Apocrypha/Transcript

===SCENE 1===
NAVY HOSPITAL
PEARL HARBOR, HAWAII
AUGUST 19, 1953
(A recording device is rolling as a man in a hospital bed coughs.)
MAN: The Navy wanted to hear my story. They said I owed it to the dead to tell them the truth. I told them where to stick the truth.
(He coughs deeply. His face is a charred landscape of radiation burns.)
I'm the last man who knows who killed the men aboard that submarine — who knows it was a suicide mission. But I'll burn in hell before I tell the murderers who sent us there.
AGENT 1: That's why we came here all the way from Washington, sailor. To hear your story, to make sure that justice is served.
(Three besuited young men are gathered around the sickbed. It is in the center of a ward full of empty beds.)
AGENT 1: You said that after your outburst, the X.O., Johansen, locked you up with your captain.
MAN: Johansen did what he had to. That's war. Some are sacrificed so that others can live.
(A flashback from the perspective of the sick man: a soldier stands unsteadily in a WWII submarine, facing his captain and brandishing a gun. His face is burned.)
SOLDIER: You've got to get us out of here!
(He fires, but the captain grabs his wrist, diverting the bullet to shatter a mug stacked in a sink. Johnansen arrives at the doorway to see the soldier prone on the floor, the captain crouched over him.)
SOLDIER: Let go!
(The captain wrenches the gun from the soldier's hand. Johansen quickly backs out and closes the door.)
MAN (V.O.): But when that door shut, I knew my life — all our lives — had just been sacrificed.
(Sanford tries in vain to open the locked hatch.) 
SANFORD: Johansen! Open this door! Open this door! Johansen!
(As he pounds on the door, the men help the fallen soldier up. They stand to face the captain as he turns around.)
MAN (V.O.): For the first time, we saw the enemy that was killing us.
(Sanford's eyes fill with black oil. One of his men clubs him in the back of the head with a wrench. He falls. The men gather around him and watch as oil seeps from his eyes and mouth and into a drain.)
MAN (V.O): That thing was causing the slow, painful deaths.
(Back in the present day, in his hospital bed, the man's breaths are shallow and rapid.)
MAN: And I prayed one of the Japanese depth charges would finish the job. 
AGENT 1: You called this thing "the enemy." You're saying it was an entity of some sort?
MAN: The Navy says we were sent to recover an A-bomb. That's why we got all these burns. Give me a freakin' break. Whatever it was, we were sent to guard it.
AGENT 1: This was what exposed the crew to radiation?
MAN: Before it slithered away, back to where it came from, back into the sea, back into who knows what.
(The first agent moves to stop the recorder, but the sick man grabs his hand.)
MAN: That thing... is still down there! The navy will deny it... but you've got to make sure the truth gets out. I can trust you to do that, can't I, Mr. Mulder?
(The first agent—Bill Mulder—looks to the second, who looks to the third. The third lights a cigarette.)
CIGARETTE-SMOKING MAN: You can trust all of us.
===SCENE 2===
NORTHEAST GEORGETOWN MEDICAL CENTER
WASHINGTON DC
PRESENT DAY
(Scully approaches a nurse at a reception desk.)
SCULLY: Excuse me. I'm looking for Walter Skinner. He was brought in with a gunshot wound. 
(As the woman points towards a hall, Agent Fuller calls out.)
FULLER: Agent Scully.
(Scully joins the two agents standing in the hall.)
SCULLY: Agent Fuller. 
FULLER: This is agent Caleca. We got the call from the D.C. police.
SCULLY: How bad is he?
FULLER: We don't know. He's been in surgery.
SCULLY: What happened?
CALECA: Looks like some hothead drew a gun in a coffee shop. Skinner happened to be in the way.
SCULLY: What do you have on the shooter?
FULLER: We have a description from the waitress. A handgun was recovered in the parking lot — unregistered, no prints. Our guys got two partials off the cash register.
SCULLY: Hair and fiber?
FULLER: This just happened a few hours ago.
SCULLY: This is the Assistant Director who's been shot. We have to make all resources available.
(Down the hall, Skinner is being wheeled along on a gurney.)
SCULLY: Excuse me. 
(Scully jogs to catch up with the gurney. She walks alongside it, setting a hand atop Skinner's.)
SCULLY: How is he? 
DOCTOR: He came out of the surgery all right, but he's still in a lot of pain.
(The gurney stops at an elevator. Skinner's grip tightens on her hand. She looks down, then leans close as he whispers hoarsely.)
SKINNER: I've seen him before... the man who shot me.
(The elevator bell dings and he is wheeled away.)
===SCENE 3===
DULLES INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
WASHINGTON DC
(Night. A plane lands.)
(Krycek and Mulder leave a car rental office and get in a car — Krycek on the driver's side, Mulder shotgun.)
