PSI Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal (1996–2000): Season 1, Episode 7 - The Underneath/Phantom Limb - full transcript

these stories are inspired by the actual

case files of the office of scientific

investigation

and research

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you must thank your uncle too

any time machine it's been the best day

okay so i had an idea what you were

getting let's go break it in

should we help clean up may not go and

enjoy yourself



marisa go easy

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sir

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shuffles

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oh

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stupid

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ancient myths and man's imagination have

conjured up a lexicon of monsters

the greek minotaur the dragons of avalon

ocean leviathans werewolves we tell our

children their only made-up stories

nothing so hideous in our world

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did you see the buddies no

you're lucky i've never seen anything

like it before

only a sick man would i down here no man

did what i saw what the hell was that

i'm going to need backup call it

bass this is unit 3. for approaching

junction 4b something's definitely down

here

unable to confirm at this time

requesting backup

so

run

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file number 28120 case manager conor

doyle initial case log

we're investigating the mysterious

deaths of four individuals one survivor

of the attack one officer jacques

boutier remains in a coma

preliminary interview is underway i hope

you haven't just had lunch

the bite marks are rather large but

similar in pattern and depth to a

predatory reptile

i'm no animal expert but i'd say

whatever did this

was attempting to feed on the first two

victims what about the others

well it looks to me like they just

what's the word annoyed

i was um the third man on the

reconnaissance

jacques stationed me near the mouth of

the sewer

i heard that roar i don't know what else

to call it

and um screaming and thrashing in the

water

what makes you think it wasn't a man no

no madam

nothing human could make such a sound

at first i couldn't believe it was them

and not like that it couldn't be

and then i saw pieces of mysore stress

soaked in blood

and i saw arnold's face when he came

back out of the sewer

and i knew it my husband

my family wrote it

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one of the officer's walkie-talkies was

on camo during the attack

now i've isolated the unidentified sound

made from the recording from the local

police dispatch

it most closely resembles the warning

sound of the bear

so we compiled the attack sounds of all

of the ursus arctic species native to

this part of the world hoping for some

kind of a match but european brown bears

have been extinct in this region since

the turn of the century exactly

so we widen the net and this is what we

came up with

what is it a north american grizzly

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our objective is to identify and confirm

the origin of the phenomenon rectify the

situation so that public safety and your

national security aren't compromised

i understand i've been instructed by my

superiors to assist you in any way i can

i've seen pictures of the victims but we

would like to conduct our own

examination of the bodies

certainly time is of the essence

i'll see to it personally thank you this

is ray donohue

commander your help is appreciated but

it's imperative your involvement not

contaminate the investigation

my instincts toward the course of action

in this case

do not include poking about with probes

we should go after this thing with

everything we've got your concern is

julie noted

are you a parent professor i'm a mother

of three children

two of them are the same ages as those

murdered girls

i understand your position in this

matter come on doll however this is not

a search and destroy mission it's a

scientific investigation

lives are at stake miss you professor

doyle

excuse me

listen connor these impressions are

totally

inconsistent with paw prints from the

bear family you see this

four-toed spread scale markings it looks

more like a reptile

so we're dealing with more than one

creature but it seems that way except

these prints indicate

only one animal leaving and re-entering

the sewer i don't know what this makes

sense

cooper the deaths are consistent with a

nut with a knife

yeah yeah yeah i i know but when you

factor in all the environmental

assessments

as well as the depth and accuracy of all

these impressions

i don't know i just don't think it's

very likely impossible

let's just say if it was a guy wearing

lizard feet

he had to have weighed at least 600

kilos

all right let's stay together

hold it

what is this stuff it's radioactive

some kind of organic waste by product

can you see me it's dark but

operational acknowledge alpha team

proceed with caution

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did you hear that affirmative any idea

what it might be cooper

do you have any reasons negative

checking other feeds

there donna here there's something

moving through tunnel seven

the surveillance system is down tunnel

seven visual and audio communications

are knocked out alpha team you copy

we copy permission to proceed to tunnel

seven and attempt firsthand visuals

alpha team retreat to sewer entrance we

need more security before we go after it

affirmative we're on our way assassin

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let's run that audio again see if it's

