THIRTY LOGGERS DISAPPEAR IN A REMOTE WILDERNESS AND MULDER AND SCULLY MUST FIND OUT
WHAT HAPPENED -- BEFORE THE SAME FATE FALLS ON THEM.
What became of the entire crew of seasoned loggers working a Pacific Northwest cut?
Even Mulder dismisses the Bigfoot theory as he and Scully are sent to find the crew. With
the aid of a local forest ranger and a timber company security guard, they find a
mysterious cocoon with the ghastly remains of one man. A frightened environmentalist
caught at the logging camp reveals that a deadly force comes out of the forest at night,
capable of lifting a grown man off his feet and sucking the life out of him. Only one
thing can save them: light. Whatever it is that made away with the loggers, it shuns the
light. Mulder and Scully discover the identity of this night-loving killer: swarms of
microscopic green bugs released from a thousand-year slumber by the felling of the giant
trees. When the environmentalist disappears with the last of the generator fuel, Mulder,
Scully and the ranger face a long and terrifying night watching the last remaining light
bulb flicker and flare. Will they make it through the night?
Notes
Ranger Moore is played by a childhood friend of David Duchovny's, Jason Beghe, who also
helped convince David to try his hand at acting.
Quotes
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Scully: "What kind of insect could have gotten a man all the way up in a
tree?"
Gratitude and treachery are merely the two extremities of the same procession.
You have seen all of it that is worth staying for when the band and the gaudy
officials have gone by. Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"