PSI Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal (1996–2000): Season 1, Episode 9 - UFO Duplication/Clara's Friend - full transcript

these stories are inspired by the actual

case files of the office of scientific

investigation

and research

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uh

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kyle

buddy kyle

kyle i've told you not to do that honey

it's after midnight



whose dog is that it's buddy no no the

other one

that's buddy too kyle hill if you have

somebody else's dog does it have tags

mom they're both buddy see

here buddy now we have two dogs

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okay we'll figure all this out in the

morning right now i want to get you up

to bid okay

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as children we all brought home



creatures that didn't belong in the

house

like bugs frogs mice or even stray pets

our parents were compelled then to

inquire about the origins of these

newfound treasures

eight-year-old kyle hill's mother had to

obtain the answer to such a question

but the last thing she could imagine was

that what began as a simple domestic

matter

would radically change her and her son's

life forever

case number 623119 one of the most

intriguing events

i have ever seen documented in the files

of the osir

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and we'll try again tomorrow to figure

out whose dog it is okay

mom it's buddy there's just two of them

isn't that great

no it's not great would you be happy if

you lost your dog and somebody else was

keeping it

no okay then you try and stay in bed

tonight mister

all right okay

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so

kyle who's there

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kyle what in god's name are you doing

case manager connor doyle we've arrived

80 miles outside of wichita kansas to

investigate a reported case of life-form

replication

preliminary interviews proceeding when

those boys came through that door

i nearly fell out of my chair i've known

joan hill for 20 years

delivered kyle myself i'm telling you

there was only one of them

there was no twin since his father died

it's just been the two of us

me and kyle out here together he's

always been a thoughtful child

imaginative you know well first it was

the the pets and then my son

they were duplicated i i don't know what

else to call it

so we've got two hamsters goldfish

dogs kyle says that his friends made

them as a gift

don't you guys get it they only want to

know us better

understand how we work they're not like

us they don't scroll around with stuff

they're they're sort of like you guys

they're scientists

i mean they don't force anything on

anybody not that it's a bad thing they

did

it's i don't know it's pretty incredible

if you think about it

how soon we know what happened to kyle

we're conducting an initial inspection

of the house and surrounding area

after that we'll move on to the next

phase next phase

well ms hill we take a very methodical

approach to our work it's the only way

to get the best results

we need time to gather any information

that could tell us what happened

all of my monitors are even right now

you told us that you found the two boys

in the barn that night

was there anyone or anything else in the

barn at the time

not that i saw god i told you this

already

i don't remember okay but um

kyle was there anything else in the barn

that night

kyle yes mom

i just want to know which boy is mine

the initial inspection is complete

the place is clean there is no evidence

to suggest either a hoax or a paranormal

event at this time just

two boys and several animals that appear

to be exactly alike

my initial interviews with both boys

didn't indicate any intentional

deception

they both appear to believe what they're

saying same memories

same points of view same story

aliens came and cloned them

mrs hill seems extremely disturbed by

the incident

i presume whatever she saw triggered

some psychological trauma

i have a feeling she's seen more than

she's able to tell us

remember not to look at the light just

let the light make your eyes

feel very very heavy and when i move it

down they close

joan i want you to go back to august the

12th

what woke you that night

sounds

i heard voices

i went out to check on kyle

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kyle

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kyle kyle

what's going on what is it john what's

happening

well got you all hooked up with

everything haven't we now let's see what

do you think of that helmet

pretty fancy huh feel like you're an

astronaut

mm-hmm

okay i'm just going to ask a few

questions

now tell me uh what's your full name

kyle aaron hill

tell me your full name kyle aaron hill

and what's your mom's name joan

how long have you lived in this house

since i was born

eight years ago now tell me

um where is your father he died

when was that he was killed in a car

accident three years ago

well let's talk about something else

okay do you remember your fifth birthday

my dad took me somewhere where i could

ride a horse

it smelled really bad and it was rust

colored

it was kind of wild it threw me off and

i

i broke my arm right here out

here

yeah you got a scar all right just relax

just look over my shoulder

just relax and now you're getting sleepy

and

duh

they want to examine buddy for a while

asking if i want a dog just like him

i can see them they want me to come

outside

are you afraid of them no what do they

look like

they look like the kids who age really

fast that i saw on the science channel

they're short shorter than me and gray

all over

did you want them to clone you yeah it'd

be cool

i could hang around with someone besides

my mom

do you know how they do it no

which one of you is the original kyle

and which one of you is the new kyle

i'm kyle i'm kyle

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voice print analysis it's not as widely

