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The X-Files (1993) Season 1 Episode 2 - Deep Throat


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00:00That's my house!
00:01Okay, let her through.
00:03What's going on?
00:04Standby, this is good to us.
00:05Your husband has violated the base security procedure.
00:07He's commandeered a military vehicle
00:08that is believed to be armed.
00:10Anyone moving in?
00:11God.
00:13This way, John!
00:21What?
00:30Let me talk to him.
00:47What the hell?
00:50We got him.
00:51But he's gonna need a doctor.
00:53Or something.
01:00I'm sorry, John.
01:01I have to cry.
01:02But he does not want to die.
01:03He's gonna need a doctor.
01:04He's gonna need a doctor.
01:05And he tells me to be in a doctor.
01:06Help me.
01:09You can do this for a person that is called a doctor.
01:11I'm sorry.
01:12He's gonna need it.
01:13I'm sorry, all right?
01:14I'm sorry, all right?
01:15So you can do this for a person who's a friend.
01:16What?
01:17I'm sorry, all right?
01:18I'm sorry, all right?
01:19I'm sorry.
01:21How are you holding on?
01:22I'm sorry, all right?
01:23I'm sorry.
01:26I'm sorry.
01:27Well, I'm sorry.
01:58Hi, I got your message.
02:19Sorry for the runaround.
02:20Can I buy you a drink?
02:21It's 2 o'clock in the afternoon, Agent Mulder.
02:24It's not stopping the rest of these people.
02:26I got something to show you.
02:29Something you couldn't show me at work?
02:31Let's get a table.
02:43That's Colonel Robert Budahas.
02:45That photo was taken last year when he was a test pilot for the military
02:49stationed at Ellen's Air Base in southwest Idaho.
02:51Four months ago, Colonel Budahas experienced a psychotic episode and barricaded himself
02:57in his home.
02:58Military police were called in.
03:01Budahas was removed and apparently hospitalized for the treatment of his condition.
03:05Which was what, exactly?
03:06The military will not comment on the cause, nature, or status.
03:10In fact, the military will not comment on Colonel Budahas at all.
03:14What do you mean?
03:15Mrs. Budahas has neither seen nor heard from her husband in over four months.
03:19Her inquiries to the military have gone unanswered.
03:22Last month, she contacted the FBI and reported it as a kidnapping.
03:26What reason would the military have to kidnap one of their own pilots?
03:30That's the $64,000 question, Scully.
03:33Since 1963, six pilots have been listed missing in action from Ellen's Air Base.
03:39The military will say only that these pilots accepted the risks of flying experimental aircraft.
03:44Yeah, there were rumors those pilots were shot down at high altitudes
03:47while they were routinely penetrating Russian airspace.
03:51There were other rumors, too.
03:54I've been tracking this case since it came through the Boise regional office last month.
03:58Last week, for reasons I can't figure out, it was deprioritized.
04:02They shelled this case without an investigation, Scully.
04:06So?
04:07So you and I are going to the Spud State to investigate a little kidnapping.
04:11I don't get it, Mulder.
04:12Or does this have something to do with an ex-file?
04:16I thought you only liked those, uh, paranormal-type cases.
04:20Am I missing something here?
04:22Let's just say this case has a distinct smell to it.
04:27A certain paranormal bouquet.
04:31Excuse me.
04:32Leave this case alone, Agent Mulder.
04:56What?
04:58The military will not tolerate an FBI investigation.
05:03Who are you?
05:05I, um, can be of help to you.
05:08I've had a certain interest in your work.
05:12Sorry.
05:13How do you know about my work?
05:14Well, let's just say that I'm in a position to know quite a lot of things, uh, things about our government.
05:22Who are you?
05:23Who do you work for?
05:25It's unimportant.
05:26I came here to give you some valuable advice.
05:29You are exposing yourself and Agent Scully to unnecessary risk.
05:34I advise you to drop the case.
05:37I can't do that.
05:39You have much work to do, Agent Mulder.
05:43Don't jeopardize the future of your own efforts.
05:46You okay, Mulder?
06:11Yeah.
06:12I'm fine.
06:16I'm fine.
06:45Mulder?
06:46Yeah.
06:47I checked on that file you gave me.
06:49Uh-huh.
06:49You failed to tell me a few things.
06:52This isn't some UFO goose chase you're leading me on, is it?
06:57Are you there, Mulder?
06:59Yeah.
07:00Did you hear what I said?
07:01Because the Bureau has it out for us already, and it would make us appear pretty stupid if my field report read like some tabloid story.
07:08Uh, listen, I don't want to talk about it on this line.
