Janitor 2
Okay. Okay.
Season 2 · Episode 18
Fearful Symmetry
Character-labelled dialogue prepared from the official DVD subtitle track.
Production code2X18Original airdate · February 24, 1995
386 dialogue entries
Scene 01
IDAHO MUTUAL INSURANCE TRUST, FAIRFIELD, IDAHO
♪♪ [ salsa ]
[ speaking spanish ]
[ spanish ]
Janitor 2
Yeah, okay.
[ rumbling ]
Janitor 1
¿ que pasa aqui? Huh?
[ music off ]
[ screaming ]
[ car alarm blaring ]
Janitor 1
Santa maria. Ese loco.
[ chattering ]
[ clattering ]
Worker 1
What the hell is that? I don't know.
Worker 2
Hey! Get out-- get out of the way!
[ elephant trumpets ]
Worker 3
Ray! Get over there! Ray's hurt bad, man.
Worker 2
Somebody call it in! Hurry up! Get an ambulance!
Brewer
This is wesley brewer out on route seven. Looks like about an 8:00 e.t.a. On that trailer pickup. This fog's gonna slow me down.
Dispatcher
Ten-four, wesley. See you when you get here.
Brewer
Mother of god!
[ trumpets ]
Scene 02
Scene 02
[ grunting ]
[ sirens wailing ]
Girl
Mom, is she gonna die?
Mother
I'm sorry, sweetie.
Woman
She was just lying there when we found her, officer.
[ girl sobbing ]
Mother
They're doing their best.
Police Officer
Come on, folks. Stay back.
Girl
No, mom!
Police Officer
Thank you. Sir?
[ crying ]
Police Officer
Stay back.
[ groaning ]
[ chattering ]
Dana Scully
You saw nothing when the window broke? No one outside?
Janitor 1
No.
Janitor 2
Nothing.
Janitor 1
We heard a noise like thunder, then glass everywhere.
Dana Scully
Okay. Thank you.
Fox Mulder
What did the janitors say?
Dana Scully
They claim they didn't see anything.
Fox Mulder
The security monitors don't have a recording of anything either. Just a giant implosion of glass, like some kind of giant shock wave.
Dana Scully
What the janitors described sounds more like a sonic boom.
Fox Mulder
No sonic boom did this. The construction worker who was killed... Had his spine crushed like a string of seashells. A circular abrasion on his torso... In roughly the shape of an elephant's foot. Other workers at the site said they felt the ground shake, followed by a faint whiff of animal odor in the wind.
Dana Scully
If you're suggesting the elephant did this, it defies logic. Somebody would have seen it.
Fox Mulder
If somebody would have seen it, we wouldn't be here. Another vehicle would have left evidence of a collision, distress to the metal or paint. I can see signs of neither of those things. I'd be willing to admit the possibility of a tornado, but it's not really tornado season. I'd even be willing to entertain the notion of a black hole... Passing over the area or some cosmic anomaly, but it's not really black hole season either. If I was a betting man, I'd say that it was a--
Dana Scully
An invisible elephant?
Fox Mulder
I saw david copperfield make the statue of liberty disappear once.
Ed Meecham
Agent Mulder?
Fox Mulder
Yeah.
Ed Meecham
Ed Meecham, Fairfield zoo. Sorry for the holdup. We had trouble transporting Ganesha's body this morning.
Fox Mulder
This is agent Scully.
Ed Meecham
Hi.
Dana Scully
Have they determined what he died of?
Ed Meecham
She. Ganesha was a 12-year-old indian female. Near as I can figure, she ran herself into exhaustion.
Fox Mulder
How did she escape?
Ed Meecham
Well, now there's a puzzle. When I got the call this morning, I expected to find her cage open, but it was locked tight, just like I left it.
Fox Mulder
Any idea how she could have escaped the locked cage?
Ed Meecham
No, sir. No signs of tampering either.
Fox Mulder
I've read about the elephant rebellion in zoos across the country. A high incidence of elephants turning on their keepers, destroying their pens. Was Ganesha ever a problem like that?
Ed Meecham
Elephants are very big, very willful animals.
Fox Mulder
So you're saying there were problems?
Ed Meecham
The person you want to talk to about that is Willa Ambrose.
Dana Scully
Ambrose?
Ed Meecham
She's a naturalist. She was hired by the board of supervisors last year to oversee things. Now she's supposed to be the reigning authority.
