- 7.30. - Great!
- See you tomorrow, Beth. - OK.
- See you tomorrow. - Clean up your stations!
..Get some information about a crackhouse.
This is pretty direct information that came from an informant who made a buy and...
It's that direct. It's easy to get a search warrant...
I'm home!
- Hi. - Hi, Mom.
- Hey. - Hey? All I get is "Hey"?
Hey, Mom.
I'm gonna take a quick shower. You guys interested in getting a pizza delivered?
If that was a yes, you can call the order in.
And no pepperoni for me.
Hello?
Oh. Yeah. Sure.
- Ow! - I'll be back in five minutes. OK, butt-crumb?
He said he was only gonna be gone five minutes and that was over four hours ago.
Yes.
No, I don't know who called him.
The last person to see him? His younger brother.
What's your 10-3? Over.
Whoa, whoa, whoa!
Gary?
Gary Kane?
Go get him a blanket.
It's gonna be OK, son. Hey! We're here to help you.
Hey! What's wrong?
Oh, my God!
16 years old, high-school junior...
...C student, first-string varsity football, member of the local 4-H Club.
Not one of Wisconsin's more remarkable kids, but still the apple of his mother's eye.
- What does that mean? - Nobody knows.
- What does the police report say? - He received a phone call and left his home.
He was discovered in the woods 12 hours later. He's been unable to give a statement.
- Any evidence of sexual assault? - No.
Does it seem like a schoolboy prank?
The other victims have had to be sedated and hospitalised since their ordeals.
- They were reportedly hysterical with fear. - Victims? You mean there have been others?
One in eastern Wisconsin, one three towns away.
Both with the same words written in black Magic Marker.
- What's your interest in this? - The sheriff in Delta Glen, Wisconsin...
...thinks he knows what's been happening to these kids.
- What's that? - He thinks they've been possessed.
There's something I think you oughta see first.
They're called the Church of the Red Museum.
They're followers of a guy, Odin, that moved here three years ago and bought a ranch.
- What's the significance of the name? - Odin and the rest of 'em are vegetarians.
They drove the ranch right into the ground, turned 500 head of beef cattle into pets.
He calls it a monument to barbarism.
Probably went over big with the local ranchers.
It takes some big ones to set down in cow country and start a church like his.
Kinda stick out like a sore thumb, don't they?
Sheriff, from what you've told us...
...they seem unlikely to be involved in the kind of activities you described.
Well, I... I won't say another word. You can just see for yourself.
That's Odin.
Today is a blessing from our Lord and Master, who awaits his flock...
...in this time, the dawning of the Age of Aquarius...
...18 earth years from the beginning of the New Kingdom.
The Guides speak through me today as messengers of the Word...
...that we may be free from death and the passage into spirit.
As the acceleration continues, we, the enlightened...
...must bring the teachings of the skills for survival to mankind.
- They're walk-ins. - What are "walk-ins"?
We, the second souls of the first bodies...
..bearers of the Word and keepers of the sacraments of a new enlightenment...
Believers in soul transference. Spirits who've taken possession of other people's bodies.
- Blessed mission and toil. - Blessed mission and toil.
Our struggle is transcendent, and your guidance, our Guides...
..will carry us toward the dawning of a new age.
..Will carry us toward the dawning of a new age.
Today we bear witness to three who do not believe.
We encourage them to open their hearts and minds to our teachings...
...that they who slaughter the flesh...
...slaughter their own souls, and must be taught the way.
I only remember parts of it.
Which parts are those?
I was in the woods, and...
...I felt... a spirit enter me.
When you say "spirit", Gary, I'm not sure what you mean.
It...
It might have been an animal spirit.
I can't explain it.
Something...
...just came over me.
And you don't remember who called you?
Anything at all about what happened immediately after you left home that night?
Have you ever had any dealings with anyone from the Church of the Red Museum?
I see them around.
Do you have reason to believe that they may be involved in what happened to you?
Now, tell him what you told me, Gary.
- Hi. - Hi.
- Who are you? - Stevie.
Oh, you're in all the pictures. You must be Gary's younger brother.
I'm Dana.
Stevie, do you remember who your brother might have gone out to see the other night?
Did he say anything?
Scully, we'll meet you outside.
- Has this boy ever been in any trouble? - Gary?
No, I've known him since he was a kid. He's the same age as my son.
He's done some beer drinking, but he's just your basic 16-year-old. Least, he was.
- Do you see a notable difference in him? - Yeah... Yeah.
Gary Kane lived for football. He's a damn good athlete, too. Now he won't even suit up.
