Dr. Keats
Here, let me do it. Put your number in, then your card. What's your number, roland?
Season 1 · Episode 23
Roland
Character-labelled dialogue prepared from the official DVD subtitle track.
Production code1X22Original airdate · May 6, 1994
263 dialogue entries
MAHAN PROPULSION LABORATORY,
Roland
Three fifteen.
Dr. Keats
See how easy it is?
Dr. Nollette
Engine efficiency?
Dr. Surnow
Ninety-four percent.
Dr. Nollette
We need more. How's the back pressure holding?
Dr. Surnow
What do you think? It's climbing.
Dr. Nollette
Increase the blade inclination. I said--
Dr. Surnow
The inclination of the blade is pi over nine. We've reached maximum velocity.
Dr. Nollette
No! Let it go! It will work.
Dr. Surnow
It will destroy itself! I'm not going to do that.
Dr. Nollette
It's not going to destroy itself. Come on! We're almost there!
HERITAGE HALFWAY HOUSE, COLSON, WASHINGTON
Fox Mulder
Our equations are wrong.
Dr. Keats
What happened?
Dr. Nollette
Nothing. He pulled the plug.
Dr. Surnow
I'm just protecting the baby-- and four years of work.
Dr. Nollette
Four years that add up to zilch. Unless we show some progress they're going to pull the plug on us, ron.
Dr. Keats
You should have continued with the test.
Dr. Surnow
Somebody's going to crack mach 15 and I want it to be us. I won't jeopardize everything because you two can't wait to see your name in print.
Dr. Keats
It's print that gets the money, ron.
Dr. Surnow
Go down in flames together. Fine, go ahead. I'm going to do the math.
Roland
Good night, dr. Keats.
Dr. Surnow
What the hell? Roland. Open the door. Open the door! Roland, I want you to listen to me very carefully. We have to open this door, roland. Stop typing! Roland! Roland, open the door! What are you doing?! Open the door! Roland, hit escape. Are you listening?
(screaming)
(splat)
Fox Mulder
How was the wedding?
Dana Scully
The part where the groom passed out or the dog bit the drummer?
Fox Mulder
Did you catch the bouquet?
MAHAN PROPULSION LABORATORY
Dana Scully
Maybe. Is that what you couldn't talk about over the phone?
Fox Mulder
The project everyone says doesn't exist does exist.
Dana Scully
The icarus project?
Fox Mulder
The next generation in jet engine design. Capable of doubling current supersonic speeds using half the fuel, at least, in theory.
Dana Scully
And ronald surnow was an aeronautical scientist who worked on it here at the university.
FBI REGIONAL HEADQUARTERS, SEATTLE, WASHINGTON
Mrs. Stodie
Yes. How close are they?
Fox Mulder
I'm not sure, but surnow's the second team scientist to die in six months.
Dana Scully
But how is this an x file? Mulder, you don't think this has anything to do with UFO technology?
Fox Mulder
There's something unexplainable, Scully but it's not unidentifiable.
Man
Keats? There.
Fox Mulder
Dr. Keats?
Dana Scully
We're with the FBI
Fox Mulder
I'm agent Mulder. This is agent Scully. We understand you discovered dr. Surnow this morning.
Dr. Keats
What was left of him.
Dana Scully
How do you suppose he became trapped in the wind tunnel?
Dr. Keats
Someone must have shut him in.
Dana Scully
By computer?
Dr. Keats
We've already been through this with the police.
Dana Scully
Another member of your team died recently isn't that correct?
Dr. Nollette
Yes. Arthur grable. He was killed in an automobile accident in november. I'm frank nollette. I'm also on the project.
Dana Scully
Are you certain it was an accident?
Dr. Keats
What are you driving at?
Dana Scully
Your work seems to be a perfect target for industrial espionage.
Fox Mulder
Who wrote this?
Dr. Nollette
Ron was working on it when I left.
Fox Mulder
The handwriting here doesn't match other handwriting on the board.
Dr. Keats
It isn't mine.
