I wanna know what happened to the loggers.
我要知道伐木工人 发生了什么事?
That's what we're trying to determine , sir.
我们正在尝试找出答案 长官
Looking at a tree stump?
看树干就能找出答案?
Don't you think we should be interrogate this man.
你不认为你该审问这个人吗?
I don't think he did it.
我不认为是他干的
Well I think he did and I want him arrested.
我认为就是他 我要看他被逮捕
He's not going anywhere.
他哪儿也去不了
Not with a gun on him.
那是因为我用枪指着他
What happens if he poke around and three buddies show up...
但如果他的三个好兄弟出现
..And do to you what they did...
像对付那两个联邦森林官员
..To those Federal Forest officials? Larry?
一样的对付你 你又怎么办? 赖利?
I just wanna take a core sample over this tree.Steve
我只是想采这棵树的样本
I got families who want answers
山下有很多家属等着我们去解释
about loved ones and so do you!
他们家人的下落
Answers that not gonna be found in that tree!
光盯着那棵树瞧 是找不到答案的
The only crime here to investigate is the death of that tree.
这里唯一的罪行 是那棵树的死亡
Yeah, well, we'll see about that.
走着瞧吧
Steve Where are you going?
史帝芬 你要去哪里?
I'm gonna hike down to your truck.
我要走到你的货车那里去
I'll get on the horn and
按喇叭找些人上来
get people up here who'll take some action.
采取相关行动
Steve! Oh, let him go.
史帝芬! 让他去吧
Let him find out for himself.
让他亲眼看看
This is odd.
真奇怪
This yellow ring's got something living in it.
好像有东西活在黄色的年轮里
Some kind of...
某种...
..Tiny bug.
小虫
It doesn't make sense.
这不合理
Why not?
为什么?
Well, parasites attack a tree in a variety of ways,...
寄生虫攻击树木的方法不一
..But they always attack the living parts.
但它们只攻击活的部分
The leaves, the roots, the new growth rings.
像是树叶 根部 新年轮
Even if they're borers of some kind,...
即使它们会钻孔
..They wouldn't work so deep in that tree.
也不可能钻入树干这么深
Maybe they would if this ring is different
也许这个年轮很特别
they seem to be feeding on it
它们似乎以这年轮维生
Can you identify them?
你可以认出是什么虫吗?
It's a wood mite of some kind. Nothing I've ever seen before.
这是某种小树蜘蛛 我从未见过
Can they have been living in that tree fo hundreds of years?
它们有可能在那棵树里 活上几百年吗?
I don't see how. These inner rings are essentially dead wood.
不太可能 树干内部是死木
The tree's vascular system is limited to the outer few rings.
树木的输水系统只限在外层
They need water to survive.
它们需要水才能活
They appear to be hatching out of the porous wood.
它们似乎是从树干里 孵化出来的
Maybe when you drilled this core,
也许当你钻木采样本时
you tapped into a larger nest.
会发现个更大的巢
Can they build a cocoon?
它们会不会结蛹?
Right after that tree was cut down was when Teague died.
那树被砍倒后提格就死了
It's about the same time when the loggers disappeared too.
伐木工人也在此时消失
You think mite is what killed the man?
你认为这些小蜘蛛会杀人吗?
Maybe they've been lying their dormant for hundreds of years.
也许它们沉睡了几百年
Maybe they woke up hungry.
也许它们醒来之后饿了
Dammit!
该死
All right, you monkey-wrenchers, come on out now!
你们这班捣蛋破坏者 出来吧
I know what you're up to!
我知道你们的企图
Humphreys should've been back by now.
哈佛斯现在该要回来了
These bugs aren't moving any more.
这些虫不动了
They're either dead or they're asleep.
它们是死了或是睡了
It's the light.They don't like the light.
是光 它们不喜欢光
That's weird. Usually bugs are attracted to light.
真奇怪 通常昆虫会被光吸引
These obviously are not your ordinary bugs.
很明显的 这些不是普通的虫
To say the least.
至少我这样认为
What do you know about insects Scully?
你对昆虫了解多少 史卡利?
Just what I learned in biology courses.
只限于生物课学过的
That they're the foundation of our ecosystem,...
昆虫是生态环境的基础
..That there are lots of them:
它们有很多种类在这地球上
something like 200 million per person on this Earth.
