Show: The X-Files - 1x19
(thunder pealing) (animal howling) (neighing, mooing) (animal roaring outside) (growling) (screams) (growls, yells) I'm not a killer.
I never meant to hurt no one.
I'm tired ofmy cattle being butchered.
That's the fourth one this month.
Who orwhat doyou thinkwas responsible?
That cow looked like a piece ofpaper that went through a shredder.
No animal could do that.
Then areyou saying that a person was responsible for this?
I want to remind you Mr.
Parker is free on bond pending trial.
He's willfully speaking solely in regards to this incident and not about other litigation.
We can't talk about Mr.
Parker's case against the Trego lndian Reservation?
That's exactlywhat I mean.
Wait a second.
This ain't the time for lawyer crap.
I want to get this in the open.
You think I killed an lndian because we're having an argument about where my land ends?
We want to settle in court.
joseph Goodensnake is dead with a wound from your shotgun.
All I'm saying, it was no animal I know of.
But it damn well didn't seem human, neither.
Take a look at my boy's scars.
It was dark.
We heard a growl.
We went out to protect the cattle.
I could have swore I saw...
red eyes and fangs.
I thought my boy Lyle was...
Look, nobody--nobody-- was more shocked and upset than I was to find out it was thatyoung lndian boy but ifhe killed our cattle-- I'm very sorry that we had to find out about it that way but as far as I'm concerned that's the end ofit.
Can we see the corral?
I'll takeyou out there.
Agent Mulder?
Yeah?
Agent Scully...
I suppose ifl were hearing our side ofthe story it might not hold up too well-- parts I don't understand myself-- things my father could never try to explain to a stranger.
What kinds ofthings?
For the last few months wheneverwe'd go outside at night to check the cattle we never saw anything out ofthe ordinary-- not a mountain lion, not a coyote not even anyTregoes, Agent Scully...
but I can feel it-- something not human-- out there...
watching me.
The airwas more still.
The night animals more quiet.
It was like nature herself was terrified.
Gave me the creeps.
The creeps?
Yeah.
The creeps.
Don'tyou ever get the creeps?
The victim was shot there about three meters from where Parker fired.
There's no way he could have mistaken a person for an animal.
It's open-and-shut, Mulder.
You know, I'm surprised you volunteered for this assignment.
Any Bureau agent could have investigated this reservation homicide.
Why areyou interested?
Well, there seems to be nothing unexplainable about this case.
Nope.
Not a thing.
This is so odd.
It's almost like a snakeskin that's been shed.
I suspect the Parkers knowingly killed Goodensnake.
They hardly seem the type to skin theirvictim.
Police and coroner's report make no mention ofsuch an act.
Scully: We'll have to look at the body ourselves.
Mulder: The body's been transferred to reservation authorities.
We're supposed to get in touch with a SheriffTskany.
Excuse me.
We're not from around here.
We're looking for SheriffTskany.
Anyone know CharleyTskany?
Man: Go home, F.B.I.
How did you know?
I could smell you a mile away.
Well, they told me that even though my deodorant's made for a woman it's strong enough for a man.
I was at Wounded Knee in 1 973.
What I learned fighting the F.B.I.
is you don't believe in us, and we don't believe in you.
I want to believe.
Whyyou here?
What areyou looking for?
You know what we're looking for.
You tell me what I know.
We're looking for information on the homicide ofJoe Goodensnake.
We're looking for anything that can create human tracks in one step and animal tracks in the next.
Parker.
He found whatyou're looking for.
He killed whatyou're looking for, F.B.I.
Parker and his kid killed my brother.
You're all too afraid ofsome stupid lndian legend to do anything.
Gwen!
The suits come when theywant something but when we need help they're nowhere to be found.
SheriffTskany?
I'm Agent Scully and this is Agent Mulder.
Goodensnake's body is in my office.
Bill, Tom.
Let them through.
Come on, boys.
Let them through.
