Lieutenant Richard Harper ...... Dmitry Chepovetsky
Captain Barclay ................. David Cubitt
Ionesco ........................ Stephen Dimopoulos
Olafsson ....................... Vladimir Kulich
Sailor ......................... John McConnach
Nurse .......................... Bob Metcalfe
Burke .......................... Claire Riley
Henry Trondheim ................ John Savage
THE SAME PHENOMENON THAT AGED AN ENTIRE SHIP'S CREW IN A MATTER OF DAYS MAY CLAIM
SCULLY AND MULDER UNLESS THEY CAN DISCOVER THE CAUSE.
When a crew of healthy young men ages 50 years overnight, Mulder and Scully take off
for the North Atlantic to probe a new version of the "Bermuda Triangle."
Suspecting military experiments in wormholes and other phenomena may be responsible, they
travel to a stranded, abandoned destroyer. But once on board, they find themselves not
only stranded and adrift but at the mercy of the strange force that is aging the survivors
overnight. A pirate, a bewildered captain and a water-recycling system hold tantalizing
clues; Mulder and Scully must find the cause and counteract it before they die of old age.
Notes
The liferaft the crewman are jumping into in the opening
teaser is numbered 925 (9/25 is the birthdate of Gillian Anderson's daughter, Piper).
Quotes
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Scully: "Something very strange is going on here, Mulder."
Mulder: "You know, I always thought when I got older, I'd maybe take a cruise
somewhere. This isn't exactly what I had in mind...The service on this ship is terrible,
Scully. It's not fair...It's not our time. We still have work to do..."
"Agent Fox Mulder lost conciousness at approximately 4:30 this morning, the 12th
of March. There is nothing more I can do for him... or for myself. Supplies are exhausted
- no food or liquid consumed for over 24 hours. The outer hull most probably flooded,
though for now the inner hull is supporting the ship's mass. Among Halverson's belongings
I found a children's book of Norse legends. From what I can tell, the pictures show the
end of the world - not in a sudden firestorm of damnation as the Bible teaches us, but in
a soft, covering blanket of snow. First the moon and the stars will be lost in a dense
white fog, then the rivers and the lakes and the sea will freeze over. And finally, a wolf
named Skall will open his jaws and eat the sun, sending the world into everlasting
night...I think I hear the wolf at the door..."