Fox Mulder
In your opinion, the damage here on the street, could this have been caused by an escaped elephant?
Ed Meecham
In my honest opinion?
Fox Mulder
Yeah.
Ed Meecham
Sure. Will you excuse me?
Dana Scully
What you lookin' for, Mulder?
Fox Mulder
A local paper. I want to see if david copperfield is in town.
Scene 03
FAIRFIELD ZOO
[ chattering ]
Dana Scully
Excuse me. We're looking for Willa Ambrose.
Worker
There.
Dana Scully
Thank you. Ms. Ambrose?
Willa Ambrose
Yes?
Dana Scully
I'm agent Dana Scully. This is agent Mulder. We're with the FBI
Willa Ambrose
How can I help you?
Dana Scully
A federal employee was fatally injured last night. There seems to be a case developing around the elephant that escaped from your zoo.
Willa Ambrose
It was my understanding that the eyewitnesses to the accident... Said that they didn't know how the man was killed.
Fox Mulder
Actually, what we're trying to determine is how Ganesha escaped.
Willa Ambrose
What did ed tell you?
Fox Mulder
He found the cage locked, the same way he'd left it.
Willa Ambrose
What more can I say?
Fox Mulder
I don't want to belabor this, but a man was found trampled to death. An animal from your zoo was found 43 Miles from here. No one's looking to place any blame. We're just trying to understand the facts that led up to this incident.
Willa Ambrose
This is where Ganesha was held when she wasn't in her habitat.
Fox Mulder
Who has keys to this lock?
Willa Ambrose
Only myself and mr. Meecham. Otherwise, this is a restricted area. Elephants aren't particularly good jumpers, if that's what you're thinking.
Dana Scully
No. I was just wondering why such a small pen for such a large animal.
Willa Ambrose
The zoo was built in the 1940s. The pens and habitats are all too confining. I was brought on to expand and create more humane environments. Unfortunately, these things take time.
Fox Mulder
Those, uh, chains on the ground there?
Willa Ambrose
Those are tie-downs. They're meant to restrict the animals's movement. I disallowed their use when I came to work here.
Fox Mulder
Disallowed their use by whom?
Willa Ambrose
It was ed Meecham's practice that reflected an old, nonprogressive zoo policy.
Fox Mulder
How's your relationship with ed Meecham?
Willa Ambrose
I'm his boss and a woman, and ed doesn't like that much.
Dana Scully
Would he be vindictive enough to let Ganesha go as an act of sabotage?
Willa Ambrose
Well, if he did, that would be foolish. The facility is running at a deficit and in danger of losing its funding.
Fox Mulder
Have you spoken about the incident with ed?
Willa Ambrose
No. I think ed's got enough dealing with the w.a.o.
Dana Scully
The w.a.o.?
Fox Mulder
The wild again organization. They're a radical group that believes any captive animal is a crime against nature.
Willa Ambrose
Believe me, they're going to have a field day with this one. Excuse me.
Scene 04
CONSTRUCTION SITE, HIGHWAY 24
Kyle Lang
The w.a.o. Believes only tragedy results from keeping animals in captivity. In the wild, an elephant like that would roam an area of 20 square Miles minimum. Ganesha weighed in excess of 5,000 pounds, and she was being held in a 50-by-50-foot cage.
Dana Scully
And you consider that inhumane treatment?
Kyle Lang
It's like you or I living in a pickle barrel.
Dana Scully
According to FBI files, you've been arrested over a dozen times... For activities involving the kidnapping of circus and zoo animals.
Kyle Lang
The w.a.o. Sees it as liberation.
Dana Scully
Hm. Were you involved in the liberation of Ganesha?
Kyle Lang
That would make me an accessory to murder, wouldn't it? Endangering these animals is against everything we believe. These are incredibly spiritual creatures. Their rituals and behavior are linked... To a past no man ever witnessed. Did you know they actually bury their dead? They can visit an elephant graveyard centuries old... And know instinctively where the bones of their ancient ancestors lie.
Fox Mulder
What do you think Ganesha was running from?
Kyle Lang
You wanna see what she was running from? I'll show you.
Zoo Worker (video)
Get up! Pull! I got it.
Kyle Lang
This is how ed Meecham treats these majestic animals.
Fox Mulder
This is still going on?
Kyle Lang
Meecham's a barbarian. He's been torturing animals at the Fairfield zoo for years. We figure he's still at it. Eventually, we're going to get some proof. We're here to put pressure on the zoo.