Who are they?
Guardians ofthe dead.
They escort the deceased spirits to the new world.
I let them as far as the front door.
I keep ancient beliefs out there and police work in here.
The woman in the pool hall said people were afraid ofsome legend.
What do they believe happened?
I'm not a park ranger here to answer questions about lndians.
Whenever I need federal help I never get it.
Since this case falls under thejurisdiction ofthe F.B.I.
you're entitled to examine the body.
So let's get it overwith.
Mulder: Was the woman in the pool hall his sister?
Gwen.
She andJoe are primarily responsible for fueling the boundary dispute with Parker.
They felt he had been grazing his cattle farther and father onto the reservation.
Parker probably told you it was his idea to settle in court.
joe and Gwen filed the suit.
Take a look at that scar tissue.
Looks like he had been attacked by an animal as well.
Tskany: CouldJoe have been attacked also?
Maybe the Parkers did see an animal.
No.
Those wounds have been healing for quite some time.
The shotgun wound indicates point-blank range.
The pellets entered the body in a single mass.
The assailant couldn't have been more than three feet away.
We need to take a look at Goodensnake's dental records.
These are the canine cuspids.
They're normal.
Could his records have been switched?
The second incisor is chipped just like the ones in his mouth.
These match joe Goodensnake's.
There are cases ofcalcium phosphate salts developing abnormally with age but...
That could account forwhatJim Parker claims to have seen.
He was out that night expecting to see a mountain lion.
He gets rattled and the fashlight beam catchesJoe here.
Parker saw what he wanted to see-- an animal.
Lyle has scars just likeJoe.
Doyou have a facility for an autopsy?
Why?
IfJoe's teeth are abnormal, an autopsy might reveal abnormalities in the interior ofhis anatomy.
I can't allow that.
I'm fully qualified.
No.
The funeral is tonight.
It's a cremation.
After that we'll have nothing.
Tregoes believe that the recent dead are unsettled by their new condition as spirits.
Any desecration ofthe body angers the spirit and keeps it haunting this world.
A law enforcement officer can't destroy evidence.
Don't tell me what I can't do.
Native Americans believe there are laws greater than that ofthe U.S.
government.
Iftheywant joe at rest that's the way it's going to be.
Ifyou want to make an issue out ofit with your authorities go right ahead.
Charley, doyou believe that the spirit ofJoe Goodensnake is in that room?
All I know is tomorrow, the day after, you're going to leave but I have to stay here.
I've got to answer to these people.
You can continue your investigation.
You're going to have to do it withoutJoe Goodensnake's body.
(man chanting) Scully: Since we've been here you've acted as ifyou expected to find every piece ofevidence we've come across.
What aren't you telling me?
Why are we here?
A true piece ofhistory, Scully-- The very first X-File initiated by j.
Edgar Hoover himselfin 1 946.
During World War Il a series ofmurders occurred in and around the Northwest.
Seven here in Browning alone.
Each victim was basically ripped to shreds and eaten as ifby a wild animal.
However, many ofthe victims were found at home as ifthey allowed their killer to enter.
In 1 946, police cornered what they believed to be such an animal in a cabin in Glacier National Park.
They shot it but when theywent in to retrieve the carcass they found only the body of Richard Watkins.
Sounds like the Parker scenario.
The murders stopped thatyear.
Because the cases were unsolved and so bizarre Hoover locked them away hoping that people around here would forget about them.
This file indicates that they started again in 1 954.
And '59, '64, '78, and now again in '94 but...
Here it comes.
These animal-man related murders predate the oldest X-File by 1 50 years.
Members ofthe Lewis and Clark expedition wrote oflndian men who could change their shape into that ofa wolf.
What this folder describes is called lycanthropy.
It's a type ofinsanity in which an individual believes that he can turn into a wolf.
I mean, no one can physically change into an animal.
How can youjust dismiss the evidence-- the tracks in the mud, the shredded skin a man with the teeth ofan animal?