used

but it's more exact in identification

than fingerprint technology

even identical twins shall mark

differences this combined with

fingerprinting and blood samples should

tell us whether or not they're twins

let me know the minute the results are

in

all right

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well the dna and blood tests are

comparable are they the same

within an extremely small margin of

error duplicated pets also showed an

uncharacteristically similar physiology

take a look at this what is it

it's results of the fingerprint analysis

and

oh my god

he really is a clone

case log update with the death of one of

the animals in the last 24 hours

we've shifted our investigation towards

explaining the cause of death

cooper what happened i gotta admit i've

never done an autopsy on a goldfish

before

how about a hamster

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case log update with the death of two of

the animals we're increasing the level

of surveillance

environmental scans for hazmat ongoing

i realize how invasive this feels

but it will allow us to watch carefully

your biological status

and under the circumstances it's vital

why are the animals dying we're checking

that out

we don't know for now but in a few hours

we might be able to tell you more

but why yes what do we do

your reaction is natural but

however hard it gets please

it's very important that you remain as

calm as possible

for kyle say doctor

is it the clones that are dying

or is it

we don't know

even though their time with one another

has been short sharing identical

memories the way they do

means that the connection between the

two boys is extraordinarily intimate

if one of them should die the damage to

the survivor could be quite serious

it's anything from the autopsies on the

animals yet well i wasn't able to

determine the cause of death of the

goldfish its system just shut down

this hamster on the other hand died of a

viral infection

fluid built up in its lungs it's not an

unusual cause of death for a rodent but

in this case it happened quite suddenly

how are the dogs well so far there's no

sign of illness

the lifespan of a hamster is about two

years and the dogs is about 15. i know

i've been thinking about that

it's possible there's some correlation

between the natural lifespan of the

animal

and the time it takes these symptoms to

show up conor i think we may have

something

we've been reviewing the physiological

data we collected from the first exam of

the two boys

go ahead although we tested hla antigens

and b cell antibodies for matches we

didn't test t cell activity it didn't

seem relevant at the time

no one of the boys doesn't have t cells

in his system no t cells

and t cells fight viral infections how

common is a t-cell deficiency

in an otherwise healthy individual

extremely uncommon

so we may have found a way to

differentiate between the two boys

but does the deficiency go with a clone

or with kyle

remember when he found him i'll bite a

woodshed

he was some kind of scraggly mess

you didn't want him in the house i

remember that i love buddy

i think he's sick now too

look kyle i'm sorry if i've been strange

how are you feeling anyway you okay

i'm fine oh no honey i was talking to

kyle

but mom i am kyle

case log update in an attempt to clarify

what may have caused the phenomenon i've

requested dr hendricks perform a second

session of regressive hypnosis with joan

hill i want you to go back to that night

joan

that night that you first saw kyle and

his twin

voices i can hear them

is it kyle's voice

there's too many of them

it's all garbled not making

i have to go to him

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i want you to look into the light joan

tell me what you see

they're everywhere

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oh my god what are they doing to my son