Fox Mulder
Ms she's put a stop to most of his old practices?
Kyle Lang
Whatever Willa Ambrose's intentions, she's too preoccupied to really know how Meecham operates.
Dana Scully
Preoccupied with what?
Kyle Lang
A lawsuit she's fighting against the malawi government over a lowland gorilla named Sophie. Willa rescued her from a north african customshouse ten years ago. Raised her like a child. Now the malawi government wants her back.
Dana Scully
Will they win?
Kyle Lang
This is a perfect example of man's imperialism over the animal kingdom. The craven impulse to turn animals... Into objects for our own selfish pleasure.
Dana Scully
I thought you said she rescued this gorilla.
Kyle Lang
Rescued her so she could spend her life behind bars. Her obligation should have been to return the gorilla to the wild. All animals should run free.
Dana Scully
Even if that means trampling a man to death?
Kyle Lang
Maybe he should have gotten out of the way.
Fox Mulder
I'm sure he would have if he'd seen it coming. Thanks for your time, sir, and we'll get back to you soon. It's all happening at the zoo, Scully.
Dana Scully
Well, we found our suspects.
Fox Mulder
You think they busted out the elephant?
Dana Scully
You heard the man. "all animals should run free."
Fox Mulder
What about the eyewitness accounts, the security tapes, the fact no one actually saw an elephant until it was Miles away from the zoo?
Dana Scully
The lights they were using at the construction site were mercury vapor, 10,000 candlepower. They can restrict a man's ability to adjust his vision to the dark. And those security cameras are poor quality. A gray elephant may not have registered on tape... In the dim light in front of the building.
Fox Mulder
I'm not buying it, Scully. I think these guys are all talk.
Dana Scully
These guys are dedicated to exactly this kind of activity, unabashedly. Did you check out the night vision camera on the shelf?
Fox Mulder
No.
Dana Scully
Wouldn't surprise me if they tried to capitalize on their success.
Fox Mulder
By doing what?
Dana Scully
By liberating another animal. Willa Ambrose said that the zoo was in trouble financially. The loss of another big exhibit could shut them down entirely.
Fox Mulder
All right. You keep an eye on the w.a.o.
Dana Scully
And where are you going?
Fox Mulder
Talk to the animals.
Scene 05
JOJO'S COPY CENTER
Frohike
Beam me up, scotty.
Fox Mulder
Anybody ever tell you the camera loves you, Frohike?
Frohike
Yeah, the arresting officers at the "free james brown" rally.
Byers
So what's this costing the taxpayers, Mulder?
Fox Mulder
Uh, about 150 bucks an hour.
Frohike
Ouch! Almost as much as bill clinton's haircuts.
Fox Mulder
Where's langley?
Byers
He has a philosophical issue... With having his image bounced off a satellite.
Frohike
What are you doing in Idaho?
Fox Mulder
I'm in Fairfield. What do you know about it?
Byers
They got a little zoo there. Lots of strange lore. Animals escaping, disappearing without a trace.
Fox Mulder
Any idea why?
Frohike
You're not far from the mountain home air base. Major UFO hot spot.
Byers
Weird fact, Mulder. No animal at Fairfield zoo has ever brought a pregnancy to term.
Frohike
Not a cub or a chick.
Byers
The woman who runs the zoo has a gorilla that knows sign language, supposedly with the vocabulary of 1,000 words.
Frohike
[ phone rings ] if that's the lovely agent Scully, let her know I've been working out. I'm buff.
Fox Mulder
Mulder.
Dana Scully
Mulder, it's me. I was right. I just followed the kid from the w.a.o. To the zoo. He's just about to make it over the fence.
Fox Mulder
All right. I'll be right there, Scully.
[ gasps ]
Ed Meecham
What the hell are you doing here?
Dana Scully
There's a member of the w.a.o. On the premises.
Ed Meecham
Come with me.
[ growling ]
[ animal roars ]
[ monkeys screeching ]
[ roars ]
[ screeching ]
[ growling ]
[ screeching ]
Dana Scully
What's going on?
[ animals screeching ]
Willa Ambrose
Sophie, calm down.
[ grunting ]
[ screeching continues ]
[ screams ]
[ tiger growling ]
[ tiger growling ]
[ tiger roars ]
[ screams ]
[ moaning ]
[ tiger snarls ]
[ tiger growling ]
[ man screaming ]
Scene 06
W.A.O. OFFICES
Kyle Lang
T know what you're talking about.