Fox Mulder
What about roland fuller?
Dr. Nollette
Uh... Roland's the, uh... Janitor.
Fox Mulder
According to the police he was the only other person here.
Dr. Keats
Roland didn't do that.
Dana Scully
How do you know?
Dr. Keats
Let's just say roland isn't exactly a rocket scientist.
Roland
Here.
Tracy
"tracy."
Roland
(giggles) with stars.
Mrs. Stodie
Roland. There are some people here to talk with you.
Roland
Uh-oh. I went off the paper. Sorry.
Mrs. Stodie
That's all right, roland. Tracy? Would you help me in the TV room?
Tracy
Okay.
Fox Mulder
Hi, roland. Mind if we sit down? Thanks. Mind if we ask you a couple questions? Do you remember working last night?
Roland
Uh-huh.
Dana Scully
Do you remember seeing anything unusual? Seeing any strangers? Did dr. Surnow or dr. Keats or dr. Nollette do anything unusual?
Roland
Nope.
Dana Scully
You must like stars.
Roland
One hundred and forty-seven.
Dana Scully
Sorry?
Roland
Stars.
Fox Mulder
You like numbers, too, huh?
Dana Scully
Roland, let me help you.
Roland
One, two, three... Four, five... Six, seven, eight...
Mrs. Stodie
Roland? Is everything okay? Roland, are you all right?
Roland
Eleven... Twelve, thirteen...
Mrs. Stodie
What happened? What did you say to upset him so?
Roland
Sixteen, seventeen...
Analyst
It's definitely the work of a fourth individual. Surnow's, keats' and nollette's cursive standards don't match what you found on the white board.
Fox Mulder
Will you do me a favor and try this?
Dana Scully
What is it?
Fox Mulder
Something roland doodled at the home.
Dana Scully
You don't really think roland...
Fox Mulder
He was the only other person in the lab.
Dana Scully
Yes, but we're talking about a sophisticated fluid dynamics equation. Roland barely has an I.q. Of 70.
Fox Mulder
You saw his facility with mathematics. Some autistic individuals display unusual abilities.
Dana Scully
Yes, but even savants behave only as human calculators. They can perform certain functions but they can't tell the value of anything or the meaning of a number.
Analyst
I hate to take sides, but the bottom line is no. The terminal stroke on the six, the roof on the five... I'm sorry. He didn't write it.
(gasping)
(grunting)
(loud music from earphones)
(beeping)
(door clicks)
(screaming)
(shattering)
(crunching)
(typing)
Dana Scully
An organic object, exposed to liquid nitrogen will become frozen exhibiting great tensile strength but is vulnerable to stress from compression or impact. Now, I've seen this demonstrated on a fish before...
Fox Mulder
I don't think they'll be performing this experiment on beakman's world. Has this been dusted?
Detective
Treat yourself.
Roland
Thanks.
Fox Mulder
Hey, Scully, look at these files. "kman" must be keats. His file was turned off at 12:31 last night.
Dana Scully
But look. Someone else entered a file under the name "arthur," after 12:31.
Fox Mulder
And worked on it for nearly five hours.
Dana Scully
Well, it couldn't have been keats. Judging from the rigor of the body he was dead around 12:30.
Fox Mulder
You're saying someone came in here, killed keats and worked on an old grable file?
Dana Scully
I can't access the arthur file. We're going to need the password.
Fox Mulder
Try 15626.
Dana Scully
How did you know that that was..?
Fox Mulder
This is arthur grable's work on the same fluid dynamics equations the others were working on. Look at all those entries. Someone has been continuing his work since he died.
Dana Scully
How did you know what the password was? Wave good-bye. Wave good-bye.
(child crying)
Dana Scully
Say good-bye. Bye-bye. Wave good-bye.
(door opening)
Mrs. Stodie
Roland? Why did you sleep in your clothes? Well, let's get you dressed. You have visitors.
Roland
I'm not supposed to talk to them.