07:12I'll talk to you about it on the flight out, okay?
07:14Hello?
07:15Mrs. Budahas?
07:20Hello?
07:38Mrs. Budahas?
07:39Yes.
07:40We're from the FBI.
07:42Oh, yes.
07:43Please, come in.
07:47I started noticing it about two years ago.
07:50Bob developed this rash under his arms.
07:54We'd been doing some renovations on the house,
07:56so we thought it was a reaction to the paint stripper.
07:59But then everything just went crazy.
08:02How do you mean?
08:03Bob's whole personality, it was so unpredictable.
08:06He started doing things.
08:10What kinds of things?
08:12It was kind of embarrassing at first.
08:13We were having this dinner party once,
08:16and he sprinkled tetramil D all over his food.
08:20Mm-hmm.
08:22That's fish food flakes.
08:26Have you ever talked to him about this?
08:29I tried.
08:29It was extremely difficult.
08:32Bob would get so angry,
08:33he'd yell at the kids for no reason,
08:35and then he would shake like he was having a seizure.
08:40Did he ever talk about his work?
08:42It was never discussed,
08:44even before the problems.
08:46I knew that he worked on top-secret projects,
08:49word gets around,
08:50but Bob was always a patriot first.
08:53He took loyalty to his country as an oath,
08:57and now they treat us like strangers.
09:04I just want my husband back.
09:07You know, the government is not above the law.
09:10They cannot withhold information.
09:12And then I think,
09:14well, what if he's...
09:16Oh, and I support the family.
09:21You said word gets around.
09:23Sorry.
09:24Have you ever heard of this happening to anyone else?
09:29Um, yeah.
09:31Verla McLennan's husband,
09:32he went kind of crazy.
09:34But it's...
09:35It's not like he didn't get to come home.
09:37How long has he been?
09:50Almost two years.
09:52The fly fishing idea was his brother, Hank's.
09:55I was upset at first.
09:58But when you're the wife of a test pilot,
10:01you thank God just to have him home alive.
10:04Mrs. McLennan?
10:04Has anyone ever offered to explain what caused this?
10:09Stress, I guess.
10:12You have to understand,
10:14the military deals with things in a certain way.
10:17They've given them plenty of therapy and treatment,
10:20and I'm thankful for that.
10:22They've taken good care of us.
10:24And you know, they do volunteer for their jobs.
10:29Really, I need to bring the FBI to my house.
10:34You know, I've called all the numbers about a thousand times.
10:44Please, let me know what you find out.
10:46We'll be staying at the Beach Grove Motel if you need anything, okay?
10:49Thanks.
10:51Come on, Kate.
10:53So what did you make of Uncle Fester down the block?
10:56Oh, it's called stereotopy.
10:58It's a syndrome produced by extreme stress.
11:01POWs have been known to suffer from it.
11:03They've studied it in zoo animals.
11:04Yeah, but these guys aren't zoo animals.
11:06They're test pilots.
11:07They're not supposed to fold under pressure.
11:09They're supposed to thrive on it.
11:11Ever hear of something called the Aurora Project?
11:12Yeah, that's the, uh, unacknowledged code name
11:15for some new kind of defense department surveillance project.
11:18The Pentagon has all but admitted
11:20they've been testing a secret class of suborbital spycraft
11:23over the western U.S.
11:24Maybe these guys are flying those planes.
11:27Maybe these guys are the washouts.
11:29You saw the photos on the wall in there.
11:31This guy, Budahas, received a presidential commendation.
11:34He's never washed out of anything in his life.
11:36I've been on hold with the base director of communications
11:44for 45 minutes.
11:46How about you?
11:47Yeah, somebody named Colonel Kissel will meet with us
11:50a week from Friday.
11:52Yeah, right.
11:58Did you say Kissel?
12:06Colonel Kissel?
12:17Yes?
12:17Can I talk with you?
12:19Special Agent Mulder, FBI.
12:21I've got nothing to say.
12:23Please, this is an invasion of my privacy.
12:25Why don't you talk to us about Colonel Budahas?
12:27Why don't you get the hell out of my yard?
12:35Good thing we still kept that appointment.
12:37Hi.
12:38Are you the FBI agents?
12:40I'm Paul Mosinger.
12:42I work for the local paper.
12:43We live a few houses down from Verla McLennan.
12:46She said you guys are out here looking into this Budahas thing.
12:49We're just looking around.
12:51I got you right.
12:53A lot of people out here just looking around.
12:55UFO nuts, mostly.
12:56But it's not every day we get FBI.
13:02By the time you hear them, they're already gone.
