PSI Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal (1996–2000): Season 1, Episode 8 - Transient, The/Two Lost Old Men - full transcript
these stories are inspired by the actual
case files of the office of scientific
investigation
and research
foreign
any who wish to remember those that have
left us please rise
is
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what is the meaning of this
let's get her to the auntie room
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judaism one of the oldest religions in
our world culture
hebrews were among the first to
recognize the potential for humans to be
invaded by a negative external spiritual
force
and yet after thousands of years
attempting to comprehend the battle for
the soul
we still seek answers as to why
malevolent entities
consume unwilling individuals in the
case involving rabbi rothstein's
synagogue the osir was compelled to
employ judaism's mystic rituals
in the fight between good and evil
let's not jump to conclusions we need
clarity not hysteria
please i know what i saw in the middle
of the prayer for the dead
she attacks all of us ruben she's a
dybbuk
save the old superstitions for your
grandchildren carl demons don't visit us
in the 20th century
look at your neck she tried to murder
you
carl please i'll have it taken care of
you must perform the ritual of the ball
shame
cast out the evil in her it's your duty
as rabbi don't be so melodramatic
do you have a better explanation for
what happened
no but there are others who understand
matters such as these
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case number 64131 case manager connor
doyle
hours after closing case file 621 589 in
toronto we were contacted by a member of
the department of religious studies at
the university
we are now investigating the reported
appearance of an ancient and powerful
phenomenon known as a divik
a hebrew term for demon professor doyle
sir i'm reuben rothstein rabbi of bethan
this is carl owen bomb of the board of
directors of the synagogue
connor doyle we came as soon as we heard
from professor wolf at the university
rabbi my team and i would like to begin
a basic inspection talk to the members
of the congregation who witnessed the
attack
of course rabbi are you a specialist in
mystic judea
well it's not the central concern of my
belief but it's a side interest of mine
yes
can we get down to business rabbi
rosteen is qualified to deal with this
problem
according to our talmudic laws carl
these people are professional scientists
we should let them investigate
rabbi do you mind if we have a look
around go ahead nothing has been touched
since the incident
thank you where will we find the woman
who attacked you
this way
her name is rita neyman a member of our
congregation though we haven't really
seen her at synagogue since her husband
died nearly three years ago
do you know anything about her
background she and her late husband
worked at the royal ontario museum i
believe
research into early automatic writings
ancient scrolls that sort of thing
how long have she been unconscious a
couple of hours
doesn't move to muscle though it isn't
really unconsciousness it's as if she's
in some kind of
trance-like state i take it you have
some medical training
i was a medic in the israeli army how
did you sedate her
vasovagal sympathy made her brain think
it had too much blood put her out like a
light
nice trick she was completely out of
control
i had to do something
rabbi your contact mentioned something
about the possibility of a dybbuk
yeah it's an ancient superstition i
prefer to take a more modern approach
you reported kinetic activity
surrounding the attack biophysical
distress amongst the victims
superhuman strength yeah all true and
with no logical explanation that's why i
contacted your office
i began to choke as if all the air it
was being
sucked out of my lungs all of us all of
us were suffocating
i saw josh wise as he was thrown
across the room i looked over and saw
this woman standing in front of reuben
staring at him with such poison suddenly
she had him by the throat we knew we had
to help him but trying to restrain her
was like fighting ten men it took four
of us to hold her down
the strange thing is i thought she was
trying to say
help me did you find anything that could
have caused the burn mark on the rabbi's
throat no nothing so far
hendricks and the medical team are
working on the physiological assessments
of all the witnesses we'll know more
when they finish
reader name and still semi-conscious
making it impossible to collect any
detailed data on her physical or
psychological state
about her family according to her
co-workers at the museum she has no
close relatives
what was it that she was working on
nobody could really tell me for sure
i recognized the text on eastern
european kabbalah but the ancient
aramaic scrolls they were beyond my
ability to translate
is there any logic to these dibakim i
mean what would it be after
according to lore the perfect host
traditionally
a young girl
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on-site inspection revealed nothing are
the other assessments completed
psychological
all normal dep tests of the witnesses
reveal honest accounts of the incident
meaning they believe that what they saw
was real and most members of the
congregation believe that what they saw
was
in some way a kind of kabbalistic
position physiological assessments
the examinations of the bio functions
was normal in all witnesses
rabbi rothstein sustained a second
degree burn
in a localized area on his neck origin
unknown we found no chemical or energy
traces that could have caused it
and we still know very little about the
subject she's been in this strange state
of semi-consciousness for almost
four hours after the environmentals are
completed let's run a full background
check on ms naaman
employment records family history next
of kin
contact the authorities as well if she
is in fact host to some unnatural
possibly predatory force i don't want to
risk taking her to a public hospital
let's see what we can do for here
understood still all we have is
circumstantial evidence it could be
simply some neurological disorder or
some form of extreme psychosis according
to rabbi rastine there is
an ancient ritual used in cases like
this the right of the bell shem it's
used to cast the dybic out from innocent
host bodies
look into this belgian ritual find out
exactly what it entails
professor doyle have you found any
rational explanation for this incident
not yet no that's because the whole
thing has nothing to do with scientific
tests or theories
rita neyman has been possessed by adipic
and only we can help her
carl no one has performed a balsham
ritual in the synagogue for over 75
years because in every modern case like
this a rational explanation has been
found for the so-called possession
professor doyle just finished telling
you his team has found nothing
our investigation is ongoing we haven't
tried everything we can yet
reuben wreath and neyman is a member of
our shul
it's our responsibility to help her
she's
mishpochah
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professor doyle would it interfere with
your investigations if we were to
consider performing the [ __ ]
my team does need a little more time to
complete an environmental assessment but
after that we could
observe the ritual as it's taking place
