Dr. Faraday
When I began my field research here, these frogs were thriving. Since then, the adult population has dropped to fewer than 200. If you don't take protective measures, in a few years... Rhinus venisefula will be extinct here.
Season 3 · Episode 22
Quagmire
Character-labelled dialogue prepared from the official DVD subtitle track.
Production code3X22Original airdate · May 3, 1996
299 dialogue entries
Scene 01
STRIKER'S COVE
[ croaking ]
Bailey
Frog populations are declining all over the globe, dr. Faraday. No one knows why. We can't possibly place them all on the endangered species list.
Dr. Faraday
We'd find a way if it were cute, furry little mammals we were talking about.
Bailey
Regardless, your study remains inconclusive-- speculative at best. You've provided no concrete evidence... The frog depopulation is the exclusive result of human encroachment.
Dr. Faraday
A frog holocaust is currently being executed, dr. Bailey, and man is the executioner.
Bailey
You're a biologist, Faraday. You've never heard of "survival of the fittest"?
Dr. Faraday
Well, don't forget that rule also applies to mankind. You can't turn your back on nature... Or nature will turn her back on you!
Bailey
Aw, damn it. [ sighs ]
Scene 02
COUNTY RD 33
Bailey
Freakin' beeper.
[ wings rustle, all animal sounds stop ]
[ beeping ]
[ continues beeping ]
[ crunching ]
[ screaming ]
Bailey
[ screaming ] no! No! No!
[ croaks ]
[ whimpering ]
Dana Scully
Nature's calling. We should pull over soon.
Fox Mulder
Did you really have to bring that thing?
Dana Scully
You wake me up on a saturday morning, tell me to be ready in five minutes, my mother is out of town, all the dog-sitters are booked, and you know how I feel about kennels. [ whimpering continues ] so, unless you want to lose your security deposit on the car, I suggest you pull over.
Fox Mulder
All right, well, I think I'm lost anyway. I gotta stop and ask for directions.
Dana Scully
I know I'm lost as to why you're so interested in this missing-persons case.
Fox Mulder
Dr. Bailey works for the u.s. Forestry service. Makes his disappearance a federal case.
Dana Scully
It's not jurisdiction that I'm questioning, Mulder.
Fox Mulder
Dr. Bailey's not the first person to go missing from huevelmans lake recently. Two weeks ago, a boy scout troop was out here fossil hunting. Their troop leader wandered off to relieve himself. He hasn't been seen or heard from since.
Dana Scully
So you think that there's a serial killer at large?
Fox Mulder
The operative word being "large."
Dana Scully
What are you leaving out?
Fox Mulder
What makes you think I'm leaving anything out?
Dana Scully
Multiple missing-persons cases are not that uncommon, Mulder. Why this one warrants us flying halfway across the country and driving for two hours... Is a total mystery. Oh, tell me you're not serious.
Scene 03
ECOLOGY SCIENCES LAB
Dana Scully
According to the sheriff's report, you were the last person to see dr. Bailey alive.
Dr. Faraday
That's what they tell me.
Dana Scully
I understand you argued over an endangered species petition.
Dr. Faraday
Bailey was the worst kind of hypocrite. The closest he came to communing with nature was subscribing to national geographic.
Dana Scully
You sound bitter, dr. Faraday.
Dr. Faraday
Of course I'm bitter. The man wrote off three years of carefully collected data in a two-hour inspection... Which doesn't mean I plotted his demise. Well, that is what you're suggesting, isn't it?
Dana Scully
Well, aside from having a motive, you don't seem too upset by any of this.
Dr. Faraday
You expect me to cry for one man when entire species are perched on the brink of extinction?
Fox Mulder
Dr. Faraday, you know the wildlife in and around this lake as well as anybody, don't you?
Dr. Faraday
I'd say that's accurate.
Fox Mulder
Any indigenous species capable of attacking a human being?
Dr. Faraday
Yes. Another human being.
Fox Mulder
Aside from that. Is there a creature that comes to mind--
Dr. Faraday
Has anyone ever told you two you have a great problem coming to the point?
Fox Mulder
Okay, then. In your work, have you come across any evidence... That lends support to the existence of this creature they call "Big Blue"?
