Episode Summary
The last known position of the USS Argent was in the Norwegian equivalent of the Bermuda Triangle until a boatload of survivors is found. What particularly catches Mulder's inquisitive eye is that all of these sailors appear to have aged many decades in the course of days.
Episode Details
- Original Story: Howard Gordon
- Writers: Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa
- Director: Rob Bowman
- Original Broadcast: AU: 19.07.1995 US: 10.03.1995
Cast
- Scully Gillian Anderson
- Mulder David Duchovny
Guest Cast
- Halverson Mar Andersons
- Lieutenant Richard Harper Dmitry Chepovetsky
- Captain Barclay David Cubitt
- Ionesco Stephen Dimopoulos
- Olafsson Vladimir Kulich
- Sailor John McConnach
- Nurse Crown Robert Metcalfe
- Dr Lasko Claire Riley
- Henry Trondheim John Savage
Quotes
Scully: Something very strange is going on here, Mulder.
Mulder: Did they let you in to see Lieutenant Harper?
Scully: Yeah I saw somebody, but whether it was actually the Lieutenant...
Mulder: What do you mean?
Scully: He looked about 90 years old. Off by about half a century. You don't seem too surprised.
Mulder: All in all I've counted nine unexplained disappearances. Each of them passed through here, the 65th parallel.
Scully: Another Bermuda Triangle?
Mulder: It's more like a wrinkle in time if Lieutenant Harper is any indication.
Scully: What is it, Mulder? Why are they so afraid? My father spent the better part of his life at sea, he had a healthy respect for the ocean, but he never feared it. I see fear in these men's eyes.
Scully: Feeling any better?
Mulder: No. You're lucky you inherited your father's legs.
Scully: What?
Mulder: Sea legs.
Henry Trondheim: It's a ghost ship. I mean, look at all this corrosion. No one's been on this ship in 20... 30 years.
Henry Trondheim: I guarantee it was Olaffson's men took my boat and left him stranded here. It's just like these dogs to slit each other's throats.
Scully: Mulder, what do you know about free radicals?
Mulder: Is this a quiz?
Mulder: Trondheim, you keep an eye on Olafsson.
Henry Trondheim: Where are you going?
Scully: Mulder where are we going?
Mulder: I'm not sure yet, but we don't have much time to get there.
Olafsson: You saw what happened to the Captain. It only takes a few hours. But you don't have to die.
Henry Trondheim: We all have to die.
Olafsson: Not like this.
Mulder: I think I lapped George Burns...
Henry Trondheim: Why don't you just go ahead and shoot me. If you think that I'm going to let Mulder have another drop!
Mulder: You're almost out of pages. It's good you kept a record.
Scully: Trondheim's locked himself in the sewerage hold. He's backflushed all our water and he's keeping it for himself. I looked everywhere. And this is all I could find... It's sardine juice, half a dozen lemons and... the water from a snow globe.
[Mulder licks his lips]
Scully: It's not Evian but...
Mulder: You know, I always thought when I got older, I'd maybe take a cruise somewhere. This isn't exactly what I had in mind... The service on this ship is terrible, Scully. It's not fair... It's not our time. We still have work to do...
Scully: As certain as I am of this life, we have nothing to fear when it's over.