| MULDER BECOMES OBSESSED WITH SOLVING A CASE THAT CLOSELY PARALLELS THE ABDUCTION OF HIS SISTER. |
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Code Name: Conduit Code Number: 1X03 Crime: Homicide Suspect: Tessa Sears Status: Closed Location(s): Sioux City, Iowa Investigating Agent(s): Special Agent Fox Mulder, Special Agent Dana Scully In a remote region along the banks of Lake Okobogee in Iowa, a mysterious bright light descends from the night sky. �Ruby Morris, a teenage girl, vanishes from her sleeping bag while her brother Kevin frantically call out to their mother. Mulder requests that the FBI investigate the Ruby Morris disappearance after it is reported in a tabloid. �Scully and Blevins note a similarity between the case and Mulder's own childhood "encounter" in which his sister was allegedly abducted by aliens. Mulder tells Scully that Lake Okobogee is a UFO "hot spot." �He presents several newspaper articles written over the last several decades as proof. �One article describes a sighting reported by girl scouts, one of whom is identified as Darlene Morris, the mother of the girl who disappeared. The agents travel to Iowa to investigate further. �Darlene sticks by her story, insisting the disappearance has nothing to do with her divorce. �Mulder questions Kevin Morris, who cannot remember what happened the night of the encounter. �But Kevin's strange doodling piques Mulder's interest and he has the pictures faxed to Washington for analysis. �The boy says his doodles are the result of his television communicating with him. Scully and Mulder are contacted by a young girl who keeps her identity secret. �The girl states that a boy named Greg Randall got Ruby pregnant, and that he couple were planning to elope together. Kevin Morris' doodles turn out to be part of a top secret binary defence satellite transmission. �The boy is taken into custody by NSA Agent Holtzman as a security risk and then released. �New doodles taken from the Morris home turn out to be digital renderings of everything from Shakespeare passages to bars from a Brandenburg concerto. �Mulder believes the boy has become a conduit for alien transmissions. The agents return to the site of the abduction and find evidence of intense heat. �They also find Greg Randall's body buried in a shallow grave. �Mulder discovers a hand-written note in Randall's wallet noting a doctor's appointment. �The handwriting matches that of the mysterious girl encountered earlier. By questioning the doctor, the agents locate the mysterious girl, who turns out to be Tessa Sears. �Scully informs Tessa that officials know that it is she - and not Ruby - who was impregnated by Greg Randall. �Sears admits she shot Greg when she discovered he was having an affair with Ruby. �But she insists she did not murder Ruby. Scully and Mulder return to the Morris home and find it abandoned. �They also find a large portrait of Ruby formed with binary numbers. The agents travel back to Lake Okobogee. �Mulder finds Kevin wandering in a strange fog. �Just as Mulder pulls Kevin away, a group of bikers drives by them and Ruby's unconscious body is discovered nearby. �Darlene forbids Mulder from speaking with her daughter, insisting that as far as she is concerned, Ruby had simply run off with bikers. That night, Scully listens to tape recordings of Mulder's hypnosis session in which he described his belief that one day his sister will be returned to Earth unharmed. |
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THE X-FILES "CONDUIT" #1X03 ORIGINAL US AIRDATE: 10/01/93 CAST: DAVID DUCHOVNY as Special Agent Fox Mulder GILLIAN ANDERSON as Special Agent Dana Scully GUEST CAST: CARRIE SNODGRESS as Darlene Morris JOEL PALMER as Kevin Morris CHARLES CIOFFI as Section Chief Scott Blevins TAUNYA DEE as Ruby Morris MICHAEL CAVANAUGH as Sheriff SHELLY OWENS as Tessa Sears DON THOMPSON as Holtzman DON GIBB as Kip AKIKO MORISON as Leza Atsumi ANTHONY HARRISON as 4th Man GLEN ROALD as M.E. Worker MAURICIO MERCADO as the Coroner WRITTEN BY: ALEX GANSA HOWARD GORDON DIRECTED BY: DANIEL SACKHEIM NOTES: |
| Joel Palmer, who plays Kevin Morris in this episode, will later appear as Charlie and Michael Holvey in the season two episode "The Calusari" (2X21). |
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"Okay, Scully, so we disagree - it's not the first time and it won't be the last." Special Agent Mulder "This is the essence of science - you ask an impertinent question and you're on your way to a pertinent answer." "Then what makes this any more credible than the hundred year old mother with the lizard baby?" "Because the lizard baby wasn't born anywhere near Lake Okobogee." "Oko-what?" "Bogee. �Okobogee." Special Agent Mulder & Special Agent Scully "They took her, didn't they, Mr. Mulder?" Darlene Morris "I just think it's a good idea not to antagonise local law enforcement." "Who me? �I'm Mr. Congeniality!" "You never know, we might need his help one of these days." "I'll send him a bundt cake." Special Agent Scully & Special Agent Mulder "Hey, that's a nice tattoo. �What is that?" "What's it look like?" "A flying saucer. � You don't really believe in that stuff, do you?" "I take it you don't?" "No, I think it's all just a bunch of crazy people howling at the moon." Special Agent Mulder & Bartender "Come on! �How can an eight-year-old boy who can barely multiply be a threat to National security? �And people call me paranoid!" Special Agent Mulder "Y'know, when I was a kid, I had this ritual. � I closed my eyes before I walked into my room, because I thought that one day when I opened them my sister would be there, just lying in bed like nothing had ever happened. �I'm still walking into that room, every day of my life." Special Agent Mulder "But your eyes are open?" "Yeah, they're open, but it's like...nothing's happening." "Try turning your head." "I can't." "Why not?" "I don't know. �I can't move, so I don't. �I just lie there in bed." "Can you see your sister?" "No, but I can hear her." "What is she saying?" "She's calling out my name, over and over again. �She's crying out for help, but I can't help her. �I can't move." "Are you scared?" "I know I should be, but I'm not." "Do you know why?" "Because of the voice." "The voice?" "The voice in my head!" "What's it telling you?" "Not to be afraid. �It's telling me that no harm will come to her, and that one day she'll return." "Do you believe the voice?" "I want to believe." Dr. Heitz Werber & Special Agent Mulder |