another match

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case log update the death of two

officers have come onto our sans-seer

squad

has resulted in her increasing desire to

terminate this phenomenon

i'm requesting additional security and

more scientific and technical support

from headquarters

ray the autopsies have been scheduled

for 1300 hours i'll arrange for

transport

what do you think well i really can't

conclude anything except judging from

the size of that limb

we're dealing with a creature that's got

to be at least seven feet tall

but there are so many inconsistencies

good news

the police officer who was attacked has

come out of his coma lindsay get over to

the hospital see what he remembers

cooper we need to look at the victims

bodies see if you can find anything

conclusive

i want to know exactly what we're up

against

i must concur with our autopsy report

the lacerations do appear to have been

inflicted by a large

bear-like claw individual wounds are

narrow approximately four millimeters in

width

ranging in depth from superficial to

four centimeters

large areas of flesh in the upper torso

have been torn away

the bite pattern is indicative of a

large flat around its snout

with multi-layered sharp irregular teeth

this pattern is consistent with the

feeding behavior of alligators

fiber and follicle found in the left

shoulder wound of victim number one

appears to be a coarse hair not

belonging to the victim

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hey connor come and have a look at this

the one on the left is a hair follicle

from a grizzly bear

the one on the right a fiber that i

extracted from one of the victim's

wounds

i think we got a match but i'm going to

send it to headquarters for dna analysis

it looks like the first two victims were

attacked by a grizzly bear

left for dead and then scavenged by an

american alligator i beg your pun

but i thought everything indicated only

one creature i know i know but now i'm

not so sure

at the same time it's impossible for two

unlike species to mate and form a viable

offspring

and what do we make of this

where did this come from the policeman

jack gautier our only eyewitness

what do you think mutations this

elaborate rarely survived birth

i've isolated the radioactive material

from the sewer it's an isotonic tracer

used in medical and biological research

for example this isotope could be used

to highlight a particular organ on an

x-ray

or to track the growth of a tumor could

it be hospital waste

yeah it could be but just upstream from

this part of the sewer

is a charming multinational corporation

called biodifferent

high-tech genetic research oh yeah

cutting edge stuff

check them out

again i assure you we are scrupulous in

our containment procedures

and we pride ourselves on our concern

for the environment

but i appreciate your need to get to the

bottom of this matter when can we speak

to most years you know

oh he'll be back next week i'm sure epf

to answer any other questions you and

your organization may have

mojo

so what do you think i suppose he could

be on the up and up it's just that

too many coincidences it'll be

interesting to see just how long it does

take mr juno to get back to us

impressive equipment professor we're

hoping to pinpoint the exact location of

the creature

we've decided on a search and capture

strategy

capture it you must be joking uh not in

the least

the osir is in charge of this

investigation and until i say

differently we will attempt to capture

the creature or at least

identify it i'll see that the proper

security is in place

but tell me professor how many more have

to die in the name of your scientific

investigation

i must warn you my patience is wearing

thin

ray we can arm the men with high caliber

tranquilizing guns radio controlled

darts

if we can't bring it down we can at

least tag it get the team together

we'll go in tonight

donner do you copy 10-4

visual feeds coming through with minimal

interference have we reached the edge of

our initial perimeter

uh affirmative you're approximately 200

meters from the junction

move in stay sharp everyone

i don't like this they're moving out of

our range

i've got something

hey guys i think you ought to see this

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you hold it there's enough toxicity in

this area to melt your boots

disgusting i'll take another sample

is it here

motion sensor is negative and let's

bring it to us

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we've got something in tunnel 6a is

moving fast

where is it heading this way 100 meters

in closing

you can intercept it junction 4b we have

a lot of activity down there

could be more than one animal doyle

recommend you evacuate immediately

negative donner bravo team beat it

junction 4b

syndra move it held almost done

i guess that'll do team repeat meet at

junction 4b

and let's be ready for it

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any visuals flashes it's moving too fast

and erratic

bravo unable to pinpoint location or

description of what's down there

use extreme caution repeat use extreme

caution

get ready

go go

so

so

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sparse hair covering over thick scaly

