Two heavily bundled men are shown running trhough a snowstorm. In a cave they find their lost commrade, and an alien finds them. The one man is killed by the alien and while the otherone defends hismelf
by stabbing the alien, he is infected with the black oil. Cut to...
Stevie falls through a weak spot in the ground and his three friends look down upon him.
[Stevie looks at the skull, then, looking down, he sees that there is a puddle of black oil under his right
shoe.]
The black oil begins to overtake him, crawling under his skin until they meet and cloud his eyes.
The boys run away from the hole. The camera pans back to show that the scene is happening in a suburban
area outside a large town. Fade to later the same day. Fire trucks
pull up to the scene.
Two men climb down into the hole and crouch by Stevie, who is lying down in the dirt
in the cavern.
black helicopter flies in and lands at the scene. A man, Bronschweig, exits the
chopper.
Four men in biohazard suits exit the helicopter, and carry a person-sized container
towards the hole.
[The men in suits carry the container, which now has the boy in it, to the helicopter]
Bronschweig watches, and then walks behind one of the trucks where no one else can hear.
He dials a number on his cell phone.
[Scene begins with FBI agents on the Federal Building roof with
dogs and helicoptors. Darius Michaud is directing the activities....]
Michaud looks at a building across the street where a lone
person is walking on the roof.....Cut to the other building where we see
Scully on her cell phone...
Exiting stairwell/elevator at bottom floor past a group of children, one of which says FBI.
[Mulder heads down to the vending machines. He puts money in the machine and nothing comes
out. He shakes the machine, then looks behind it and notices that the machine is unplugged.
He calls Scully on her cell phone (555-1013). Cut to the lobby, where Scully is standing.]
[Scully reaches for the doorknob, but it doesn't turn. It's locked.
[The camera pans to show that the machine is now open and filled with explosives.]
[Cut back to Scully outside of the vending room. Scully looks down at her watch.]
[Vehicles of all assortments pull up to the building. Michaud exits a car and begins
to hastily walk with Scully into the building.]
[Scully calls Mulder, who is staring at the bomb, and jumps when he hears the phone ring.]
[Cut to Mulder and Scully running out of the building. Mulder slows and looks back.]
They get into the waiting police car. Shot of inside the building with
Michaud sitting waiting for the bomb to go off--not
attempting to stop it. The building explodes. Mulder and Scully get out of the car
and look at the damage.
Skinner: Agent Mulder, you're up.
Mulder begins to walk back to the boardroom.]
Scully: Mulder.
Scully hands Mulder his coat, which he nearly forgot on the chair.
Scully: Good luck.
[Mulder enters the room, and the camera shows Scully walk out of the FBI building.]
Casey's Bar, Southeast Washington, DC
Bartender: I'd say this just
about exceeds your minimum daily requirement.
Mulder drinks the entire glassful, and upon setting it down he nearly knocks over glasses
but tries to catch them
Bartender: Whoa, easy there. Gotta train for this kind of heavy lifting. Rough day?
[Mulder puts his finger to the bar as a sign that he wants another. Mulder looks over his shoulder and
notices a man at the bar watching him]
Bartender: So what is it that you do?
Mulder: What do I do?
Bartender: Mmm Hmm.
Mulder: I'm the key figure in an on-going government charade, the plot to conceal the truth about the
existence of extra-terrestrials. It's a global conspiracy, actually, with key players from the highest
levels of power and it reaches down to the lives of every man, woman, and child on this planet. .
So of course no one believes me. I'm an annoyance to my superiors, a joke to my peers.
They call me Spooky. Spooky Mulder whose sister was abducted by aliens when he was just a kid
and who now chases after little green men with a badge and a gun shouting to the heavens or to
anyone who will listen that the fix is in that the sky is falling and when it hits it's gonna be the
shit-storm of aaaaaall time.
Bartender: Well. I would say that about does it, Spooky [takes drinks away from Mulder]
Mulder: Does what?
Bartender: Looks like eighty-six is your lucky number.
[Mulder takes money out of his wallet.]
Mulder: You know, one is the loneliest number.
[Mulder looks over his shoulder again and sees the man is no longer at the bar. He then gets up, wavers a
bit, then walks to the men's room which he finds is out of order. He knocks on the women's door and it's
occupied. He goes out the exit into the alley and relieves himself (on a poster of Independence Day). The
man from the bar, Dr. Kurtzweil, walks outside.]
Kurtzweil: That official FBI business?
Mulder: What?
Kurtzweil: Bet the Bureau's accusing you of doing the same thing in Dallas.
Mulder: How's that?
Kurtzweil: Standing around holding your yank while bombs are exploding.
Mulder: [annoyed] Do I know you?
Kurtzweil: No but I've been watching your career for a long time, ever since you were just a promising
young agent.
Mulder: You come out here for a reason?
Kurtzweil: Yeah.
[Kurtzweil steps up to the wall and unzips pants, and begins to relieve himself. Mulder begins to walk
inside.]
Kurtzweil: I'm a doctor, an old friend of your fathers.