it's the only logical course of action
reuben
i don't believe logic is at work here
carl
but it's our duty to try and help her
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no talks traces no energy fields place
is clean
how odd her eyes are open she
seems to be aware of us but rita
rita hold on
as my readings are up climbing fast
where's your point of origin
it's coming from her her temperature
just shot up to 110 degrees fahrenheit
i'm picking up hazardous toxins
sulfurous oxide multiple free radicals
climbing in the red zone
it's as if the scans himself set off the
reaction
tox levels are redlining now we got
nothing
it's all normal baselines connor i'm
concerned
her condition is going to continue to
deteriorate as long as she remains here
tell ross team we're ready to observe
the balshem ritual
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case log update after checking into the
subject's personal and professional
background
we still cannot explain ms neyman's
violent behavior we are now in the
process of observing an ancient hebrew
exorcism right the baal shem
in the hope that it may help us
understand this phenomenon this building
is secure
is
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kinetic activity is climbing i'm reading
increasing energy levels can identify
them
rising fast
constantine does anybody copy
gospel called red keep monitoring their
biostats
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rabbi rusty
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you all right
yeah what was that
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all right secure the premises
connor you all right just a few bruises
peter what happened
i don't know he he grabbed me and he
said something in the hebrew
his touch was like a blowtorch get
yourself checked out as soon as you can
yeah
okay i'm gonna wrap you hang on
we're still getting a reading on the
rabbi's biostat signals so we can't have
gone far
peter what's the range on the biostat
remotes uh 200 300 meters
let's put a monitor in each of the
vehicles we can track them by
triangulating a signal with a
monitor here in the lab police and
paramedics are on their way let's divide
up into teams of two you too
stay here monitor the police radio
frequency and wait for them to arrive
peter you all right yeah i'm fine anton
you ride with me natasha you go with
peter
let's split up and cover the radius of
his signal the quicker we find him the
better assuming the debit hasn't changed
host again
what did you mean assuming it hasn't
changed hosts again
you think this thing can change hosts at
will at will no
i don't think so from what i could find
out the debit only migrates when the
host is dead
this is beta 1. you copy yes we copy go
ahead
our signal is breaking up peter do you
have him on your monitor yeah i still
got him appears he's heading toward the
lake
turn south on keel street wait a second
stop i see something
this is beta two we're proceeding on
foot through the alley at english and
mclean
copy we're converging on your position
we found the talus do not approach him
wait for backup
must be right around here
take the inside
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stay i don't know how long i can control
it
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this is constantine i've located the
subject in the west end of the alley at
english and mclean
constantine back away from the subject
now we're on our way
all units converge on beta 2's location
rabbi stay calm health is coming
it's too late i can feel it in my bones
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natasha he struggled
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rabbi uh
this is beta 2 subject we've lost
subject on english he appears to be
headed east we're pursuing on wood
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rabbi can you hear me
we arrived just after it happened he's
dead
who's doyle that's me what happened this
guy witnessed the whole thing
the cab hit him dead on knocked the poor
guy about 15 feet across the street did
anyone approach the victim
well yeah the cabbie jumped out and ran
over to the guy and so did i
sir may we examine you
it's just a thermometer [ __ ]
no increase in levels he's clear where's
the driver now rogers
where's that cabbie mike he's gone he
said he was going for an ambulance i
told him to stay put then he sucker
punched
i can't believe it
access the data bank bring up his
address constable we'd like to monitor
your radio frequency to coordinate the
effort all right those are my
instructions
appears to be the same carbon choices we
found with the synagogue
apartment 2601 yeah got it
is this information accurate right so
please have your people surround this
building but do not enter until we get
there let's go
what makes you think valenzuela will go
home divakeem search out for pure souls
right that's why possess the rabbi
rosting resisted maybe the dybbuk's
looking for a more malleable host
venezuela has a young daughter
a hostage situation we just got off the
police frequency it seems valenzuela
spotted the swat team as they got into
position
what else at least two hostages
situation volatile
i just hope we can get there before the
situation gets out of control and before
another
professor doyle yes you'll have to wait
here what's the situation with
valenzuela i had to send in a team to
dislodge him you knew we were on route
i'm sorry but he's got two kids in there
shots were fired
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positions
come on
took one bullet in the upper torso did
everyone in this building check in
so far i got sergeant turner doing a
roll call for his team good i'd like to
secure the billing until everyone
is accounted for we got it what are the
children
temperature normal according to sergeant
turner there was no actual direct
eye contact with venezuela at the time
of death
but we're not taking any chances those
kids are going to toronto western
hospital
ongoing case log entry in the aftermath
of the hostage situation we've yet to
isolate another host of a transient
demon
we still have no method of dealing with
the phenomenon except to prevent
transference at the time
of the host's death this file remains
open
conor doyle out
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where is it today this demonic entity
capable of moving from living host to
living host
does it dwell in someone walking the
streets of your city or town
well the office of scientific
investigation and research has kept this
case open
and the search continues on an ongoing
basis for this particular powerful and
dangerous supernatural threat
totally irresponsible hello anyone here
how can you be so ignorant
mark in the cold sweat larkin the coats
work
over do you remember issuing an open
fire permit for this area of the park
oh hey buddy is this your fire
help me what's wrong
my my friends katie and barry what is it
and the woods back there everything's
dead all right slow down
what are you doing up here we're
planting trees we're tree
planters look we got an open campfire
here that's a big no-no
may have a look at your id and your
camping permit please my friends
i'm gonna give them some water give me
your id
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is this your wallet yeah are you doug
kilmartin