Even ifyou're right andJoe Goodensnake did somehow have the ability to transform physically into an animal he's dead.
jim Parker shot him.
In a couple ofmoments his bodywill be burned.
End ofmystery.
Let's hope so.
You don't belong here.
Gwen...
You're around to wrap upyour investigation.
I just wanted to say I'm sorry aboutyour brother.
I feel sad for anyone who loses a part oftheir family.
A part?
He was mywhole family.
I'm it now.
As a demonstration ofsorrow I'm supposed to give away all my brother's possessions.
Gwen, I don't know what to say.
It's no big deal.
He had more possessions than he had friends.
I read the report ofyour investigation into the Goodensnake homicide.
It was very good.
It was thorough, professional.
But what I want to know is offthe record.
What doyou think really happened?
Your explanation, Agent Mulder is lying on that burial platform.
Why don'tyoujust accept that and go home?
Charley, doyou believe in shape-shifting?
This is a funeral.
(drums beating) (man chanting) (group chanting) (chanting) (chanting continues) Get out!
I want to show my respects.
I don't wantyour respects.
I wantyour heart to grow cold.
I wantyou to feel what I'm feeling!
I thinkyou better leave, Mr.
Parker.
I wish your brother could be here.
I wish that more than anything else.
(faint growl) (clinking) (growling) By the way the body's been mutilated I'd say he's been attacked by a large predator or somebodywanted it to look that way.
Doyou think this is retaliation for the death ofJoe Goodensnake?
I don't know.
Haveyou talked to Gwen Goodensnake?
She seemed pretty upset last night.
She's gone.
Nobody has seen her since the funeral.
I've put an A.P.B.
out on her.
And what about Lyle Parker?
We can't find him either.
He could be dead as well.
I'll take a look around.
(growling) (growls) (scully gasping) That's not from any animal I've ever seen.
Sheriff, I think it's time we had a talk.
An exchange ofideas?
Scully: Mulder!
I'm taking Lyle to the hospital.
He's suffering from exposure.
When he's been checked out I'm gonna question him.
What areyou hiding?
I thought it was over.
Over?
Is that whyyou wouldn't allow an autopsy onJoe Goodensnake's body?
You thought it would all end when he was cremated?
What wereyou afraid we'd find?
I can't tell you but I'll takeyou to somebodywho can.
I'm ashamed to say it afterwhat happened at the funeral.
I picked up some bourbon and I don't remember a thing after that.
Sometimes, when I'm down I go out to where me and my dad keep stray animals that wander in on the ranch.
I just watch them, you know.
Keeps things in perspective.
Anyway...
my mom-- when she was alive-- was the one that started keeping those animals.
I guess I go out there and think about her too.
God, I must have been reallywasted to run around there naked.
You must have thought I was one ofthose animals.
When you did go home, did you talk toyour father?
No.
He'd have been mad I even went to the funeral.
I...
I have...
an image ofhim sitting on the front porch but...
I don't remember talking to him.
Why?
Your father is dead.
I'm sorry.
(sighing) It appears as ifhe's been...
attacked by an animal, but...
I suspect it may be homicide.
Lyle, I lost my father recently and I know how overwhelming...
Was it my fault?
By going to the funeral did it anger them into killing my father?
I don't know.
I can deal with death.
You know, living on the ranch, being close to nature and all you see how it all works.
Things are born.
Things die.
Everything else falls in between.
But ifl caused it...
Ifl brought it on I couldn't, uh...
I...
I...
I saw it once with my own eyes.
It was a long time ago.
It seemed like a dream.
I was a boy.
Was that 1 946?
The Watkins case?
I sense you're different, F.B.I.
You're more open to Native American belief than some Native Americans.
You even have an lndian name-- Fox.
You should be " Running Fox" or "Sneaky Fox."
just as long as it's not "Spooky Fox."
Tell me, lsh-- what did you see?