The Red Museum - how are they treated by the local citizens?
- Nobody cares for 'em. - Are they singled out...
...shop owners refusing to sell to them, stuff like that?
There's a reasonable amount of tension, but most folks are happy to just try to avoid 'em.
Can you recommend a good motel in the area?
Sure. You're staying for a bit. You think there's something to this?
I wanna run a check on the church and this guy Odin.
If you could just show us a good motel and maybe point out a good place to eat.
You've come to the right place.
You know, Mulder, ribs like these...
...I'd say the Church of the Red Museum has its work cut out for it.
Thanks.
So... you started to tell me about walk-ins, but I'm not sure if I grasped the finer points.
It's kind of a New Age religion based on an old idea...
...that if you lose hope or despair and wanna leave this mortal coil...
- ..you become open and vulnerable. - To inhabitation by a new spirit.
A new enlightened spirit. According to the literature, Abe Lincoln was a walk-in.
And Mikhail Gorbachev. And Charles Colson, Nixon's adviser.
- But not Nixon? - No. Not even they wanna claim Nixon.
So, are you still subscribing to the sheriff's claims of a possession?
I don't know. In the absence of any other plausible explanation, it's a novel theory.
Well, I feel kinda weird saying this, but I got the creeps in that apartment.
- Really? - Towel-head! Whoo-hoo!
- Yeah. Why, what's going on? - Turn around, man. Hey!
- Vegeburger! Who let you out? - The spur posse just rode into town.
- Hey, diaper-head! We're talking to you, man. - How's your pet cow?
- Did you get any milk out of him? - We're talking to you, Aladdin.
What's the matter, diaper-head, huh? Huh?
- Nothing. - Leave him alone.
Leave him alone. Go home.
Go ahead, go home.
- Catch you later, Red. - You got a problem?
- Yeah. But who asked you? - I see four against one. I got a problem.
Mulder?
Yeah, well, why don't you run along with the little wife? You're gonna miss the tour bus.
She's got a gun.
What's she gonna do? Shoot us? Go call my dad, Katie. I think he'd like to hear about this.
- Who's your dad? - He's the sheriff.
- I think he would like to hear about this. - Come on. Let's just get out of here, Rick.
Kinda hard to tell the villains without a scorecard.
Pupper dog?
Is that you? Pupper dog?
What are you doing here, huh, girl?
No!
Get off me! Get off me!
Help me! Please, somebody help me! Help me! Please!
Yeah, this is all good stuff. See what else you can find on him from the NCIC...
...and call me back - at this number, or on my cellular.
- I just examined the girl. - What d'you find?
Not much until the toxicology report came back.
They found traces of an unspecified alkaloid substance in her blood, possibly an opiate...
...and a dangerously large quantity of something called scopolamine.
- The stuff they use for motion sickness? - In small dosages.
Anything past.2 micrograms and you've got a powerful anaesthetic and hallucinogen.
It's been in the news because Colombian gangs have been using it in kidnappings.
- Is it a controlled substance? - You'd probably have to be a doctor...
...to get a hold of these quantities.
Richard Odin, also known as Doug Herman, left AMA in 1986...
...over questionable ethics inquiry. Did not renew license.
I'll drive.
I'm Special Agent Fox Mulder. We're with the FBI.
- We'd like to speak to Richard Odin. Is he in? - Just a moment.
Mr Odin? We'd like to ask you some questions. May we come inside?
I'm sorry. I can't allow you in this house.
- We can get a warrant if that's what it takes. - You can, but you will not enter the building.
- Well, how's that? - Because you're meat eaters.
The building cannot be desecrated by your presence.
I believe I am within my religious rights to prevent it.
You can't hide behind them if a crime has been committed.
Have I been accused of a crime?
We can always determine that elsewhere. Can you step outside please, sir?
Can you step outside, Mr Odin? We're placing you under arrest.
Are you familiar with a substance called scopolamine?
Are you familiar with inhumane treatment of beef and dairy cattle?
Just answer the question, Mr Odin.
Yes, I know it.
But I've never prescribed it or administered it.
- Have you ever ordered others to do so? - No.
Do your beliefs preclude you from exacting revenge, physically or psychically...
...on those who might not share them?
- The barbarians will be cleansed... - Answer the question! You did it, didn't you?
- You did something to those kids! - Sheriff.
We've already had to go through this once with your kid. If you'll just take a walk.
Sheriff, come here a second.
For a holy man, you've got quite a knack for pissing people off.
We got problems down the street.
Keep your minds open to the wisdom of the Guides.