13:05So this Budahas thing, are you getting anywhere?
13:08I'm not at liberty to comment.
13:11Well.
13:13Paul.
13:15Right?
13:16You've lived in this area a while.
13:18You ever seen a UFO?
13:19Never.
13:21Bunch of hooey, if you ask me.
13:23People see what they want to see.
13:25But if I wanted to talk to one of those UFO nuts that you referred to earlier, where would I go?
13:29F-15 Eagle, pulling about four Gs.
13:49Those boys think they are such hot shots.
13:52Got a few drinks in them?
13:54You'd think it was them up there flapping their wings.
13:56Who's the photographer?
14:01Fairies and sundry.
14:03I took the one on the end there.
14:05You're kidding.
14:07Where?
14:07Out on the back porch.
14:10Taking out the garbage.
14:12And there it was.
14:13Just hovering.
14:16Quiet like a hummingbird.
14:18For a minute there, I thought it was going to land in the parking lot and I was going to have to serve them lunch.
14:22I'm selling limited edition prints for $20.
14:27Down on my last five if you're interested.
14:31Put it on my tab.
14:33Sucker.
14:35What would be the chances of someone like me seeing a UFO?
14:39Catch you outside.
14:40You want to see something weird, Mulder?
14:49Ellen's airbase isn't even on my USGS Quadrant map.
14:51I know.
14:52Let's go.
14:53You know.
14:55Where are we going?
14:57We got our own map, sucker.
14:58Sucker.
15:28What do you honestly hope to see?
15:35I don't know. Maybe nothing.
15:40Is this why we came out here, Mulder?
15:43To look for UFOs?
15:47Yeah, this is going to look real good on my field report.
15:58I don't know.
16:21Scully, wake up.
16:23You've got to see this.
16:28What are they?
16:39I don't know.
16:41Just keep watching. It's unbelievable.
16:45That's unreal.
16:46I've never seen anything like it.
16:49They've been going at it like that for almost half an hour.
16:52Well, it can't be aircraft.
16:54Aircraft can't maneuver like that.
16:55How else could they be?
16:56I don't know. Lasers, maybe.
16:59Being shot from the ground for fighting up off the clouds.
17:13Oh, my God.
17:16There comes another one.
17:17That's not a plane. That's a helicopter.
17:34Hey!
17:35Okay, don't shoot. Stay right there.
17:58He didn't do anything.
17:59Hey!
17:59That was extreme.
18:26Let's go.
18:28They come with us.
18:29What?
18:36So what exactly were you guys doing in there?
18:40Well, we were, um...
18:42We were...
18:43We kind of have the spot.
18:50You know, we go, we kind of kick back and listen to some tunes and, uh, watch the air show.
18:55Have we ever chased out before?
18:57No.
18:57No. First time, right?
18:58Our friend showed us a hole in the fence about a year ago.
19:01Oh, one time they dropped these bombs.
19:03Whoa.
19:03Yeah, I was kind of heavy.
19:06Oh, uh, there's this place, uh, called the Yellow Base, right?
19:10Where they're supposed to store all this stuff.
19:12And my friend said that there's landmines all around it and junk like that.
19:22I've got a 20.
19:23Over.
19:24Roger, Redbird.
19:25This is a fallback position.
19:27We're opening the cage.
19:30Redbird, down.
19:30Sometimes they come in real low and just put on the skitters, right?
19:34It's like, ah, and then they just hang there and hover without making a sound.
19:40And you just think, you know, who turned down the volume, right?
19:44What do you think they are?
19:46Okay, everybody thinks that they're like UFOs, but I think it's some kind of Star Wars, cybertech, newfangled hardware, right?
19:54I don't know, they're probably rolling out for Desert Storm 2 or something like that.
19:58Cruise right over Saddam's house, you know?
20:01You'd be like, what?
20:07Do they look anything like this?
20:11No.
20:12They look exactly like that.
20:17Thanks.
20:18Later, dude.
20:28What's that?
20:32Evidence.
20:40Kids today, huh?
20:41You believe it all, don't you?
20:44Why wouldn't I?
20:49Mulder, did you see their eyes?
20:51If I were that stone, what?
20:52If you were that stone, what?
20:55Mulder, you could have shown that kid a picture of a flying hamburger, and he would have told you that's exactly what he saw.
21:00All right, I want to show you something.
21:05This is a photo of a UFO that reportedly crashed in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947.
21:11Now, I know you don't believe that story, but just hear me out.
21:14Now, Ellen's air base, the same base that we're at right now, the same base that for some strange reason doesn't appear on your U.S. government map, is supposedly one of the six sites where parts from the wreckage were shipped.