和人类的比例是2亿比1
And they've been around a long time, right?
它们在地球上生存了很久 对吗?
Yeah.Something like 600 million years.
是的 约有六亿年
Even before the dinosaurs. Why?
甚至比恐龙更早 为什么?
And this tree is what? 5,6,700 years old?
这树约有五到七百年了吧?
Yeah.
是的
And these rings represent history of climatic changes.
这些年轮记录气候变化的历史
Which means that in this year or season in the life of the tree,...
表示在这树的生命里 这一年或这一季中
there were some kind of strange event
一定是有些奇怪的事
that produced an abnormal ring.
才会产生出反常的年轮
Like what, exactly? How about a volcanic eruption.
像是什么? 火山爆发
This whole chain of mountains running
自华盛顿到俄勒岗州的
from Washington to Oregon is still extremly active.
山脉至今依然活跃
Remember Mount St Helens?
记得圣海伦火山吗?
Yeah.How does that explain the bugs?
是的 但又怎么解释这虫呢?
Well after Mount St Helens erupted, there was a large amount of radiation was unleashed...
圣海伦火山爆发后 有大量的辐射
..From inside the Earth.
由地球里面释放出来
Strange things started to grow.
奇怪的东西开始出现
There's actually this lake where they discovered
人们在湖里
an amoeba that can suck a man's brains out.
发现了吃人脑的变形虫
Oh, a brain-sucking amoeba
吃人脑的变形虫?
It's true. In Spirit Lake,
这是真的
there's cases of swimmers being infected.
有文件记录 在心灵湖曾有泳客受到感染
But an amoeba is single-celled organism it can't be mutated.
但变形虫是单细胞生物 突变是很有可能的
But an insect is complexed animal.
昆虫是复杂的生物
A mutation would take years and years to evolve.
要花多年时间才会突变
Maybe what we're dealing with isn't a mutation at all.
也许我们现在面对的不是突变
What if it's some kind of extinct insect
如果在这年轮里的
larvae in that ring,...
是一些绝种昆虫的幼虫呢?
..Deposited during volcanic activity,
在火山爆发时被埋在土里
brought up through the root system?
随着树根的运送系统到树里
Ancient insect eggs,...
古老昆虫的卵
..Thousands, maybe millions of years old,
沉睡在年轮里好几千年
lying dormant until...
甚至几百万年 直到...
Until those loggers cut down that tree.
直到这些伐木工人砍倒那棵树
That would be poetic justice, don't you think?
这种说法还真富诗意
Unleashing the very thing that would end up killing 'em.
伐木工人等于是作茧自缚
And your friend Humphreys.
还有你的朋友哈佛斯
And, who knows... maybe us.
谁知道? 也许我们死期也不远了
Sweet dreams.
祝你们有个好梦
Humphreys might've just hiked outta here.
哈佛斯也许下山了
We don't know he didn't.
如果他没下山我们也不会知道
Maybe we're letting
也许我们对这虫的事件
ourselves get carried away with this bug story.
反应过度
Yeah, maybe.
也许吧
Going somewhere?
你要去哪里?
No, I was... Doing an auto repair.
不 我只是... 只是修车
Looks like you're planning on cutting out.
我看你像是想落跑
I got to save my friends.
我要救我朋友
They could only keep their generator
他们剩下的汽油 最多只能让
going 15, 20 hours max.
发电机 再运作15到20小时
They're gonna die if I don't get bakc there.
如果我不回去的话 他们会死的
So why are you sneaking around?
那你为何偷偷摸摸的?
The Forest Service guy wouldn't go for it.
森林员 那个森林局的人...
He'd never trust me.
他不会同意的 他不会相信我
He's got no reason to. Neither do I.
他没有理由相信你 我也一样
I can save us all, man.
我可以救大家
We've got a jeep just two valleys over.
我们有吉普车 就在两个山谷后
All it needs is a battery.
只要有电池就行了
I could get there and be back here in the morning.
我明早就会回来
We can all drive out tomorrow.
明天就可以一起下山
You gotta trust me, man.
你必须要相信我
Radio's back up.
无线电可以用了
It's working?
可以用了?
I'm not getting any reception, so the receiver could be trashed.
我收不到讯息 收讯器可能坏了
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