yeah this id says that you're 21 years
old
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what's happening to me
one of the most intriguing north
american myths is the quest by ponce de
leon for the fountain of eternal youth
a quest which mankind has never truly
abandoned cosmetics plastic surgery
there are many methods man attempts to
employ to delay aging
today scientific researchers seek
genetic keys that could unlock a human
lifespan of 150 years or more
well for doug kilmartin his was exactly
the opposite discovery
nothing less than a fountain of aging
and decay
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this is the guy kilmartin described
barry
struthers another 21 year old
file number 86126 case manager conor
doyle
after being contacted by ontario
provincial police we're launching an
investigation
two men claimed to have aged nearly 50
years following an encounter with an
unexplained zero growth zone in the
canadian northern wilderness
so we had the opp run a check on both
their names and it turned out that the
second guy we found struther
he'd had a little run in with the law
when he was younger
he'd had a break and enter five years
ago when he was 16. and the guy looks
like he's 70 right
but the thing is his fingerprints they
actually match the ones in the stroller
kids file
when we got kill martin to st agatha's
hospital he was hysterical
telling us that there's somebody still
out there kill martin
for a man in his 70s is uh in pretty
good shape uh
struther markedly less so
but for two men or twenty-one as they
claim
they're in trouble they found this place
in the woods
just sand nothing growing
a dead zone i'm dave burton foreman for
this area
our crew split up to handle a bunch of
small contracts
some stayed back the base camp some
moved into this plantation
that's why the three of them just the
three of them
doug kilmartin barry straud or katie
fitzgerald we're here on a little sunday
contract
tomorrow was supposed to be the end of
their sundays
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kill martin's effective age is 70.
struther is 85
with ids of 21 year olds we're trying to
locate their families
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according to the pictures we took from
these helicopters
it's oval shaped and just about eight
thousand square meters
like an oasis in reverse desolation in
the middle of a living forest
this rock formation is extraordinary
peter
keep your distance until the initial
inspection is completed i just want to
get a couple of shots
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appears harmless enough
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it's not that harmless
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12.3 seconds from point of entry to
discovery of the skeleton
remarkable has the aerial video mapping
going we're working on it
we shot the zone from multiple angles
let's see what you've got so far
the boundaries of the dead area appear
to be clear and defined on one side
there's green growth and on the other
nothing
enlarge the image on number three
pan right come back to the left
increased magnification two times five
ten is our missing tree planter
i wouldn't be surprised anton speak with
kill martin
see if he remembers what happened right
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let's start a tuesday morning doug the
three of you were flown to the site
katie barry and me with a bunch of new
seedlings to plant
what time did you arrive approximately
6 6 30 pretty early
we set up camp he said before
that you found a place in the woods
nothing but dirt
the dead zone i think i walked in
but did you all go in
no i mean
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i'm sorry it's very hard to concentrate
these days you know
it's already done it's okay
real low we'll start again shortly
dr hendricks where are katy and barry
are they okay
your friends aren't doing as well as you
are doug we need your help
i want to just don't remember
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all right let's try the probe pov
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what's that
with any luck the dental record should
give us an id
the corpse is in a very advanced stage
of decomposition
it looks like it's been there a while i
will know more once we get it out
let's take it nice and slow
the skeleton is catherine fitzgerald age
cause of death unknown
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our team physician's examination reveals
no specific illness or injury in either
kill martin or struther
they are suffering from high blood
pressure but that could be explained by
the stress brought on by their confusion
anton strother remains
despondent and unresponsive kill martin
on the other hand
presents no abnormalities other than
memory loss you mentioned limited and
specific amnesia
yes kill martin remembers everything
vividly up until his encounter with the
anomaly
and after that it's almost blank but
that's consistent with the repression of
a traumatic experience
is it consistent with acinal delusion we
saw what happened to the bird that flew
in there
not to mention the unusual wrinkling of
kill martin and struther's skin
could there be a straightforward medical
explanation progeria you mean
it's accelerated aging yeah it's
extremely rare and invariably begins in
early childhood
and it's a genetic disease it's not
environmental maybe we found some
environmental toxin that causes
spontaneous mutations in the cell cycle
control genes
perhaps but our scans have revealed no
toxins we've also eliminated
several of the obvious explanations for
the lack of vegetation there's no
radiation traces
and uh the site itself has no past
connections with any toxic substances
whatsoever
anton what does dep testing tell us
kilmartin
is telling the truth as he understands
it
my purpose here is to investigate to
help you in any way i can
but i can't unless you talk to me
talk
yes mary
i'm gonna die right
that's an inevitability we all have to
face
but i'm only 21 years old
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aren't they
i remember the night before we flew in
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we were sitting around talking to three
of us
i couldn't hear a word she said
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she just looks so beautiful
i love there's so much
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my name is sarah kilmartin i'm here to
see my son yes someone's expecting you
mrs kilmartin
i'm lindsay donner oh we spoke on the
phone i'd like to see douglas
oh i don't know this man
he's not my son look at him you remember
gypsy
you remember the day gypsy stole mr
telford salmon
gypsy was our dog purebred german
shepherd
mr telford lived four houses down
he'd cut this 30
pound salmon
well i guess jif went over for a visit
because the next thing we knew he was
burying the damn thing in the backyard
i must have been about six years old
i remember saying to you
i guess we have to tell mr telford the
truth now
don't we you said
maybe we can just keep this our secret
nobody ever has to know
except us hi mom
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i want you to relax and just let the
light
play on you feel sleepy file update
douglas kilmartin effective age 70
appears to be the son of sarah kilmartin
age 45.
