The voice in my head.
43:06What's it telling you?
43:07Not to be afraid.
43:08It's telling me that no harm will come to her.
43:14And that one day she'll return.
43:17Do you believe the voice?
43:19I want to believe.
43:23I made this.
43:27I made this.
43:31I made this.
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