all right jump come out of this slowly

you will

wake and remember everything that you

have just seen

to understand

oh my god

what did they do to you

her account of the extraterrestrials

corroborates the boy's story there's

just not enough physical evidence to

back up their testimony

how's mrs hill's psychological condition

improved once she realized

that each of the kyles believes that

he's the real one and in fact

is the real kyle her attitude changed

altogether

in what way well now she's calling them

kyle

aaron and erin kyle

i see

cooper what have you found out

mycobacterium

tuberculosis this animal is

dying of pneumonia i've already started

him on a

cocktail of antibiotics what about the

boys

probably just a matter of time before

one of them starts to show symptoms

why is this happening whoever or

whatever did this

must have used the original organism's

base dna as a source

then somehow developed an accelerated

growth process

in which the clone could reach the

desired age we have no idea how they

could do that nor can we explain how

they could transfer memory from one

organism

to another would it explain the lack of

t cells in the rapid development of this

clone it's possible that the t cell

maturation process was

unintentionally bypassed the sick ones

are the clones

or in the duplication process the t

cells were stripped from the original

kyle

the important thing is to isolate the t

cell deficient child immediately

case log update in an effort to supply t

cells to the deficient boy

we've recommended proceeding with a bone

marrow transplant an operation normally

complicated by tissue and blood matching

in this case of course the donor and the

recipient are exact matches in every

cold way

how are you holding up i'm sure

everything's gonna be fine i'm just

exhausted

professor excuse me

what is it it's the dog cooper couldn't

save it

when dr stewart no the infection is too

advanced

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final case log entry during the last two

month observation period we've been

unable to further substantiate the

claims of extraterrestrial

experimentation

however we leave satisfied that we

helped rectify the physical and

emotional health of the hill family

case manager conor doyle out

now officially the osir has labeled this

case unresolved

however evidence seems to indicate the

intervention of benevolent

extraterrestrial beings

who rewarded kyle with a brother in

return for providing source material

for their advanced cloning experiments

and in doing so they fulfilled his

deepest wish

there's an old saying that goes be

careful what you wish for because you

might just get it

while it may sound like an ominous

warning surely it wasn't intended to

stop us from wishing altogether

you're on time did you remember the red

wine

that i remembered unfortunately i can't

remember who we invited but

very funny marnie go up and get your

sister i need help setting the table

clara mom wants you i said

get your sister

clara wake up

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clara mom wants you downstairs

tell mom i'm busy

can you put these out home where's your

sister she's with her friend

what friend her friend

clara i didn't know you had anyone over

mom dad meet bobby

hi we haven't met in fact um

well i didn't see you come in nice to

see you bobby

are you staying for dinner are you in

clara's class

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bobby says it's been really great to see

you guys finally but

she has to go

spectres full audible and visual

apparitions of human figures which seem

to materialize out of thin air and just

as quickly vanish

now research indicates that they may be

residual traces of souls

reluctant to move on permanently through

the veil which separates this world from

the next

now the office of scientific

investigation and research is frequently

called upon to document occurrences of

this nature

but some cases are truly exceptional as

in file number 847

117 the case of clara's friend

this is so stupid mom i don't want to

leave that's enough clara

i'm sorry buddy are you sure there's no

problem yes darling i'll call you in the

morning don't worry

thanks tammy we really appreciate it so

so so mario

mario when can you get here come on

girls get in

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so what happened here yeah and she she

went she went right through the window

and and disappeared i mean mario it was

incredible

i scared the hell out of us

you realize i just dabble in the world

of paranormal i'm not an expert

right now you're all we've got okay

now was this incident preceded by any

other unusual activity were there any

gusts of cold air tapping sounds no

not that i know of she came out of the

blue no warning and suddenly there was a

strange girl in my daughter's room and

vanished did the ghost try to

communicate with you in any way

no i i don't think so and i'm not so

sure she

she was a ghost i mean she was as real

as you and me standing here and

but it happened i mean she baptized it

right

that's her which we do

there i'm professor mario humes i teach

psychology at the university with mr

preston here

who are you how do you know my daughter

let me handle this mrs preston

now miss you're scaring these people

here

why don't you come over here and and sit

down and tell us all about it

file number 847117 case manager curtis

rollins

confirming arrival at the preston

residence to investigate

an alleged haunting preliminary

interviews underway

this is our case manager chris rollins

in the past couple weeks i'd seen her

around with clara though always with

clara

and other than the weird clothes the

ghost

wore she was neat you see

claire doesn't have very many friends

you know she keeps herself a bit

kind of a loner i was just glad to see

she was hanging out with someone

so when george and i showed up for

dinner that night belinda and dennis

were in absolute

panic rushing around getting the kids

packed up and out the door

you'd think they'd seen the devil

himself they were terrified

and you know i mean i guess i understand

their concern if you believe their story

why do we have to stay over here can't

we just stay at our place

i'd just like to ask you a few questions

about your friend okay

her name's bobby and she's not just a

friend she's my best friend

i don't know what the big deal is we

just talk and stuff

do you know bobby's last name

never asked i guess did you meet her at

school

she just showed up one day in her

backyard when was that

it was the same day i got a 98 on my

english exam

she was real impressed three weeks ago

yesterday

that was september 9.