Dr. Faraday
See, this is what always happens. This is how it starts.
Fox Mulder
What?
Dr. Faraday
The deflection, sleight of hand. See, whenever an issue requires any real thought, any serious mental effort, people turn to UFO's and sea serpents and sasquatch. [ tools clattering ] afternoon talk shows and tabloid TV-- they've reduced our attention span to the length of a sound bite... So that soon our ability to think will be as extinct as the rhinus venisefula frog.
Fox Mulder
I'll take that rambling diatribe to mean you don't believe in the existence of such a creature.
Dr. Faraday
I'm not even gonna grace that statement with a reply.
Fox Mulder
A prehistoric animal living in a lake is not without precedent. Last august they pulled a bull shark from lake onota in Massachusetts.
Dr. Faraday
An anomaly... Which proves nothing. It only serves as fodder for pseudoscientists... With nothing better to do than chase fairy tales. Excuse me.
Scene 04
Scene 04
[ yapping ]
Fox Mulder
Lake creatures have been reported for centuries... In dozens of countries, from the monsters in Loch Ness and shale... To the ogo pogo on lake okanaga.
Dana Scully
And lake champlain, lagaflan, iceland--
Fox Mulder
Sounds like you know a little something about the subject.
Dana Scully
I did as a kid. But then I grew up and became a scientist.
Fox Mulder
Well, some very grown-up cryptozoologists believe... That it could be an evolutionary throwback, possibly prehistoric.
Dana Scully
An aquatic dinosaur.
Fox Mulder
A pleiosaur, actually. Though, admittedly, there's not a lot of hard evidence to back that up.
Dana Scully
You know why? Because those creatures don't exist, Mulder. They're folktales born out of some collective fear of the unknown.
Fox Mulder
How many folktales do you know that could eat a boy scout leader and a biologist?
[ bell on door rings ]
Fox Mulder
Check this out, Scully.
Dana Scully
Looks like an insect casing or carapace-- something from a beetle.
Ted Bertram
How can I help you folks?
Fox Mulder
We're looking for the lake view cabins, flicker road.
Ted Bertram
Oh, you passed the turnoff a few Miles back. It's pretty tough to find. A map might help. Uh, they're 2.50 each, plus uncle sam.
Fox Mulder
Fine.
Ted Bertram
If you don't mind my sayin', you folks don't look like you're here for the trout.
Dana Scully
No, we're with the FBI we're investigating a pair of missing-persons reports.
Ted Bertram
Everybody's been talkin' about it.
Fox Mulder
What are they saying?
Ted Bertram
Same thing they've been saying for years. I'm not one for spreading rumors. I've heard the stories since I was a kid.
Fox Mulder
About Big Blue. What kind of stories?
Ted Bertram
Well, I was ten years old, fishin' with my daddy. I heard a big commotion, clear across the lake-- a wailing sound the likes of which I had never heard before, haven't heard since. My daddy told me later it was a cow who'd escaped from the rockdale ranch... And was drinkin' by the lake when old blue came up and snatched her right off the bank.
Dana Scully
That's quite a story.
Ted Bertram
That's just one.
Dana Scully
Those stories must sell a lot of t-shirts.
[ chuckling ]
Ted Bertram
Well, a man's gotta survive.
Fox Mulder
What about you-- you believe those stories?
Ted Bertram
Well, I believe every man's gotta look at the evidence, decide for himself. [ bell rings ] but if you wanna ask a real expert... You should probably talk to Ansel here. He's out there practically every day. It was his daddy's cow that got eaten.
Ansel Bray
Can you get these developed by tomorrow, ted? Gimme another five rolls. Put 'em on my tab. [ sighs ]
Ted Bertram
These folks are with the FBI, Ansel. They're looking into that unsolved mystery of how those people disappeared.
Ansel Bray
"unsolved mystery." since when's it a mystery?
Fox Mulder
So you think Big Blue's responsible for what's been happening?
Ansel Bray
Don't you?
Fox Mulder
Have you ever actually seen it?
Ansel Bray
Not directly, no. But I aim to. One day, I'll be in the right place at the right time, and I will snap a shot of that monster.
Fisherman
There we go. All right.
[ reel spins ] [ grunts ]
Fisherman
Son of a gun!