[Mulder turns back around to look at Kurtzweil.]
Kurtzweil: We were in the war together, but his disenchantment outlasted mine.
Mulder: You a reporter?
Kurtzweil: I'm a doctor, but I think I mentioned that.
O.B.G.Y.N.
Mulder: You've got as much time to talk to me as it
takes to hail a cab.
[Mulder and Kurtzweil are outside now, Mulder is raising his hand to hail a cab.]
Kurtzweil: What's the question nobody's asking? Why that building? Why not the federal building?
Mulder: The federal building was too well guarded.
Kurtzweil: No. They put the bomb in the building across the street because it did have federal offices. The
Federal Emergency Management Agency had a provisional medical quarantine office there, which
is where the bodies where found. But that's the thing... the thing you didn't know. The thing you'd
never think to check. [pause] Those people were already dead.
Mulder: Before the bomb went off?
Kurtzweil: That's what I'm saying.
[A cab pulls up.]
Mulder: I think you're full of shit.
Kurtzweil: Do you now?
[Mulder enters the cab and closes the door.]
Mulder: Arlington, please.
Mulder: On second thought, lets go to Georgetown.
Let's go to Georgetown...
Scully's Apartment, Georgetown
A shot of Scully laying awake in her bed, when pounding begins on her door. She answers the door to face her partner.
Mulder: Sorry I woke you... Did I wake you?
Scully: No.
Mulder: Why not? It's three o'clock in the morning...
Scully: Are you drunk Mulder?
Mulder: I was until about half an hour ago, why?
Scully: Was that before or after you decided to come here?
Mulder: Just what are you implying?
Scully: Go home Mulder.
Mulder: No, get dressed.
Scully: Mulder...
Mulder: I'll explain on the way. Just get dressed.
North Texas (Blackwood)
[The camera shows a large tent over the area of the hole, and
guards patrol the area. A helicopter flies in and Cigarette Smoking Man (CSM) exits the helicopter after it
lands. Cut to the actual entrance of the cave. A man in a white biohazard suit climbs up the ladder and
another scientist helps him remove his headgear, revealing that it is Bronschweig. Bronschweig looks over
and sees that CSM is in the tent. CSM approaches.]
CSM: You got something to show me?
[Cut to in the cavern. CSM is now in a bio-hazard suit and is following Bronschweig.]
Bronschweig: We've cooled the temperature back
down to sub-zero, in order to slow the development,
which is like nothing we've ever seen.
CSM: Brought on by?
Bronschweig: Heat, I think. The subincurrent invasion
of a host, the fireman, in a climate that raised his
temperature above ninety-eight point six.
[Bronschweig pulls back a curtain in the temperature regulated room, showing a man
who is covered in goo and is barely alive. Something else is moving and growing inside him.]
CSM: This man is still alive.
Bronschweig: Physically, and biologically.
[pauses] But he'll never recover..... Should we destroy it like
the others?
CSM: No, no. We have to try our vaccine on it.
Bronschweig: And if it's unsuccessful?
CSM: Burn it, like the others.
Montgomery County Maryland - the morgue
Having convinced Scully to once again join him on his search for the truth, Mulder brings her to autopsy the bodies of the firefighters from the Dallas explosion.
Clerk: ID and floor you're visiting.
Mulder: We're going down to the mourge
Clerk: That area is currently off limits to anyone other than authorized medical personel.
Mulder: On whose orders?
Clerk:General McAddie's
Mulder: General McAddie is who requested our coming here. We were awakened at three AM and told to get down here immediately
Clerk:I don't know anything about that.
Mulder:Well, call General McAddie.
Clerk:I don't have his number.
Mulder:They can patch you through the switchboard. You don't know the switchboard number?
Clerk:I'm calling my C.Q.
Mulder:Listen son. We don't have time to dick around here, watching you demonstarate your ignorance of the chain of command. The order came from General McAddie. Call him. We'll conduct our business while you confirm authorization.
Clerk:Why don't you go ahead down and I'll confirm autorization.
Mulder:Thank you.
Mulder:Why is a morgue suddenly off limits on orders of a general.
Scully:This is one of the firemen who died in Dallas?
Mulder:According to the toe tag
Scully:And you're looking for?
Mulder: Cause of death
Scully: I can tell you without even looking at him. Concussive organ failure due to proximal exposure to source and flying debris. This body has already been autopsied, Mulder. You can tell from the way it's been wrapped and dressed.
Mulder: Does this fit the description you just read me,Scully?
Scully: Oh my God. This man's tissue-
Mulder:It's like jelly.
Scully: There's some kind of cellular breakdown. It's completely edematous. Mulder, there's been no autospy preformed. There's no Y incision, no internal exam.
Mulder:Mulder: So you’re telling me that the information on that autopsy report is false? That this man didn’t die of exposure and flying
debris?
Scully:Scully: I can’t tell you what killed this man, and I’m not sure anyone else could either.
Mulder and Scully wheel the body into the lab.
