The Ghost ship (X-Files)

the Ghost ship is the 43e episode of the Televised series X-Files.

Summary

SOME SHARE OFF NORWAY

Blocked by the fog off Norway, a destroyer, the USS Ardent is corroded by an unknown evil. Under the direction it Lieutenant Harper, the crew gives up the ship, leaving the Barclay Captain alone on board. 18 hour old meadows later, the men of crew are fished out by a trawler in a state of advanced ageing.

NAVAL HOSPITAL OF BETHESDA, MARYLAND

Mulder requires of Scully to join it at the hospital, to show him something before the army does not cover the business. For 48 hours, a destroyer has disappeared in the North Atlantic, without leaving traces. The night before, a Canadian tug boat found eighteen survivors: only one is still in life. It is about Lieutenant Harper, neat in the hospital because of its advanced state of degeneration. Mulder could obtain one to let pass for Scully thanks to its medical competences. To grip is 28 years old, and appears 90 of them, but Scully is made drive back by the army medical officer before to have been able to learn some more. Mulder is not surprised by the news: it exposes to Scully of other not classified businesses of the same type. In 1949, a battleship of Royal Navy disappeared off Norway. In 1963, a fleet of Soviet minesweepers left Siberia towards Cuba, the 6 vessels disappeared without leaving of trace. In all, nine ships volitilized and all passed by the same place.

Mulder puts forth the assumption of a " torsion of the temps" and the business attaches to the Experiment of Philadelphia: a military project aiming at making the ships invisible to the radar. The project was given up and the researchers sent to Los Alamos. But according to Mulder, none of them arrived at Los Alamos - they were sent to Roswell, Nouveau Mexico. Less than nine months after the alleged crash landing of an UFO with Roswell, ship USS Eldridge disappeared in the roads from Philadelphia, to reappear a few minutes later with Norfolk, Virginia, with several kilometers of its starting point. Mulder supposes that this research of the army led to a handling of temporal pits and that the last ship would have been victim. Without warning Skinner, Mulder leaves for Norway, accompanied by Scully.

PORT OF TILDESKAN, NORWAY, March 10th

Mulder and Scully make the turn of the sailors of the port: none wants to take the risk to bring them on the zone of disappearances. All are afraid of the place, except Henry Trondheim, a sailor of American origin, which proposes to them the services of its trawler equipped for the ices. According to Trondheim, the sailors of the area are afraid of the place because of the legend of a giant rock which would have fallen on the ice-barrier, a god of the evil.

ZONE OF DISAPPEARANCES, OFF NORWAY

During the 10 hours of voyage, Mulder does not support the crossing. The ship approaches the destroyer in full fog, the radar and the navigation system scrambled by an unexplained phenomenon. Suddenly the vessel emerges from the fog and the collision is inevitable. Mulder, Scully, Trondheim and Alvorsen, its second, go up on board the USS Ardent and discover its state: the whole ship is corroded by rust, as there if it had passed from tens of years to derive. Inside, they find bodies petrified, desiccated like mummies. But hardly they started to inspect the ship which they intend the trawler Trondheim to start, controlled by an unknown, and to move away while leaving them to the abandonment. Rust very corroded, the engines and the radio. Mulder is persuaded that time is accelerated on the ship.

The second of Trondheim is found died, struck with the head whereas it tried to see whether it could give the machines on the way. While tracking the culprit, Mulder falls on an old man: the Barclay Captain, ordering Burning USS. The captain tells them that after the loss of their navigation system, the USS Ardent was stopped in the fog. The crew saw an increasing light around them and the ship started to bleed. The men started to undergo a waste of time. It is 35 years old and appears 90 of them.

It appears obvious that the Barclay captain is too weak to have killed the second. The attacker appears again in the small hour, by attacking Trondheim whereas it jettait the body with the sea. But Mulder neutralizes it before it could kill Trondheim and must intervene to prevent this one from avenging its second. The man is called Olafssen. He is famous in the corner like pirate of whales, sought by the police force to provide whales and cachalots to the black-market. He speaks to them only in Norwegian and miraculeusement seems to be saved by the acceleration of time. According to the log book, four Norwegian sailors were collected on board. Trondheim thinks that they are the three different ones which left with its trawler. Barclay dies during the incident, changed into salt statue in a few minutes.