Mrs. Stodie
Who told you that? Remember that talk we had about being shy? These are nice people, roland.
Fox Mulder
Hey, roland, you have more shirts than I do. I think this one would look stylin' today. What do you think?
Roland
The green one.
Fox Mulder
Green one?
Roland
Please.
Dana Scully
Mrs. Stodie can I talk to you a second? See you later, roland.
Fox Mulder
This one? Here you go. So you like your job at the college, roland?
Roland
Yes.
Fox Mulder
I hear you're very good at it. Do you remember how you got your job?
Roland
A man talked to mrs. Stodie.
Fox Mulder
What man?
Roland
Dr. Grable.
Fox Mulder
Was dr. Grable nice to you?
Roland
Yes.
Fox Mulder
When was the last time you spoke to him? Last week? Day before?
Roland
Dr. Grable died.
Fox Mulder
I'm sorry.
Roland
Yes. People die. They go away and they're not supposed to come back.
Dana Scully
Has roland ever mentioned the name "arthur"?
Mrs. Stodie
That was dr. Grable's first name but we only called him dr. Grable. I doubt roland even knew his first name was arthur.
Dana Scully
Mrs. Stodie, can I get a copy of roland's file and past history?
Mrs. Stodie
Our histories are confidential.
Dana Scully
I understand but I have grounds to obtain them. The less time we spend in court the more time we have to help roland.
Fox Mulder
Roland fuller was hired by arthur grable. He went to the halfway house specifically to find a mentally challenged person.
Dana Scully
Are you suggesting arthur grable hired roland to use him? Are you suggesting arthur grable is not dead?
Fox Mulder
If he had intentions of killing nollette, keats, and surnow why not set it up to appear the least likely suspect?
Dana Scully
Yeah, but by the look of this, he's hamburger.
Fox Mulder
Maybe he staged it. That would explain why his work is continuing on six months after his death.
Dana Scully
This obituary says arthur grable was born in seattle. His father was a big banker. His mother was active in a number of charities. Only child. Summa cum laude in physics. Doctoral and postdoctoral in aeronautical engineering at harvey mudd. Brilliant future, tragically cut short.
Fox Mulder
Roland's also from seattle. He spent most of his life at the heritage halfway house. The identity of his parents has been sealed. There's no information on roland before age three when he was put in the program.
Dana Scully
Does it say when he was born?
Fox Mulder
July 15, 1952.
Dana Scully
That's also arthur's birth date.
Roland
Don't you wish you could fly?
Tracy
I can. When I dream. People can do anything in a dream, you know. Once, one time, I had a dream we were married and lived in a house. Do you have dreams, roland? You can tell me. Roland? Who's arthur? I'm sorry, roland. I'm sorry. Roland? Roland?
Roland
Go away!
Tracy
Roland, what's the matter?
Roland
Go away! I don't want to hurt you! Go away! Go away.
Fox Mulder
Is that you?
Nollette
Yes.
Fox Mulder
What's the story here?
(sighs)
Dr. Nollette
Um... A quantum physics professor of mine at harvey mudd flunked me. He challenged the tenets of one of my theories-- a theory I later published in nature. Anyway, to get back at him one afternoon, we decided to take his car apart and put it back together again in his office and left it running.
Fox Mulder
An egghead classic.
Dr. Nollette
It was grable's idea.
Dana Scully
Is that grable on the chair?
Dr. Nollette
Yeah.
Dana Scully
Was he a practical joker?
Dr. Nollette
Atop of all his brilliance he had a genius for executing elaborate schemes.
Fox Mulder
Could he be making it seem like a man with a 70 I.q. Is gaining access to and operating his old computer files?
Dr. Nollette
Arthur would still have to be alive.
Dana Scully
Could he have faked his own death?
Dr. Nollette
No.
Fox Mulder
The police report on the auto accident that killed grable is woefully incomplete. A dry road surface, no mechanical problems found. The body was never admitted to a county morgue and there was no funeral.