hendricks is attempting another
regressive hypnosis session with
kilmartin
in an effort to shed some light on what
exactly happened to himself
barry strother and katie fitzgerald now
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doug i want to go back to tuesday
it's eight o'clock in the morning where
are you
where in the woods
all the three of you together i'm alone
katie and mary for going on ahead
i can hear them whispering to each other
what do you see
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she kissing him right there in the woods
now she's gone on her head by herself
hey guys come check this place out wow
it's
wild
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come on barry
i've never seen anything like it i think
that
i don't know it's an area
there's nothing alive at all
is katie in the zone
yes
she wants us to follow her in what are
you guys waiting for
chicken it's really freaky
let's go just laughing like being
paranoid
so i go in
oh my god what is it she's just changing
katie she's changing
gary
this this has got to be a treat this
can't be real
good let's get out of here
now the katie's moving it's too late
i'm trying to run i can hardly miss my
leg
i gotta get out i have to get some help
i left them behind
i left barry behind and katie
case file update our medical team is
searching for ways to reverse the
effects of the hazard
but we have been unable to isolate the
means by which it triggers the aging
process
we've done an aerial geodetic survey
using infrared and microwave technology
there's no evidence of any unusual
geothermic activity or geomagnetic
fields
and still no traces of hazardous
materials or toxic gases so in other
words we still have no idea what's
causing it
not yet but the probe itself
isn't triggering any reaction from the
hazard so whatever it is it only affects
the biochemical nature of living
organisms a bioreactive phenomenon is
quite possible
and let's try to pinpoint exactly why
what is it oh i've been reviewing some
of the preliminary interviews
listen to this
i remember hearing stories about it when
i was a kid rumors about a bad place in
the woods
a place where nothing lives stories
about some of our tribal members who
just disappeared
this much we already know horizontally
the zone covers an area just under 8
000 square meters we've mapped it by
helicopter and charted the height at
which the disintegration begins
elliptical which could suggest some sort
of energy pattern phenomenon
but the configuration's unstable were
picking up slight fluctuations
what if we were to chart these
fluctuations over a period of hours
it's a good idea see if the pulses are
consistent it's almost like just a
second
the hospital just contacted us it's
struther
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i'm sorry we'll have to do an autopsy of
course but i think it's simply
generalized systemic atrophy
come on man speak english old age
he died in his sleep i was only 21.
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doug a week ago i was a young man hell
kitty and barry were alive now look at
us we're looking to reverse the process
doug
we're trying our best oh good i got
plenty of time to
hang around spare me the science lesson
look
we've got people working around the
clock it's just that this thing
is my whole life has been stolen from me
it's not fair no it's not fair
but let me tell you it wasn't fair when
when my brother found out that he had
inoperable cancer last year
you and jerry are now effectively the
same age
only at most he has two years left you
might just have another two decades
look i'm sorry about your brother
at least he had 30 years i didn't
secondly
if katie and barry just died how do you
know i
might have another two decades you're
right
i don't and i doubt that we can recover
the years you lost
only you can decide what to do with the
time you have left
we've already lost one subject barry
struther time's running short
any theories the phenomenon could be
extraterrestrial that's why it's not
reacting to earth-based technology
or maybe it's just not reacting to any
known earth-based technology meaning
it could be some as of yet unspecified
geophysical phenomena that
sub-atomically accelerates all form of
living matter
conceivably or it could be a rare and
mutated
vortex that absorbs concentrated
life-form energy
i mean that would be consistent with the
results of the physiological assessments
or maybe the answer lies in another
direction completely
the fluctuations could be caused by
almost anything changes in wind patterns
but i found if you speed up the sequence
it almost replicates breathing as if it
were alive
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well i guess you won't have to worry
about how i'll turn out when i grow up
good luck thanks doc
for doing what you could look after him
we'll be in touch
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it's a hell of a way to live out the
rest of your days
probably die before his mother does
professor doyle
i'm here sir professor doyle i'm
responding to your request for
additional analysis of the phenomenon
and file number 86126
thanks for getting back to us so quickly
sir well unfortunately government
officials have already asked us to
design and implement a method of sealing
off the hazard
permanently effective immediately but
sir we're just beginning to make some
headways to understanding this
phenomenon
oh i realize that but priority number
one is the protection of human life
with all due respect sir we need to know
exactly what this phenomena is about
who knows how much we might be able to
learn from it we've reviewed
the data provided to this point the
mandate is final
i'm sorry conor i'm just passing on what
we've already decided
yes of course
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the final case log entry as per your
instructions and following consultation
with government officials
a giant cage of steel rebar has been
constructed to encase the hazard
lowered into place by helicopter and
covered with tons of pork concrete
geophysical anomaly paranormal
manifestation or alien bio force
the answer lies hidden forever in a
concrete vault no longer a threat
at last report doug kilmartin was
working at a crisis center
counseling trauma victims and living
each day to its fullest
i'm dan aykroyd for sci factor
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you
case files of the office of scientific
investigation
and research
foreign
any who wish to remember those that have
left us please rise
is
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what is the meaning of this
let's get her to the auntie room
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judaism one of the oldest religions in
our world culture
hebrews were among the first to
recognize the potential for humans to be
invaded by a negative external spiritual
force
and yet after thousands of years
attempting to comprehend the battle for
the soul
we still seek answers as to why
malevolent entities
consume unwilling individuals in the
case involving rabbi rothstein's