After a few hours passed on board, the effect is felt: Mulder, Scully and Trondheim start to age at sight of eye… but Olafsen remains always saved. Scully does not believe in the acceleration of time, it puts forth the assumption rather that the meteor represents a metal mass charged contrary to that with the ship. The ocean would play the part of a gigantic ship and the result would be a catalysis between the two. The free radicals concentrated around them by this effect of catalysis would attack their organization by causing the oxidation of the cells - what gives an effect similar to ageing. When Trondheim invites them to show them a running out bleeding of the hull of the ship, Mulder notes that it is only of the rust mixed with water and that the drain which contains this water is preserved rust. Accompanied by Scully, he undertakes to follow the drain until his source: a fresh water reserve of the system of recycling of the engines. During this time, Olafsen manages to convince Trondheim to release it, to reveal to him as there made to remain saved by ageing. Once with the current, it kills Olafsen and claims that this one is escaped during its sleep.

REPORT/RATIO OF AGENT SCULLY

" 18:00 and 45 minutes passed since the appearance of the primary symptoms. The rudimentary blood tests revealed an incredible concentration of sodium chloride, i.e. salt. Although contaminated water it even is not saltworks, it seems to catalyze body secretions, thus causing damage as fast as massive in our cells. Not polluted water slowed down the process of degeneration at Trondheim and, but the state of Mulder worsens. Perhaps because of the dehydration from which he suffered while coming here.

Continuous analysis of urines of Mulder to indicate that its kidneys do not manage to excrete the substance that I will call Heavy Salt. The not polluted water taken in the system of recycling the assistance to go up the slope, that is not obvious.

The only obvious thing, it is that it is not question only I renonce."

Scully surprises Trondheim draining the system of recycling, cut off in the tank to keep all water for him. It then makes the turn of the boat to find the thin water remainders: sardine juice, a lemon half-dozen and the water of a sphere of false snow. Mulder refuses to drink this liquid and to deprive Scully of a chance of survival. An abrupt blow against the hull to solve the question - the bottle containing the liquid breaks and Trondheim perishes drowned in the tank of recycling, carried by a water way in the hull.

REPORT/RATIO OF AGENT SCULLY, 14 HOURS LATER

" The agent Fox Mulder lost conscience with approximately 4:30 of the morning, today March 12th. I can nothing any more make for him, nor for me. We exhausted our vivres. We have not swallowed anything of solid nor of liquid for 12 midnight. The external hull is almost entirely destroyed by rust and it is the external hull which supports all the mass of the vessel.

Among the businesses of Alvorsen, I discovered a telling book of children of the Scandinavian legends. Several images describe the end of the world; not like a storm of fire sudden and apocalyptic, like the Bible teaches it to us, but under that of a cover of snow recovering the Earth slowly. Initially the Moon and the Stars will disappear in a thick white fog, then the rivers, the lakes and the oceans will be taken by the ices, and finally a wolf named Knol will open its jaws and will swallow the sun while the universe will sink in one night eternal.

It already seems to me to hear the wolf behind the door…

Little time after these last notes, a rescue squad of the Navy finds the two agents. They are placed under dialysis and are saved by a treatment carried out starting from the notes of Scully found with them.

The USS Ardent hardly sank one hour after their rescue.

Distribution

Agent Fox Mulder: David Duchovny
Agent Dana Scully: Gillian Anderson
Henry Trondheim: John Savage
Halverson: Mar Anderson
Lt. To grip: Dmitry Chepovetsky
Cpt. Barclay: David Cubitt
Olafssen: Vladimir Kulich
Dr. Laskos: Claire Riley
Ionesco: Stephen Dimopolous
the sailor: John Mcconnach
the male nurse: BoB Metcalfe
Burke : Kelly Irving

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