Dr. Nollette
If you are trying to suggest that arthur grable killed surnow and keats and is after me next, you're way off. Art could not have done the murders.
Dana Scully
How can you be so certain?
Barrington
This is arthur grable. Because of the massive internal damage to his body caused by the car accident, we could only preserve the head.
Dana Scully
Wouldn't your client find it inconvenient to be thawed out, only to discover he had no functional mobility?
Barrington
We believe that, by the time science figures a way to revive our clients...
Fox Mulder
You'll also know how to clone new bodies.
Barrington
Exactly. This technology is progressing faster than anyone thought possible. Ask anyone here at the university. So, while for us, the passing of each second brings our bodies closer to death for our clients, it brings them closer to life.
Fox Mulder
These fluctuations in temperature-- do they happen often?
Barrington
No. We've had some problems with this capsule. Our technicians have checked it but they've found nothing.
Fox Mulder
Could the brain cause the fluctuations?
Barrington
No, but we are looking for the explanation. The patient's in no danger. He remains perfectly preserved as long as there's liquid nitrogen in the capsule.
Dana Scully
May we take a look at arthur grable's records? Thank you. Dr. Barrington in the future, what requirements will exist to be an organ or tissue donor?
Barrington
Same requirements as there are today. Compatible genetic makeup. It's best if the donor's related.
Dana Scully
Mulder... Arthur grable put down only one donor.
Fox Mulder
Roland fuller and arthur grable had the same birthday. I think they're twins.
Technician
Older or younger?
Fox Mulder
Same age just less hairy and with better eyesight.
Technician
And the moustache?
Dana Scully
No. Lose the whole beard.
Technician
Next?
Fox Mulder
Close-cropped hair with a slightly receding widow's peak. Lose the glasses.
Dana Scully
That's roland.
Fox Mulder
Give or take a few pounds.
Roland
Tell me about your dreams, roland. It's all right. I won't tell anybody. You know, I had a dream last night. I dreamt I was swimming in this pool and I could see my father underwater but when I dove down, the water stung my eyes. Then there was another man at the pool, watching me. He upset me. He was asking me questions I didn't want to answer and I had to leave. I couldn't find my father. I can't tell you my dreams.
Fox Mulder
Why not?
Roland
Bad.
Fox Mulder
Your dreams are bad, roland not you. You're a good person.
Roland
I hit tracy.
Fox Mulder
Your dreams make you hit tracy? You know how to work this toy, roland?
Roland
Here.
Fox Mulder
You see, the way you work that toy is like what's happening to you. You're the spaceship, roland and your dreams are the controls.
Roland
Who...? Who runs the controls?
Fox Mulder
Have you seen this man recently?
Woman
We have to say bye-bye to roland.
(screaming)
Fox Mulder
Roland. Roland! Roland, stop.
Tracy
Roland! Roland! Roland?
Fox Mulder
We need to keep roland under observation.
Tracy
Roland?
(glass breaking)
Fox Mulder
He's trying to get away. Roland! Roland! Nollette's gone. We should arrange a security guard to find him.
Dana Scully
No one's going to provide you with anything once you explain your theory on how roland fuller is capable of these murders.
Fox Mulder
You've got a brother, don't you, Scully?
Dana Scully
Yeah, two.
Fox Mulder
Have you ever thought about calling one of them and then all of a sudden, the phone rings and it's one of them calling you?
Dana Scully
Does this pitch end with a way for me to lower my long distance charges?
Fox Mulder
Evidence suggests psychic connections are stronger between family members. Particularly between twins that shared the same womb.
Dana Scully
Okay, but in this case one sibling has closer ties to a frozen fudgsicle than to his own brother.
Fox Mulder
Arthur grable is not dead. He's in a state of consciousness that no human has ever returned from. What if that state allows one to develop psychic ability beyond the potential of the conscious mind? He could use that ability to control his brother to kill those scientists.
Dana Scully
But why would he kill his colleagues?
Fox Mulder
That's a question only dr. Nollette can answer.
Dana Scully
Okay, let's go. I have to call my brother.