21:27Mulder, are you suggesting that the military is flying UFOs?
21:31No.
21:33Planes built using UFO technology.
21:35Mulder, come on.
21:45You've got two blurry photos.
21:48One of them taken almost 50 years ago, and another one you purchased today in a roadside diner.
21:55You're going out on a pretty big limb.
21:57Tell me there isn't a remarkable resemblance.
21:59Tell me one good reason why either of these photos is authentic.
22:03You saw exactly what I saw in the sky tonight.
22:06What do you think they were?
22:08Just because I can't explain it doesn't mean I'm going to believe they were UFOs.
22:14Unidentified flying objects.
22:17I think that fits the description pretty well.
22:19Tell me I'm crazy.
22:21Mulder, you're crazy.
22:24And it still doesn't explain to me what happened to Colonel Budahoss.
22:32Thanks.
22:33You're welcome.
22:44You didn't come to rate my mini bar, did you?
22:47You ready for this?
22:48What?
22:49We got a message from Mrs. Budahoss.
22:51Her husband came home last night.
22:52Mrs. Budahoss.
22:55Mrs. Budahoss.
22:55Mrs. Budahoss, are you okay?
23:13Come inside.
23:20What is it?
23:22What?
23:23What's wrong?
23:26That is not my husband.
23:34Honey, who are these people?
23:38That is not him.
23:51That is not my husband.
23:53They've done something to him.
23:54What are you talking about?
23:55It's okay.
23:56It's okay.
23:56Just relax.
23:57I'm Special Agent Mulder from the FBI.
24:00We're out here investigating your disappearance, Colonel Budahoss.
24:03I'm wondering if you have any explanation of your whereabouts over the past four months.
24:07I was in the hospital.
24:10Here?
24:11On base?
24:12I think so.
24:14Colonel Budahoss, do you mind if I ask you your birth date?
24:18November 21st, 1948.
24:23And the names of your kids?
24:25Josh and Leslie.
24:26They're right there.
24:30Yeah.
24:30Green Bay fan?
24:36Yes, sir.
24:36Bet you remember the Super Bowl of 68, huh?
24:39Don Chandler.
24:40Kicked four field goals.
24:42Lombardi's last game.
24:45Why do I have to answer these questions?
24:46It's not him.
24:54Colonel Budahoss, you're a pilot.
24:56Isn't that right?
24:57Yes, sir.
24:57Bet you've flown just about everything with two wings.
25:00I got this hotshot pilot friend who said he could do an Emmelman at a sustained eight G's.
25:08Is that possible?
25:20I don't.
25:24I can't.
25:25Anita, I can't remember.
25:35No.
25:44Mulder, would you explain to me what's going on?
25:47I think they rewired that man's brain.
25:50Some kind of selective memory drain.
25:52The brain doesn't work like that, Mulder.
25:53You can't just go in there and erase certain files.
25:55Then you explain it to me.
25:57There are types of amnesia that...
25:58This is not amnesia.
25:59I think it's something far more deliberate and insidious.
26:02All I'm saying is that the science or medical technology to do what you are suggesting does not exist.
26:08And neither does the technology to fly the aircraft we saw last night.
26:11Listen to me, Scully.
26:12They can do this.
26:14That man, he should have known the answer to the question.
26:16It just wasn't in his head anymore.
26:21Even if they could, why would they do such a thing?
26:23To control information.
26:26I think that after a psychotic episode, Colonel Budahas became a security risk.
26:31It couldn't just be that he had a nervous breakdown with a concomitant memory lapse.
26:34No, I think that men like Colonel Budahas are physiologically incapable of dealing with the stress of flying the aircraft we saw.
26:40Of doing those maneuvers at those speeds.
26:42I mean, we're talking about a technology that is so sensitive and advanced that it's taken almost 50 years to make it work.
26:48UFO technology, Scully.
26:53What the hell is it?
27:03Come on.
27:15Please, step out of the car.
27:18You think if maybe we ignore him, he'll go away?
27:22Please.
27:23Step out of the car.
27:24Guess not.
27:32Mulder, FBI.
27:34Federal agents.
27:35You want to tell me what this is about?
27:57National security.
27:58National security.
28:02Now get in your car.
28:03You'll be escorted back to your motel.
28:06You'll pack and leave town immediately or assume the consequences of intense indiscretion.
28:10Nothing under Idaho plate CC1356.
28:20No plate registered under that number.
28:23Thanks, Gail.
28:24No, no, no, no.
28:25I'm sure the other one's bogus, too.
28:29Bye.