Scully:You knew this man didn't die at the bomb site before we got here.
Scully: So they’re covering up something, what?
Mulder: I don’t know, but I have a hunch that what you're going to find here isn't anything that can be categorized or easily
referenced.
Scully: Mulder, this is going to take some time. Sooner or later, they're going to realize that we're not even supposed to be
here.
Mulder: We are being blamed for this man’s death, I would like to know what he died of, wouldn't you?
Mulder tells Scully that they are being blamed for the mens death, and that as a result she should want to know what killed them. He leaves her to attend to the autopsy and goes to find Kurtzweil.
Mulder: (to cab driver): Here. I think this is it.
Cut to a shot of Mulder entering Kurtzweil's apartment. Mulder begins to look around, flipping through some magazines on a
table. A detective enters the room.
Detective: Excuse me. May I help you?
Mulder: I was looking for Dr. Kurtzweil.
Detective: You have some sort of business with him?
Detective: The feds are after him too.
Detective: Nice business he has, eh?
Mulder: What’s that?
Detective: Selling naked pictures of little kids on his computer. [pauses] That is what you're looking for him for?
Mulder picks some books from the bookshelf. One of the titles is “Countdown to the Apocalypse”, and both are written by
Kurtzweil.
Mulder: No... [pause] I had an appointment for a pelvic exam...
Detective: Hey, you want we should give you a call if he turns up?
Mulder: No, don't bother.
Mulder exits the building, and sees Kurtzweil in the alley. He motions to Mulder to come closer. Mulder enters the alley
Kurtzweil: See this crap? Someone knows I'm talking to you.
Mulder: (sarcastically): Not according to the Men in Blue.
Kurtzweil: What is it this time? Kiddy porn again? Sexual battery of a patient?
Mulder: They want to discredit you, why?
Kurtzweil: Because I'm a dangerous man, because I know too much about the truth.
Mulder: What, that end-of-the-world apocalyptic garbage you write?
Kurtzweil: You know my work?
Kurtzweil: I was right about Dallas, wasn't I?
Mulder: How? How were you right?
Kurtzweil: Are you familiar with the Hanta virus, Agent Mulder?
Mulder: Yeah, It was a deadly virus spread by field mice in the southwestern United States several years ago.
Kurtzweil: According to the newspaper, FEMA was called out to manage an outbreak of the Hanta virus. Are you aware of
what the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s real power is? … Think about that. [pause] Why would an agency with
such broad sweeping powers be called out to manage a small outbreak?
Mulder: So you’re saying it wasn’t such a small outbreak?
Kurtzweil: No, I’m saying it wasn’t the Hanta virus.
Another police car pulls up to the front of the building. Mulder and Kurtzweil walk farther into the alleyway.
Kurtzweil: When your father and I were in the service, we were recruited for a project. It was biological warfare.
Mulder: What killed those men?
Kurtzweil: What killed those men I won't even write about. We have no context for what killed those men, and no appreciation
for how it will be unleashed in the future.
Kurtzweil: The plaugue to end all plagues, Agent Mulder. A silent weopen for a quiet war. The sytematic release of an indiscriminant organism for which the men who bring it on still have no cure. They've been working on this for fifty years- while the rest of the world was fighting gooks and commies, these men have been secretly negotiating a planned Amrageddon.
Mulder: Negotiating with whom?
Kurtzweil:I think you know. The timetable has been set. It will happen on a holiday, when people are away from their homes. The president will declare a state of emergency, at which time all federal agencies, all governemnt will come under the power of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. FEMA, Agent Mulder, the secret government
Mulder: And they tell me I'm paranoid.
Kurtzweil: Go back to Dallas, Agent Mulder, and dig. Or we'll find out with the rest of the country, when it's too late.
Not one to discount such information, Mulder calls Scully and tells her that he is booking himself on a flight to Dallas to do more digging.
Mulder: (over phone) Scully, it's me...
Scully: (whispering): Yeah.
Mulder: Why are you whispering?
Scully:(whispering): I can't really talk right now, Mulder.
Mulder: Scully, listen to me. I'm going home, then I am booking a flight to Dallas. I'm getting you a ticket too.
Scully: (whispering): Mulder, I have a hearing tomorrow...
Mulder: I need you there with me. I need your expertise on this.
Scully: (whispering) Mulder, I'm way past the point of common sense here.
Mulder: This has nothing to do with common sense. Scully?
Dallas, Texas 11:21 AM FBI Field Office
Field Agent: You're looking for what amounts to a
needle in a haystack. I'm afraid the explosion was so devastating that there hasn't been a
whole lot we've been able to put together just yet.
Mulder: I'm looking for anything out of the ordinary.
Maybe something from the FEMA offices where the bodies where found.
Field Agent: We weren't expecting to find those
remains of course. They went right off to Washington.
Mulder: Was there anything in those offices that
didn't go to D.C.?
Field Agent: Some bone fragments came up in the
sift this morning. We thought we had another casulty but
it turns out FEMA got them from an archeological site.