Ted Bertram
Now, if you hit striker's cove, you've gone too far.
Ansel Bray
[ bell rings ] call the sheriff. We got a floater.
[ camera shutter clicking ]
[ grunting ]
Fox Mulder
It's scott moosley, the boy scout troop leader.
Dana Scully
[ sighs ] well, his fly's undone.
Fox Mulder
Are you insinuating something?
Dana Scully
No, most drowning victims are found with high levels of alcohol in their blood... And their flies unzipped. While urinating over the sides of boats, docks or whatever, they fall in and drown.
Fox Mulder
Still doesn't explain why half of him is missing. Looks to me like something took a big bite.
Dana Scully
Maybe not so big.
Fox Mulder
What do you mean?
Dana Scully
Fish eat decomposing matter. Any body that's suspended in this environment for a time... Is going to become a food source-- we eat fish, and fish eat us.
Fox Mulder
Are fish also known for eating half and saving half for later?
Scene 05
Scene 05
[ camera shutter continues clicking ]
[ animals chirping, croaking, squawking ]
[ panting ]
[ grunting ]
[ fearful panting ]
[ grunting ]
[ splashing ]
[ screaming ]
[ whimpering, yelling ]
Ted Bertram
Oh, god, no! No! No! Help me!
[ splashing, screaming continue ]
Ansel Bray
Like I said, I recognize his hat.
Fox Mulder
How could you not?
Ansel Bray
So, there's ted Bertram's four-by parked about a mile up that way, here's his hat, and here's these tracks. Know what I'm sayin'? I mean, look at the size of these tracks. [ chattering, indistinct ]
Dana Scully
Mulder, this is sheriff lance head.
Fox Mulder
W-watch out for the tracks. Careful. Watch out where you're walking.
Dana Scully
Queequeg.
Sheriff Lance Hindt
How you doin'? Ansel, why don't you go... Check the woods?
Ansel Bray
Today's the day, sheriff. I'm gonna get him. Yeah.
Fox Mulder
Any sign of ted Bertram?
Sheriff Lance Hindt
No, and I'm not jumpin' to any conclusions either. Speakin' of which, what's this I hear about you wantin' to close the lake?
Fox Mulder
Just until we figure out what's going on here.
Sheriff Lance Hindt
Well, sir, I think I can tell you what's going on. Same thing goes on every year. Fishermen get drunk, they drown. Folks get run over by a powerboat. Hell, on a lake this size, you're gonna have eight, nine deaths in a season. That's just a statistical fact.
Fox Mulder
But you've got two or three in as many weeks. I'd say you're a little outside of your bell curve, sheriff.
Sheriff Lance Hindt
Agent... Mulder? Mulder. This lake has 48 Miles of shoreline. I got four deputies full time. Now, to close down a lake this size-- hell, you'd have to call out the national guard for something like that.
Dana Scully
You'd need irrefutable proof.
Fox Mulder
What about these tracks?
Dana Scully
But, Mulder, a creature as large as the one you're looking for would... Have left considerably deeper impressions. Queequeg!
[ barking ]
Dana Scully
Queequeg, come back here! Queequeg!
[ dog whimpering ]
Dana Scully
Mulder, sheriff, come take a look at this.
Sheriff Lance Hindt
What you got?
Dana Scully
There's your lake monster, Mulder.
Fox Mulder
That's what it looks like.
Dana Scully
It's all a hoax.
Sheriff Lance Hindt
I'll be damned. Sure seems like it.
Fox Mulder
Yeah, but what happened to the hoaxer?
Scene 06
Scene 06
Dude
I saw it on the... Discovery channel. They got like this whole, you know, cult... Built up around these tree toads. [ sighs ] the skin's got these hallucinogenic properties. Lets you see all these visions. It's really spiritual.
Chick
Yeah? I don't know.
Dude
It's supposed to take the doors of perception... And swing them so wide open, you know? Plus you get to see all these cool streaks and trails and crap.
[ groans ]
Chick
Well? Are you sure that's even a toad?
[ screams ]
Dude
Dude, what's wrong with you? You made me drop my toad.
Diver
Chill out, man. I'll get you another one.
Dude
How long till we get down to lauderdale?