Dana Scully
You have no idea what he was doing at the zoo?
Kyle Lang
If you're asking did I have any idea of his intentions, the answer is simple-- not the slightest.
Dana Scully
What if I told you I saw this camera on the shelf yesterday?
Kyle Lang
Guess I never noticed it before.
Dana Scully
A tiger is missing, and a member of your organization is dead. For such a principled man, you show an amazing lack of emotion.
Kyle Lang
If the tiger killed this person, then it was a natural act.
Dana Scully
If I find evidence that he was releasing those animals under your orders, I'll make sure you spend the rest of your life behind bars.
Fox Mulder
Scully?
Dana Scully
You know, that guy really pisses me off.
Fox Mulder
You okay, Scully?
Dana Scully
Yeah.
Fox Mulder
You calmed down?
Dana Scully
Have they found the tiger yet?
Fox Mulder
No, but I took a look at the cassette from the kid's recorder. He wasn't killed by the tiger.
Dana Scully
What?
Fox Mulder
Unless it's trick photography, that kid was killed by some kind of phantom attacker.
Dana Scully
You saw his body. That kid was mauled to death. He had deep claw marks on his chest and back.
Fox Mulder
I can't explain it either, but I know someone who might be able to. Excuse me, ms. Ambrose? Can we have a word with you?
Willa Ambrose
I don't know anything more than I've told the police. I have nothing to say.
Fox Mulder
Is this where you keep Sophie?
Willa Ambrose
Sophie is ill.
Fox Mulder
Do you think we could meet her? We're not here to try to take her away from you.
[ keys jingle ]
[ groaning ]
Willa Ambrose
About six weeks ago, I had to take Sophie out of her public habitat. She'd become so withdrawn and depressed. She'd curl into a ball in the corner of her cage and just shiver.
Fox Mulder
Did you ask her why?
Willa Ambrose
All the time.
Fox Mulder
What did she say?
Willa Ambrose
"light. Afraid." literally, she's afraid of the light.
Dana Scully
She speaks to you?
Willa Ambrose
Over 600 words using american sign language. She understands over a thousand. I'll show you her vocabulary list.
Dana Scully
Is this who you wanted to speak to?
Fox Mulder
It's basic investigative procedure, agent Scully-- interview all possible witnesses.
Willa Ambrose
Gorillas are highly sensitive creatures, and Sophie's use of language skills makes her even more so.
Dana Scully
Why would she be afraid of the light?
Willa Ambrose
You've obviously heard about the trouble with the malawi government. There's a chance that Sophie could be taken away from me, and I think that she knows that.
Fox Mulder
Are these Sophie's?
Willa Ambrose
Yes.
Fox Mulder
What do they mean?
Willa Ambrose
Until recently, Sophie desperately wanted a baby. The brown object in the center is her expression of that.
Fox Mulder
Have you tried to mate her?
Willa Ambrose
We were looking for a suitable partner, but under these stressful conditions, I didn't want to put her through it.
Fox Mulder
Do you have a veterinary facility here?
Willa Ambrose
Yeah.
Fox Mulder
This may seem like a rather strange request, but it might explain what's going on. I'm going to need your help too, Scully.
Dana Scully
I hope you know what you're getting us into, Mulder.
Fox Mulder
I'm pretty sure of what we're going to find.
Dana Scully
This isn't exactly in my job description.
Fox Mulder
Ah, next thing you know, they'll be doing it on mtv sports.
Willa Ambrose
Okay. The elephant's cavity is clear. I'm ready for you. The knife's right down here.
Dana Scully
Okay.
Fox Mulder
I've been told there's never been a successful pregnancy at the Fairfield zoo. Well, is it true?
Willa Ambrose
Yes. But I don't think for the reasons kyle claims. Not because ed Meecham has done anything to these animals.
Fox Mulder
Why then?
Willa Ambrose
Because bringing a pregnancy to term... In captivity is always difficult.
Fox Mulder
But a perfect failure rate?
Willa Ambrose
I know. It's one of the things I was determined to change when I came to the zoo.
Fox Mulder
Was an attempt ever made to mate Ganesha?
Willa Ambrose
No. Mating an elephant out of the wild is rarely successful. There have only been six elephants born... In captivity over the last ten years. Here's the uterine tissue, but I'm still not clear on what you expect to find.