Mulder: Have you examined them?
Field Agent: No. Just fossils, as far as we know.
Scully enters the room and Mulder notices her. Without motioning to
her, he turns to the field agent and indicates Scully....
Mulder: I'd like this person to take a look, if you
don't mind.
Field Agent: Let me see if I can lay my hands on
what you are looking for.
Mulder: [to Scully] I thought you said you weren't coming.
Scully: I wasn't planning on it. Particularly
after spending a half an hour in cold storage this morning. But I got a better look
at the blood and tissue samples I took from the fireman.
Mulder: What did you find?
Scully: Something I couldn't show to anyone else.
Not without more information, and not without attracting the kind of attention I'd
just as soon avoid right now.
[The field agent returns with the fossils.]
Field Agent: Here you are. They're just fossils, and they weren't near the blast site so they won't tell you
much.
Mulder: [handing Scully a container of bone fragments]
Here, why don't you take a look at this.
[Scully puts one of the bone fragments under the microscope and looks through it. She almost immediately
turns to Mulder, who takes in her expression.]
Mulder: You said these came from an archeological site?
Field Agent: I can show it to you right on the map.
North Texas (Blackwood)
Parts and equipment are being packed up. A temperature-regulated
transportation container is being moved to by the hole. Bronschweig is directing people.]
Bronschweig: I want this container checked and recalibrated. I want a steady, negative two degrees
throughout the transport after I administer the vaccine.
[Bronschweig, donned in a bio-hazard suit, climbs down the ladder and prepares to administer the vaccine.
He pulls back the curtain and finds that the body of the fireman has a large hole in it and the alien being is
gone. He pulls away his headgear to look around and goes back to the ladder.]
Bronschweig: It's gone! It's left the body, I think it's gestated.
[Bronschweig stops climbing.]
Bronschweig: Wait, I can see it.
[Bronschweig climbs back down and pulls out a syringe and a small bottle of liquid.]
Bronschweig: So much for little green men. I'm going to try to administer the vaccine. ____, I need you
down here.
[One of the men still above ground exits the camera view to go don a bio-hazard suit.
Bronschweig puts the needle into the small bottle, and draws back some of the vaccine.
He looks back up, and cannot see the alien. He looks around, and the alien appears behind
him, and draws its claws. It attacks him, slicing at his face. Bronschweig stabs the
syringe into it, and it momentarily goes away from him. Bronschweig staggers
to the ladder and clutches it.]
Bronschweig: Help. I need help.
[Bronschweig begins to climb the ladder, but the men above put the lid over the hole
and seal it.]
Bronschweig: What are you doing?
[The men above cover the clear lid with dirt.]
Bronschweig: What are you doing?! Oh God.
[The alien grabs Bronschweig's face and pulls him away from the camera.]
Somerset England
Well Manicured Man (WMM) sits watching his grandchildren. He is approached
by a servant.
Servant: Phone for you sir.
WMM: Yes?
CSM: We have a situation. The members are assembling.
WMM: Is it an emergency?
CSM: Yes. A meeting is set, tonight in London.
We must determine a course.
WMM: Who called this meeting?
CSM: Strughold. He's just gotten on a plane in Tunis.
London England
WMM: Has Strughold arrived?
Man: Yes, they're waiting for you in the library, sir.
[In a small room, people are gathered around a small monitor. WMM enters.]
Strughold: We began to worry.
WMM: I'm sorry. My grandson fell and broke his leg.
Strughold: While we have been made to wait, we've
watched surveilance tapes which have raised more concerns.
WMM: More concerns about what?
Strughold: We've been forced to reassess our role
in Colonization.
First Elder: The virus has mutated.
WMM: Into what?
Strughold: A new extraterrestrial biological entity.
WMM: My God! If this is true. All our work. They've been using us all along.
Strughold: We're going to tell them what we've found,
what we've learned by turning over a body infected by the gestating organism.
WMM: In hope of what? Learning that it's true?
That we are nothing but digestives for the creation of a new race of alien life-forms.
By cooperating now, we are but beggers to our own demise.
Strughold: Cooperation is the only chance of
saving ourselves.
CSM: They still need us to carry
out their preparations.
Strughold: We'll continue to use them as they use us.
If only to play for more time, to continue work on our
vaccine.
WMM: My lateness might have been my absence. A course has already been decided.
CSM: But there are complications. [looking at surveillance
video] Mulder saw one of the infected bodies that
we've destroyed in Dallas. He's gone back there again. Someone has tipped him.
WMM: Who?
CSM: Kurtzweil we think.
WMM: No one believes Kirztwiel or his books.
First Elder: Mulder believes.
CSM: Then Kurtzweil must be removed.
Strughold: As must Mulder
WMM: Kill Mulder, we take the risk of turning one
man's quest into a crusade.
Strughold: Then you must take away what he hold's most
valuable. That with which he can't live without.
Blackwood Texas
Mulder: This is where the agent indicated on the map.
Scully: There's no evidence of any archeological site
or dig here.