Scene 07
Scene 07
[ screaming ]
[ continues screaming ]
Dude
Dude! Oh, no. Dude? Whoa.
[ police radio, indistinct ]
Sheriff Lance Hindt
How 'bout you? Neither one of you remember anything? Great.
Fox Mulder
If this is a hoax, it's quite an elaborate one.
Sheriff Lance Hindt
I got zip outta free bird and moon unit. No telling what they've been smoking. What's it lookin' like?
Dana Scully
It's hard to tell without an autopsy, but it looks like propeller damage from a motorboat.
Sheriff Lance Hindt
Designated boating area.
Fox Mulder
But 20 feet from shore and twice in one day?
Dana Scully
Mulder, look at it out there. It's like rush hour.
Fox Mulder
I think you're ignoring the obvious. What about ted Bertram?
Dana Scully
For all we know, he stepped in something and bled into those funny shoes of his. He's probably so embarrassed right now that he doesn't even want to show his face.
Fox Mulder
Oh, is that the psychological approach to crime-solving-- he's too embarrassed?
Dana Scully
Regardless of what I believe, there's no hard evidence that it's what you believe.
Ansel Bray
♪ see your true colors shinin' through ♪ ♪ see your true colors ♪ ♪ that's why I love you ♪ ♪ so don't be afraid ♪ ♪ to show your true ♪ ♪ blue colors ♪ okay, Big Blue. You're mine. Today's the day. ♪ colors ♪ ♪ that's why I love you ♪ crap! Jesus!
[ shutter clicking ]
[ screaming ]
Officer
Yeah, right over there.
Fox Mulder
This roll's been exposed. Can you get that developed?
Officer
Yes, sir.
Fox Mulder
Thanks. That's three in one day, sheriff. All this driving from crime scene to crime scene is giving me highway hypnosis. Close down the lake.
Sheriff Lance Hindt
I done told you once. It ain't that simple. I just ain't got the manpower. Furthermore, I'm not at all convinced we're dealing with an aquatic menace.
Dana Scully
He's right, Mulder. Those two sets of remains we've found so far are inconclusive. We really need to find this body.
Sheriff Lance Hindt
My thoughts exactly, ma'am. If you'll just give us a couple more minutes--
Sheriff Lance Hindt
Whoa!
Fox Mulder
Sheriff!
Dana Scully
Sheriff!
Fox Mulder
[ panting ] you all right, sheriff?
Dana Scully
Are you okay, sheriff?
Sheriff Lance Hindt
Uh, somethin'--
Sheriff Lance Hindt
Somethin' brushed up against me out there-- somethin'... Big. Close the lake. Close it down! Right, sheriff. Yeah. I want you to call the state police and the wildlife fish and game. You tell 'em we got an emergency situation.
Dana Scully
Looks like Ansel took these during the attack. [ dog whimpering ]
Fox Mulder
I agree with you. I just wish he gave us something more. Well, look at this. [ whimpering continues ] could this be a tooth?
Dana Scully
Yeah, it could be a lot of things, Mulder. Fifteen years of fruitless hunting and the only thing the guy comes up with... Is a blurry picture of the monster's tooth?
Fox Mulder
Well, there are thousands of pictures here, Scully. There's gotta be some visual evidence somewhere. Here, go through these.
[ whimpering continues ]
Dana Scully
Mulder, these are just a bunch of poorly-composed tourist shots. There's--
Fox Mulder
That could be something.
Dana Scully
A tooth?
[ whimpering continues ]
Dana Scully
I'm taking Queequeg for a walk.
Fox Mulder
Want me to come with you?
[ chuckles ]
Dana Scully
I'll be fine.
[ whimpering ]
Dana Scully
Good night, Mulder.
Fox Mulder
All right. I'll see you in the morning.
Dana Scully
Come on, Queequeg.
[ growls ]
[ sighs ]
[ barking ]
Dana Scully
Queequeg, we're not gonna go into the woods. Come on, do your business. I thought you had to go. [ continues barking ] Queequeg. What is it?
Scene 08
Scene 08
[ barks, snarls ]
Dana Scully
Queequeg! Where are you going? Queequeg! Queequeg, come back here! [ barking continues ] Queequeg! Queequeg. [ barking continues ] Queequeg!
