With great interest, Mulder views a mail order videotape which purportedly contains an
actual alien autopsy. The footage shows a team of Japanese surgeons performing the
procedure. The tape suddenly ends when a group of armed soldiers storms the operating
room. Mulder and Scully trace the tape’s origin to a video piracy operation in Allentown,
Pennsylvania. When the agents arrive at the scene, they find a man’s body with a pillowcase
tied over its head. Mulder chases a Japanese man fleeing the scene and takes him into
custody. Skinner reveals that the suspect, Kazuo Takeo, is a high-ranking government
official from the Japanese diplomatic corps.
Mulder searches Takeo’s leather satchel, uncovering satellite photos and a list of names
containing members of the Mutual UFO Network. Mulder learns that the satellite photos
contain images of a salvage ship named the Talapus, which spent months searching for a
Japanese sub sunk during World War II. The ship made port in Newport News, Virginia,
leading to speculation that perhaps the Talapus found something other than the downed sub.
The list of Mutual UFO Network members leads the agents to Lottie Holloway and Penny
Northern. They tell Scully that she is one of them. Confused, Scully insists she is conducting
an FBI investigation into the murder of Steve Zinnzser (the man found with the pillow case
over his head). The women tell the agents that Zinnzser was a member of their group. They
also describe their experiences in a “bright white place,” triggering Scully’s partial memory
of what transpired during her disappearance. The women display small pieces of metal
which were surgically removed from the back of their necks. They bring Scully to the
hospital, where another member of their group, Betsy Hagopian, is dying of an undiagnosed
cancer ailment. Penny claims everyone who was abducted will die in the same fashion.
Meanwhile, Mulder travels to Virginia where he discovers the Talapus hidden between
much larger vessels. Nearby, Mulder discovers an airplane hangar that houses a large
circular object that the Talapus must have dredged from the bottom of the sea.
Skinner tells Mulder that the Japanese diplomat was found murdered. Later, Mulder visits
Senator Matheson, who requests the return of the satellite photographs. Mulder believes that
doing so would entangle him in the murder investigation. In a cryptic gesture, Matheson
gives Mulder a list containing the names of four murdered Japanese scientists.
Scully and Mulder meet at FBI headquarters. Mulder displays a photograph of Japanese
medical officers taken during World War II. Four of the men are the same surgeons found
murdered the previous day. Mulder suspects that the scientists were trying to create a
human-alien hybrid, a continuation of their work, and similar work done by the Nazis, during
the war. He suspects that the U.S. government may be behind the murders. Mulder also
shows Scully a photo of train cars which he believes are part of the government’s secret
railroad, one of which was used to carry out the alien autopsy.
Mulder travels to Quinnimont, West Virginia, where he discovers train cars from the
satellite photos. As Mulder prepares to jump onto one of the moving cars, Scully contacts
him on his cellular phone. She passes on information, given to her by X, that his life is in
great danger. Nonetheless, Mulder jumps on top of the train car.
TO BE CONTINUED
THE X-FILES “NISEI”
#3X09
Original Air Date: 11/24/95
Written by Chris Carter & Howard Gordon & Frank Spotnitz
Directed by Rob Bowman
Starring:
DAVID DUCHOVNY as Special Agent Fox Mulder
GILLIAN ANDERSON as Special Agent Dana Scully
Also Starring:
YASUO SAKURAI as Kazeo Takeo
MITCH PILEGGI as AD Walter Skinner
BRUCE HARWOOD as Byers
DEAN HAGLUND as Langly
TOM BRAIDWOOD as Frohike
STEVEN WILLIAMS as X
CORRINE KOSLO as Lottie Holloway
GILLIAN BARBER as as Penny Northern
ROGER ALLFORD as the Harbourmaster
PAUL MCLEAN as the Coast Guard Officer
LORI TRIOLO as Diane
RAYMOND J. BARRY as Senator Matheson
BRENDAN BEISER as Agent Comox
ROBERT ITO as Dr. Ishimaru
WARREN TAKEUCHI as the Japanese Escort
CARRIE CAIN SPARKS as the Train Station Clerk
BOB WILDE as the Limo Driver