Mulder: And you're sure that those fossils had the
same virus that the firemen had.
Scully: Yes, the bones were both porous, as if
the virus were disgesting it.
Mulder: And you've never seen that virus before.
Scully: No.
Mulder: Look at this.
Mulder and Scully walk over to a playground
Mulder: This look like new grass to you?
Scully: It looks pretty greeen for this climate.
Mulder: Ground's dry about an inch down. This was
laid recently.
Scully: The equipment looks brand new too.
Mulder: No irragation system. Somebody's covering
thier tracks.
Mulder and Scully spot 3 children on bikes and approach them
Mulder:HEY...
Scully: Do you boys live around here?
Kid: Yeah.
Mulder: You see anybody diggin' over there?
Kid: We're not supposed to talk about it.
Scully: You're not supposed to talk about it?
Who told you that?
Kid: Nobody.
Mulder: Nobody? The same nobody who built that
playground, nobody buy you those new bikes?
Scully: I think you better tell us.
Kid: We don't even know you.
Scully: We'll we're FBI Agents.
Kid: You're not FBI Agents.
Mulder: How do you know?
Kid: Cause ya'll look like door to door salesmen.
Mulder: [Mulder get's out his badge]
Here, you wanna buy a badge?
[After looking at Mulder's badge the kids point, in unison, to where the men had gone.]
Kid: They left about an hour ago, that a'way.
Texas -- en route
At a fork in the proverbial and literal road, Mulder and Scully discuss what they are chasing, and the best course of action.
Mulder:Unmarked tanker trucks. What are archeologists hauling out in tanker trucks?
Scully: I don't know Mulder.
Mulder: And where are they going with it?
Scully: That's the first question to answer if we're ever going to find them
Mulder:(refering to directions) What are my choices?
Scully:About a hundred miles of nothing in each direction. We've got two choices. One of them is wrong.
Mulder: I think they went left.
Scully: I don't know why but I think they went right.
Mulder debates for a moment, and then in a leap of faith, symbolic of their partnership, builder decides to go nether left nor right, but instead forges straight ahead.
Mulder: Five years together,Scully. How many times I been wrong? NEVER. About driving anyway.
After a long while of driving Mulder and Scully stop to look at the map. Scully gets out of the car annoyed and Mulder quips that he was at least right about the bomb. Scully details the irony of the fact that she has to be back in D.C. for a meeting which decides her fate, and she is with him chasing what she refers to as phantom tanker trucks.
Mulder:I was right about the bomb wasn't I?
Scully: This is great, this is fitting.
Mulder:What is?
Scully: I have to be in Washington in eleven hours for a hearing that may effect one of the greatest decisions in my life, and I'm
in the middle of nowhere Texas chasing phantom tanker trucks!
Mulder: We're not chasing trucks. We're chasing evidence.
Scully: Evidence of what exactly?
Mulder: That bomb in Dallas was allowed to go off, to hide bodies infected with a virus. A virus you yourself detected.
Scully: They haul gas in tanker trucks, they haul oil in tanker trucks, they don't haul viruses in tanker trucks.
Mulder: Well maybe they do in these tanker trucks.
Scully: What aren't you telling me here? Mulder?
Mulder:(hesitant) The virus may be extraterrestrial.
Scully: I don't believe this... I don't...
As Scully was about to comment, a train complete with tankers passed them. As a singular unit, no longer squabling about left, right or center, they chased after the train and thier truths.
Bees and Domes in the corn
Scully: This is weird.
Mulder: Very weird.
Scully: Any thoughts on why anybody'd be growing corn
in the middle of the desert?
Mulder: Not unless those are giant Jiffy Pop Poppers.
[Mulder and Scully reach the domes and upon their entrance fans whirl sharply
startling both.]
Scully: Cool in here. Temperature's being regulated.
[They continue through the large open area of the structure.]
Mulder: For the purpose of what?
Scully: I think we're on top of a larger structure here...
Mulder: You hear that?
Scully: I hear a humming... Like electricity, high voltage maybe...
[Mulder bends down, puts his head against the ground and listens]
Mulder: Maybe... [pause] Maybe not.
[Mulder continues to listen]
Mulder: Scully?
Scully: Yeah?
Mulder: Run!!
[At that moment the vents on both the floor and ceiling open, as bees
pour out, Mulder and Scully head for the entrance, with Mulder a sizable distance
ahead of Scully.]
Mulder: Scully!
Scully: I can't see!
[Mulder turns back for Scully]
Mulder: Grab my hand.
[Grabbing her arm, Mulder leads her to the door and the fans blow off all the remaining
clinging bees. They both run outside of the building.]
Mulder: Did you get stung.
Scully: I don't think so.
A light is seen over the corn crops. Two black helicopters appear and Mulder and Scully begin to run
through the crops to escape.
Mulder Scully! Talk to me Scully! Damnit!
Mulder: Scully!
Scully: Mulder!
[They begin to run away from the crops, towards the car. The helicopters disappear.]
Scully: Where'd they go?
