XFiles : The Movie

(Two heavily bundled men are shown running through a snowstorm.

In a cave, they find their lost comrade, and an alien finds them.

The one man is killed by the alien and while the other one defends

himself by stabbing the alien, he is infected with the black oil.

(STEVIE falls through a weak spot in the ground and his three friends

STEVIE: I got... I got... [Coughs] I got the wind knocked out of me.

[STEVIE looks around and then wanders deeper into the cavern.]

STEVIE: No way butt-munch, this is mine. [pauses]

Anyway, there's bones all over the place.

[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

[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.]

FIRE CHIEF: [looking down hole] We're going to need a fourteen footer.

[A ladder slams down onto the bottom of the hole.]

FIRE CHIEF: This is [static], I'll be acting as the old town HC.

[Two men climb down into the hole and crouch by STEVIE, who

is lying down in the dirt in the cavern.]

FIRE CHIEF [talking to radio] TC, you see the boy?

Talk to me . Jerry, check TC's radio. In the hole.

[Black helicopter flies in and lands at the scene.

BRONSCHWEIG [to FIRE CHIEF] Get these people out of here.

[Four men in biohazard suits exit the helicopter, and carry a

person-sized container towards the hole.]

FIRE CHIEF: Initial reports said that the boy's eyes had turned black,

[The men in suits carry the container, which now has the boy in it,

[Several tanker trucks and semi-trucks pull up to the scene.]

[BRONSCHWEIG watches, and then walks behind one of the trucks

where no one else can hear. He dials a number on his cell phone.]

BRONSCHWEIG [in phone] It's Bronschweig. Sir, the unthinkable

situation that we never planned for? Well, we better come up with a

[Scene begins with FBI agents on the Federal Building roof with dogs

and helicoptors. Darius MICHAUD is directing the activities....]

MAN: [to other FBI agents] All right everyone, we're doing it again.

[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: Well, I just climbed up 12 floors, I'm hot, I'm thirsty and to

be honest, I'm wondering what I'm doing up here.

SCULLY: Yes, I know that, but the threat was called in to the

SCULLY: Mulder, when a terrorist bomb threat is called in, the

rational purpose of providing that information is to allow us to find

the bomb. The rational object of terrorism is to promote terror.

If you'd study the statistics, you'd find the model behavioral pattern

for virtually every case where a threat has turned up an explosive

device; and if we don't act in accordance with that data, if you ignore

it as we have done, the chances are great that if there actually is a

bomb, we might not find it. Lives could be lost .... Mulder. Mulder?

MULDER: Whatever happened to playing a hunch, Scully?

SCULLY: I know you're bored in this assignment, Mulder, but

unconventional thinking is only going to get you in trouble now.

SCULLY: You've gotta quit looking for what isn't there. They've

closed the X-files. There's procedure to be followed now ... protocol.

MULDER: Maybe we should call in a bomb threat to Houston.

I think it's free beer night at the Astrodome.

SCULLY So much for anticipating the unforeseen. [Mulder tries to

open the door and it opens easily, Scully smiles.] ... I had you.

MULDER: You had nothing. Come on, I saw you jiggle the handle.

[Exiting stairwell/elevator at bottom floor past a group of children,

SCULLY: I saw your face, Mulder. There was a definite moment of panic.

MULDER: You've never seen me panic. That's not the face I make when

I panic. This is the face I make when I panic.

SCULLY: Yes I did, that was the face. You're buyin'.

[MULDER heads down to a room containing the vending machines,

passing a man on his way out. He doesn't see the man double-back

and weld the door shut behind MULDER. 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 (555-0113). Cut to the lobby, where

SCULLY You're funny, Mulder. Where are you?

MULDER: Yes, you need to get someone in here.

[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

MULDER: Look, you've got about fourteen minutes to evacuate this

[Cut back to SCULLY outside of the vending room. SCULLY looks

MULDER: Thirteen fifty-four. Thirteen fifty-two. Thirteen fifty.

[SCULLY looks down and realizes that the key hole has been welded

SCULLY: Hang on, Mulder, I'm going to get you out of there.

[SCULLY goes back to the lobby and gives orders to the security

SCULLY: I need this building evacuated and cleared out in 10 minutes.

I need you to get on the phone and tell the fire department to block off

the city center in a one mile radius around the building. DON'T THINK!

