Episode Summary
Mulder pulls some strings to be assigned to a case involving the disappearance of 30 loggers in Washington state. They discover that the loggers, in illegally cutting down a tree, faced a punishment far worse than what the judicial system would have done. Now the two agents must try to avoid the same dark fate.
Episode Details
- Writer: Chris Carter
- Director: Joe Napolitano
- Original Broadcast: AU: 23.06.1994 US: 15.04.1994
Cast
- Scully Gillian Anderson
- Mulder David Duchovny
Guest Cast
- Larry Moore Jason Beghe
- Bob Perkins Barry Greene
- Clean-Suited Man David Hay
- Steve Humphreys Tom O'Rourke
- Dyer Ken Tremblett
- Doug Spinney Titus Welliver
Quotes
Mulder: Take a good look, Scully.
Scully: What am I looking at?
Mulder: 30 loggers working a clear-cutting contract in Washington state. Rugged, manly men in the full bloom of their manhood.
Scully: Right, what am I looking for?
Mulder: Anything strange, unexplainable, unlikely... boyfriend?
Scully: And you suspect what? Bigfoot?
Mulder: Not likely. That's a lot of flannel to be choking down even for Bigfoot. Come on, Scully. It will be a nice trip to the forest.
[Inspecting the radiator of a vehicle that has been filled with rice]
Scully: Well, you're right about one thing.
Mulder: What's that?
Scully: It definitely wasn't Bigfoot.
[Inspecting the desiccated loggers corpse found in the cocoon]
Scully: It's a male.
Mulder: Barely.
Larry Moore: I'd say it's some kind of spider's nest or insect cocoon.
Scully: What kind of an insect could have gotten a man all the way up in that tree?
Mulder: Itsy bitsy spider...
Doug Spinney: If we stand around here talking, there'll be nothing left to say. I'd start thinking about getting that generator started. Darkness is our enemy.
Doug Spinney: You don't want to go out in the night. Take my word on that. It's out there.
Steve Humphreys: What? I go out that door, something's going to attack me, eat me alive and spin me in its web?
Doug Spinney: Yes.
Steve Humphreys: What, it's too polite to come in here and get me?
Doug Spinney: For some reason it's afraid of the light.
Scully: What do you think?
Mulder: I think I'm going to suggest we sleep with the lights on.
Scully: These bugs aren't moving any more. They're either dead or they're asleep.
Doug Spinney: It's the light. They don't like the light.
Scully: That's weird. I mean usually bugs are attracted to the light.
Doug Spinney: These obviously are not your ordinary bugs, to say the least.
Mulder: There's actually this lake where they've discovered a kind of an amoeba that can literally suck a man's brains out.
Scully: Oh, brain sucking amoeba.
Mulder: And I told her it would be a nice trip to the forest.
Mulder: And if they're not...
Clean-Suited Man: That is not an option, Mr Mulder.