Watkins had been attacked by an animal when he was alone in the woods.
His scars healed.
It was forgotten.
Then the murders began.
The Tregoes-- we realized that Watkins had been attacked bywhat the Algonquins call the manitou an evil spirit capable ofchanging a man into a beast.
To be attacked by a manitou causes the victim to become one.
The healed scars onJoe Goodensnake's body.
The manitou overtakes a man by night, not by full moon but when its blood lust builds to uncontrollable level the man changes to a sickening creature.
It kills, releasing a savage energy.
The man returns to his true self unaware ofwhat has happened.
The cycle begins anew the next day.
This continues until death.
One night when I was 1 6 years old I was coming back from fishing in the Cut Bank Creek.
I knew a shortcut behind Watkins' house.
There was a...
a groan.
Not animal, but not human.
I looked into his window.
He was covered in sweat and blood.
He was in a great, great pain.
His arm-- the skin ripped.
It tore up and fell to the foor.
Claws sprang from his fingernails.
He turned, screaming and he saw me.
His eyes...
his eyes were still human.
They begged me to kill him and ifl had been hunting and had my gun I'd have done it without a second thought.
But being a boy, and scared to death I ran away.
Shortly after, the police killed him.
But the manitou rose again.
Eightyears later.
But with Watkins dead how could there have been an attack by a manitou?
Watkins had a son.
It could be passed along bloodlines.
Gwen.
IfJoe Goodensnake was this creature then perhaps it didn't originate in him by the first attack but was handed down through the bloodlines.
Gwen could have it also.
Gwen could have killed Parker.
(low metallic clank) (engine starting) Gwen!
No, no, no..!
Charley: You're under arrest for stealing lsh's car.
What happened?
What areyou running from?
I saw it.
I saw it kill Parker.
Let her up.
I went there after the funeral.
I was going to mess up the kid.
So I waited.
Parkerwas on the porch.
Then this thing, this animal-- Oh, my God!
(sobbing) I've never been so scared.
I ran, and I hid in the woods all day.
I wanted to get out...
I wanted to get out ofhere.
I wanted to get out ofhere.
Bring her inside.
(crying) Thankyou.
Hello.
This is DoctorJoseph.
This is Agent Mulder from the F.B.I.
I was told I could reach Agent Scully at this number.
We released Lyle Parker from the hospital.
She's taking him back to the ranch.
I can reach her there?
Uh-huh.
Theyjust left.
There's something I feel you should know.
I received the blood tests performed on Lyle Parker and there's something rather unsettling.
What's that?
Traces ofhis father's blood type.
It can only be there through ingestion.
Power's out.
Yep.
Happens to us all the time being out here in the sticks.
I'll fire up the generator.
(gasps) You okay?
I feel sick.
Please, help me into the bathroom.
Damn.
Keeps disconnecting.
The mountains must be blocking the signal.
How much farther?
About seven miles.
(gasping) Lyle, let me come in.
Lyle, I want to takeyou back to the hospital.
Okay?
No!
I'll be all right.
(gasping) (gasping) Lyle?
Lyle, answer me.
(gasping) Lyle, areyou all right?
(grunts) (roaring) (grunts) (growls) (yelling) (gasps) (whispering loudly:) Scully!
(growls) (growling) (gunshots) (growls) Aah!
It's okay.
It's me.
I don't know what happened.
Somethingjumped me downstairs.
I lost my gun.
I heard it come up here.
Come on.
Okay.
(growling) (gunshot) You all right?
Oh, my God.
He was in the bathroom sick and then we were attacked by the mountain lion.
Mulder: It wasn't a mountain lion.
Charley: It's still in a cage.
Where's Gwen?
She said she'd come see us before we left.
She left last night.
Gave away all her possessions to her friends.
just pulled up and left?
Why?
Her brother's gone, no family.
Trouble with Parker is all over.
Maybe she saw something that she wasn't ready to understand.
Maybe.