tell me what sorts of things do you talk

about just the usual stuff

she's not from around here you know is

she from another country

no she's just different

and you want to know the coolest thing

what we don't have to speak out loud

i can hear her thoughts

why do you think that is clara

because

because we're special that's why

i asked her if she'd seen bobby since

she's been staying at the neighbor's

house

and they're only able to meet at the

preston residence

claire is really anxious to go home and

see her new friend but her parents

are insisting that clara and marnie stay

clear of the house until we fulfill our

case objective

which is mr mrs preston are requesting

we correct or terminate the phenomena

this friend is really important to clara

in fact her parents have said they've

noticed a distinct change in her

personality recently

also oh she's happier more outgoing

she's finally starting to blossom with

how they put it

and since marnie and clara were taken to

the neighbor's home

claire has become distant and depressed

it's definitely having an effect on her

let's proceed with an on-site inspection

see if we can meet

clara's friend i spoke to the neighbors

on both sides

apparently they haven't seen or heard

anything unusual although

what mrs kepler she's a neighbor to the

north

she's got to be at least 90 years old

she recalls having seen claire talking

to a young girl in the backyard

i was early last week normally

she wouldn't give it another thought but

what struck her was how this girl was

dressed

what was she wearing apparently

it was a dress that mrs kepler says she

would have worn when she was a teenager

it was an unusual cut it had a high

collar

it looked to be straight out of the 20s

let me guess you tied it up at the waist

with a thin belt

good guess security

is perimeter secure attention team

we have a guest in the hall

she was right there we all witnessed the

girl

but she's not visible in any of the

still photographs or the recorded video

footage

during the next phase of the

investigation we'll activate infrared

thermal imaging

magnetic field monitoring she's in there

we just have to find a way of recording

her what happened during regressive

hypnosis

something noteworthy should have me the

remote this is an audio recording

of clara's responses during the session

clara you're speaking with your friend

bobby yes in my head

but neither of you are moving your lips

no

it's so cool show me what she sounds

like

what is she saying right now pay close

attention to this

what i'd give for a blue bonnet cherry

cola

what's that i've never heard of it

if you come with me clara i could show

you

come with you where come with me

back to my place we can be friends

forever

first and i'm embarrassed to say i know

this

blue bonnet cherry cola has not been

manufactured in this country or any

country

since 1943 secondly the analysis of

clara's version of bobby's voice

indicates someone who was educated

during the 1920s

very well who is bobby

and where does she want to take clara

wait don't go bobby

wait for me wait

bobby

file update oh 900 hours since our

arrival

team members have had first-hand contact

with the phenomenon

on six separate occasions

round-the-clock environmental

and audio video surveillance has been

established

next transmission in eight hours i'm

going aside

we'll be watching

okay we got you now come in rollins

anything to report negative

it's pretty quiet today i'm gonna go

review some of the data collected thus

far including the witnesses testimonials

copy continuing my tour of residence

something's happening roland's heart

rate and stress sensors are rising

rapidly

curtis what is it she's directly ahead

about six to eight feet away from me

confirmed negative

as far as we can tell you're alone

both investigators are identical they're

both going through something dramatic

infrared the most scanning seismography

all negative

unfortunately they're saying something

that we're not well baseline level's

normal it's like she's not

really here but she she is

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curtis what just occurred

case log update historical and

background checks reveal the living

descendant of a previous owner of the

preston home

one one day it was a ship

and another a castle and how often did

you come and visit your great

grandmother

every summer until i was 10 i think

yes that's when she had to sell the

house move over to park hill

i understand your nana's name was

barbara winston while she was married

but everyone just called her bobby look

i have to get back

my two-month-old is with her daddy and

the nap time is just about over

here's the old photos and stuff that you

asked for i really hope that they help

you with your research project

thanks it's a big help just one more

question before you go

when did bobby pass away oh she's still

alive

unfortunately she suffered a stroke

she's been in a coma for about three

weeks now

why are we here there's someone i want