[ leash winding ]
[ dog whimpering ]
Dana Scully
But-- quee-- [ growling, snarling ]
[ dog squeals ]
Dana Scully
Queequ--
[ panting ]
[ spooling ]
Dana Scully
Queequ--
[ gasps ]
Fox Mulder
I'm sorry about Queequeg. You know, I think I've learned something from these photos.
Dana Scully
Mulder--
Fox Mulder
They're not pictures of the lake monster, they're pictures of the lake-- locations where the creature's been sighted over the years. Look at this. Five years ago, all the sightings occurred in the center of the lake, but progressively the sightings have moved closer and closer to shore... Until this year, they're practically on the shore.
Dana Scully
Could you repeat the last part again? I kinda faded out.
Fox Mulder
Which-which part?
Dana Scully
After you said, "I'm sorry."
Fox Mulder
Can you drive a boat?
Scene 09
Scene 09
[ sonar beeping ]
Dana Scully
It's too bad we're not out here fishing.
Fox Mulder
We are fishing.
Dana Scully
You really expect to find this thing, don't you, Mulder?
Fox Mulder
You wanna head right h-here.
Dana Scully
I'll take that as a "yes."
Fox Mulder
I know the difference between expectation and hope. Seek and ye shall find, Scully.
Dana Scully
You know, on the old mariners' maps, the cartographers would designate... Uncharted territories by writing "here be monsters."
Fox Mulder
Oh, I got a map of New York city just like that.
Dana Scully
[ sonic beeping increases ] what was that?
Fox Mulder
It ain't no bass.
[ beeping continues ]
Dana Scully
What is that? What is that, Mulder?
[ beeping increases ]
Fox Mulder
There be monsters, Scully.
Dana Scully
It looks like it's coming straight at us.
Fox Mulder
Yep, that's what it looks like. [ beeping increases ]
[ crashing ]
Dana Scully
Mayday! Mayday! Does anybody read me? This is a distress call from the patricia rae. Pa7a3a27. I'm on a signal--
[ crashing continues ]
Dana Scully
Mayday! Mayday!
Fox Mulder
Scully, let's get outta here!
Dana Scully
There goes our $500 deposit.
Fox Mulder
[ sighs ] I say we swim to shore.
Dana Scully
Swim?
Fox Mulder
Yeah. The shore can't be too far from here.
Dana Scully
In which direction?
Fox Mulder
Yeah. And, you know, livin' in the city, you forget that night is actually so, uh, dark.
Dana Scully
Living in the city you forget a lot of things. You know, there you're always thinking about being mugged or hit by a car. It's not until you get back to nature until you realize that everything is out to get you. That's what my father always taught me-- to respect nature, 'cause it has no respect for you.
[ water splashing ]
[ water splashing ]
[ Scully panting ]
Fox Mulder
That was him, Scully. That was Big Blue.
Dana Scully
So what if it was? Mulder, what are we doing here?
Fox Mulder
What do you mean, "what are we doing here?"
Dana Scully
What are you hoping to accomplish?
Fox Mulder
[ sighs ] Scully, so many of the things we investigate are so intangible. But this creature exists within the specific earthly confines of this lake, and I want to find it.
Dana Scully
What for?
Fox Mulder
It could revolutionize evolutionary biological thinking.
Dana Scully
Is that really the reason why?
[ sighs ]
Dana Scully
You know when you showed me those pictures that the photographer took? You wanna know what I really saw in them?
Fox Mulder
A tooth?
Dana Scully
No. You. That man is your future-- listening only to himself, hoping to catch a glimpse of the truth for who knows what reason.
Fox Mulder
Well, I did read in his journals that he was hoping to live off the copyright fees... From a genuine Big Blue photo.
Dana Scully
Well, as dumb as it sounds, at least it's a legitimate reason.
Fox Mulder
You don't think my reasons are legitimate?
Dana Scully
Mulder, sometimes I just can't figure them out.
[ soft splashing ]
Dana Scully
Mulder.
[ quacking ]
[ laughs ]
Fox Mulder
[ quacking continues ] I'm still tempted to fire. Hey, Scully, do you think you could ever cannibalize someone. I mean, if you really had to.