All we ask is that you listen. Question what we say, and consider it seriously.
All right, man. Let's do it.
End the slaughter. The rights of the just must be protected...
...just as the barbarism must cease.
Violence against nature begets violence against man.
How about a little cow blood?
What do you think you're doin'?! Get outta here! Get! Get!
Get in the truck!
- They asked for it. - They asked for it. That's right.
- You the FBI agents? - Yes.
I got something I'd like to show you.
This pasture land... belonged to my granddad.
He bought it in 1890.
He died right over there, next to that cattle pen.
82 years old. Just... fell off the tractor one morning.
My dad worked this piece for the next 40 years.
And I put in 25 myself before I decided to call it quits.
Sold it for 80 times what my granddad paid.
- Why'd you sell it? - Business changed.
- People changed, too. - In what way?
Competition. Used to get by with 50 milk cows. Now you gotta have 500.
Used to turn 'em out to pasture. Now you keep 'em in pens and grain-feed 'em.
- You said you wanted to show us something. - You're looking at it.
See those men over there?
They're injecting the cattle with something called BST - bovine somatotropin.
- A genetically engineered growth hormone. - Shoot 'em up...
...and a cow'll produce ten per cent more milk. Feed it to beef cattle, more meat on the hoof.
Changed the business. Changed a whole lot of things.
How do you mean?
Well, that, uh, fracas in town this afternoon.
Ten, even five years ago, never woulda happened.
People around here have changed, you know. They've gotten mean, spiteful. Dog eat dog.
We had seven rapes here last year.
By high-school boys.
Well, that, um... This business of the kids being found in the woods.
Well, I think that you're going to find it all comes from the same root source.
- The growth hormone? - Yes, sir.
But those hormones have been proven safe. They've been cleared by the FDA.
Says who? The government?
I don't know, Doc. I'm losing oil pressure like crazy.
- I don't know what's goin' on. - How far are we from the airport?
We're not gonna make it. I'm gonna have to find someplace to put it down.
Look out!
- We're still trying to ID the pilot. - What about the second body?
That's Dr Jerrold Larson.
- Did you know him? - Yeah... He delivered my kid.
There's something else over here I want you to see.
Thank you.
It looks like the doctor may have been delivering more than babies.
That's why I brought you out here.
- Any clue what this is about? - I have no idea.
Jerry Larson was a pillar in this town, the last of the country doctors.
Wherever he was coming from, that was one hell of a house call.
This has nothing to do with those kids?
I think we'll know more once we find out what this is.
You're sure? Both kids?
No, it's OK. I'm sure you're correct. Thank you very much.
Scully, you're not gonna believe this.
The out-of-town kids and the kids abducted here -
every one was delivered and treated through childhood by Dr Larson.
The print-outs we found were shipping orders, along with credit card numbers...
...each number corresponding to a card in the victim's family.
- Why would he carry credit card numbers? - Maybe to track them...
...the way companies track stolen cards.
But why? And what was he treating them for?
What was he treating them with?
I don't know. We won't get the test results back on the vial until tomorrow.
You think it's bovine growth hormone?
That was the first thing through our minds, but it doesn't track.
- Not with that case full of cash. - It doesn't answer the question...
...about who's marking those kids... or why.
Away with you.
- So, I'll see you in the morning. - Yeah. 8.30 sharp.
Howdy.
Hi. Sorry to come unannounced.
Gary's not home right now.
Actually, we wanted to talk with you, if that's OK.
I don't know what to say. You think Dr Larson was doing some kind of tests on Gary?
Well, thinking back, was there anything that seemed strange to you?
- Was Gary sick often? - No...
Gary's never been sick a day in his life.
Gary was never sick?
- No. - Why was he going to Dr Larson?
Dr Larson gave him vitamin shots. He gave them to a lot of kids.
He said it was like treating teeth with fluoride, as a preventative measure.
- Did you ever take Gary to another doctor? - No. Jay had wanted to.
Jay's your husband?
Yes. He was concerned Gary wasn't growing.
Jay was six five. He wanted Gary to play college ball.
- But then there was Jay's accident. - What accident?
It was seven years ago. He worked at the packing plant.
He had an accident with one of the machines.
Excuse me. What is this?
What?
- This light here. - I don't know.
There's something back there.
What is it, Mulder?
Looks like somebody's private little movie studio.
What?
Oh, my God.
Gotta drain the lizard.
What do you want, applause, man
Rick?
Go and keep him from coming over here, would you?
Sheriff, we're gonna find who did this.
Get away from him.
Get back.
