"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" "Rana sphenocephala will be extinct here." " Frog populations are declining all over the globe, Dr Faraday." " No one knows why." " We can't place them all on the endangered species list." " You'd find a way if it were cute, furry mammals we were talking about." " Regardless, your study remains inconclusive." " Speculative, at best." " You have no evidence the frog depopulation is the sole result of human encroachment." " A frog holocaust is currently being executed, Dr Bailey." " And man is the executioner." " You're a biologist, Faraday." " You've never heard of survival of the fittest?" " 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!" " Dammit." " Freakin' beeper." "  Nature's calling." " We should pull over soon." "  Did you really have to bring that thing?" " You wake me up on a Saturday morning, tell me to be ready in five minutes, my mom's away, all dog-sitters are booked, and you know how I feel about kennels." " So, unless you wanna lose your deposit on the car, I suggest we pull over." " All right.  I'm lost anyway." " I gotta stop and ask for directions." " I know I'm lost as to why you're so interested in this missing-persons case." " Dr Bailey works for the US Forestry Service." " It makes his disappearance a federal case." " It's notjurisdiction I'm questioning." " Dr Bailey's not the first person to go missing from the lake." " Two weeks ago a Boy Scout troop was out here fossil-hunting." " Their troop leader went to relieve himself, and hasn't been heard from since." " So you think there's a serial killer at large?" " The operative word being large." "  What are you leaving out?" "  Why d'you think I'm leaving anything out?" " Multiple missing-persons cases are not that uncommon." " Why this one warrants a flight halfway across the country and a two-hour drive's a mystery." " Tell me you're not serious." " According to the sheriff's report, you were the last person to see Dr Bailey alive." " That's what they tell me." " You argued over an endangered species petition." " Bailey was the worst kind of hypocrite." " Closest he came to communing with nature was subscribing to National Geographic." "  You sound bitter, 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." " That is what you were suggesting." " Aside from having a motive, you don't seem too upset." " You expect me to cry for one man when entire species are on the brink of extinction?" " You know the wildlife in and around this lake as well as anybody, don't you?" " I'd say that's accurate." " Are you aware of any indigenous species that's capable of attacking a human being?" " Yes." "  Another human being." "  Aside from that.  ls there a creature that..." "Has anyone ever told you two you have a great problem coming to the point?" " OK.  ln your work, have you come across any evidence that lends support to the existence of this creature they call Big Blue?" " See, this is what always happens." " This is how it starts." "  What?" "  The deflection, sleight of hand." " Whenever an issue requires any real thought or mental effort, people turn to UFOs and sea serpents and Sasquatch." " Afternoon talk shows and tabloid TV - they've reduced our attention span so much that soon our ability to think will be as extinct as the Rana sphenocephala frog." " I'll take that diatribe to mean you don't believe in the existence of such a creature." " I won't even grace that with a reply." " A prehistoric animal in a lake is not without precedent." " Last August they pulled a bull shark from Lake Onota in Massachusetts." " An anomaly, which proves nothing." " It only serves as fodder for pseudoscientists with nothing better to do than chase fairy tales." " Excuse me." " Lake creatures have been reported for centuries in many countries." " From the monsters in Loch Ness and Shiel, to the Ogopogo in Lake Okanagan." " And Lake Champlain, Lagarfljót, Iceland..." " Sounds like you know about the subject." "  l did as a kid, but then I grew up and became a scientist." " Some grown-up cryptozoologists think it's an evolutionary throwback, possibly prehistoric." "  An aquatic dinosaur." "  A plesiosaur, actually." " Though, admittedly, there's not a lot of hard evidence to back that up." " You know why?" " Because those creatures don't exist." " They are folk tales born out of some collective fear of the unknown." " How many folk tales do you know that could eat a Boy Scout leader and a biologist?" " Check this out, Scully." " It looks an insect casing or carapace." " Something from a beetle." "  How can I help you folks?" "  We're looking for the Lakeview Cabins." " You passed the turnoff a few miles back." " It's pretty tough to find." " A map might help." " They're $2.50 each, plus Uncle Sam." " Fine." " If you don't mind my sayin', don't look like you're here for the trout." " No." " We're with the fbi." " We're investigating two missing-persons reports." " Oh, yeah." " Yeah." " That's big news round here." " Everybody's been talkin' about it." "  What are they saying?" "  Same thing they've been sayin' for years." " I'm not one for spreading' rumors." " The truth is, I've heard the stories since