epidermis

body temperature indicates warm-blooded

possibly mammalian orders sex

appears to be female now proceeding with

the internal examination

overall organ structure appears normal

respiratory

pulmonary and digestive systems

internal reproductive organs again

suggests female

sex of the mammalian order

professor doyle what is this thing

i'm hoping we can determine that when

all the data is in doctor when when do

you and your team think you will be

through

hey hey connor look look i have just got

started on this

in you time why do you ask the mayor

the army the department they all want

this to go away

and so do i we'll work as fast as we can

well my preliminary findings indicated

that this was some kind of genetic

experiment

involving an alligator and a grizzly

bear and my result suggests that this

genetic hybrid

was created prior to being released into

the contaminated sewer system

which points the fingers squarely at

biodefense everything does seem to point

in that direction

but it shouldn't be possible well

personally i'm interested in

why they did it rather than how well i

don't know but

maybe this creature was mistakenly

dumped with the toxic waste when

everyone thought it was dead

let's see if we can't persuade this bo

defend let us have a look at their

facility

i'll contact hq and present our planes

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final log update we can only speculate

on the true nature of the creature's

origin

several theories have been formulated it

could have been prehistoric

a revolutionary man-made genetic hybrid

or a natural fluke mutation

a toxic cleanup of the sewer system has

been ordered and headquarters is

proceeding with an investigation in the

biodefense and the whereabouts of its

principles

end of transmission

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perhaps the osir's documentation of this

event offers terrible vindication to

those who believe in monsters

but even more monstrous is the absence

of humanistic and moral guidance

as man crosses over into the realm of

outright biological creation

i mean what else is being developed in

these bio labs and for what

purpose

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yeah the cedar has seen better days i'll

have to

flex it next year yeah once you got

money stuffed on your mattress or

something

yeah listen a college boy like you you

still remember how to drive a tractor

oh funny guy how do you turn it on

anyway uh you got me

just uh just take it out to the uh you

know north quarter there

i'll meet you there

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there's something stuck here

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it's low

hey sketch grandpa lemonade matt

matt yeah yeah that'd be great hey

grandpa let's see some heat

some heat let's see if we can hey

oh oh sorry josh it's nice to see you

with joshua again matt

yeah yeah that's not quite the same

though isn't it

watch out

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newton's first law of motion an object

remains at rest unless acted upon by an

external force

but what if an object moves without any

visible evidence of force acting upon it

this was the disturbing complication

which further upset the life of matt

peck

after he suffered the tremendous

physical loss of his right arm a

complication that drove him and his

family to reconsider the laws of motion

as we generally understand them with the

help

of the office of scientific

investigation and research

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now this guy can hit you watch him

see you see that rhythm he's got what do

you know about rhythm

that's why you go up to bed right now

okay no i gotta talk to grandpa for a

second i'll be up in a second

night brush your teeth

what is it son um you know josh and i

had to get back in town in a couple days

i know i'm gonna miss that kid

yeah he loves you a lot you know

listen i was uh talking to earl johnson

down at the hospital today and

he only says those new prosthetic arms

are just like the real thing maybe you

should go down you got fingernails

you got hair in the arms i got blood in

the veins of course they don't

they're made of plastic and a

lightweight steel alloy which will allow

you well then they're not just like the

real thing are they here we are boys

although why two grown men can't do

things for themselves

look dad the doctors say that if you

just go down all i want to do is watch

the ball game in peace okay

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i'm useless bloody

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case manager's log file number 52113

initial contact made by dr paul slater

professor of biophysics penn state

university

dr slater was apprised of this claimed

anomalous activity by one of the

subjects and a former student brad

peck i just finished uh prepping the

witnesses i should be able to complete

the preliminary interviews by this

evening

we need physiological and psychological

assessments to follow i'll get started

on that as soon as the prelims are done

on-site inspection and circumstantial

assessments underway

when dr hendricks has completed his

report proceed with environmental scans

i all started preliminary layout

brad peck asked me to come over take a

look said he'd never seen anything like

it before

and he was right i found structural

damage to the house

and the property and i saw some

objects freezing in midair

that was uh it was well i don't know

what it was

but it violates every principle of

physics i'm aware of

dad was a classic football hero in

college then he played

top tier baseball and services he was

good with hands you know he's

natural so it was uh

it was a bit rough for him when you know

the accident

i thought i might come around deal with

the loss of his arm but

you know all the stuff flying out of

nowhere and

this is going to sound odd

i was walking with matt and i stumbled

for a moment and i felt a hand

grabbed my elbow to steady me

he's almost gentle

there was nothing there it couldn't have

been mad

i was on his right side

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it was a strangest sensation