Dana Scully
Well, as much as the very idea is abhorrent to me, I suppose under certain conditions a living entity is practically conditioned... To perform whatever extreme measures are necessary to ensure its survival. I suppose I'm no different.
Fox Mulder
You've lost some weight recently, haven't you?
Dana Scully
Yeah. Actually, I have. Thanks for--
[ chuckling ]
Fox Mulder
But it is amazing what some animals will do... To guarantee the continuation of a species, isn't it? I mean, a creature of this size must have adapted its behavior over the years... To minimize its chances of being seen by its only predator-- us. Its coming closer to shore for its prey must be an act of desperation on its part.
Dana Scully
Poor Queequeg.
Fox Mulder
Why did you name the dog "Queequeg"?
Dana Scully
It was the name of the harpoonist in Moby Dick. My father used to read to me from Moby Dick when I was a little girl. I called him "Ahab," and he called me "Starbuck." so I named my dog Queequeg. That's funny. I just realized something.
Fox Mulder
It's a bizarre name for a dog, huh?
Dana Scully
No. How much you're like Ahab. You're so consumed by your personal vengeance against life, whether it be its inherent cruelties or its mysteries, that everything takes on a warped significance to fit your megalomaniacal cosmology.
Fox Mulder
Scully, are you coming on to me?
Dana Scully
It's just-- the truth or a white whale-- what difference does it make? Both obsessions are impossible to capture, and trying to do so will only leave you dead... Along with everyone else you bring with you. You know, Mulder, you are Ahab.
Fox Mulder
You know, it's interesting you should say that, because I've always wanted a peg leg. It's a boyhood thing I never grew out of. No, I'm not being flippant. I mean, I've given this a lot of thought. If you have a peg leg or hooks for hands, you know, maybe it's enough to simply carry on living-- you know, bravely facing life with your disability. It's heroic just to survive. But without these things, you're actually expected... To make something of your life-- achieve something, earn a raise, wear a necktie. So-so-so, if anything, I'm actually the antithesis of Ahab, because if I did have a peg leg I'd quite possibly be more happy and more content... And not feel the need to chase after these creatures of the unknown.
Dana Scully
And that's not flippant? [ laughing ]
Fox Mulder
No. Flippant is my favorite line from Moby Dick: "hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple dumpling."
Dana Scully
Yeah.
[ splashing ]
[ splashing resumes, louder ]
Dana Scully
What was that?
Fox Mulder
I don't know, but it ain't no duck.
[ splashing continues ]
[ panting ]
Dr. Faraday
I thought I heard voices. What are you two doing out here?
Dana Scully
Dr. Faraday?
Dr. Faraday
Hope I'm not interrupting anything.
Dana Scully
No. No. We, uh-- we had a little trouble with our boat.
Fox Mulder
Actually, it sank.
Dr. Faraday
How'd that happen?
Dana Scully
It was my fault. [ sighs ] we would have been out here all night if you hadn't answered our distress call.
Dr. Faraday
Oh, I didn't. I was walking by. I heard you talking.
Dana Scully
Walking by?
Dr. Faraday
Yeah. Yeah, the shore is just a stone's throw from here.
[ chuckling ]
Dr. Faraday
Come on. I'll take you back. It was just out of fuel. I think the sheriff will be along in a couple minutes. I'd drive you myself, but I've got work to do.
Dana Scully
What exactly is it that you're doing out here, dr. Faraday? It's well after midnight.
Dr. Faraday
Well, night is rhinus venisefula's most active period, and this is its primary breeding ground, or at least it used to be. Thousands of eggs used to cling to these reeds-- beautiful jelly clusters. Now one must turn over many a leaf in order to find potential offspring.
Fox Mulder
What's in the sack?
Dr. Faraday
Adult frogs. I've been breeding them in captivity and releasing them into the wild.
Dana Scully
This is striker's cove?
Fox Mulder
Mm-hmm. The frogs--
Dr. Faraday
I beg your pardon?
Fox Mulder
The unexplained depletion of frogs originates from this cove. It's the food chain.
Dr. Faraday
What about it?
Fox Mulder
The food chain. If you alter one life-form in an ecosystem, the rest is necessarily affected, either by an increase or decrease. So, if an aquatic dinosaur's diet consisted primarily of frogs, then if those frogs became scarce, it would have to turn to an alternative food source.