Well, thankyou.
F.B.I.
Seeyou in about...
eightyears.
I hope not.
I never meant to hurt no one.
I'm tired ofmy cattle being butchered.
That's the fourth one this month.
Who orwhat doyou thinkwas responsible?
That cow looked like a piece ofpaper that went through a shredder.
No animal could do that.
Then areyou saying that a person was responsible for this?
I want to remind you Mr.
Parker is free on bond pending trial.
He's willfully speaking solely in regards to this incident and not about other litigation.
We can't talk about Mr.
Parker's case against the Trego lndian Reservation?
That's exactlywhat I mean.
Wait a second.
This ain't the time for lawyer crap.
I want to get this in the open.
You think I killed an lndian because we're having an argument about where my land ends?
We want to settle in court.
joseph Goodensnake is dead with a wound from your shotgun.
All I'm saying, it was no animal I know of.
But it damn well didn't seem human, neither.
Take a look at my boy's scars.
It was dark.
We heard a growl.
We went out to protect the cattle.
I could have swore I saw...
red eyes and fangs.
I thought my boy Lyle was...
Look, nobody--nobody-- was more shocked and upset than I was to find out it was thatyoung lndian boy but ifhe killed our cattle-- I'm very sorry that we had to find out about it that way but as far as I'm concerned that's the end ofit.
Can we see the corral?
I'll takeyou out there.
Agent Mulder?
Yeah?
Agent Scully...
I suppose ifl were hearing our side ofthe story it might not hold up too well-- parts I don't understand myself-- things my father could never try to explain to a stranger.
What kinds ofthings?
For the last few months wheneverwe'd go outside at night to check the cattle we never saw anything out ofthe ordinary-- not a mountain lion, not a coyote not even anyTregoes, Agent Scully...
but I can feel it-- something not human-- out there...
watching me.
The airwas more still.
The night animals more quiet.
It was like nature herself was terrified.
Gave me the creeps.
The creeps?
Yeah.
The creeps.
Don'tyou ever get the creeps?
The victim was shot there about three meters from where Parker fired.
There's no way he could have mistaken a person for an animal.
It's open-and-shut, Mulder.
You know, I'm surprised you volunteered for this assignment.
Any Bureau agent could have investigated this reservation homicide.
Why areyou interested?
Well, there seems to be nothing unexplainable about this case.
Nope.
Not a thing.
This is so odd.
It's almost like a snakeskin that's been shed.
I suspect the Parkers knowingly killed Goodensnake.
They hardly seem the type to skin theirvictim.
Police and coroner's report make no mention ofsuch an act.
Scully: We'll have to look at the body ourselves.
Mulder: The body's been transferred to reservation authorities.
We're supposed to get in touch with a SheriffTskany.
Excuse me.
We're not from around here.
We're looking for SheriffTskany.
Anyone know CharleyTskany?
Man: Go home, F.B.I.
How did you know?
I could smell you a mile away.
Well, they told me that even though my deodorant's made for a woman it's strong enough for a man.
I was at Wounded Knee in 1 973.
What I learned fighting the F.B.I.
is you don't believe in us, and we don't believe in you.
I want to believe.
Whyyou here?
What areyou looking for?
You know what we're looking for.
You tell me what I know.
We're looking for information on the homicide ofJoe Goodensnake.
We're looking for anything that can create human tracks in one step and animal tracks in the next.
Parker.
He found whatyou're looking for.
He killed whatyou're looking for, F.B.I.
Parker and his kid killed my brother.
You're all too afraid ofsome stupid lndian legend to do anything.
Gwen!
The suits come when theywant something but when we need help they're nowhere to be found.
SheriffTskany?
I'm Agent Scully and this is Agent Mulder.
Goodensnake's body is in my office.
Bill, Tom.
Let them through.
Come on, boys.
Let them through.
Who are they?
Guardians ofthe dead.
They escort the deceased spirits to the new world.