it was almost

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comforting

case file update axon and gerard are

beginning an environmental analysis of

the pec farm

as well assessments of witnesses

underway

how did you feel when you first woke up

in hospital

what do you think i didn't want to be

there i didn't want to wake up

do you feel any differently now that

you've had time to live with it no

no not really

you're not very comfortable discussing

this are you

i suppose not does that make me a

difficult patient

i've seen worse when exactly did this

injury occur

about six weeks ago healed up pretty

well

remarkably i'd say

so what's all this stuff for uh it

serves different purposes really

what about that one is that some sort of

uh scanner or something uh this thing's

called a magnetometer and this uh

this measures fluctuations in those

parts of the magnetic spectrum that

often coincide with unusual phenomena

science geeks like us use a lot

well this is where it happened

it's a normal day it's pretty sunny like

today actually

you know dad and i worked this land

together since i was a kid

you know i shut everything down i know i

did

start it up on its own

i'm picking up inconsistent readings

nothing on my scan

it was an accident okay right here look

at this

is that high it's off the scale

where's the source look out

case file update background historical

and archival assessments now underway

nothing we have found so far suggests we

are dealing with a hoax soil and water

samples

glass and plaster fragments will be

enclosed in data pouches labeled dd52113

on route for analysis

how much pain is he in variable tingling

some sharp stabbing pain is it real

i mean is it physical hard to say

as is the case with so many amputees i

can't tell whether matt's disordered

nervous system is causing the pain or

the pain is being caused by matt's

disordered nervous system

but what intrigues me is matt's neural

reorganization is informed by his

emotional state

what do you mean well this injury has

had a deep effect of his personal steam

he's still in denial

we still won't face the implications of

losing his right arm

what about the actual amputation

anything specific about the site itself

well the steam graft is healed

incredibly fast

how fast three or four weeks ahead of

schedule

considering the size of the injury

interesting

keep tracking his recovery

peter yeah what do you got

thanks now there's no evidence of any

toxic or hazardous substances capable of

inducing hallucinations or any kind of

perceptual abnormalities

we did however find a geophysical

anomaly

well that might explain the uh runaway

vehicle

uh yeah sorry about that now we found a

deposit of

magnetite it created a strong enough

field

to momentarily throw the magnetometer

out of whack we ran some more tests and

we found that deposit was

actually concentrated enough along with

worn linkage to

to pull the truck and i think

that that's what caused the seeder to

start spinning even though the motor was

off

so the magnetite may have caused matt's

accident yeah it looks that way

could this uh deposit have caused the

other occurrences as well

no the field it generates is too

localized uh it would only affect things

in close proximity

all right let's conduct further tests

what about the events at the house well

the date is far from conclusive but

uh it all points in one direction that

is

that peck

yeah well how long's it gonna take

you've been here nearly a week matt they

are trying to help

if they want to help me they should help

with the farm work oh please give them a

chance

look this is not a research center for

the crippled you are not a [ __ ] mat

i just want to be done with things

moving around by themselves

mr peck if you just give us a little

more time today

at 2200 hours of day 6 of this

investigation

something extraordinary happened it was

witnessed both by mata and sarah pack

and

curtis here saw it as well now we

captured this event in a variety of

monitoring equipment but we got the best

results from thermal imaging

check this out

the vibrations are increasing i see that

last part again

i'll slow it down

it's remarkable and look at his bio

style readings during the incident

these readings coincide with a moment of

the phantom appendage phenomenon

well we've covered all other plausible

explanations for this phenomenon

any other theories it could be a

subatomic energy matrix generated by

matpack

this suggests that matter is solely

responsible for the phenomena

you're right but someone else in the

house could be using latent pk ability

to produce the appendage

no no matt's psych profile suggests that

if he were the one that was causing this

he would be the one to tell us first

honesty is a high priority with him

so last night matt saw the glass falling

in without thinking

just through it he's still at a very

strong stage of denial he has completely

accepted the loss of his arm

so it's conceivable that the dramatic

loss

caused matt to access innate but

unconscious psychokinetic powers and

