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The old man runs up to the scientists. Out of breath and not wearing a coat, he is babbling to Lucas about walking safely down a street. The two younger men think the older man is homeless or confused and try to ignore him. The old man continues his ravings, finally grabbing Lucas and knocking him to the ground.
As Lucas collects his books and papers, campus police arrive. The old man calls to Jason, using his name, and warns him to protect Lucas from a bus that will run him over at 11:46pm. Lucas does not believe him and Jason is confused about how the old man knew his name. The campus cop carts still yelling old man away.
When Lucas leaves, Jason notices a bus barrelling down the street the old man warned them about. Jason notices it is 11:45pm and Lucas has dropped his papers again. Jason races down the street as Lucas retrieves his papers from the gutter. It is now pouring and the bus driver is having a hard time seeing the road.
Jason catches up to Lucas and tries to pull him onto the sidewalk. When Lucas is grabbed, he pulls away and walks right into the oncoming bus. Lucas is killed instantly. The bus driver jumps out of his vehicle and accuses Jason of pushing Lucas into the street.
The credits roll: The Truth is Out there.
Down in the FBI's basement, Mulder and Scully are reviewing the case. Lucas was Jason's student. Jason is in jail, accused of murdering Lucas. Jason admits the men were arguing but would not tell the police why they were arguing. Mulder sees this as motive for murder. Scully wants to know why they are being brought in on the case.
Mulder plays Jason's police interview where he discusses the old man and his prediction of Lucas's death. Scully is sceptical -- wondering if the old man was wearing "a long black robe and carrying a scythe".
Mulder tells Scully the old man is real. He was arrested by campus police before the accident. Scully asks if the old man has been interviewed and Mulder says no. Scully asks if the campus officer has been interviewed and Mulder says "can't" -- the campus security officer was dead.
Several hours later at the Boston Medical Examiner's lab, Mulder and Scully are brought to the autopsy bay with the campus cop's body. He is not in a refrigerated drawer, as usual, but is covered with a plastic tarp on a table. The Boston ME's office isn't sure what to do with the body -- they hope Scully has an idea. The body is frozen stiff. The ME took the body's temperature when it was brought in and the body was at 15 degrees. This was a revelation since it was only 28 degrees the night before.
As the ME tells Mulder about the guard's history -- he had a drinking problem, Scully takes his temperature again. He is now at 8 degrees. Mulder, Scully and the ME are perplexed. Scully tells Mulder she thinks the guard was exposed to a chemical refrigerant -- liquid nitrogen -- possibly ingesting it.
While Scully tries to figure out how to autopsy the body, Mulder goes to interview Jason. Jason has a visitor when Mulder arrives -- a woman who is begging him to tell the truth. When Jason sees Mulder, the woman leaves.
Mulder starts the interview asking if the woman was Jason's girlfriend. She is. Mulder tells Jason that the campus officer who took the old man away was dead. Jason is concerned that he will be charged with that murder as well. Mulder kids no, not unless Jason could freeze someone to death. Jason doesn't see the humor in this.
Jason admits that he and Lucas were fighting over his research. Jason is a cryobiologist -- he freezes things for a living. Jason tells Mulder that Lucas's charges would have cost him his NSA grant. Mulder asks if Lucas was right about Jason's work. Jason hedges - - says no but looks guilty.
Mulder's phone rings -- it is Scully. Jason's fingerprints are all over the campus officer's body and his vehicle. Jason is about to be charged with a second murder.
Across town, a Dr. Yonechi is having a hard time getting a room at the James Monroe Hotel. He has a reservation, he insists, but the hotel has no record of this. The old man arrives. He has a room for Dr. Yonechi. Yonechi is in town to see Jason Nicols.
The bellboy brings Yonechi and the old man to Yonechi's room. The old man has circles under his eyes and looks exhausted. Noticing the older man's discomfort, Yonechi invites him into his hotel room and offers him some water.