Washington DC, OPR
The FBI review panel waits for Scully, for her reassignment out of the X-Files
Skinner: She’s coming in.
Scully: I apologize for making you wait. I have new evidence. These are fossilized bone fragments recovered from the bomb site…
A.D.Cassidy: You went back to Dallas?
Scully: Yes…
While Scully is being questioned, Mulder goes to meet Kurtzweil at Casey's Bar
Kurtzweil: Did you find anything?
Mulder: Yeah.
Kurtzweil: What did it look like?
Mulder: Bees, corn crops…
Back at the hearing
A.D.Cassidy: …and you have conclusive evidence of this?
Scully: Well, not exactly conclusive… We’re working on gathering conclusive evidence…
The audience is shown a bee crawling on the back of Scully's collar.
A.D.Cassidy: Working with who?
Scully: (hesitating): …with Agent Mulder.
Back to Casey’s Bar.
Mulder: What do you think they’re for?
Kurtzweil: What do you think?
Mulder: A transportation system. The crops polygenically altered, to carry a virus.
Kurtzweil: That would be my guess.
Mulder:Your guess?! What do you mean your guess?
Mulder: I thought you said you had answers?
Kurtzweil: Yeah, well… I don’t them all…
Mulder:(disgusted): You didn’t know my father…
Kurtzweil: Look, like I said, your father and I were old friends…
Mulder: (angrily): You’ve been using me to get information for your god-damned books!
Kurtzweil: Lower you voice!
Kurtzweil leaves through the back exit. Mulder follows him into the alley.
Mulder: Kurtzweil? Kurtzweil!
Kurtzweil: Listen, you’d be shit out of luck if it wasn’t for me. You saw what you saw because I led you to it. I’m putting my ass on the line…
Mulder: Your ass? I just got chased through Texas by two unmarked helicopters!
Kurtzweil: And why do you think you’re here talking to me today? These people don’t make mistakes!
Mulder's Apartment
Scully comes to tell Mulder that she is leaving the FBI.
(Scully knock on Mulder's door and then walks in)
Mulder: What's wrong?
Scully: Salt Lake City, Utah. Transfer effective immediately. I already gave Skinner my letter of resignation.
Mulder: You can't quit now Scully.
Scully: I can, Mulder. I debated whether or not to even tell you in person...
Mulder: We are close to something here. We are on the verge...
Scully: You're on the verge Mulder. Please don't do this to me.
Mulder: After what you saw last night, after all you've seen, you can just walk away?
Scully:I have, I did, it's done.
Mulder: I need you on this, Scully.
Scully: You don't need me Mulder. You never have. I've just held you back. I've got to go.
Mulder: If you wanna tell yourself that so you can quit with a clear conscience, you can. But you're wrong.
Scully: Why did they assign me to you in the first place, Mulder? To debunk your work, to rein you in, to shut you down…
Mulder: But you saved me. As difficult and frustrating as it's been sometimes, your Goddamned strict rationalism and science
have saved me a thousand times over. You kept me honest. You made me a whole person. I owe you everything, Scully, and
you owe me nothing. I don't know if I want to do this alone... I don't even know if I can. And if I quit now, they win.
Scully looks at Mulder in complete awe. She walks into his embrace and they hug, as they are letting go Scully pulls Mulder down to her and kisses his forhead. Thier forheads rest against each other, unsure of how to proceed, unsure of their new roles. Mulder then cups Scully's face with both hands, and leans in to kiss her. As their lips are about to touch, she pulls away saying ow.
Scully: Ow!
Mulder, thinking he has made a mistake in some way immediately says he is sorry.
Mulder:I'm sorry.
Scully: No, something stung me.
Mulder: It must have gotten into your shirt.
Scully: Mulder... Something's wrong.
Mulder:What?
Scully: I’m having lascinating chest pains
Mulder:What?!
Scully:… pulse is thready...There’s a funny taste in the back of my mouth.
Cradling her head, Mulder lays her on the floor
Mulder: You're going into anaphylactic shock.
Scully: No Mulder. I have no allergies.
Mulder runs into his apartment and grabs the phone. He dials 911 with the emergency button.
Mulder: (on phone): This is Special Agent Fox Mulder, I have emergency , I have an agent down…
The emts put Scully on a stretcher.
EMT:She has contrition in the throat and larnix
Hospitals and Ambulances
Mulder: What hospital are you taking her to?
Mulder: What hospital?!
The ambulance driver just looks back at him. He pulls a gun and fires at Mulder's head. Mulder falls. Seconds later, another
ambulance pulls up. Cut to a scene of a runway. An unmarked cargo plane sits on the runway. The ambulance pulls up, and
soldiers move Scully, who is now in a temperature-controlled container into the plane. The soldiers leave, as CSM stands in the
plane, watching. As the door closes, all light is diminished in the camera’s view and the screen fades out.
Frohike: What are you looking at?
Langly: His charts.
Frohike: Put it down.
Langly: I'll put it down when I'm ready to put it down.
Byers: He's waking up!