JUST PICK UP THE PHONE AND MAKE IT HAPPEN! [on the phone...]

This is Special Agent Dana Scully. I need to speak to SAC Michaud,

[Vehicles of all assortments pull up to the building. MICHAUD exits

a car and begins to hastily walk with SCULLY into the building.]

SCULLY: In the vending room. Agent Mulder is locked in with it.

[Cut to MULDER staring at the bomb, making an emotionless expression.

SCULLY calls MULDER and he jumps when he hears the phone ring.

MULDER: You know that face I showed you... I'm making it again.

SCULLY: Mulder, get away from the door. We're coming in.

[SCULLY and bomb team cut through the door with a torch.]

MULDER: [to Michaud] Tell me that that's just soda pop in those

MICHAUD: [looking at bomb] It's just what it looks like. A big I.E.D.

[pauses] Okay, everyone else clear the building.

[Everyone leaves the room except MICHAUD, MULDER, and SCULLY.]

MULDER: We've got less than four minutes to see if you're right.

MICHAUD: [irritated] Did you hear me? I gave you a direct order.

[Cut to MULDER and SCULLY running out of the building.

[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

Washington DC, Office of Professional Review

[After the bombing, MULDER and SCULLY are called in for questioning

by an FBI review panel headed by Assitant D.A. Jana Cassidy. MULDER

arrives late to the review. Upon his entrance, MULDER and SCULLY

learn that five bodies were found in the federal building. A boy's, three

firemen, and SAC MICHAUD. Insisting that the building was empty with

the exception of MICHAUD, MULDER is forced to wait outside while

SCULLY presents her narrative. While MULDER waits, Skinner alerts

him to what is really going on. * indicates that the line is from the

novelization of the movie, and may differ from the movie itself.]

CASSIDY: Due to the events at Waco and Ruby Ridge, there is a

heightened need at the Attorney General's office to place responsibility

as early as possible for the catastrophic destruction of public property

and loss of life due to terrorist activities. Many details are still unclear,

but we're under some pressure from the Attorney General to give an

accurate picture of what happened so that she can issue a public

statement. We know now that five people died, in the explosion.

CASSIDY: .. Special Agent In Charge Darius Michaud, who was trying

to defuse the bomb that was hidden in a vending machine, three

firemen from Dallas and a young boy. Now, I'd like to begin this

MULDER: Excuse me--the firemen and the young boy, they were

CASSIDY: Agent Mulder, since you weren't able to be on time for this

hearing, I'd like you to step outside so that we can hear Agent Scully's

version of the facts so that she will not be paid the same disrespect.

MULDER: We had been told the building was clear...

CASSIDY: You'll get your turn, Agent Mulder. Please step outside.

(MULDER leaves the hearing, and SKINNER joins him in the hallway.)

SKINNER: You don't see what's going on, do you? There's forty

million dollars in damage to the city of Dallas. Lives have been lost.

So the story being shaped is that this could have been prevented.

SKINNER: Agent Mulder, you and I both know that if it looks bad,

it's bad for the FBI. Blame has to be assigned somewhere

MULDER: If they want to blame someone they can blame me,

SKINNER: She's in there right now saying the same thing about you.

MULDER: I breached protocol. I broke contact with the SAC.

I ignored a primary tactical rule and left him alone with the device.

SKINNER: Agent Scully says that it was she who ordered you out

of the building, that you wanted to go back...

[SCULLY enters, having been excused from her hearing.]

[SKINNER leaves and goes into the hearing room.]

MULDER: Whatever you told them in there, Scully, you don't have

MULDER: They're trying to divide us on this and we can't let them.

SCULLY: Mulder, they have divided us. They're splitting us up.

MULDER: But they're the ones who put us together.

SCULLY: Because they wanted me to invalidate your work into the

paranormal. But I think this goes deeper than that...

MULDER: This isn't about you, Scully. They're doing this to me.

SCULLY: They're not doing this, Mulder. I left behind a career in

medicine because I thought I could make a difference at the FBI.

But it hasn't turned out that way. And now if I were transferred to

Omaha or Witchita, or some other field office - it just doesn't hold

the interest for me that it once did. Not after what I've seen.

MULDER: (in total amused disbelief) You're quitting.

SCULLY: There's really no reason for me to stay anymore...