I was a kid." "  About Big Blue?" " What kind of stories?" "  Well, I was ten years old, fishin' with my daddy, and 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 and was drinking by the lake when Old Blue came up and snatched her right off the bank." "  That's quite a story." "  Well, that's just one." " Those stories must sell a lot of T-shirts." " Well, a man's gotta survive." " Do you believe those stories?" " Every man's gotta look at the evidence, decide for himself." " 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." " Can you get these developed by tomorrow?" " Give me another five rolls." " Put 'em on my tab." " These folks are with the fbi, Ansel." " They're looking into that unsolved mystery of how those people disappeared." " Unsolved mystery?" "  Since when's it a mystery?" "  So you think Big Blue's responsible?" " Don't you?" " Have you ever actually seen it?" " 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." " There we go." " If you hit Striker's Cove, you've gone too far." " Call the sheriff." " We got a floater." " It's Scott Moosley, the Boy Scout troop leader." "  Well, his fly's undone." "  Are you insinuating something?" " No." " Most drowning victims have high levels of alcohol in them and their flies unzipped." " While urinating over the sides of boats, they lose their balance, fall in and drown." " It still doesn't explain why half of him is still missing." "  Looks like something took a big bite." "  Maybe not so big." "  What do you mean?" "  Fish eat decomposing matter." " Any body suspended in this environment for a period of time will become a food source." " We eat fish and fish eat us." " Are fish also known for eating half and saving half for later?" " Oh, God, no!" " Help me." "  Like I said, I recognized his hat." "  How could you not?" " There's Ted Bertram's four-by parked 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." " Mulder, this is Sheriff Lance Head." " Watch out for the tracks." " Careful." " Watch out where you're walking." " Queequeg." " Pleasure." " Ansel, why don't you go check the woods?" " Today's the day, Sheriff." "  l'm gonna get him." "  Yeah." "  Any sign of Ted Bertram?" "  No." " I'm notjumping to conclusions." " Speakin' of which, I hear you want to close the lake." " Just until we figure out what's going on." " Well, I can tell you what's goin' on." " Same thing that goes on every year." " Fishermen get drunk, they drown." " Folks get run over by a powerboat." " Hell, on a lake this size you'll have eight, nine deaths a season.  lt's a statistical fact." " But you got two or three in as many weeks." " I'd say you're outside your bell curve, Sheriff." " Agent..." "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 that to happen." "  You'd need irrefutable proof." "  And these tracks?" " A creature as large as the one you're looking for would have left much deeper impressions." " Queequeg, come back here." "  Mulder." " Sheriff." " Come take a look at this." "  What you got?" "  There's your lake monster, Mulder." "  That's what it looks like." "  lt's all a hoax." "  l'll be damned." " Sure seems like it." " Yeah, but what happened to the hoaxer?" " I saw it on the Discovery Channel." " They got, like, this whole, you know, cult built up around these tree toads." " The skin's got these hallucinogenic properties - let's you see all these visions." " It's really spiritual." " Yeah?" " I don't know." " It's supposed to take the doors of perception and swing them so wide open, you know." " Plus you get to see all these really cool streaks and trails and crap." " Well?" " Are you sure that's even a toad?" " Dude, what's wrong with you?" " You made me drop my toad." " Chill out, man.  I'll get you another one." " How long till we get down to Lauderdale?" " No!" " Dude?" " How about you?" " Neither of you can remember anything?" "  Great!" "  lf this is a hoax, it's an elaborate one." " I got zip out of them - no tellin' what they've been smokin'." " What's it look like?" " It's hard to tell without an autopsy, but it looks like propeller damage from a boat." "  Well, this is a designated boating area." "  20 feet from shore and twice in one day?" " Mulder, look at it out there.  lt's like rush hour." " I think you're ignoring the obvious." " What about Ted Bertram?" " He might've stepped in something and bled into those funny shoes." " He's probably so embarrassed he doesn't want to show his face." " is that the psychological approach to crime solving?" " Regardless of what I believe, there's no hard evidence that it's what you believe." "[ Sound] I see your true colors" "[Sound] Shining through" "[Sound] I see your true colors" "[Sound] And that's why I love you" "[Sound] So don't be afraid" "[Sound] To show your true" "[Sound] Blue" "[Sound] Colors" "OK, Big Blue, you're mine." " Today's the day." " Crap!" " Jesus." "  This has been exposed." " Can you develop it?" "  Yes, sir." " Three in one day." " Driving from crime scene to crime scene is giving me highway hypnosis." "  Close down the lake." "  l done told you once.  lt ain't that simple." " I just ain't got the manpower." " Furthermore, I'm not at all convinced we're