you to meet

why and when can we go back to our house

i want to see bobby again

claire you have to understand we're

trying really hard to find out where

bobby came from

i know bobby's not normal like everyone

else but she's real

more real than people know here's our

room

don this is dr hendrix

and this is my friend clara hello

how's her condition i said she's getting

weaker

sorry clara have you ever met miss

corbett before

she looks kind of familiar

but no i don't think so

she's your grandmother my great

grandmother

she's a really special person my nan

and this is beatrice nana's great

great granddaughter

did barbara revert back to her maiden

name only recently

she was so depressed after doug died

it's like she was going back in time

i found something you might find

interesting what's that

i was digging through the garage and i

found bobby's diary

this woman's name is bobby

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this is home movie footage taken of 16

year old barbara corbett

the film is dated 1931 and tests on the

negative silver nitrate confirmed that

date

well that's the same girl i saw in the

hallway and one we all saw

on the stairs the film was apparently

shot on the afternoon of her 16th

birthday

i cross-referenced this with the entry

that barbara made on that date in her

diary

today with the happiest day of my life i

turned 16 finally but best of all

i met the most wonderful young man

douglas winston he has invited me to the

show this saturday i don't think i'm

ever going to be able to sleep again

16 and in love she was tricky to track

down because she changed her name from

winston back

to corbett after he passed away four

months ago

the hospital informs us that barbara

slipped into a deep depression following

her husband's death

and that condition deteriorated until

she suffered a stroke

since barbara is alive albeit in a

comatose state

it appears we are dealing with an

out-of-body experience

young bobby could be a form of

involuntary

sub-atomic transmission or

a psy-based haunt focused

psychokinetic astral projection

in the form of what barbara says in her

diary

the happiest day of her life

curtis i propose an experiment we move

the prestons back into their home

and ask claire to try to convince bobby

to return to her corporeal state

lindsay that could prove fatal for the

old woman the joy she may be receiving

from this out-of-body experience

may be the only thing keeping her alive

as well the loss of a friend could prove

traumatic for clara

but neither barbara nor clara are

thriving in this situation

i feel it's our best course of action

agreed but let's monitor the experiment

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carefully

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the preston family have just re-entered

their residence

we'll keep you informed

where is she it's been hours

don't worry claire we've all seen bobby

i don't think she's gone anywhere

i want to believe you but i'm scared i'm

never gonna see her again hey

you just try and relax okay and i'm

gonna stay with you

all right come on

here we go doner confirmed status of

apparition

she's here

what are they doing they appear to be

talking but i can't hear them

go to level five try and communicate

with the apparition

barbara barbara corbett

what are you talking about she's telling

me about this guy she's met

doug he sounds wonderful

what's she saying she misses him

she misses so many things from her life

connor

commence with the experiment would you

do something for me clara

what remind bobby about dawn's baby

beatrice why because that's bobby's

great great granddaughter

don misses bobby and she'd really like

beatrice to see her nana

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it's okay

go ahead clara hendrix

standing by the experiment is underway

you think this is fast but i'll miss you

i'll miss you too you're the best friend

i ever had

come with me let's be friends forever

i'd love that but i belong here but with

my family

and you belong with your family i know

but don't worry it's the right thing to

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do

case number 847117 we remained on the

site for an additional two weeks after

our experiment the prestons report no

further visitations from the apparition

they

came to know as bobby barbara corbett

appears to have made a remarkable

recovery

however she has no recollection of her

ethereal visits

rollins out clara preston's friend was

indeed an ethereal apparition but not

that of a deceased human being

it was the spiritual projection of a

living elderly woman whose subconscious

was attempting to recapture happier

pastimes

perhaps the lesson barbara corbett

learned is one we should all embrace

appreciate the past but live for the

future and the future is our children

i'm dan aykroyd this is sci-factor

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so

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you