synagogue the osir was compelled to
employ judaism's mystic rituals
in the fight between good and evil
let's not jump to conclusions we need
clarity not hysteria
please i know what i saw in the middle
of the prayer for the dead
she attacks all of us ruben she's a
dybbuk
save the old superstitions for your
grandchildren carl demons don't visit us
in the 20th century
look at your neck she tried to murder
you
carl please i'll have it taken care of
you must perform the ritual of the ball
shame
cast out the evil in her it's your duty
as rabbi don't be so melodramatic
do you have a better explanation for
what happened
no but there are others who understand
matters such as these
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case number 64131 case manager connor
doyle
hours after closing case file 621 589 in
toronto we were contacted by a member of
the department of religious studies at
the university
we are now investigating the reported
appearance of an ancient and powerful
phenomenon known as a divik
a hebrew term for demon professor doyle
sir i'm reuben rothstein rabbi of bethan
this is carl owen bomb of the board of
directors of the synagogue
connor doyle we came as soon as we heard
from professor wolf at the university
rabbi my team and i would like to begin
a basic inspection talk to the members
of the congregation who witnessed the
attack
of course rabbi are you a specialist in
mystic judea
well it's not the central concern of my
belief but it's a side interest of mine
yes
can we get down to business rabbi
rosteen is qualified to deal with this
problem
according to our talmudic laws carl
these people are professional scientists
we should let them investigate
rabbi do you mind if we have a look
around go ahead nothing has been touched
since the incident
thank you where will we find the woman
who attacked you
this way
her name is rita neyman a member of our
congregation though we haven't really
seen her at synagogue since her husband
died nearly three years ago
do you know anything about her
background she and her late husband
worked at the royal ontario museum i
believe
research into early automatic writings
ancient scrolls that sort of thing
how long have she been unconscious a
couple of hours
doesn't move to muscle though it isn't
really unconsciousness it's as if she's
in some kind of
trance-like state i take it you have
some medical training
i was a medic in the israeli army how
did you sedate her
vasovagal sympathy made her brain think
it had too much blood put her out like a
light
nice trick she was completely out of
control
i had to do something
rabbi your contact mentioned something
about the possibility of a dybbuk
yeah it's an ancient superstition i
prefer to take a more modern approach
you reported kinetic activity
surrounding the attack biophysical
distress amongst the victims
superhuman strength yeah all true and
with no logical explanation that's why i
contacted your office
i began to choke as if all the air it
was being
sucked out of my lungs all of us all of
us were suffocating
i saw josh wise as he was thrown
across the room i looked over and saw
this woman standing in front of reuben
staring at him with such poison suddenly
she had him by the throat we knew we had
to help him but trying to restrain her
was like fighting ten men it took four
of us to hold her down
the strange thing is i thought she was
trying to say
help me did you find anything that could
have caused the burn mark on the rabbi's
throat no nothing so far
hendricks and the medical team are
working on the physiological assessments
of all the witnesses we'll know more
when they finish
reader name and still semi-conscious
making it impossible to collect any
detailed data on her physical or
psychological state
about her family according to her
co-workers at the museum she has no
close relatives
what was it that she was working on
nobody could really tell me for sure
i recognized the text on eastern
european kabbalah but the ancient
aramaic scrolls they were beyond my
ability to translate
is there any logic to these dibakim i
mean what would it be after
according to lore the perfect host
traditionally
a young girl
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on-site inspection revealed nothing are
the other assessments completed
psychological
all normal dep tests of the witnesses
reveal honest accounts of the incident
meaning they believe that what they saw
was real and most members of the
congregation believe that what they saw
was
in some way a kind of kabbalistic
position physiological assessments
the examinations of the bio functions
was normal in all witnesses
rabbi rothstein sustained a second
degree burn
in a localized area on his neck origin
unknown we found no chemical or energy
traces that could have caused it
and we still know very little about the
subject she's been in this strange state
of semi-consciousness for almost
four hours after the environmentals are
completed let's run a full background
check on ms naaman
employment records family history next
of kin
contact the authorities as well if she
is in fact host to some unnatural
possibly predatory force i don't want to
risk taking her to a public hospital
let's see what we can do for here
understood still all we have is
circumstantial evidence it could be
simply some neurological disorder or
some form of extreme psychosis according
to rabbi rastine there is
an ancient ritual used in cases like
this the right of the bell shem it's
used to cast the dybic out from innocent
host bodies
look into this belgian ritual find out
exactly what it entails
professor doyle have you found any
rational explanation for this incident
not yet no that's because the whole
thing has nothing to do with scientific
tests or theories
rita neyman has been possessed by adipic
and only we can help her
carl no one has performed a balsham
ritual in the synagogue for over 75
years because in every modern case like
this a rational explanation has been
found for the so-called possession
professor doyle just finished telling
you his team has found nothing
our investigation is ongoing we haven't
tried everything we can yet
reuben wreath and neyman is a member of
our shul
it's our responsibility to help her
she's
mishpochah
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professor doyle would it interfere with
your investigations if we were to
consider performing the [ __ ]
my team does need a little more time to
complete an environmental assessment but
after that we could
observe the ritual as it's taking place
it's the only logical course of action
reuben
i don't believe logic is at work here
carl
but it's our duty to try and help her
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no talks traces no energy fields place
is clean
how odd her eyes are open she
seems to be aware of us but rita
rita hold on
as my readings are up climbing fast
where's your point of origin
it's coming from her her temperature
just shot up to 110 degrees fahrenheit
i'm picking up hazardous toxins
sulfurous oxide multiple free radicals
climbing in the red zone