The old man follows Yonechi into the bathroom to get the water and thanks him for all this work in "vitrification". Yonechi is confused. "Vitrification" is on his drawing board but is not completed. The old man tells him no -- "vitrification" has been solved by substituting a sugar for water. Producing an odd looking needle, the old man grabs Yonechi's hand and injects him with some substance. Yonechi's hand suddenly turns blue and starts to freeze.
Two hours later, Mulder and Scully are in Yonechi's hotel room. Yonechi, frozen solid, is being examined by Scully while Mulder is talking to the local police. Mulder has a description of the old man from the bellboy -- who is working with a police artist to come up with a sketch. Scully thinks that Jason is working with the old man while Mulder thinks Jason is being set up by the old man.
Scully shows Mulder a print out of what was injected into Yonechi. It matches what was injected into the campus officer, but is not known to modern science. Scully wants to show the compound to Jason but Mulder has another idea -- Jason's girlfriend Lisa Ianelli.
Mulder and Scully show Lisa the compound. She is surprised by it but won't talk. Scully threatens her with a subpoena if she is not honest with them. Lisa tells them that the compound is a rapid freezing agent.
According to Lisa, when cells freeze, ice in the cells destroys them from the inside. Jason found out that if a cell is frozen rapidly -- rapid freeze -- it doesn't kill the cell. The problem with Jason's theory is that is it just that -- a theory. The science and technology behind it is five years away. Mulder tells her not anymore -- it exists now. When Lisa learns Yonechi has been frozen for only a few hours, she thinks he can be revived.
Yonechi is brought to Lisa's lab. In a bathtub of yellow fluids, Yonechi's body temperature is brought up to 97 degrees. Lisa and several doctors, including Scully who is watching with Mulder, try to save Yonechi. Scully doesn't think it will work -- people have been brought back from 70 degrees but nothing lower. Yonechi was 8 degrees when they started working on him. Mulder thinks "if he's already dead, he's got nothing to lose."
Yonechi is given some medication and is defibrillated back to life. A shocked Scully looks at Yonechi, who is fighting the intubation tube in this mouth. His heart rate jumps, as does his body temperature. While Scully and Lisa try to control a seizure, Mulder notices Yonechi's temperature is up to 107 degrees. Yonechi starts febrile seizures before his skin starts to blister. After Scully feels his head and claims "he's on fire", Yonechi actually bursts into flames. The medical team is horrified as Yonechi burns to death.
The fire department controls the fire but Yonechi is burned beyond recognition. Lisa thinks the unfreezing process was fine but the materials that froze Yonechi were probably unstable. She thinks that keeping him in the tub after he was brought back to life would have kept him alive. Lisa leaves to talk to Jason.
On a city bus to where Jason is being detained, Lisa is being followed by the old man. He follows her off the bus and into the courthouse/jailhouse. Lisa hides behind a courtroom door and confronts the old man. She wants to know what he is after. Grabbing Lisa by the wrist, the old man tells her that he was sent to kill her but he can't. He wants to, but he looks at her and cannot do it. He leaves.
Later, Lisa IDs the old man from a sketch Mulder and Scully has from the hotel bellboy. She shows Mulder her bruised wrist and tells them of the old man wish to kill her. Scully thinks Lisa is hiding something, and she is. Her research for Jason's project is bad. Jason was protecting her from Lucas and is now protecting her from the authorities. Scully thinks the old man is killing for Jason -- killing Lucas for knowing the secret and killing Yonechi as a competitor. Lisa objects and Mulder seems to agree with Lisa -- he thinks the old man is an independent player.
A Boston cop tells Mulder and Scully that a local hotel manager recognized the sketch of the old man. As the two go to the old man's hotel, Lisa notices something about the sketch but keeps it to herself.
The hotel is a flop house. Scully finds a pad with Yonechi's flight number while Mulder finds a photo of a slightly older Yonechi, Lisa and Jason celebrating something. Scully wonder what they are celebrating while Mulder thinks it is something that has not happened.