Maybe you should ask yourself if your heart's still in it, too.

[Skinner returns to summon MULDER for his hearing, and as MULDER

turns to leave SCULLY, she apologizes, and turns to find that he had

walked off without his jacket. She calls to him and he walks back to

her for the jacket with hurt and pain in his face.]

[MULDER begins to walk back to the boardroom.]

[SCULLY hands MULDER his coat, which he nearly forgot on the chair.]

[MULDER enters the room, and the camera shows SCULLY walk out

BARTENDER: I'd say this just about exceeds your minimum daily

[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

MULDER: I'm the key figure in an on-going government charade,

the plot to conceal the truth about the existence of extraterrestrials.

It's a global conspiracy, actually, with key players in the highest

levels of power, that reaches down into 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

BARTENDER: Well. I would say that about does it, Spooky.

BARTENDER: Looks like eighty-six is your lucky number.

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

KURTZWEIL: Bet the Bureau's accusing you of doing the same thing

KURTZWEIL: Standing around holding your yank while bombs are

KURTZWEIL: No, but I've been watching your career for a long time,

ever since you were just a promising young agent.

[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 father's.

[MULDER turns back around to look at Kurtzweil.]

KURTZWEIL: We were in the war together, but his disenchantment

KURTZWEIL: I'm a doctor, but I think I mentioned that. OB-GYN.

MULDER: You've got as much time to talk to me as it takes to

[MULDER and Kurtzweil are outside now, MULDER is raising his

KURTZWEIL: What's the question nobody's asking? Why that 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

The thing you'd never think to check. [pause] Those people were

[MULDER enters the cab and closes the door.]

MULDER: On second thought, lets go to 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?

MULDER: Why not? It's three o'clock in the morning...

MULDER: I ... I ... I was until about 20 minutes ago, yeah.

SCULLY: Was that before or after you decided to come here?

MULDER: I'll explain on the way. Just get dressed.

[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

[Cut to in the cavern. CSM is now in a bio-hazard suit and is

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.

BRONSCHWEIG: Heat, I think. The subincurrent invasion of a host,

the fireman, in a climate that raised his temperature above ninety-eight

[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.]

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.

[Having convinced SCULLY to once again join him on his search for

the truth, MULDER brings her to autopsy the bodies of the firefighters

CLERK: That area is currently off limits to anyone other than

MULDER: General McAddie is who requested our coming here. We

were awakened at three AM and told to get down here immediately.

MULDER: They can patch you through the switchboard. You don't

MULDER: Listen, son. We don't have time to dick around here,

watching you demonstrate 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. [he walks off with SCULLY] Why is a morgue

suddenly off limits on orders of a general?

[they arrive in one of the rooms, where a man's body lies on a gurney]

SCULLY: This is one of the firemen who died in Dallas?

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

MULDER: Does this fit the description you just read me, Scully?

SCULLY: There's some kind of cellular breakdown. It's completely

edematous. Mulder, there's been no autopsy preformed. There's no

MULDER: So you are telling me that the information on that autopsy

report is false? That this man didn't die of exposure and flying debris?

SCULLY: I can at tell you what killed this man, and I am not sure

[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. You're saying that this is a coverup? Of what?

MULDER: I dont know, but I have a hunch that what you're going to

find here won't be easily categorized or 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

[MULDER leaves her to attend to the autopsy and goes to find

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.

DETECTIVE: You have some sort of business with him?

ANOTHER DETECTIVE: The feds are after him too.

DETECTIVE: Selling naked pictures of little kids on his computer.

[pauses] That is what you're looking for him for?

[MULDER picks up 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 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: Well, what is it this time? Kiddy porn again?

MULDER: They want to discredit you, for what?

KURTZWEIL: Because I'm a dangerous man. Because I know too

MULDER: Oh, that end-of-the-world apocalyptic garbage you write?

KURTZWEIL: You know my work? [he smiles hopefully, but

MULDER just sighs.] I was right about Dallas, wasn't I?

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? FEMA

allows the White House to suspend constitutional government upon

declaration of a national emergency. Think about that! What is an

agency with such broad-sweeping power doing managing a small

MULDER: 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.

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. The plague to end all plagues, Agent Mulder.

A silent weapon 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 have been fighting gooks and commies, these men have been

secretly negotiating a planned armageddon!

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,

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.

