Episode Summary
A woman who claims to have seen a UFO as a child has her teenage daughter disappear while on a camping trip. The signs seem to indicate alien involvement. But the key to solving the mystery may be the woman's young son instead of the missing daughter.
Episode Details
- Writers: Alex Gansa and Howard Gordon
- Director: Daniel Sackheim
- Original Broadcast: AU: 03.03.1994 US: 01.10.1993
Cast
- Scully Gillian Anderson
- Mulder David Duchovny
Guest Cast
- Sheriff Jack Withers [Sioux City Sheriff] Michael Cavanaugh
- Section Chief Scott Blevins Charles Cioffi
- Ruby Morris Taunya Dee
- Kip [Pennsylvania Pub Bartender] Don Gibb
- Fourth Man Anthony Harrison
- Coroner Mauricio Mercado
- Agent Leza Atsumi Akiko Morison
- Tessa Sears Shelley Owens
- Kevin Morris Joel Palmer
- ME Worker Glen Roald
- Darlene Morris Carrie Snodgress
- NSA Agent Holtzman Don Thompson
Quotes
Section Chief Blevins: In essence, Mulder is petitioning the Bureau to assign a case number to a tabloid headline.
Scully: He must have more evidence than —
Section Chief Blevins: Not according to his 302 he doesn't.
Scully: I admit that it is strange... even for Mulder.
[Blevins hands Scully Samantha Mulder's X-File]
Name: Samantha T Mulder
Address: 2790 Vine Street
City: Chilmarc, Mass.
Place of Birth: Chilmarc, Mass.
Date of Birth: January 22, 1964
Nationality: American
Section Chief Blevins: Has he shared any of this with you? There's no need to protect him, he's the agent of record, he initiated the file himself.
Scully: She was his sister. She disappeared 21 years ago, he was twelve and she was eight. He claims that he was in the room when it happened. He recalls a bright light outside the window and a presence in the room.
Section Chief Blevins: In you opinion, has Agent Mulder's personal agenda clouded his professional judgement?
Scully: In my opinion, no.
Mulder: This is the essence of science. You ask an impertinent question, and you're on your way to a pertinent answer.
Scully: Well what makes this case is any more credible than the hundred year old mother gives birth with the lizard baby?
Mulder: Because the lizard baby wasn't born near anywhere Lake Okobogee.
Scully: Oko-what?
Mulder: Bogee. Okobogee.
Scully: Is that supposed to mean something to me?
Mulder: If you know anything about trout fishing. Or UFO hot-spots.
[Mulder sends a fax to the mythical Danny]
Daniel Bernstein
Cryptology Section FBI
Scully: I just don't think it's a good idea to antagonise local law enforcement.
Mulder: Who, me? I'm Mr Congeniality.
Scully: You never know, we might need his help one of these days.
Mulder: I'll send him a bundt cake.
Mulder: Hey, that's a nice tattoo. What is that?
Bartender: What's it look like?
Mulder: A flying saucer. You don't really believe in that stuff do you?
Bartender: I take it you don't.
Mulder: No. I think it's all just a bunch of crazy people howling at the moon.
Bartender: So you haven't been out to Lake Okobogee, have you?
Mulder: No I haven't. Why?
Bartender: You should ride with us some time. You might see some things that would change you mind. Get a killer sunburn in the middle of the night.
[He pulls back his hair to reveal an ear that looks like its been melted]
Mulder: Great.
Scully: What?
Mulder: You shouldn't have told them. They have no jurisdiction.
Scully: Mulder... They're NSA. They think the boy may be a threat to national security.
Mulder: Come on. How could an eight year old boy, who can barely multiply, be a threat to national security? And people call me paranoid.
[Mulder walks through the house that the NSA have trashed]
Mulder: You guys do really delicate work.
Scully: Mulder, stop. Stop running after your sister. This won't bring her back.
Mulder: Come with me or don't come with me but, until they find a body, I'm not giving up on that girl.
[Scully listens to the tape of one of Mulder's hypnotic regression therapy sessions]
Mulder: I know I should be afraid, but I'm not.
Dr Werber: Do you know why?
Mulder: Because of the voice... The voice in my head.
Dr Werber: What's it telling you?
Mulder: Not to be afraid. It's telling me that no harm will come to her and that one day she'll return.
Dr Werber: Do you believe the voice?
Mulder: I want to believe.