Mulder thinks the photo -- solid physical evidence to Scully -- is a picture that would have been taken in the future. The old man is trying to stop the future in that photo. Mulder believes that the old man tried to stop Lucas from being hit by the bus. If Lucas isn't hit by the bus, Jason loses his grant and his work is stopped. No work, no rapid freezing agent.
Scully replies "If you sister is your aunt and your mother marries your uncle, you would be your own grandfather" to Mulder's confusing explanation.
Mulder tells Scully that he thinks the old man tried to save Lucas and when that failed, he started killing. Mulder also tells Scully he thinks the old man is back from the future. Scully is amazed by Mulder's idea, but Mulder thinks that if the man knew about Lucas's accident, Yonechi's work and Lisa, the old man may be the older version of Jason Nicols.
Scully give Mulder her "you're nuts" look but Mulder starts to quote a paper to Scully about time travel. Smiling, Mulder tells her that the time travel quote is from her senior thesis when Scully was more "open minded when you were a youngster".
Not smiling, Scully tells Mulder that while physics might allow such a jump, the human body could not stand it. Mulder thinks Lisa might have the answer. She would know if the picture was ever taken or not. The two ride off to find her.
Old Jason returns to his hotel room. His health is failing. After he takes some medication, Lisa arrives at his hotel room. She knows he is Jason as an old man and wants to know why is he back. Jason explains that Lisa, using the freezing agent he discovers in 5 years, invents time travel with another scientist. It ruined things, according to Old Jason. He grabs her arm and injects her with the freezing agent. She is frozen in seconds.
Mulder bails young Jason out of jail. As Mulder drives Jason to the lab, he shows the young scientist the picture. The photo is news to Jason -- he thinks it is a phoney. The FBI labs say otherwise. Jason thinks Mulder's ideas of time travel are science fiction but Mulder says the freezing agent was science fiction until a few days ago. Mulder and the young Jason want to know what the old Jason knows and why he wants to stop the advances.
At the lab, a hand ID lets Jason bring Mulder into the lab. The security guard stops Jason, however, since he is already in the building according to the hand ID. Mulder orders the young Jason to find Scully -- she's working on saving Lisa. Mulder runs off to find the old Jason.
Lisa is revived but is kept in the yellow fluids to prevent her temperature from rising.
Mulder finds one of Jason's research assistants. Mulder asks the assistant to pull up Jason's computer files on the rapid freezing agent. Scully calls Mulder while the assistant works. Lisa is feverish but alive. When Mulder asks about young Jason, she tells him Jason never arrived. Mulder decides to look for the young Jason when the assistant tells Mulder that Jason's work has been deleted from the computer.
Mulder goes looking for the young Jason. Young Jason, however, has caught up with old Jason, who is deleting his computer files in Jason's lab. Young Jason begs old Jason to send him back to the past so he can save Lisa. Jason does not know Lisa is alive.
Old Jason explains that Lisa's death is really for the best. She ruined mankind -- she created a world with no history and a world with no hope. The two are physically fighting when Mulder arrives. Mulder is locked out of Jason's lab, but is able to break up the fight by telling young Jason that Lisa is alive.
Old Jason, unhappy with Lisa's survival, attacks young Jason, saying it was better if "they were never born". As Mulder uses a fire extinguisher to try to break down a lab window, the Jasons struggle. When Mulder opens the window, the Jasons explode.
As she is wheeled into an ambulance, Lisa tells Scully that the old man is Jason. Scully doesn't agree or disagree, but tells Lisa that young Jason is dead. Mulder tells Scully that the fire department has only found one body -- young Jason. She wants an APB out on the old man but Mulder believes the old man was old Jason. Scully says then the old man will never be found. Mulder muses that never is a long time and Scully agrees.
Mulder quotes more of Scully's thesis back to her -- stating that no matter what happens with time travel , there is only one outcome possible. Mulder thinks that another scientist will discover the freezing agent and another will discover time travel. The outcome will be the same.
Several weeks later, Lisa is back at the lab, working on the rapid freezing agent.
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