I let them as far as the front door.
I keep ancient beliefs out there and police work in here.
The woman in the pool hall said people were afraid ofsome legend.
What do they believe happened?
I'm not a park ranger here to answer questions about lndians.
Whenever I need federal help I never get it.
Since this case falls under thejurisdiction ofthe F.B.I.
you're entitled to examine the body.
So let's get it overwith.
Mulder: Was the woman in the pool hall his sister?
Gwen.
She andJoe are primarily responsible for fueling the boundary dispute with Parker.
They felt he had been grazing his cattle farther and father onto the reservation.
Parker probably told you it was his idea to settle in court.
joe and Gwen filed the suit.
Take a look at that scar tissue.
Looks like he had been attacked by an animal as well.
Tskany: CouldJoe have been attacked also?
Maybe the Parkers did see an animal.
No.
Those wounds have been healing for quite some time.
The shotgun wound indicates point-blank range.
The pellets entered the body in a single mass.
The assailant couldn't have been more than three feet away.
We need to take a look at Goodensnake's dental records.
These are the canine cuspids.
They're normal.
Could his records have been switched?
The second incisor is chipped just like the ones in his mouth.
These match joe Goodensnake's.
There are cases ofcalcium phosphate salts developing abnormally with age but...
That could account forwhatJim Parker claims to have seen.
He was out that night expecting to see a mountain lion.
He gets rattled and the fashlight beam catchesJoe here.
Parker saw what he wanted to see-- an animal.
Lyle has scars just likeJoe.
Doyou have a facility for an autopsy?
Why?
IfJoe's teeth are abnormal, an autopsy might reveal abnormalities in the interior ofhis anatomy.
I can't allow that.
I'm fully qualified.
No.
The funeral is tonight.
It's a cremation.
After that we'll have nothing.
Tregoes believe that the recent dead are unsettled by their new condition as spirits.
Any desecration ofthe body angers the spirit and keeps it haunting this world.
A law enforcement officer can't destroy evidence.
Don't tell me what I can't do.
Native Americans believe there are laws greater than that ofthe U.S.
government.
Iftheywant joe at rest that's the way it's going to be.
Ifyou want to make an issue out ofit with your authorities go right ahead.
Charley, doyou believe that the spirit ofJoe Goodensnake is in that room?
All I know is tomorrow, the day after, you're going to leave but I have to stay here.
I've got to answer to these people.
You can continue your investigation.
You're going to have to do it withoutJoe Goodensnake's body.
(man chanting) Scully: Since we've been here you've acted as ifyou expected to find every piece ofevidence we've come across.
What aren't you telling me?
Why are we here?
A true piece ofhistory, Scully-- The very first X-File initiated by j.
Edgar Hoover himselfin 1 946.
During World War Il a series ofmurders occurred in and around the Northwest.
Seven here in Browning alone.
Each victim was basically ripped to shreds and eaten as ifby a wild animal.
However, many ofthe victims were found at home as ifthey allowed their killer to enter.
In 1 946, police cornered what they believed to be such an animal in a cabin in Glacier National Park.
They shot it but when theywent in to retrieve the carcass they found only the body of Richard Watkins.
Sounds like the Parker scenario.
The murders stopped thatyear.
Because the cases were unsolved and so bizarre Hoover locked them away hoping that people around here would forget about them.
This file indicates that they started again in 1 954.
And '59, '64, '78, and now again in '94 but...
Here it comes.
These animal-man related murders predate the oldest X-File by 1 50 years.
Members ofthe Lewis and Clark expedition wrote oflndian men who could change their shape into that ofa wolf.
What this folder describes is called lycanthropy.
It's a type ofinsanity in which an individual believes that he can turn into a wolf.
I mean, no one can physically change into an animal.
How can youjust dismiss the evidence-- the tracks in the mud, the shredded skin a man with the teeth ofan animal?