[Meanwhile, back at the morgue, SCULLY'S hiding under one of the

gurneys as the guards are looking for her.]

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

MULDER: This has nothing to do with common sense. Scully?

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.

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 casualty but it turns out FEMA got 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

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.

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

[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]

[SCULLY puts one of the bone fragments under the microscope and

looks through it. She almost immediately turns to MULDER, who

MULDER: You said these came from an archeological site?

FIELD AGENT: I can show it to you right on the map.

[Parts and equipment are being packed up. A temperature-regulated

transportation container is being moved next to the hole.

BRONSCHWEIG: I want this container checked and recalibrated.

I want a steady, negative two degrees throughout the transport after

[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, starting to climb up.]

BRONSCHWEIG: It's gone! It's left the body, I think it's gestated.

[he stops climbing.] Wait, I can see it. [he climbs back down and

pulls out a syringe and a small bottle of liquid.] 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.] Help! I need help! [he begins to climb the

ladder, but the men above put the lid over the hole and seal it.]

What are you doing?! [The men above cover the clear lid with dirt.]

What are you doing?! Oh God! [The alien grabs BRONSCHWEIG's

face and pulls him away from the camera.]

[Well Manicured Man (WMM) sits watching his grandchildren

playing in the garden behind the mansion. One of them falls

and the others gather around, WMM looks concerned, then is

CSM: We have a situation. The members are assembling.

CSM: Yes. A meeting is set, tonight in London. We must determine

CSM: Strughold. He's just gotten on a plane in Tunis.

MAN: Yes, they're waiting for you in the library, sir.

[In a small room, people are gathered around a small monitor,

an image of Mulder and Scully at the morgue is frozen onscreen.

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.

STRUGHOLD: We've been forced to reassess our role in Colonization.

STRUGHOLD: A new extraterrestrial biological entity.

WMM: My God! If this is true. All our work. They've been using us

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

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: No one believes Kurztweil or his books.

WMM: Kill Mulder, we take the risk of turning one man's quest into

STRUGHOLD: Then you must take away what he holds most valuable.

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

SCULLY: Yes, the bones were both porous, as if the virus were

MULDER: And you've never seen that virus before.

[MULDER and SCULLY walk over to a playground]

SCULLY: It looks pretty green for this climate.

MULDER: Ground's dry about an inch down. This was laid recently.

SCULLY: The equipment looks brand new too.

MULDER: No irrigation system. Somebody's covering their tracks.

[MULDER and SCULLY spot 3 children on bikes and approach them]

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?

MULDER: Nobody? The same nobody who built that playground,

KID: Cause ya'll look like door-to-door salesmen.

MULDER: [he pulls out his badge] Here, you wanna buy a badge?

[After looking at MULDER's badge the kids point, in unison, to where

KID: They left about an hour ago, that a'way.

[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

MULDER: And where are they going with it?

SCULLY: That's the first question to answer if we're ever going to find

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.

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, he decides to go neither left nor right, but

MULDER: Five years together, Scully. How many times I been wrong?

[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

MULDER: I was right about the bomb, wasn't I?

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.

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

passes them. As a singular unit, no longer squabbling about left,

right or center, they chase after the train and their truths.]

A cornfield, domes in the middle of it all, surrounded by desert

SCULLY: Any thoughts on why anybody'd be growing corn in the

MULDER: Not unless those are giant Jiffy Pop Poppers.

[MULDER and SCULLY reach the domes and upon their entrance

SCULLY: Cool in here. Temperature's being regulated.

[They continue through the large open area of the structure.]

SCULLY: I think we're on top of a larger structure here...

SCULLY: I hear a humming... Like electricity, high voltage maybe...

[MULDER bends down, puts his head against the ground and listens]

[MULDER continues to listen, the vents in the roof open]

[The vents in the floor open, and hundreds of bees pour out, MULDER

and SCULLY head for the entrance, with MULDER a sizable distance

[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.]

[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! Dammit! Scully!

[They begin to run away from the crops, towards the car.

[The FBI review panel waits for SCULLY, for her reassignment out of

the X-Files. She enters, after trying to push her unruly hair into place

SCULLY: I apologize for making you wait. I have new evidence.

These are bone fragments recovered from the bomb site.

[While SCULLY is being questioned, MULDER goes to meet

A.D.CASSIDY: .and you have conclusive evidence of this?