they manifest themselves in situation

where he reacts involuntarily

let's show them the tape see how they

react

you can turn that damn thing off dad

weren't you watching you did this

now they did that these days people

couldn't put anything they want on tape

mr peck i assure you we haven't tampered

with the tapes

look i would know if i was making things

move

damn i know i didn't do that you're all

out of your minds

dad why don't you just give him five

minutes all right just listen to them

for five minutes

we need to run more tests to help you

and us better understand this phenomenon

and hopefully assist you to use it with

more control mad

please

that freak show is not me

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case log update we have been given an

extraordinary opportunity to observe

and research an unusual form of pk

activity

but the meeting with matt peck this

evening was very disappointing

i'm concerned we may lose this

opportunity to study this phenomenon

if matt'll cooperate i'd like to uh run

some more tests such as

well i'd like to see how much of his

ability is reflexive involuntary action

on how much can be controlled how much

can be linked to his perceptual

experience

at the moment it seems pretty haphazard

now we have to remember that he's been

through a very traumatic experience

i was just counseling him what do you

have in mind

well if he's willing i would like to

start a program of hypnotherapy

pre-conscious suggestion he could be

used into his own method of controlling

his phantom limb

copy i'll be right out

i think

mr rollins

if matt knew i was talking to you he'd

throw one hell of a fit

i understand he's a very proud man are

you sure matt is responsible for all

these strange occurrences

pretty sure we need to run some more

tests

and you can teach him how to use this

power

i can't guarantee that but we'll try we

have operatives who specialize in these

kinds of cases

but first matt has to stop denying that

his life is different now

oh he's not ready for that

he may never be ready

if we could get him to accept his

newfound ability

it could become as good as a real arm

i'll talk to him

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math

you have to let them help you teach you

about this power you have

i don't have any power sarah

you'd rather live the rest of your life

bitter and disappointed

they have proof matt

look

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you are not a freak you are my husband

and somehow god gave you this gift

let these people teach you how to use it

i i don't want any gift

i just i just want things to be the way

they used to be

oh but they can't be matt

and you are no less of a man because of

it

i didn't do all those things and no

matter what you say or what they say

i'm not going to change my mind no i

mean all those scientists approved

is absolutely nothing they've fed this

family a lot of

lies a lot of faults hope you know like

i want them to leave

oh matt don't no i'm serious no the

first thing tomorrow i'm i'm serious

it's beyond me it's beyond me but it's

getting to me i'll tell you that

it really is grandson i mean

how do you think he feels i mean he's

terrified and the wife terrified

i'm not working properly but sleeping

properly he's not himself

jumpy irritable not himself

and sometimes sometimes he really loses

it you know

he's violent outbursts not the man i

married at all

i can't work the farm properly i'm a

half a man here basically

all right

anyways i've had enough of this turn

this thing off can you turn this off

what is this anyways

just more aggravation for me

okay matt if that's what you want curtis

maybe matt and i could talk for a while

discuss the options no there are no

options you and your team have been here

for a week and you've turned this place

into a fun house

we'll be gone by noon good

isn't there anything you can do i'm

sorry mr speck

matt

hey grandpa look at me

joshua you come down from there right

now

oh come on joshua i mean it

be careful jojo

oh

this is rollins 10.78 copy that i'm on

my way

i'm almost there

hold on josh

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just reach

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george

it's okay it's okay i've got you

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oh my god

final case log entry since the final

incidents in the barn

matt peck has become enthusiastic

participant in the osir's program to

study his psychokinetic powers

closing case file number 52113

curtis rollins out

after 19 months of training with the

osir

matt peck refined the involuntary energy

of his phantom limb and learned to

control it

now has what we've just seen violated

newton's first law

that an object remains at rest unless

acted upon

well not really you see matt peck was

able to concentrate this new found psi

kinetic force

to take the place of his missing limb

and act upon the objects

in the world around him i'm dan aykroyd

for sci factor

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