Even ifyou're right andJoe Goodensnake did somehow have the ability to transform physically into an animal he's dead.
jim Parker shot him.
In a couple ofmoments his bodywill be burned.
End ofmystery.
Let's hope so.
You don't belong here.
Gwen...
You're around to wrap upyour investigation.
I just wanted to say I'm sorry aboutyour brother.
I feel sad for anyone who loses a part oftheir family.
A part?
He was mywhole family.
I'm it now.
As a demonstration ofsorrow I'm supposed to give away all my brother's possessions.
Gwen, I don't know what to say.
It's no big deal.
He had more possessions than he had friends.
I read the report ofyour investigation into the Goodensnake homicide.
It was very good.
It was thorough, professional.
But what I want to know is offthe record.
What doyou think really happened?
Your explanation, Agent Mulder is lying on that burial platform.
Why don'tyoujust accept that and go home?
Charley, doyou believe in shape-shifting?
This is a funeral.
(drums beating) (man chanting) (group chanting) (chanting) (chanting continues) Get out!
I want to show my respects.
I don't wantyour respects.
I wantyour heart to grow cold.
I wantyou to feel what I'm feeling!
I thinkyou better leave, Mr.
Parker.
I wish your brother could be here.
I wish that more than anything else.
(faint growl) (clinking) (growling) By the way the body's been mutilated I'd say he's been attacked by a large predator or somebodywanted it to look that way.
Doyou think this is retaliation for the death ofJoe Goodensnake?
I don't know.
Haveyou talked to Gwen Goodensnake?
She seemed pretty upset last night.
She's gone.
Nobody has seen her since the funeral.
I've put an A.P.B.
out on her.
And what about Lyle Parker?
We can't find him either.
He could be dead as well.
I'll take a look around.
(growling) (growls) (scully gasping) That's not from any animal I've ever seen.
Sheriff, I think it's time we had a talk.
An exchange ofideas?
Scully: Mulder!
I'm taking Lyle to the hospital.
He's suffering from exposure.
When he's been checked out I'm gonna question him.
What areyou hiding?
I thought it was over.
Over?
Is that whyyou wouldn't allow an autopsy onJoe Goodensnake's body?
You thought it would all end when he was cremated?
What wereyou afraid we'd find?
I can't tell you but I'll takeyou to somebodywho can.
I'm ashamed to say it afterwhat happened at the funeral.
I picked up some bourbon and I don't remember a thing after that.
Sometimes, when I'm down I go out to where me and my dad keep stray animals that wander in on the ranch.
I just watch them, you know.
Keeps things in perspective.
Anyway...
my mom-- when she was alive-- was the one that started keeping those animals.
I guess I go out there and think about her too.
God, I must have been reallywasted to run around there naked.
You must have thought I was one ofthose animals.
When you did go home, did you talk toyour father?
No.
He'd have been mad I even went to the funeral.
I...
I have...
an image ofhim sitting on the front porch but...
I don't remember talking to him.
Why?
Your father is dead.
I'm sorry.
(sighing) It appears as ifhe's been...
attacked by an animal, but...
I suspect it may be homicide.
Lyle, I lost my father recently and I know how overwhelming...
Was it my fault?
By going to the funeral did it anger them into killing my father?
I don't know.
I can deal with death.
You know, living on the ranch, being close to nature and all you see how it all works.
Things are born.
Things die.
Everything else falls in between.
But ifl caused it...
Ifl brought it on I couldn't, uh...
I...
I...
I saw it once with my own eyes.
It was a long time ago.
It seemed like a dream.
I was a boy.
Was that 1 946?
The Watkins case?
I sense you're different, F.B.I.
You're more open to Native American belief than some Native Americans.
You even have an lndian name-- Fox.
You should be " Running Fox" or "Sneaky Fox."
just as long as it's not "Spooky Fox."
Tell me, lsh-- what did you see?
Watkins had been attacked by an animal when he was alone in the woods.
His scars healed.
It was forgotten.