SCULLY: Well, not exactly conclusive. We're working on

[The audience is shown a bee crawling on the back of SCULLY's collar.]

SCULLY: (hesitating): .with Agent Mulder.

MULDER: A transportation system. The crops polygenically altered,

MULDER: Your guess?! I thought you said you had answers?

KURTZWEIL: Yeah, well. I don't have 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

[Kurtzweil leaves through the back exit. MULDER follows him into

KURTZWEIL: Listen, you'd be shit out of luck if it wasn't for me.

MULDER: Your ass? I just got chased through Texas by two

KURTZWEIL: And why do you think you're here talking to me today?

[Mulder is sitting in his apartment, a family picture album open as

he stares at a young version of Kurtzweil at a family picnic. The door

SCULLY: Salt Lake City, Utah. Transfer effective immediately.

I already gave Skinner my letter of resignation.

SCULLY: I can, Mulder. I debated whether or not to even tell you

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,

SCULLY: You don't need me, Mulder. You never have. I've just held

[Scully goes out into the hall and Mulder follows her.]

MULDER: You wanna tell yourself that so you can quit with a clear

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 as frustrating as it's

been sometimes, your goddamned strict rationalism and science

have saved me a thousand times over. You've kept me honest ...

made me a whole person. I owe you everything, Scully, and you owe

me nothing ... I don't know if I wanna 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 forehead. Their foreheads 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.]

MULDER: [thinking he's done something wrong] I'm sorry.

SCULLY: I'm having lacinating pain in ...

SCULLY: My motor functions are being affected.

[Mulder gently but quickly lays her down upon the hallway floor]

SCULLY: My pulse is thready ... a funny taste in the back of my throat.

MULDER: You're going into anaphylaxic shock.

[MULDER runs into his apartment and grabs the phone.

MULDER: (on phone): This is Special Agent Fox Mulder,

I have an emergency! I have an agent down!

PARAMEDIC 1: Can you hear me? Can you say your name?

PARAMEDIC 2: She's got constriction in the throat and larynx.

PARAMEDIC 1: Passages are open. OK. Let's get her in the van

right away. Look out. Coming through. Watch your back.

MULDER: She said she had a funny taste in the back of her throat.

But there was no pre-existing allergy to bee sting. Now the bee that

stung her might have been carrying a virus.

MULDER: Will you tell that to the doctor?

Various Paramedics Voices: "... virus ... advise ... reaction ... stat!

MULDER: What hos ... what hospital are ... [(the ambulance door

closes, Mulder goes to the driver] What hospital are you taking her to?

[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

LANGLY: I'll put it down when I'm ready to put it down.

MULDER: Oh god. Scarecrow, Cowardly lion. Toto.

BYERS: You were shot at point blank range, the bullet grazed the

LANGLY: A few centimeters to the left and we'd all be playing harps

MULDER: (shooting up in the bed) What happened to Scully?

FROHIKE: Scully had a reaction to an Africanized honeybee that we

found in your hallway. Now, you made a 911 call. That call was

SKINNER: Easy now, Mulder. Easy. Tell me where she is,

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

[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

Casey's Bar, Southeast Washington, DC - The alley

[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: [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

WMM: ...A weak vaccine against the virus Agent Scully has been

infected with. It must be administered within 96 hours. That leaves

you little time to get to those coordinates.

WMM: No. But I have no means of proving otherwise.The virus is

extraterriestrial. We know very little about it except that it was the

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?

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.

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

WMM: For the sake of my children. Once it's learned what I have told

MULDER: Where's Kurtzweil? [pauses and gets no response]

I'd like to get out of the car now. Stop the car!

WMM: Driver. [the car stops.] The men I work with will stop at nothing

to clear the way for what they believe is their stake in the inevitable.

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. Get out of the car.

MULDER: Why? The upholstery is already ruined.

WMM: Get out of the car! [MULDER gets out of the car.] You have

precious little time, Mr. Mulder. [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 assiduously protected for the last 50 years.