dealin' with an aquatic menace." " He's right." " Those two sets of remains we've found so far are inconclusive." " We really need to find this body." " My thoughts exactly, ma'am." " If you'll give us a couple more minutes..." "Sheriff." " You all right, Sheriff?" " Are you OK, Sheriff?" " Something..." "Something brushed up against me out there." " Something big..." " Close the lake." "  Right, Sheriff." " Call the State Police and the Wildlife, Fish and Game." " You tell 'em we got an emergency situation." "  Looks like Ansel took 'em during the attack." "  l agree." " I just wish that he gave us something more." " Look at this." " Could this be a tooth?" " Yeah.  lt could be a lot of things, Mulder." " 15 years of fruitless hunting, and all the guy comes up with is a blurry picture of a tooth?" " There are thousands of pictures here, Scully." " There's gotta be some visual evidence somewhere." " Here, go through these." " Mulder, these are just a bunch of poorly composed tourist shots." " That could be something." " A tooth?" " I'm taking Queequeg for a walk." "  Want me to come with you?" "  l'll be fine." "  Good night, Mulder." "  All right.  I'll see you in the morning." " Come on, Queequeg." " Queequeg, we're not gonna go into the woods." " Come on, do your business." " I thought you had to go." " What is it?" " Where are you going?" " Come back here." " I'm sorry about Queequeg." " I've learned something from these photos." " They're not pictures of the monster, but of the lake - locations where the creature's been sighted over the past several years." " Look." " Five years ago all the sightings occurred in the center of the lake." " But the sightings have moved closer to shore, until this year they're practically on the shore." " Could you repeat the last part again?" " I faded out." " Which part?" " After you said "l'm sorry."" " Can you drive a boat?" "  lt's too bad we're not out here fishing." "  We are fishing." "  You really expect to find this thing." "  You wanna head right here." " I'll take that as a yes." " I know the difference between expectation and hope." "" Seek and ye shall find," Scully." " On old mariners' maps, the cartographers would designate uncharted territories" " by writing "Here be monsters." -  l have a map of New York City just like that." "  What was that?" "  lt ain't no bass." " What is that?" " What is that, Mulder?" "  There be monsters, Scully." "  lt looks like it's coming straight at us." " Yup." " That's what it looks like." " Mayday!" " Can anybody read me?" " This is a distress call from the Patricia Rae." " PA7 A3A27." " I'm on..." " Mayday!" "  Scully, let's get outta here." " There goes our $500 deposit." " I say we swim to shore." "  Swim?" "  Yeah." " The shore can't be too far from here." " In which direction?" " Yeah." " You know, living in the city, you forget that night is actually so dark." " Living in a city, you forget a lot of things." " 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 everything is out to get you." " That's why Father always taught me to respect nature - cos it has no respect for you." " That was him, Scully." " That was Big Blue." " So what if it was?" " Mulder, what are we doing here?" " What do you mean "What are we doing here?"" " What are you hoping to accomplish?" " So many of the things we investigate are intangible, but this creature exists within the specific earthly confines of this lake." "  And I wanna find it." "  What for?" " You're a scientist." " Why do you ask that?" " It would be miraculous.  lt could revolutionize evolutionary biological thinking." " is that really the reason why?" " You know when you showed me those pictures that the photographer took?" " Wanna know what I really saw in them?" "  A tooth?" "  No." " You." " That man is your future." " Listening only to himself, hoping to glimpse the truth for who knows what reason." " I read in his journals that he hoped to live off the copyright fees from a Big Blue photo." " As dumb as it sounds, at least it's a legitimate reason." " You don't think my reasons are legitimate?" " Mulder, sometimes I just can't figure them out." " I'm still tempted to fire." " Hey, Scully, d'you think you could ever cannibalize someone?" " I mean, if you really had to?" " Well, as much as the idea's abhorrent to me, I suppose under certain conditions the living entity is practically conditioned to perform whatever extreme measures are necessary to ensure its survival." " I suppose I'm no different." " You've lost some weight recently." " Yeah, actually, I have." " Thanks for..." "But it is amazing what some animals will do to guarantee the continuation of the species." " A creature of this size must have adapted its behavior to minimize its chances of being seen by its only predator - us." " This coming closer to shore for its prey must be an act of desperation on its part." " Poor Queequeg." " Why did you name the dog Queequeg?" " 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." "  That's a bizarre name for a dog?" "  No." " How much you're like Ahab." " You're so consumed by your personal vengeance against life, whether it be its cruelties or its mysteries, that everything