it's as if the scans himself set off the
reaction
tox levels are redlining now we got
nothing
it's all normal baselines connor i'm
concerned
her condition is going to continue to
deteriorate as long as she remains here
tell ross team we're ready to observe
the balshem ritual
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case log update after checking into the
subject's personal and professional
background
we still cannot explain ms neyman's
violent behavior we are now in the
process of observing an ancient hebrew
exorcism right the baal shem
in the hope that it may help us
understand this phenomenon this building
is secure
is
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kinetic activity is climbing i'm reading
increasing energy levels can identify
them
rising fast
constantine does anybody copy
gospel called red keep monitoring their
biostats
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rabbi rusty
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you all right
yeah what was that
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all right secure the premises
connor you all right just a few bruises
peter what happened
i don't know he he grabbed me and he
said something in the hebrew
his touch was like a blowtorch get
yourself checked out as soon as you can
yeah
okay i'm gonna wrap you hang on
we're still getting a reading on the
rabbi's biostat signals so we can't have
gone far
peter what's the range on the biostat
remotes uh 200 300 meters
let's put a monitor in each of the
vehicles we can track them by
triangulating a signal with a
monitor here in the lab police and
paramedics are on their way let's divide
up into teams of two you too
stay here monitor the police radio
frequency and wait for them to arrive
peter you all right yeah i'm fine anton
you ride with me natasha you go with
peter
let's split up and cover the radius of
his signal the quicker we find him the
better assuming the debit hasn't changed
host again
what did you mean assuming it hasn't
changed hosts again
you think this thing can change hosts at
will at will no
i don't think so from what i could find
out the debit only migrates when the
host is dead
this is beta 1. you copy yes we copy go
ahead
our signal is breaking up peter do you
have him on your monitor yeah i still
got him appears he's heading toward the
lake
turn south on keel street wait a second
stop i see something
this is beta two we're proceeding on
foot through the alley at english and
mclean
copy we're converging on your position
we found the talus do not approach him
wait for backup
must be right around here
take the inside
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stay i don't know how long i can control
it
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this is constantine i've located the
subject in the west end of the alley at
english and mclean
constantine back away from the subject
now we're on our way
all units converge on beta 2's location
rabbi stay calm health is coming
it's too late i can feel it in my bones
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natasha he struggled
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rabbi uh
this is beta 2 subject we've lost
subject on english he appears to be
headed east we're pursuing on wood
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rabbi can you hear me
we arrived just after it happened he's
dead
who's doyle that's me what happened this
guy witnessed the whole thing
the cab hit him dead on knocked the poor
guy about 15 feet across the street did
anyone approach the victim
well yeah the cabbie jumped out and ran
over to the guy and so did i
sir may we examine you
it's just a thermometer [ __ ]
no increase in levels he's clear where's
the driver now rogers
where's that cabbie mike he's gone he
said he was going for an ambulance i
told him to stay put then he sucker
punched
i can't believe it
access the data bank bring up his
address constable we'd like to monitor
your radio frequency to coordinate the
effort all right those are my
instructions
appears to be the same carbon choices we
found with the synagogue
apartment 2601 yeah got it
is this information accurate right so
please have your people surround this
building but do not enter until we get
there let's go
what makes you think valenzuela will go
home divakeem search out for pure souls
right that's why possess the rabbi
rosting resisted maybe the dybbuk's
looking for a more malleable host
venezuela has a young daughter
a hostage situation we just got off the
police frequency it seems valenzuela
spotted the swat team as they got into
position
what else at least two hostages
situation volatile
i just hope we can get there before the
situation gets out of control and before
another
professor doyle yes you'll have to wait
here what's the situation with
valenzuela i had to send in a team to
dislodge him you knew we were on route
i'm sorry but he's got two kids in there
shots were fired
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positions
come on
took one bullet in the upper torso did
everyone in this building check in
so far i got sergeant turner doing a
roll call for his team good i'd like to
secure the billing until everyone
is accounted for we got it what are the
children
temperature normal according to sergeant
turner there was no actual direct
eye contact with venezuela at the time
of death
but we're not taking any chances those
kids are going to toronto western
hospital
ongoing case log entry in the aftermath
of the hostage situation we've yet to
isolate another host of a transient
demon
we still have no method of dealing with
the phenomenon except to prevent
transference at the time
of the host's death this file remains
open
conor doyle out
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where is it today this demonic entity
capable of moving from living host to
living host
does it dwell in someone walking the
streets of your city or town
well the office of scientific
investigation and research has kept this
case open
and the search continues on an ongoing
basis for this particular powerful and
dangerous supernatural threat
totally irresponsible hello anyone here
how can you be so ignorant
mark in the cold sweat larkin the coats
work
over do you remember issuing an open
fire permit for this area of the park
oh hey buddy is this your fire
help me what's wrong
my my friends katie and barry what is it
and the woods back there everything's
dead all right slow down
what are you doing up here we're
planting trees we're tree
planters look we got an open campfire
here that's a big no-no
may have a look at your id and your
camping permit please my friends
i'm gonna give them some water give me
your id
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is this your wallet yeah are you doug
kilmartin
yeah this id says that you're 21 years
old
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what's happening to me
one of the most intriguing north
american myths is the quest by ponce de
leon for the fountain of eternal youth
a quest which mankind has never truly
abandoned cosmetics plastic surgery
