Página PrincipalInternal dating: The case starts on April 25th 1994.
Mahan Propulsion Laboratory, Washington Institute of Technology. Three scientists are conducting tests in a wind tunnel, arguing between themselves about how far to go. One of them, Surnow, wants to go slow to ensure success, but the others want to push on to get quick resultsand finanical reward. Surnow stays behind to do some calculations, but gets trapped in the wind tunnel and killed. Roland, a mentally-handicapped janitor, ignoring his screams, completes the calculations on the board then carries on sweeping the floor.
Mulder and Scully arrive at the scene (Scully has just been to a wedding, and Mulder asks her if she caught the bouquet. "Maybe," she smiles.) Mulder says the scientists were working on the secret Icarus project, which tries to create jet engines that will go twice as fast on half the fuel. Surnow is the second scientist to die, he tells her. Scully warily asks him if he thinks they're working on UFO technology. "There's something unexplainable here," he replies, "but it's certainly not unidentifiable."
They talk to Keats, another of the scientists, who is hostile, saying he'salready gone through it all with the police. "What are you driving at?"he challenges, when Scully brings up the other scientists who was killed in acar crash six months earlier. Mulder points to the calculation on the board,pointing out that the handwriting at the end is different from the rest of it.
Heritage Halfway House. Roland makes a card fro his friend Tracy, which hecovers with stars. Mulder and Scully comes to talk to him, having found out hewas the only person apart from the scientists in the building the previousnight. He barely registers their questions, but counts the number of gold starson Scully's shirt. Then he gets some flashes to someone being held in liquidnitrogen and panics. As Scully is helping him, Mulder picks up a sample of hishandwriting.
FBI Regional HQ, Seattle. While a handwriting expert is checking Roland'swriting against the hand that completed the calculations, Scully tells Mulderthere was no point even asking. Mulder thinks Roland's an autistic savant, goodwith numbers, but she says numbers are one thing, but complicated calculationsin physics are completely different. The expert finds the two hands don't match.
Roland has a nightmare of the head being forced into the liquid nitrogen.
Keats is working late at night when Roland comes in and stuns him, thenforces his head in the liquid nitrogen. When he drops him to the floor, his headshatters.
Mulder checks Keats' computer and finds someone worked on it for five hoursafter Keats' body. The file they worked on was one belonging to Arthur Grable,the scientist who died some months earlier. Mulder guesses the password - usingnumbers scribbled endlessly by Roland - and they find someone has beencontinuing Grable's work regularly since his death.
Roland dreams of a young boy waving goodbye as another boy is forced into acar and driven away. When he wakes up, Mulder and Scully are there, waiting toquestion him. "I'm not supposed to talk to them," he says, but he'spersuaded otherwise by the home administrator. Mulder asks him about his job,and he says Dr Grable, who was nice to him, got it for him. Mulder asks when helast spoke to Grable - last week? Last night? "Dr Grable died," Rolandsays, sadly. "People die. They go away. And they're not supposed to comeback."
Scully talks to the administrator, asking to see Roland's file. As she readsit, Mulder theorises that Grable deliberately found Roland to work at the lab,and has been using him. He thinks Grable faked his death. Comparing the twofiles, they find out Grable and Roland both came from Seattle. Roland was takeninto a home aged three and his origins are unknown, whereas Grable came from arich family. However their birthdays are the same.
Roland's friend Tracy starts talking about dreams, asking him to tell herhis and asking who Arthur is. He starts crying, then flashes to a picture of himattacking her. He screams and runs from the room. As he cowers in the bathroomclutching his head, he flashes again and again to the image of him attackingher. "Go away!" he shouts.
Mulder and Scully question Nolette, the last surviving scientist. He tellsthem an anecdote behind a picture on his wall, saying that Grable was always apractical joker. Mulder asks if he could have faked his death, pointing out thatthe car accident was on a dry road and there was no funeral. Nolette says therewas no way he could still be alive.
Mulder and Scully visit the Avalon Foundation, where Grable's head has beenfrozen. His body was too badly damaged, but he hoped in the future a cloned bodycould be found for him. There have recently been some odd temperaturefluctuations, they are told, but the man they talk to says it must be mechanicaland nothing to do with Grable's brain activity, as Mulder suggests. Looking atGrable's records, they find out he put Roland down as an organ donor. Muldersays he thinks they're twins.
Using a computer, Mulder and Scully get an expert to fiddle around with thepicture of Grable, removing the beard and suchlike, and find it looks just likeRoland.
Mulder asks Roland about his dreams. Pulling his chair closer, he confidesto Roland that he had a dream himself the previous night - "I dreamt I wasin a pool, and I could see my father underwater, but when I dove down, the waterstung my eyes. And there was another man at the pool, watching me. He upset me.He was asking me questions I didn't want to answer. I had to leave. I couldn'tfind my father." Roland says he can't tell him about his dreams, and iscovered with guilt at pushing Tracy away earlier. Mulder asks if it was hisdreams that made him hit Tracy, but Roland doesn't answer. Mulder then gives hima remote controlled toy, which Roland makes run across the floor. Mulder tellsRoland he is being controlled by his dreams in the same way as the toy is beingcontrolled by him. "Who's at the controls?" Roland asks, and Muldershows him a picture of Grable. Roland starts screaming, flashing to a scene oftwo small boys, happy together before one was taken away. He rushes from theroom and manages to escape from the building without anyone seeing where hewent.
Mulder tells Scully that he believes in psychic connection, especiallybetween sibling and most between twins. Scully admits that she's sometimes beenthinking about calling one of her brothers just as they call her, but can'taccept Roland has a psychic connection to a frozen brain. Mulder says no-oneknows anything about the state of consciousness Grable is in, and thinks Grablemust have found a way to reach out in a way he couldn't do when bound to hisbody. Scully walks off, saying she must call her brother.
Nolette watches and listens to Mulder and Scully on a closed circuit camera,then goes to the place where Grable is frozen. He presses a few buttons andGrable starts to defrost.
Mulder and Scully find firm evidence that Grable and Roland were twins. Theythen get a call from the Avalon centre saying that Grable is still deforestingand someone is blocking their attempts to lower the temperature.
Roland works at the wind tunnel, hitting the much sought after Mach 15. Asthe temperature rises in Grable's canister, Roland clutches his head and seemsto be fighting for control. Nolette comes in, expressing himself amazed thatArthur can control Roland's body. "It's my work," Grable / Rolandsays. Nolette says he can see that the project will be a success, due to thebreak-through written on the whiteboard, and he'll take the glory. As he'sgloating, Roland bops him on the head with a keyboard and shuts him in the windtunnel.
Mulder and Scully arrive to find Nolette fighting to hang on against thewind. Mulder grabs Roland, shouting "Arthur!", but Scully calls him "Roland."They both ask him to switch off the wind. Roland, flashing to the image of theboys, tries to, but then cries out that he can't remember. Well, he clearly doesdo for, just as BB lets go, the wind drops.
The court hasn't decided what to do with Roland, but Mulder tells the homeadministrator that he wasn't acting under his own volition. Even Scully admitsthat Roland was somehow able to finish his brother's work, though she says theydon't know how.
Roland leaves the halfway house, declaring his love for Tracy as he goes.Pausing at the mirror he goes to brush hair that isn't there (Grable had morehair than Roland) and looks long and hard at the mirror.
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