takes on a warped significance to fit your megalomaniacal cosmology." " Are you coming on to me?" " 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." " It's interesting you should say that - l always wanted a peg leg." " It's a boyhood thing I never grew out of." " I'm not being flippant." " I've given it a lot of thought." " If you have a peg leg or hooks for hands, maybe it's enough to simply carry on living, bravely facing life with a disability." " It's heroic just to survive." " But without these things, you're expected to make something of your life - earn a raise, wear a necktie." " 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 not feel the need to chase after creatures of the unknown." "  And that's not flippant?" "  No." " Flippant is my favorite line from Moby Dick." "" Hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple dumpling."" "  What was that?" "  l don't know, but it ain't no duck." " I thought I heard voices." " What are you two doing out here?" "  Dr Faraday?" "  Hope I'm not interrupting anything." "  No." " No." " We had a little trouble with our boat." "  Actually, it sank." "  How'd that happen?" "  lt was my fault." " We'd have been here all night if you hadn't answered our distress call." " I didn't.  I was walking by.  I heard you talking." "  Walking by?" "  Yeah." " Yeah, the shore is just a stone's throw from here." " Come on.  I'll take you back." " It was just out of fuel." " The sheriff'll be along in a minute." " I'd drive you myself, but I got work to do." " What exactly is it that you're doing out here?" " It's well after midnight." " Night is Rana sphenocephala's most active period." " 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." "  What's in the sack?" "  Adult frogs." " I've been breeding them in captivity and releasing them into the wild." " This is Striker's Cove?" "  The frogs." "  l beg your pardon." " The unexplained depletion of frogs originates from this cove.  lt's the food chain." "  What about it?" "  lf you alter one life form in an ecosystem, the rest is necessarily affected, either by an increase or decrease." " So if an aquatic dinosaur primarily ate frogs, then if those frogs became scarce, it'd have to turn to an alternative food source." "  Humans." "  Agent Mulder, you are taking my legitimate research and basic biological principle and stretching them out of proportion, in an effort to give validity to a ludicrous theory." " There is no prehistoric lake monster." " This creature lives here." " That explains the frogs' disappearance - for which you have no explanation, ludicrous or not - and the human attacks." " That's crazy.  lf something was in these waters, you don't think I would've seen it?" " I've worked here for three years." " I'm talking about an animal that's gone unnoticed for centuries." " If it knows anything, it knows how to hide." " They say the Loch Ness Monster doesn't even live in the water, but in cliffs." " Maybe Big Blue has an inland habitat, somewhere in the rocks or in this forest here." " I have no time for these absurdities." " If you'll excuse me, I have some amphibians to release." " Well, Captain, what now?" " Agent Scully." " Agent Mulder." " There's been another death." " And this time it does appear to be an animal attack." " Bit a fisherman's arm off." "  Where?" "  Other side of the lake, couple of hours ago." " I have the cooperation of the State Police, plus the full use of all the Wildlife, Fish and Game vessels." " A search is under way." " No." " We need those men searching this cove and these woods." " But I got 30 boats on the water." " If we're gonna kill this..." "We gotta sweep this cove." " It's here at Striker's Cove." " The boats are searching the area of the latest attack.  I'm not gonna move 'em." " If you wanna waste your time searching these woods, go ahead." "  l got me a lake monster to catch." "  Sheriff, this is Dispatch." " Sheriff," "Agent Mulder and I would appreciate it if you could spare two men to assist us here." " All right.  I'll send 'em on back." " Thanks." " What was that?" " Dr Faraday." "  What happened?" "  l think something grabbed my leg." "  Did you see it?" "  No." " It came from behind me." " Before I knew it, it was shaking me back and forth." " Then it let go." " Give me your belt." " I didn't wanna believe you." " You nicked an artery." " We gotta get him to a hospital." " He's losing blood." "  Where did it go?" "  l didn't see it." " I think I heard..." "It went through those reeds there." "  Mulder, help is coming." "  You take care of him, Scully." " Alligator..." "Millikan County, unit three..." "All right then." " Go ahead." " How's Dr Faraday?" " He'll be fine." "  How are you?" "  l'm fine." " Well, you slew the big white whale, Ahab." "  Yeah, but I still don't have that peg leg." "  How can you be disappointed?" " That alligator would've gone through the local population." " I know." " I guess I just wanted Big Blue to be real." " I guess I see hope in such a possibility." " Well, there's still hope." " That's why these myths and stories have endured." " People wanna believe." " Visiontext Subtitles:" "Natasha Cohn" "I made this." " US english"