there are many methods man attempts to
employ to delay aging
today scientific researchers seek
genetic keys that could unlock a human
lifespan of 150 years or more
well for doug kilmartin his was exactly
the opposite discovery
nothing less than a fountain of aging
and decay
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this is the guy kilmartin described
barry
struthers another 21 year old
file number 86126 case manager conor
doyle
after being contacted by ontario
provincial police we're launching an
investigation
two men claimed to have aged nearly 50
years following an encounter with an
unexplained zero growth zone in the
canadian northern wilderness
so we had the opp run a check on both
their names and it turned out that the
second guy we found struther
he'd had a little run in with the law
when he was younger
he'd had a break and enter five years
ago when he was 16. and the guy looks
like he's 70 right
but the thing is his fingerprints they
actually match the ones in the stroller
kids file
when we got kill martin to st agatha's
hospital he was hysterical
telling us that there's somebody still
out there kill martin
for a man in his 70s is uh in pretty
good shape uh
struther markedly less so
but for two men or twenty-one as they
claim
they're in trouble they found this place
in the woods
just sand nothing growing
a dead zone i'm dave burton foreman for
this area
our crew split up to handle a bunch of
small contracts
some stayed back the base camp some
moved into this plantation
that's why the three of them just the
three of them
doug kilmartin barry straud or katie
fitzgerald we're here on a little sunday
contract
tomorrow was supposed to be the end of
their sundays
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kill martin's effective age is 70.
struther is 85
with ids of 21 year olds we're trying to
locate their families
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according to the pictures we took from
these helicopters
it's oval shaped and just about eight
thousand square meters
like an oasis in reverse desolation in
the middle of a living forest
this rock formation is extraordinary
peter
keep your distance until the initial
inspection is completed i just want to
get a couple of shots
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appears harmless enough
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it's not that harmless
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12.3 seconds from point of entry to
discovery of the skeleton
remarkable has the aerial video mapping
going we're working on it
we shot the zone from multiple angles
let's see what you've got so far
the boundaries of the dead area appear
to be clear and defined on one side
there's green growth and on the other
nothing
enlarge the image on number three
pan right come back to the left
increased magnification two times five
ten is our missing tree planter
i wouldn't be surprised anton speak with
kill martin
see if he remembers what happened right
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let's start a tuesday morning doug the
three of you were flown to the site
katie barry and me with a bunch of new
seedlings to plant
what time did you arrive approximately
6 6 30 pretty early
we set up camp he said before
that you found a place in the woods
nothing but dirt
the dead zone i think i walked in
but did you all go in
no i mean
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i'm sorry it's very hard to concentrate
these days you know
it's already done it's okay
real low we'll start again shortly
dr hendricks where are katy and barry
are they okay
your friends aren't doing as well as you
are doug we need your help
i want to just don't remember
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all right let's try the probe pov
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what's that
with any luck the dental record should
give us an id
the corpse is in a very advanced stage
of decomposition
it looks like it's been there a while i
will know more once we get it out
let's take it nice and slow
the skeleton is catherine fitzgerald age
cause of death unknown
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our team physician's examination reveals
no specific illness or injury in either
kill martin or struther
they are suffering from high blood
pressure but that could be explained by
the stress brought on by their confusion
anton strother remains
despondent and unresponsive kill martin
on the other hand
presents no abnormalities other than
memory loss you mentioned limited and
specific amnesia
yes kill martin remembers everything
vividly up until his encounter with the
anomaly
and after that it's almost blank but
that's consistent with the repression of
a traumatic experience
is it consistent with acinal delusion we
saw what happened to the bird that flew
in there
not to mention the unusual wrinkling of
kill martin and struther's skin
could there be a straightforward medical
explanation progeria you mean
it's accelerated aging yeah it's
extremely rare and invariably begins in
early childhood
and it's a genetic disease it's not
environmental maybe we found some
environmental toxin that causes
spontaneous mutations in the cell cycle
control genes
perhaps but our scans have revealed no
toxins we've also eliminated
several of the obvious explanations for
the lack of vegetation there's no
radiation traces
and uh the site itself has no past
connections with any toxic substances
whatsoever
anton what does dep testing tell us
kilmartin
is telling the truth as he understands
it
my purpose here is to investigate to
help you in any way i can
but i can't unless you talk to me
talk
yes mary
i'm gonna die right
that's an inevitability we all have to
face
but i'm only 21 years old
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aren't they
i remember the night before we flew in
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we were sitting around talking to three
of us
i couldn't hear a word she said
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she just looks so beautiful
i love there's so much
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my name is sarah kilmartin i'm here to
see my son yes someone's expecting you
mrs kilmartin
i'm lindsay donner oh we spoke on the
phone i'd like to see douglas
oh i don't know this man
he's not my son look at him you remember
gypsy
you remember the day gypsy stole mr
telford salmon
gypsy was our dog purebred german
shepherd
mr telford lived four houses down
he'd cut this 30
pound salmon
well i guess jif went over for a visit
because the next thing we knew he was
burying the damn thing in the backyard
i must have been about six years old
i remember saying to you
i guess we have to tell mr telford the
truth now
don't we you said
maybe we can just keep this our secret
nobody ever has to know
except us hi mom
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i want you to relax and just let the
light
play on you feel sleepy file update
douglas kilmartin effective age 70
appears to be the son of sarah kilmartin
age 45.