Dana Scully
You're right, Mulder. The signs in the uterus... And the ovaries are unmistakable.
Willa Ambrose
So, what did you find?
Dana Scully
This animal had been pregnant.
Willa Ambrose
What are you talking about?
Dana Scully
There's evidence of hyperplasia, and the corpus luteum is ruptured.
Willa Ambrose
That's not possible.
Fox Mulder
Neither is an invisible elephant.
Willa Ambrose
What is going on here?
Fox Mulder
Whatever it is, it's been going on for some time. And I think you'll find evidence of the same thing when your tiger returns.
Scene 07
BLAKE TOWERS CONSTRUCTION SITE, DOWNTOWN BOISE
Worker 1
I still can't believe you bet on the chargers.
[ tiger growls ]
Worker 2
You hear that?
Worker 1
Hear what?
[ tiger roars ]
[ chattering ]
Ed Meecham
Where's the tiger?
Policeman
Somewhere inside the construction site. He's got two men trapped in there.
Willa Ambrose
Put the gun away, ed.
Ed Meecham
You want to be responsible for another death, ms. Ambrose?
Willa Ambrose
I think we can capture this cat without any harm to anyone.
Ed Meecham
This is no time for wishful thinking.
Willa Ambrose
I'm ordering you, ed.
[ sirens wailing ]
Ed Meecham
Yes, ma'am. Lead the way.
Willa Ambrose
Thank you.
Dana Scully
How'd the tiger get all the way across town without being spotted?
Fox Mulder
I don't know, but we'd better find her before Meecham does.
[ whispering ] hey. Shh. [ gasps ]
Worker 1
It was just here.
[ tiger roars ]
[ screams, gunshot ]
Ed Meecham
It's all right, Willa. They don't all talk and draw pictures.
Scene 08
Scene 08
Board Member
This last incident has left the board... With no choice but to withdraw all funding.
Willa Ambrose
If that's your decision, then there's nothing else I can say.
Board Member
I'm sorry. It really is a shame. It's too bad.
Willa Ambrose
I'm out of a job. They've cut off all funding. The animals are being shipped out to other zoos starting monday.
Fox Mulder
I'm sorry.
Willa Ambrose
It could not have happened at a worse time.
Fox Mulder
You mean for Sophie?
Willa Ambrose
What I had going for me was my position here, having a place for her. Have the results come in on the tiger?
Fox Mulder
Agent Scully just finished the test. The tiger had been pregnant too.
Willa Ambrose
It's impossible. There's no chance those animals could get pregnant.
Fox Mulder
What if they'd been artificially inseminated?
Willa Ambrose
That's an extremely fine and complex process. I would have known.
Fox Mulder
Unless it was done somewhere else.
Willa Ambrose
Where?
Fox Mulder
What do you know about alien abduction?
[ laughs ]
Willa Ambrose
You're-- you're kidding me. You think that these animals were taken aboard some spaceship?
Fox Mulder
I don't know where they're being taken, but there's some problem getting them back, due to what is probably an astrological variation, a trouble with the time/space continuum. These animals that are being taken from locked cages... Are being returned roughly two Miles west-southwest of this zoo.
Willa Ambrose
Aliens impregnating zoo animals.
Fox Mulder
Yes, and harvesting the embryos.
Willa Ambrose
Why?
Fox Mulder
Maybe their own noah's ark-- to preserve the DNA of these animals that we're depleting to extinction. Whatever it is, that's probably the reason... You've never had a successful birth at this facility.
Willa Ambrose
I think that's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard.
Fox Mulder
I understand that you might think it's ridiculous. Maybe you should ask Sophie.
Willa Ambrose
You think this is what she's so afraid of?
Fox Mulder
I believe she's pregnant, and she's afraid of them coming for her baby.
Willa Ambrose
Sophie, come here. I want to ask you a question. It's okay, Sophie.
[ grunting ]
Willa Ambrose
Come here.
[ grunting ]
Fox Mulder
What'd she say?
Willa Ambrose
She says, "man, woman hurt." she thinks you or your partner are going to hurt her or me. Sophie. Man, woman are here to help you. They want to know about Sophie's baby.
[ grunting ]
Fox Mulder
Can I ask her a question?
Willa Ambrose
Yeah.
Fox Mulder
Will you ask her if she wants to leave here?
Willa Ambrose
Sophie, do you want to leave here?