Frohike: Mulder?
Mulder: Oh god. Cowardly lion… Scarecrow, Toto.
Mulder: What am I doin here?
Byers: You were shot at point blank range, the bullet grazed the temporal lobe.
Langly: A few centimeters to the left and we’d all be playing harps right now.
Mulder:(shooting up in the bed) Were's Scully?
Frohike: Scully had a reaction to an Africanized honeybee that we found in your hallway.
Mulder: I’ve got to get to her.
Skinner: Easy now, Mulder. Easy… Tell me where she is, I'll go get her.
Mulder: I don't know where she is. But I know someone who might.
Skinner: How far do you think you can make it out there, how far do you think they’ll let you make it, because they’ll know the
second you walk out that door.
Langly: What can we do to help?
Mulder: You can strip Byers naked…
Byers: What?
Mulder: I need your clothes.
Langly, Frohike, and Mulder, who is disguised as Byers, exit the room. The guard outside the room looks in and sees Byers
lying on the hospital bed, but does not realize that it is not really Mulder. The three walk down through the hospital as Mulder
makes a call on his cell phone.
Mulder: (into phone)It’s Mulder…
Casey's Bar, Southeast Washington, DC - The alley
WMM: Dr. Kurtzweil, Dr. Alvin Kurtzweil.
Kurtzweil turns and runs back down the alley, but a car pulls up and a man gets out. Kurtzweil stops. Cut
to Mulder entering Casey's bar. He looks for Kurtzweil, but does not see him. Mulder exits the bar through
the back, and looks to the left just in time to see WMM and his driver closing the trunk of the car. WMM
turns to face Mulder.
WMM: Mr. Mulder.
Mulder: What happened to Kurtzweil?
WMM: He's come and gone.
Mulder: I want to know where Scully is.
WMM: [holding a small pouch] The location of Agent
Scully and the means to save her life. [gesturing to the car] Please....
[The driver opens the door. Cut to show the car driving and Mulder and WMM talking inside the car.
Mulder looks down at a vial of liquid and a piece of paper with coordinates.]
Mulder:What is it
WMM: ...A weak vaccine against the virus Agent Scully
has been infected with. It must admistered within 96 hours. That leaves you little
time to get to those coordinates.
Mulder: You're lying.
WMM: No. But I have no means of proving
otherwise.The virus is extraterriestrial. We know very little
about it except that is was the original inhabitant of this planet.
Mulder: [unbelieving] A virus...
WMM: What is a virus, but a colonizing force that
cannot be defeated? Living in a cave, underground, until it mutates--and attacks.
Mulder: This is what you've been conspiring to
conceal? A disease?
WMM: No. For GOD'S sake, you've got it all backwards!
AIDS, the Ebola virus, on the evolutionary scale they are newborns. THIS virus walked the planet long before the dinosaurs.
Mulder: What do you mean walked?
WMM: Your aliens Agent Mulder. Your Little green men who arrived here millions of years ago. Those that remained have been lying dormant, underground since the last ice age in the form of an evolved pathogen, waiting to be reconstituted by the alien race when it comes to colonize our planet--using us as hosts. Against this we have no defense, nothing but a weak vaccine. Do you see why it was kept secret? Why even the best men, men like your father, could not let the truth be known. Until Dallas we believed that the virus would simply control us, that mass infection would make us a slave race. Imagine our surprise
when they began to gestate.
Mulder: Why are you telling me this?
WMM: For the sake of my own children. Once it's learned what I have told you, my life will be over.
[WMM looks at the driver.]
Mulder: Where's Kurtzweil? [pauses and gets no response] I'd like to get out of the car now. Stop the car!
WMM: Driver.
WMM: The men I work with will stop at nothing to clear the way for what they believe is their stake in the inevitable future.
WMM: I was ordered to kill Dr. Kurtzweil, as I was ordered to kill you.
Well Manicured Man shoots the Limo Driver in the back of the head.
WMM: Trust no one, Mr. Mulder.
WMM: Get out of the car.
Mulder: Why? The apolstry is already ruined.
WMM: Get out of the car!
[Mulder gets out of the car.] You have precious little time.
[Mulder slams the door shut angrily.] What I've given you the alien colonists don't yet know exists. The vaccine you hold is the only defense against the virus. Its introduction into an alien environment may have the power to destroy the delicate plans we have so aciduously protected for the last 50 years.
Mulder: What do you mean, may have?
WMM: Find Agent Scully. Only then will you realize the scope and grandeur of the project. Go. Go now!
Mulder starst to walk away, but as WMM reenters the limo it explodes.
Wilkes Land Antarctica 48 hrs later
Mulder: Oh shit!
Searcing the hull of the alein ship mulder finds Scully's clothes in the cyropod and her cross. He contiues his search until he comes upon Scully.
CSM: Everybody down below. We may have a security breach. If you're not armed, arm yourselves.
Mulder: Scully?
CSM:Mulder has the vaccine
Mulder: Breathe! Can you breathe?
