S1 E20
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Season 1  "Darkness Falls"  1x20

Aired 30 years ago - Apr 15, 1994

When a group of loggers in the Washington State National Forest disappear in the same way that another group disappeared 50 years ago, Mulder and Scully go along to investigate and find themselves trapped in a cabin surrounded by flesh eating insects that only attack at night.

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The monkey-wrenchers are doing more than mischief-making.
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Let me get this outta the way.
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Indiscriminate. Imagine somebody spiking Washington DC's roads.
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- Find anything? - Party favours.
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No, more like all the fluids have been bled from its body.
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- What happened to my men? - What men?
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Why did you say the darkness was our enemy?
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- Four of us, three now. - More rats in the woodpile.
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Oh, yeah? Your logging crew is taking trees that nobody has a right to.
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- It's afraid of the light! - There may be something to it.
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It's just like I told you. There's nothing out here but a bunch of trees.
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- Who marks these trees? - Federal Forest Service.
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But this one I don't know. I should take a core sample.
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- Steve! - Let him go.
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I don't see how. These inner rings are essentially dead wood.
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- What do you know about insects? - Just what I learned in biology courses.
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Strange things started to grow.
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And your friend Humphreys.
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I can save us all, man. We've got ajeep just two valleys over.
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At least now we've got one chance of getting out alive.
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What do you want me to say? Let's face it, we might die up here.
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We'll be safe as long as we stay in the light.
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- What happened to your friends? - They didn't make it.
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Our entomologists are trying to determine the specific epithet
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they will be successful.
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Visiontext subtitles by Pam Atkinson
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