[ grunting ]
Willa Ambrose
She says, "light. Afraid." Sophie, what are you afraid of? Tell me.
Fox Mulder
What did she say?
Willa Ambrose
She said, "baby go flying light."
[ knock on door ]
Dana Scully
I just finished up in the infirmary. The sheriff's deputy came looking to serve you papers. I think it's about Sophie.
[ grunting ]
Willa Ambrose
What am I gonna do?
Fox Mulder
You can't leave Sophie here, not if you want to protect her.
Willa Ambrose
I have nowhere to take her.
[ knock on door ]
Deputy
Excuse me. Willa Ambrose?
Willa Ambrose
Yes.
Deputy
I'm serving you with a court order... To release a gorilla named Sophie into protective custody.
[ grunting ]
Kyle Lang
What are you doing here?
Willa Ambrose
I've come to ask for your help, kyle.
Kyle Lang
Help with what?
Willa Ambrose
Sophie. They've taken her into protective custody.
Kyle Lang
Let her go, Willa.
Willa Ambrose
They're putting her in an iron cage as we speak, without bars, without windows. It'll kill her.
Kyle Lang
Sophie's been behind bars her entire life. Let her go home. She'll have the freedom she deserves.
Willa Ambrose
Freedom to what? Be killed by poachers and have her hands cut off as souvenirs?
Kyle Lang
She'll be in a preserve.
Willa Ambrose
She's mine, kyle. I won't let her go! Please. Come on. We can find a place for her here. A private reserve. You know people.
Kyle Lang
That's against everything I stand for.
Willa Ambrose
She's pregnant.
Kyle Lang
What?
Willa Ambrose
Sophie's pregnant.
Kyle Lang
I don't believe you, Willa.
Willa Ambrose
[ sighs ] it's true.
Kyle Lang
What if she was? Is the baby going to live its life behind bars too? Look, Willa. She doesn't belong to you. She's not your child. She belongs with other gorillas, not selling tickets for a zoo.
Willa Ambrose
You won't help me?
Kyle Lang
No.
[ door opens, closes ]
[ animals grunting, squawking ]
Dana Scully
Wanna see something interesting?
Fox Mulder
Where'd you get this?
Dana Scully
I was looking for a pen to finish my report in Willa's office... And that was in her drawer.
Fox Mulder
It's a small world after all.
Willa Ambrose
[ panicked grunting ] it's okay, Sophie. Sophie. Sophie. Don't worry. I'm with you. I love you too.
Kyle Lang
Willa? Willa, you here?
[ growling ]
[ growling ]
[ chittering ]
Kyle Lang
Willa, where are you? Willa?
[ rustling ]
[ screams ]
Scene 09
Scene 09
Willa Ambrose
I told you. It happened exactly the way it did with the tiger. I heard the animals going crazy. I got out of bed to check on Sophie, and she was gone. That's when I found kyle.
Dana Scully
Do you have any idea what he would have been doing at the zoo?
Willa Ambrose
No.
Dana Scully
A witness says you visited kyle's office yesterday. Is that true?
Willa Ambrose
Yeah.
Dana Scully
For what purpose?
Willa Ambrose
Basically to tell him that he'd won. That the zoo was being shut down. That Sophie was taken into protective custody.
Dana Scully
Did you ask him to help you take Sophie to prevent her from being taken from you?
Willa Ambrose
No. That would be against everything kyle believed in.
Dana Scully
But he helped you to rescue her originally, isn't that correct? He had a connection to you and to this animal that went back several years.
Willa Ambrose
Whatever connection he and I had, it was over long ago.
Dana Scully
But you asked him anyway to help you.
Willa Ambrose
No.
Dana Scully
Then what was he doing here last night and why did he give you this note?
Willa Ambrose
I don't know. I told you.
Dana Scully
Did he make it a habit of visiting the zoo?
Willa Ambrose
If he did, it was probably late at night... After he jumped over the fence like a good w.a.o. Soldier. Anyway, why don't you ask agent Mulder what he thinks happened? He seems to have a novel theory. Maybe it was alien abduction.
Fox Mulder
Scully, can I talk to you for a second?
Dana Scully
You think she's telling the truth.
Fox Mulder
Why do you say that?
Dana Scully
Kyle lang's death and the disappearance of the animal... Match the previous incidents.
Fox Mulder
Yes.
Dana Scully
And you've been pushing this alien abduction angle.
Fox Mulder
I still am. But in this case, Willa's reactions are all wrong.