[Scully coughs several times. Spitting up a mucus or slimy substance.]
Scully: Cold.
Mulder: I'm going to get you out of here.
CSM:Abandon your posts. Evacuate
Worker:What's happening?
CSM:Its all gone to hell
Worker:What about Mulder?
CSM:He'll never make it
Mulder: We've got to keep moving. C'mon...
Scully: I can't
Mulder: Yeah you can
Mulder fireman carried her to the vent.
Mulder:Scully, Reach up and grab that vent.
Mulder: Scully, grab the vent! Scully?
Beginning CRP
Mulder: Breathe Scully. Breathe. BREATHE!
Spitting up and indicating for Mulder to
come closer to her so he can hear her.
Scully:Had you big time.
Mulder: Grab the vent.
[Scully grabs the vent and pulls herself up. Mulder starts to climb up. One of the aliens breaks the pod and
reaches out with its hand for Mulder. It grabs Mulder's leg.]
Scully: Mulder!
Mulder: Keep moving, Scully!
[Mulder kicks it away and pulls himself up. They both climb through the tunnel and pull themselves up
from where Mulder originally fell through the snow/ice. Mulder looks back and sees that the ice is
cracking. He picks Scully up and they begin to run away. The cracking ice overtakes them, and they fall
back down, but slide off of the surface of the rising ship and land on the edge of the newly formed crater.
Mulder watches the spaceship as it flies overhead.]
Mulder: Scully, you have to see this.
They escape just as the spaceship takes off. Mulder watches the spaceship with
rapt attention, and yet he has to keep his hand on Scully, just for assurance
that she is still there and alright. He turns to her to see if she sees the
spaceship, looking for validation, but she is unable to do more than look at
him and widen her eyes. Having everything he wants and needs, proof, albeit
intangiable, of the exsistance of alien life, and Scully alive and marginally
safe, he collaspes in sheer bliss. Scully sensing him freezing beside her,
pulls Mulder towards her and crudles him, brushing her cheeck against his
hair, as though in appreciation for saving her, and for admitting that she is
what saves him, and that only together can they fight the future..for one man
alone can fight the future.
Washington DC OPR
Cassidy: In light report on these findings and in light of the narrative
I am now hearing, my official report is incomplete--pending these new
facts I'm being asked to reconcile. Agent Scully though there is now
direct evidence that a federal agent MAY have been involved in the
bombing. The other events you've laid down here are too incredible on
their own, and quite frankly implausible in their connections.
Scully: What is it you find incredible?
Cassidy: Well, where would you like me to start? So many of the
events described in your report defy belief. Anartica is a LONG way from
Dallas, Agent Scully. I-- I can't very well submit a report to
the Attorney General that alleges the links you've made here. Bees and
corn crops do not quite fall under the rubric of domestic terrorism.
Scully: No, they don't.
Cassidy: Most of what I find in here is lacking a coherent picture of
any organization with an attributible motive. I realize that the ordeal
you've endured has clearly affected you. But the holes in your account
leave this panel no choice but to delete these references to our final
report to the Justice Department--until which time hard evidence becomes
available that would give us cause to pursue such and investigation.
Scully: I don't believe the FBI currently has an investigative unit
qualified to pursue the evidence in hand.
Scully finds Mulder sitting on a bench by the reflecting pool reading a newspaper
Mulder: There's an interesting work of fiction on page 24. Mysteriously, our names have been omitted. They're burying this thing Scully. They're just going to dig a new hole and cover it up.
Scully: I told OPR everything I know. What I experienced, the virus,
how it's spread by the bees from pollen in transgenic crops.
Mulder: You're wasting your time, Scully. They'll never believe you, not unless your story can be programmed, categorized, or easily referenced.
Scully: Then we'll go over their heads.
Mulder: No. No. How many times have we been here before, Scully?
Right here. So close to the truth and now with what we've seen and what
we know to be right back at the beginning with NOTHING.
Scully: This is different, Mulder.
Mulder: No it isn't. You were right to want to quit. You were right to
want to leave me. You should get as far away from me as you can! I'm
not going to watch you die, Scully, because of some hollow personal
cause of mine. Go be a doctor. Go be a doctor while you still can.
Scully: I can't. I won't. Mulder, I'll be a doctor, but my work is here
with you now. That virus I was exposed to, whatever it is, it has a
cure. You held it in your hand. How many other lives can we save?
Scully: Look. If I quit now, they win'
Foum Tatatuine, Tansania
Strughold: You look hot and miserable.
Why have you traveled all this way?
CSM: We have business to discuss.
Strughold: We have regular channels.
CSM: This involves Mulder.
Strughold: Ah. That name, again and again.
CSM: He seen more than he should have.
Strughold: What has he seen? Of the whole he has seen but pieces.
CSM: He's determined now. Reinvested.
Strughold:
He is but one man. One man alone cannot fight the future.
CSM: Yesterday, I received this.
Telegram reads:
"X-FILES RE-OPENED. STOP. PLEASE ADVISE. STOP."
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