Oh, my God.
Ricky. Son!
No.
No. No!
His name is Gerd Thomas. He's owned the building for 21 years.
He used to run a daycare centre out of it. They're holding him for us.
What is it?
I know that face.
What?
That's quite a video library you've compiled for yourself.
I especially like the ones with the little boys.
I know.
I'm... a sick man.
No. No, men who know they're sick try to get help.
You just kept right at it for years.
I didn't mean to hurt anyone.
Did you kidnap those kids?
Yes.
Are you prepared to confess to those crimes?
- Yes. - And to the murder of Rick Mazeroski?
No.
I never murdered anybody.
Did you kidnap Rick Mazeroski?
Did you write this on his back?!
- Oh, my God! - Answer the question.
No, I... I never killed him.
I never killed anybody. I...
- I really love those kids. - Is this how you express your love for them?
- Did you kidnap Rick and write on his back? - Yes!
- Why? - Because of what he'd become.
- What had he become? - Because those kids have become monsters.
You're not making any sense. Now... make sense to me.
Because of Dr Larson and because of the tests.
Excuse me.
OK, what tests?
Dr Larson was using those kids as guinea pigs. And he was using us, too.
- What do you mean, using you? - To inoculate the cattle.
- With growth hormone? - I don't know exactly what it was.
But he was paying us a lot of money to do it.
He was paying you to inject the cattle with something and you didn't know what it was?
Not until later. Not until after all those rapes and...
Dr Larson told my boss he felt responsible for everything that those kids have done...
...and that he was giving them the same inoculations.
- Was Dr Larson involved in the kidnapping? - No.
No. He didn't want his secret to come out.
He didn't care about those kids like me.
- Mulder? - Mm-hm?
I... think he's telling the truth.
- I don't think he killed anyone. - How can you be sure?
I just got the toxicology report back on the vial. The residue couldn't be analysed...
...because it contained synthetic corticosteroids with unknown amino acids.
That's purity control.
Do you know what you're saying, Scully?
He was inoculating those kids with antibodies...
...derived from what may be an extraterrestrial source.
- He's been injecting them with alien DNA. - No, Mulder. That was never proven.
It's the same substance as in the Erlenmeyer flask.
- The same material Deep Throat died for. - Yes.
It all makes sense. They've been conducting an experiment.
Somebody's been paying to have those kids injected with alien DNA.
- It's been going on for years. - Does that man know about it?
No. He just blew their cover. I don't think he knows any more than he's telling us.
His boss must have. They found him shot to death in a cow pasture.
- What?! - I think I know who shot him, Mulder.
That man that I recognised on the road today.
That's the same man that executed Deep Throat.
Well, whoever's behind this, he's here covering their tracks.
He's gonna go after the kids. Get the sheriff and meet me at Gary Kane's apartment.
And Scully... I want this guy alive.
- Where's Gary? - He's in his bedroom.
Go pack some clothes. You're all coming with me.
- What?! - I'll explain later.
Those credit card numbers. Every kid's family listed, get them packed up.
- Call out every man you've got. - Where are we taking them?
- I need your help. - For?
It may offend your religious sensibilities, but it could help save some kids' lives.
Sheriff?
Where's Mulder?
He told me to make sure the kids were safe.
He thought there was some other place this guy might be.
Stop right there!
Hey!
Don't move!
Put it down. Now!
Just put the lighter down.
Hey!
Get him outta here. Get everyone outta here.
Come on. This place could blow.
File numberΧWC060361.
The identity of the man shot in the slaughterhouse has yet to be determined.
His name, any record of his past, present or immigration status, have yet to be found.
His fingerprints are not on file in either the FBI or national system of records.
At this time, it remains doubtful that anyone will come forward to ID or claim the body.
Under analysis, the inoculant found in the broken vials was isolated...
..and determined to be an unstable antibody of no known biological origin.
After three weeks of study, the components of the serum, probably synthetic...
..had broken down structurally and in this retrograde state cannot be analysed further.
This coincides with the development of a severe and undiagnosed flu-like ailment...
..affecting the children believed to have been inoculated, and some local families.
To date, none of the members of the Church of the Red Museum...
..have contracted this illness.
I suspect whoever was doing this may have been using them as a control group.
The shipping manifests for milk and beef tainted by the unspecified inoculant...
..do not provide enough information to track their destinations.
A local advisory and quarantine have been established.
Further inquiry has been promised by the pertinent government health agencies.
The FBI investigation into this case is currently at a standstill.
The case remains open and unsolved.
Paul Murray
I made this!