Dana Scully
To losing Sophie?
Fox Mulder
I think she knows where Sophie is, and kyle lang died because he knows what she's capable of.
Dana Scully
You think she killed him?
Fox Mulder
I think she'd do anything to protect that animal.
Dana Scully
Even wait atop a stack of crates for her former lover to walk underneath?
Fox Mulder
An examination of the body will give a lot clearer picture of what happened. You do that, and I'll check out the warehouse.
[ growling ]
[ clatter ]
Dana Scully
Looks like you're in a hurry.
Willa Ambrose
Well, there isn't much to hang around for, is there?
Dana Scully
I'm afraid there is. I found evidence that kyle died a wrongful death. He was hit with a cattle prod. There's going to be an investigation, so I have to read you your rights.
Willa Ambrose
It was an accident. Kyle surprised ed. He wasn't supposed to be there.
Dana Scully
Ed Meecham took Sophie?
Willa Ambrose
Yes. There was no one else to turn to.
Dana Scully
Where is she, Willa?
Willa Ambrose
Ed has her. She's in some building... On the road to Boise.
Fox Mulder
Put it down, ed. There's been enough violence, don't you think?
Ed Meecham
I didn't kill kyle lang.
Fox Mulder
Put down the gun, and we'll talk about it.
Ed Meecham
I was only doing what she paid me to do.
Fox Mulder
Where's the animal, ed?
Ed Meecham
Down the hall.
Fox Mulder
You show me where.
[ growling, pounding ]
Fox Mulder
What is she doing?
Ed Meecham
She's throwing herself against the door. She's gone crazy.
Fox Mulder
She's scared.
Ed Meecham
Yeah? Well, she's gonna kill herself.
[ growling, pounding ]
Fox Mulder
Okay, ed. You're going to have to save her. Take your tranquilizer gun. I'll be right behind you.
Ed Meecham
I've only got one dart, so you gotta get her out in the light.
Fox Mulder
Do you see her?
Ed Meecham
I think she's over in that corner over there.
[ Sophie roars ]
Fox Mulder
Hey, Meecham!
[ Sophie grunting ]
Fox Mulder
I'm not going to hurt you.
[ grunting ]
[ screams ]
[ Sophie roars ]
Dana Scully
Mulder? Mulder? Ow! Sorry. Lie still.
Fox Mulder
Where's Sophie?
Dana Scully
Get a paramedic.
Policeman
Yes, ma'am.
Fox Mulder
Meecham.
Dana Scully
Meecham's been arrested. We picked him up on the way to Boise. That's how we found you here.
Fox Mulder
They took Sophie.
Dana Scully
Who did?
Fox Mulder
Where's Willa?
Dana Scully
She's outside. She's going in to make a statement about kyle lang.
Fox Mulder
I've got to talk to her.
Willa Ambrose
Where is she?
Fox Mulder
She's gone.
Willa Ambrose
What did he do to her?
Fox Mulder
It wasn't ed. She tried to tell me something. What is that?
Willa Ambrose
That doesn't make any sense.
Fox Mulder
What does it mean? "man save man."
Dispatcher (radio)
We've just received a report of a large animal... Spotted down on the interstate just west of the service road off 99.
Fox Mulder
That's her.
Willa Ambrose
She's heading back towards the zoo.
Dispatcher (radio)
Unit 12, we have trouble reported at the junior high.
[ sirens wailing ]
Willa Ambrose
Where is she?
Officer
Over there.
Dana Scully
What happened here?
Officer
Animal got hit by a car. Ran off into the field.
Dispatcher (radio)
Unit 21 is in the area. E.t.a. Five minutes.
Willa Ambrose
No! No, no, no, no! No! Sophie? Sophie?
[ sobbing ]
Willa Ambrose
Oh, no, no!
Fox Mulder
Willa Ambrose and ed Meecham... Have been charged with manslaughter for the death of kyle lang. Though the courts will rule on this matter and justice will no doubt be served, the pall of a greater tragedy remains. The motives of the silent visitors who set these events in motion remain unclear. Could this be a judgment on a global rate of extinction... That has risen to 1,000 times its natural rate in this century? An act of alien conservation of animals we are driving hard toward oblivion? And if so, might it follow that our own fate and existence... Could finally be dependent on the conservatorship of an extraterrestrial race? Or in the simple words of a creature whose own future is uncertain, "will man save man?"
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