Dana Scully
Humans.
Dr. Faraday
Agent Mulder, you are taking my legitimate research and basic biological principle... And stretching them both way out of proportion... In an effort to give some kind of validity to an entirely ludicrous theory. There is no prehistoric lake monster.
Fox Mulder
This creature lives here in this cove. That explains the disappearance of these frogs, for which you have no explanation, doctor, ludicrous or not, as well as the recent human attacks.
Dr. Faraday
That's crazy! If something was living in these waters, you don't think I would've seen it? I've been conducting research here for three years.
Fox Mulder
I'm talking about a prehistoric animal that's gone unnoticed for virtually thousands of years. If it knows how to do anything, it knows how to hide. They say the Loch Ness monster doesn't live in the water, it lives in the surrounding cliffs. Maybe Big Blue has an inland habitat, somewhere in the rocks or in this dense forest here.
Dr. Faraday
I have no time for these absurdities. If you'll excuse me, I have some amphibians to release.
Dana Scully
Well, captain, what now?
[ sighs ]
Sheriff Lance Hindt
Agent Scully! Agent Mulder! There's been another death, and this time it does appear to be some kind of animal attack-- bit a fisherman's arm clean off.
Fox Mulder
Where did this happen?
Sheriff Lance Hindt
Other side of the lake, couple hours ago. My department has the cooperation of the state police, plus the full use of all the wildlife fish and game department vessels. I got a full-scale water search already underway.
Fox Mulder
No, we need those men here, searching this cove and these woods.
Sheriff Lance Hindt
But I got 30 boats on the water already. If we're gonna kill this thing--
Fox Mulder
We gotta sweep this cove. It's here at striker's cove.
Sheriff Lance Hindt
The boats are searching the area of the latest attack, and I'm not gonna move them. Now, if you wanna waste your time conducting a search of these woods, you go right ahead-- I got me a lake monster to catch.
[ dispatcher over radio, indistinct ]
Dana Scully
Sheriff, agent Mulder and I would appreciate it if you could spare us... Two or three of your men to assist us here.
Sheriff Lance Hindt
[ sighs ] all right. I'll send 'em on back.
Fox Mulder
Thanks.
[ distant rustling, screaming ]
Dana Scully
What was that?
Scene 10
Scene 10
Fox Mulder
Dr. Faraday.
[ frogs croaking ]
[ screaming ]
Fox Mulder
What happened?
Dr. Faraday
My leg-- something grabbed my leg.
[ grunts ]
Fox Mulder
Did you see it? No.
Dr. Faraday
It came from behind me. Before I knew it, it had me-- shaking me back and forth. Then it just let go.
Fox Mulder
Give me your belt.
Dr. Faraday
I didn't want to believe you.
Dana Scully
I think you nicked an artery. We've gotta get him to a hospital. He's losing blood.
Fox Mulder
Where'd it go?
Dr. Faraday
I didn't see it. I didn't see it. [ groans ] I think I heard-- it went through those reeds. [ groans ]
Dana Scully
Mulder, help is coming.
Fox Mulder
You take care of him, Scully.
Dana Scully
Mulder!
[ sighs ] [ groans ]
[ insects chirping ]
[ twigs snapping ]
[ twigs snapping, thudding ]
[ croaking ]
[ sighs ]
[ branches breaking ]
[ panting ]
Sheriff Lance Hindt
Alligator. [ sighs ]
[ panting ]
Paramedic (radio)
Millikan county e.m.t. Unit-- [ continues, indistinct ]
[ frogs croaking ]
Sheriff Lance Hindt
All right, then. Go ahead.
Fox Mulder
How's dr. Faraday?
Dana Scully
He'll be fine. How are you?
Fox Mulder
I'm fine.
Dana Scully
Well, you slew the big white whale, Ahab.
Fox Mulder
Yeah, but I still don't have that peg leg. [ laughs ]
Dana Scully
How can you be disappointed? That alligator would have gone through the local population if you hadn't killed it.
Fox Mulder
I know. I guess I just wanted Big Blue to be real. I guess I see hope in such a possibility.
Dana Scully
Well, there's still hope. That's why these myths and stories have endured. People want to believe.
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