Dod Kalm

In the Norwegian sea command of the USS "Ardent" in panic leaving the ship, ignoring the pleas and threats of the captain. Eighteen hours later the boat with a much older during this period the sailors picks up a canadian fishing vessel.

In the naval hospital Bethesda, Mulder and Scully visit the only surviving team member – twenty-three year old Lieutenant Richard Harper, who looks like a decrepit old man. Mulder discovers that the "Ardent" was lost somewhere near the 65th parallel, which has repeatedly gone ships. Mulder believes that there is a "curvature in time", which is associated with the "Philadelphia experiment" conducted during the Second world war.

Arriving in the Norwegian town Telescan, Mulder and Scully, having received rejections from all the Norwegian sailors, agree with the American Henry Trondheim that he would deliver them on his trawler to the last known location of the "Ardent". With difficulty he reached the ship, the agents find his body traces extremely strong corrosion, although the "Ardent" launched only a few years earlier. In the cabin, the agents find the bodies of several members of the team, turned into a mummy. Meanwhile, the trawler team, afraid to die, takes the ship, casting agents, Trondheim and his first mate Halverson on Board the "Ardent". Soon Halverson, stragglers from the group, someone is killing, shattering his head. The galley Mulder finds the much older captain Barclay, who claims that "time lost", after over the sea were seen glowing. Night agents and Trondheim notice that they all began to age rapidly.

In the morning captain Barclay dies of old age. Trondheim on the deck trying to kill an iron pipe, the Norwegian poacher of Olaffson that was previously caught by the team of "Ardent" together with his accomplices. He doesn't look old. Scully suggests that the ship is drifting towards a large metal object on the ocean floor, resulting in free radicals accelerate the oxidation processes of the organism, causing aging. Mulder finds the only thing not rusted through the sewer pipe, which leads into the sump, where the swarming of rats lie dead not aged accomplices Olaffson who killed each other over water. Mulder comes to the conclusion that all water in addition to circulating around in the sewers of a ship infected with something. Trondheim, knowing the secret of preserving life, kills Olaffson, and the agents says that he ran away.

Scully conducts analyses and discovers that contaminated water leads to destruction of cells and increased content of sodium salts in the blood. Mulder weakens from lack of drinking water. Scully discovers that Trondheim's locked himself in the sump with all the remaining uncontaminated tank water, but the rust eats the side, and Trondheim floods inside the compartment. Scant supply of potable liquids do not help, and badly aged agents lose consciousness shortly before they saved the US Navy.

Waking up in Bethesda, Scully and bear the traces of aging on the face sees Mulder in the next bed. Dr. Laskas tells Scully that her research on the ship helped to cure them both. Scully replies that he wants to return to the ship and to conduct additional studies, but the doctor informs her that the ship sank in less than an hour after the agents were saved.

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