hendricks is attempting another
regressive hypnosis session with
kilmartin
in an effort to shed some light on what
exactly happened to himself
barry strother and katie fitzgerald now
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doug i want to go back to tuesday
it's eight o'clock in the morning where
are you
where in the woods
all the three of you together i'm alone
katie and mary for going on ahead
i can hear them whispering to each other
what do you see
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she kissing him right there in the woods
now she's gone on her head by herself
hey guys come check this place out wow
it's
wild
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come on barry
i've never seen anything like it i think
that
i don't know it's an area
there's nothing alive at all
is katie in the zone
yes
she wants us to follow her in what are
you guys waiting for
chicken it's really freaky
let's go just laughing like being
paranoid
so i go in
oh my god what is it she's just changing
katie she's changing
gary
this this has got to be a treat this
can't be real
good let's get out of here
now the katie's moving it's too late
i'm trying to run i can hardly miss my
leg
i gotta get out i have to get some help
i left them behind
i left barry behind and katie
case file update our medical team is
searching for ways to reverse the
effects of the hazard
but we have been unable to isolate the
means by which it triggers the aging
process
we've done an aerial geodetic survey
using infrared and microwave technology
there's no evidence of any unusual
geothermic activity or geomagnetic
fields
and still no traces of hazardous
materials or toxic gases so in other
words we still have no idea what's
causing it
not yet but the probe itself
isn't triggering any reaction from the
hazard so whatever it is it only affects
the biochemical nature of living
organisms a bioreactive phenomenon is
quite possible
and let's try to pinpoint exactly why
what is it oh i've been reviewing some
of the preliminary interviews
listen to this
i remember hearing stories about it when
i was a kid rumors about a bad place in
the woods
a place where nothing lives stories
about some of our tribal members who
just disappeared
this much we already know horizontally
the zone covers an area just under 8
000 square meters we've mapped it by
helicopter and charted the height at
which the disintegration begins
elliptical which could suggest some sort
of energy pattern phenomenon
but the configuration's unstable were
picking up slight fluctuations
what if we were to chart these
fluctuations over a period of hours
it's a good idea see if the pulses are
consistent it's almost like just a
second
the hospital just contacted us it's
struther
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i'm sorry we'll have to do an autopsy of
course but i think it's simply
generalized systemic atrophy
come on man speak english old age
he died in his sleep i was only 21.
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doug a week ago i was a young man hell
kitty and barry were alive now look at
us we're looking to reverse the process
doug
we're trying our best oh good i got
plenty of time to
hang around spare me the science lesson
look
we've got people working around the
clock it's just that this thing
is my whole life has been stolen from me
it's not fair no it's not fair
but let me tell you it wasn't fair when
when my brother found out that he had
inoperable cancer last year
you and jerry are now effectively the
same age
only at most he has two years left you
might just have another two decades
look i'm sorry about your brother
at least he had 30 years i didn't
secondly
if katie and barry just died how do you
know i
might have another two decades you're
right
i don't and i doubt that we can recover
the years you lost
only you can decide what to do with the
time you have left
we've already lost one subject barry
struther time's running short
any theories the phenomenon could be
extraterrestrial that's why it's not
reacting to earth-based technology
or maybe it's just not reacting to any
known earth-based technology meaning
it could be some as of yet unspecified
geophysical phenomena that
sub-atomically accelerates all form of
living matter
conceivably or it could be a rare and
mutated
vortex that absorbs concentrated
life-form energy
i mean that would be consistent with the
results of the physiological assessments
or maybe the answer lies in another
direction completely
the fluctuations could be caused by
almost anything changes in wind patterns
but i found if you speed up the sequence
it almost replicates breathing as if it
were alive
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well i guess you won't have to worry
about how i'll turn out when i grow up
good luck thanks doc
for doing what you could look after him
we'll be in touch
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it's a hell of a way to live out the
rest of your days
probably die before his mother does
professor doyle
i'm here sir professor doyle i'm
responding to your request for
additional analysis of the phenomenon
and file number 86126
thanks for getting back to us so quickly
sir well unfortunately government
officials have already asked us to
design and implement a method of sealing
off the hazard
permanently effective immediately but
sir we're just beginning to make some
headways to understanding this
phenomenon
oh i realize that but priority number
one is the protection of human life
with all due respect sir we need to know
exactly what this phenomena is about
who knows how much we might be able to
learn from it we've reviewed
the data provided to this point the
mandate is final
i'm sorry conor i'm just passing on what
we've already decided
yes of course
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the final case log entry as per your
instructions and following consultation
with government officials
a giant cage of steel rebar has been
constructed to encase the hazard
lowered into place by helicopter and
covered with tons of pork concrete
geophysical anomaly paranormal
manifestation or alien bio force
the answer lies hidden forever in a
concrete vault no longer a threat
at last report doug kilmartin was
working at a crisis center
counseling trauma victims and living
each day to its fullest
i'm dan aykroyd for sci factor
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you