The X-Files · Season 1, Episode 22
“Roland” · Season 1, Episode 22
In this episode: Fox Mulder (6), Dana Scully (6)
You got a brother, don't you, Scully?
Yeah, I've got an older one and a younger one.
Well, have you ever thought about calling one of them all day long and then all of a sudden the phone rings and it's one of them calling you?
Does this pitch somehow end with a way for me to lower my long distance charges?
How could this happen? Roland never exhibited any violent tendencies.
It's my belief that he wasn't acting under his own volition.
What do you mean?
This is the work of Arthur Grable, Roland's brother. It's a new theory of jet propulsion, unfinished at the time of his death. In the last two weeks, Roland has completed the calculations.
How?
We're not sure, Mrs. Stodie. All we know is that Roland was somehow able to finish his brother's research.
Arthur and Roland Grable, born at Puget Presbyterian to Mr. and Mrs. Louis Grable on July 15, 1952. Arthur was four minutes older than Roland.
Identical twins.
Which means that they're the result of a single egg fertilized by a single sperm.
I've read studies which suggest that in some cases the identical twin arises very early in the embryonic stage when a mutation in one cell is rejected by the other cells as foreign.
So that maybe Roland's condition is the result of a damaged chromosome rejected by one of Arthur's cells?
In a way, that would explain Arthur's genius and Roland's strange mathematical gift.
You got a brother, don't you, Scully?
Yeah, I've got an older one and a younger one.
Well, have you ever thought about calling one of them all day long and then all of a sudden the phone rings and it's one of them calling you?
Does this pitch somehow end with a way for me to lower my long distance charges?
I believe in psychic connections, and evidence suggests that it's stronger between family members, strongest of all between twin siblings that shared the same womb.
OK, maybe. But in this case, one sibling has closer ties to a frozen fudgesicle than he does to his own brother.
Arthur Grable is not dead. He's in a state of consciousness that no human has ever returned from. And what if that state allows one to develop psychic ability to a potential that the conscious mind is too preoccupied to explore or believe in? He could use that ability to control his brother to kill those scientists.
This is Arthur Grable. Uh, because of the massive internal damage to his body caused by the car accident, we could only preserve the head.
Wouldn't your client find it somewhat inconvenient to be thawed out in the future, only to discover he had no functional mobility?
We believe that by the time science figures a way to revive our clients...
... you'll also know how to clone new bodies for them.
Exactly. This technology is progressing faster than anyone thought possible. Ask anyone here at the university. So, while for us the passing of each second brings our bodies closer to death, for our clients it brings them closer to life.
You don't really think that Roland ...
Besides Nollette and Keats, he's the only person we can prove was in the lab that night.
Yes, but we're talking about a sophisticated fluid dynamics equation. Roland Fuller barely has an IQ of 70.
Well, you saw his facility with mathematics. Don't some autistic individuals display unusual abilities?
Yes, but even savants behave only as human calculators. I mean, they can perform certain functions but they can't tell you the value of anything or even the meaning of a number.
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