Then the murders began.
The Tregoes-- we realized that Watkins had been attacked bywhat the Algonquins call the manitou an evil spirit capable ofchanging a man into a beast.
To be attacked by a manitou causes the victim to become one.
The healed scars onJoe Goodensnake's body.
The manitou overtakes a man by night, not by full moon but when its blood lust builds to uncontrollable level the man changes to a sickening creature.
It kills, releasing a savage energy.
The man returns to his true self unaware ofwhat has happened.
The cycle begins anew the next day.
This continues until death.
One night when I was 1 6 years old I was coming back from fishing in the Cut Bank Creek.
I knew a shortcut behind Watkins' house.
There was a...
a groan.
Not animal, but not human.
I looked into his window.
He was covered in sweat and blood.
He was in a great, great pain.
His arm-- the skin ripped.
It tore up and fell to the foor.
Claws sprang from his fingernails.
He turned, screaming and he saw me.
His eyes...
his eyes were still human.
They begged me to kill him and ifl had been hunting and had my gun I'd have done it without a second thought.
But being a boy, and scared to death I ran away.
Shortly after, the police killed him.
But the manitou rose again.
Eightyears later.
But with Watkins dead how could there have been an attack by a manitou?
Watkins had a son.
It could be passed along bloodlines.
Gwen.
IfJoe Goodensnake was this creature then perhaps it didn't originate in him by the first attack but was handed down through the bloodlines.
Gwen could have it also.
Gwen could have killed Parker.
(low metallic clank) (engine starting) Gwen!
No, no, no..!
Charley: You're under arrest for stealing lsh's car.
What happened?
What areyou running from?
I saw it.
I saw it kill Parker.
Let her up.
I went there after the funeral.
I was going to mess up the kid.
So I waited.
Parkerwas on the porch.
Then this thing, this animal-- Oh, my God!
(sobbing) I've never been so scared.
I ran, and I hid in the woods all day.
I wanted to get out...
I wanted to get out ofhere.
I wanted to get out ofhere.
Bring her inside.
(crying) Thankyou.
Hello.
This is DoctorJoseph.
This is Agent Mulder from the F.B.I.
I was told I could reach Agent Scully at this number.
We released Lyle Parker from the hospital.
She's taking him back to the ranch.
I can reach her there?
Uh-huh.
Theyjust left.
There's something I feel you should know.
I received the blood tests performed on Lyle Parker and there's something rather unsettling.
What's that?
Traces ofhis father's blood type.
It can only be there through ingestion.
Power's out.
Yep.
Happens to us all the time being out here in the sticks.
I'll fire up the generator.
(gasps) You okay?
I feel sick.
Please, help me into the bathroom.
Damn.
Keeps disconnecting.
The mountains must be blocking the signal.
How much farther?
About seven miles.
(gasping) Lyle, let me come in.
Lyle, I want to takeyou back to the hospital.
Okay?
No!
I'll be all right.
(gasping) (gasping) Lyle?
Lyle, answer me.
(gasping) Lyle, areyou all right?
(grunts) (roaring) (grunts) (growls) (yelling) (gasps) (whispering loudly:) Scully!
(growls) (growling) (gunshots) (growls) Aah!
It's okay.
It's me.
I don't know what happened.
Somethingjumped me downstairs.
I lost my gun.
I heard it come up here.
Come on.
Okay.
(growling) (gunshot) You all right?
Oh, my God.
He was in the bathroom sick and then we were attacked by the mountain lion.
Mulder: It wasn't a mountain lion.
Charley: It's still in a cage.
Where's Gwen?
She said she'd come see us before we left.
She left last night.
Gave away all her possessions to her friends.
just pulled up and left?
Why?
Her brother's gone, no family.
Trouble with Parker is all over.
Maybe she saw something that she wasn't ready to understand.
Maybe.
Well, thankyou.
F.B.I.
Seeyou in about...
eightyears.
I hope not.