Fox Mulder
We've got to find nollette.
Dana Scully
Let's talk to campus security.
Fox Mulder
We go this way?
Dana Scully
No, we go left.
Dr. Nollette
Well, wherever you are, arthur I'm sure you'll appreciate this.
Dana Scully
Arthur and roland grable. Born at puget presbyterian to mr. And mrs. Lewis grable on July 15, 1952. Arthur was four minutes older than roland.
Fox Mulder
Identical twins.
Dana Scully
Which means they're the result of a single egg fertilized by a single sperm.
Fox Mulder
I've read studies which suggest that, in some cases the identical twin arises very early in the embryonic stage when a mutation in one cell is rejected by the other cells as foreign.
Dana Scully
So roland's condition is the result of a damaged chromosome rejected by one of arthur's cells?
Fox Mulder
In a way, that would explain arthur's genius and roland's strange mathematical gift.
Dana Scully
In a way.
(phone rings)
Dana Scully
Agent Scully.
Barrington
This is larry barrington at the avalon foundation. We've got a situation here.
Dana Scully
Uh-huh.
Barrington
Last night, we had a break-in at the facility. That's right. It's arthur grable's storage unit. His internal thermostat's been compromised.
Dana Scully
Well, is there any tissue damage?
Barrington
We're trying to assess that now. The temperature's still rising. Something's blocking our access to the cooling program.
Dana Scully
Someone tampered with arthur grable's capsule. They're attempting to stabilize it now.
Fox Mulder
Nollette.
Roland
What? What is it?
(alarm ringing)
Dr. Nollette
"if I have seen further than other men it's because I have stood on the shoulders of giants."
Roland
No. This isn't yours.
Dr. Nollette
It's amazing. There's this body sitting there in front of me talking but you're controlling it, arthur.
Roland
You took my work.
(snickers)
Dr. Nollette
What good was your work going to do you? You died before you could finish it before you could publish it.
Roland
It was mine!
Dr. Nollette
And a brilliant piece of work too. When I saw the writing on the white board I knew someone had found the key. Mach 15 was within our reach. Our futures were guaranteed. Ironic, isn't it? You did all the work and I get all the glory. Yes. Yes, arthur. I was here working on the intake problem moments away from a solution when you attacked me. Fortunately, I was carrying a gun. After the murder of my colleagues, who could blame me?
Roland
No.
Dr. Nollette
Oh, that's interesting. (laughs:) I've got it. That's it. I've got it!
(groans)
Dr. Nollette
Arthur! Arthur, open the door! Arthur!
Fox Mulder
Arthur, how do you stop this?! Tell me how! Arthur!
Dana Scully
Wait! Roland, we need you to help us. Please, we need you to help us to stop the machine.
(child crying)
Dana Scully
Try to remember how. Roland, you've got to help him or he'll die. Wave good-bye, arthur.
(screaming)
Fox Mulder
Come on, roland.
Roland
I can't remember
(yells)
Dana Scully
He'll be held in psychiatric custody for evaluation.
Mrs. Stodie
Is he being charged with a crime?
Dana Scully
The d.a. Hasn't made that determination yet.
Fox Mulder
But we've recommended that he be remanded to your custody as soon as the court deems it appropriate.
Mrs. Stodie
How could this happen? Roland never exhibited any violent tendencies.
Fox Mulder
It's my belief that he wasn't acting under his own volition.
Mrs. Stodie
What do you mean?
Fox Mulder
This is the work of arthur grable, roland's brother. It's a new theory of jet propulsion unfinished at the time of his death. In the last two weeks roland has completed the calculations.
Mrs. Stodie
How?
Dana Scully
We're not sure, mrs. Stodie. All we know is that roland was somehow able to finish his brother's research.
Tracy
Roland? Where are you going? Roland, don't go.
Roland
I have to.
Tracy
Okay. Bye.
Roland
Tracy... Wait. Keep my stars.
Tracy
I love you.
Roland
Me too.
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