WMM: Find Agent Scully. Only then will you realize the scope and

[MULDER starts to walk away, but as WMM reenters the limo

[MULDER is driving a Sno-Cat and the gas gauge keeps flipping down

to indicate the tank is empty. He taps it with his finger a few times,

[He exits at the base of a craggy hillside, climbs up and sees CSM

leaving one of two domes in a truck. Mulder now races to the station

through the heavy snow. Just before he reaches the domes, he falls

through the ice as it collapses beneath his feet and he drops into a

deep crevice. He lands on a metallic surface or structure covered in

the snow with a vent blowing out hot air and forming a pocket in the

ice. Mulder pulls himself through the vent and ends up inside the

metallic structure. He looks around, and spies a prehistoric man

encased in ice. He soldiers on and comes upon a huge part of the

structure, open like an operating theatre in a hospital. At the bottom,

something catches his eye. Racks of coffin-like cryopods are moving

as if on a conveyer belt. Mulder slides down another tube to reach it,

nearly falling off into the abyss below. He reaches the conveyer belt,

finds Scully's clothes and her cross necklace in a cryopod, and

watches in horror as the others pass by, all containing frozen

humans trapped with expressions of confusion and horror etched

into their faces for all time. Suddenly, he spots Scully's face and

starts hammering at the ice in a desperate attempt to free her.

He breaks through, releasing an ocean of goo which encased her

naked body. He jabs her with the syringe containing the vaccine

and begins dragging out a tube-like material she had jammed

down her throat. Just before he pulls it all out, the vaccine takes

effect and the tube starts to shrivel. It's dying and affecting the

whole metallic structure as it begins to shake, rattle and roll

around them. Scully starts to gulp in air as the tube is removed.]

[Up above this action, CSM has returned to the scene.]

CSM: Everybody down below. We may have a security breach.

[Back below, Mulder tries to talk to Scully.]

[SCULLY coughs several times. Spitting up what's left of the slimy

MULDER: I'm going to get you out of here.

[Mulder pulls her out of her enclosure as he breaks away the last of

the ice. Next we see her dressed in some of Mulder's clothing,

dragged away from the pods which are now starting to stir from within.

The vaccine has affected the whole structure, as the bodies were all

MULDER: Reach up and grab that vent. Scully, grab the vent! Scully?

[Scully has passed out. Mulder checks for a pulse then resuscitates

MULDER: Breathe, Scully. Breathe. BREATHE!

[Spitting up and indicating for MULDER to come closer to her so he

[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 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,

his face glows with a heart-melting grin of childlike wonder and awe.

Scully's face is turned towards the snow, too tired to move, as Mulder

says, almost along with the audience ...]

[It's quiet, it's barely a mutter above a whisper, but Scully DOES say,

"I see it." Spent from exhaustion, Mulder drops his head into the snow

and Scully scoots her body over to cover him from the freezing cold.

The camera pans back to show two lone figures perched alone on the

edge of the crater left by the departing spaceship.]

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.

CASSIDY: Well, where would you like me to start? So many of the

events described in your report defy belief. Antarctica is a LONG way

from Dallas, Texas, 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 fit under the rubric of domestic terrorism.

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 an

[SCULLY walks over to her and hands her the vial containing the bee

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

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

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.

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

SCULLY: I can't. I won't. Mulder, I'll be a doctor, but my work is here

with you now. That virus that I was exposed to, whatever it is, it has

a cure. You held it in your hand. How many other lives can we save?

[MULDER gets up, SCULLY takes his hand and they walk off.]

[TD NOTE: At some point during the next scene, we see a white

tanker truck with the name "Nature's Best Corn Oil" written on the

[A helicopter arrives by a cornfield in the desert, CSM gets out and

STRUGHOLD: You look hot and miserable. Why have you traveled

STRUGHOLD: Ah. That name, again and again.

STRUGHOLD: What has he seen? Of the whole he has seen but

STRUGHOLD: He is but one man. One man alone cannot fight

"X-FILES RE-OPENED. STOP. PLEASE ADVISE. STOP."

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A 20th Century Fox release of a Ten Thirteen Production

Produced by Chris Carter and Daniel Sackheim

Camera (Deluxe color, Panavision widescreen): Ward Russell

Art Directors: Gregory Bolton and Hugo Santiago

Sound (Dolby digital): Geoffrey Patterson

Special Makeup Effects: Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff Jr.

Special Effects Coordinator: Paul Lombardi

David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder

Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully

Blythe Danner as Assistant Director Jana Cassidy

Mitch Pileggi as Assistant Director Walter Skinner