28:34So who were those guys?
28:36I don't think it was those kids they were chasing away from the base last night.
28:40I think it was us.
28:43They knew we were coming before we ever arrived.
28:47And they returned Colonel Budahas as a decoy.
28:56There's something I didn't tell you, Scully.
28:58Something else?
29:00I was approached by a man in D.C. who warned me to stay away from this case.
29:04He didn't give me his name.
29:06And my phone was being tapped.
29:08What?
29:09Why would they go to all this trouble?
29:11Out of a need for security?
29:14Security of what?
29:15I think there's a huge conspiracy here, Scully.
29:25They've got a UFO here, I'm sure of it.
29:27And they'll do anything to keep it a secret,
29:29including sacrificing the lives and minds of those pilots.
29:32Because what if that secret got out?
29:34If, if that were true,
29:38it would be a national scandal.
29:40No, no, you're not thinking big enough.
29:41If it were true, it would be confirmation of the existence of extraterrestrial life.
29:48Did you ever stop to think that what we saw was simply an experimental plane?
29:54Like this stealth bomber or this Aurora project.
29:58Doesn't the government have a right and a responsibility to protect its secrets?
30:03Yes, but at what cost?
30:05When has the human cost become too high for the building of a better machine?
30:09Look, these are questions we have no business asking.
30:15Our kidnap victim is no longer outstanding.
30:19Let's get out of here, Mulder, while you still have a job.
30:26Aren't you even curious?
30:27Yes.
30:28Yes.
30:28Yes.
30:28Yes.
30:28Yes.
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30:36Yes.
30:37Yes.
30:38Yes.
30:39Yes.
30:40Yes.
30:41No.
30:42Yes.
30:43Yes.
30:44What's up?
30:45No.
30:47Yes.
30:48Yes.
30:49Well, I couldn't get a shower.
30:50Well, I'm going to shower, I'll pack and then we'll get out of here.
30:53Walter!
31:05Where are you going?
31:20We're here.
31:23Hey, aren't you guys coming?
31:27No, we've...
31:28You know, we've only gone in at night.
31:31Okay.
31:32This spot you told me about where you watch the air show,
31:34how far is it?
31:3645 minutes.
31:38Will I be able to find it?
31:39Just stay on the path.
31:41And what about this other place you told me about?
31:43Yellow base, where they hang them?
31:44Don't, don't even.
31:45It's like 10 miles.
31:47Nobody's ever...
31:48Nobody's ever been that far.
31:50Hey, don't go past the edge of the tall weeds.
31:53Oh, man.
31:58Did we tell them about the landmines and junk?
32:02Hey!
32:02Hey!
32:03Hey!
32:04Hey!
32:04Hey!
32:04Hey!
32:05Hey!
32:05Hey!
34:36This one's not working either.
34:49Phones are pretty undependable around here.
34:51People say it's the military interference, but they say that about everything.
34:55Thanks.
34:57Thanks.
34:58Thanks.
34:59Thanks.
35:00Thanks.
35:02Thanks.
35:04Thanks.
35:10Let's go.
35:40Hi.
35:50I was just looking for you.
35:54I knocked, but I saw the door was open.
35:58I was in the lobby trying to make a call.
36:00Phone's down again?
36:02Yeah.
36:02Face to Redbird.
36:04Can you give us your position over?
36:11Redbird, do you copy?
36:14What are you doing?
36:19Excuse me.
36:21There's nothing in there.
36:22There's nothing in there.
36:29There's nothing in there.
36:34Get the car!
36:40Hands on the car!
36:42Do it!
36:42Put the gun down, and we'll talk about it.
36:44I said hands against the car!
36:46Who are you?
36:49You're a long way from home, Dr. Scully.
36:51Nobody wants us to come to violence now.
36:53Where's Mulder?
36:55We took him to the base.
36:57We waited for him.
36:59I want you to get on that walkie-talkie
37:01and find out where Mulder is.
37:03I don't think I can do that.
37:04I think you can.
37:05Or I'm going to have every newspaper in America
37:07out here writing about your experimental aircraft.
37:10But I don't think I can do that.
37:35There are other ways to go about this.
37:47Yeah, I've already seen one you get with tears and a sad story.
38:05What are we doing waiting I want the car running I said start the car
38:28And put your hands on the wheel where I can see them
38:35You do anything stupid in this situation could get big in a hurry. Yeah, you just keep telling yourself that
39:05I want you to keep the car running and step out of the car
39:35Get in the car
39:43Get in the car
39:55I just want to say everything you've seen here is equal to the protection we give it
40:01It's you who have acted inappropriately
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