MULDER: Give me the key.
KRYCEK: When we get there.
MULDER: I want to make sure we get there together. Give it to me.
(Krycek hands Mulder the key. It's labeled "C.I. — 517".)
What's "C.I." mean?
KRYCEK: When we get there.
(Krycek pulls out of the lot.)
===SCENE 4===
THE HOSPITAL
(In his hospital room, Skinner is hooked up to a beeping monitor. Scully paces, reading his medical chart. Caleca and Fuller enter.)
FULLER: How's he doing?
SCULLY: He's on steady Demerol. He's in and out. I thought I asked for guards to be posted outside.
CALECA: We put in a request with the D.C. police.
SCULLY: This wasn't a random shooting. I want guards posted here, and I want them here now.
FULLER: I think it's a matter of pulling men off something else.
SCULLY: I've heard the excuses. I don't care if you and agent Caleca have to stand in the hallway yourselves. This man has to be protected. Okay? 
(Scully exits. Caleca looks to Skinner.)
===SCENE 5===
COUNTY ROAD 512
MARYLAND
(In the dark of night, a car sits stopped with two men in it. As Mulder and Krycek drive past, the car starts its engine. Mulder looks back over his shoulder.) 
MULDER: We're being followed. A dark sedan with its lights off. It was parked on the shoulder about half a mile back. Speed up.
(Mulder has his gun trained on Krycek.)
Speed up.
(He speeds up, but it's not enough. The headlights of the other car snap on as it catches up. It rams Mulder and Krycek off the road, sending their car into a line of barrels on the side of the road. In the wake of the crash, the car smokes. The passenger-side windshield is cracked and bloodied. Krycek, having been saved by the airbag, looks up as an armed man runs up and opens his door.)
MAN: Get out.
(The second man, also armed, approaches Mulder's door. The first leads Krycek away.
MAN: Where's the digital tape?
KRYCEK: I don't have it.
(With his gun, he hits Krycek in the stomach. Krycek, stone-faced, straightens up to meet the man's eyes. He moves to keep guiding Krycek away. In the car, Mulder is alive but barely conscious. The second man is opening his car door when he's interrupted by a scream and a blinding flash of light. The first man's shadow, arms up in pain or terror, paints the underside of a bridge. The second man leaves Mulder and runs back to Krycek and the other.)
MAN 2: Hey! You all right?
(Mulder regains just enough consciousness to catch a moment of eerie shadow play as the screaming and the white light continue. He's bleeding from a cut on his temple. His head sinks back down to the dash.) 
===SCENE 6===
FBI HEADQUARTERS
WASHINGTON, DC
(Scully enters Agent Pendrell's office.)
SCULLY: I got a message you called.
PENDRELL: Good morning. We found something I knew you'd want to see A.S.A.P.
SCULLY: On the shooter?
PENDRELL: Yeah. The partial prints we pulled out of the cash register didn't add up to anything. We found saliva on Skinner's shirt that wasn't his. This is an analysis of the secretors and other hemofactors.
(Scully examines the sheet he hands her.)
SCULLY: Which tells us we're looking for a male, probably in his 40s, with blood type B positive. But we already know all that from the waitress's description.
PENDRELL: There's more. We were able to chromosome-stain some of the hair fibers we picked up last night.
SCULLY: We've still gotta find the guy before we can get a match.
PENDRELL: We can still run those indicators against all the suspects arrested in the D.C. area in the last couple years.
SCULLY: That takes too much time. You know what? Run it anyway. Can I borrow you this for a little while?
PENDRELL: Go ahead.
SCULLY: Thanks.
(He watches as she leaves.)
===SCENE 7===
LOCATION UNKNOWN
(A doctor paces beside a man totally covered in severe burns.)
DOCTOR: We picked them up last night. The burns you're looking at, they're somatic — caused by close-proximity radiation exposure. Same as the French sailors aboard that salvage ship. Identical.
CIGARETTE-SMOKING MAN: What's the prognosis? 
DOCTOR: It's just a matter of time. This kind of absorption will have a rapid effect on cellular activity, giving rise to the onset of massive and malignant cancers. 
(CSM lights his cigarette.)
CIGARETTE-SMOKING MAN: Has anyone been in to see these men?
DOCTOR: No. Your orders were to isolate them.
(CSM goes to a patient and pulls back one of many bandages. The patient's eyes meet his from within a red and ruined face.)
...But I think we should get a specialist in here because, frankly, I've never seen anything like this before.
CIGARETTE-SMOKING MAN: I have.
DOCTOR: Do you know what caused this?
CIGARETTE-SMOKING MAN: Have the bodies destroyed. 
(He moves to leave.)
DOCTOR: But — but, sir, these men aren't dead yet.
CIGARETTE-SMOKING MAN: Isn't that the prognosis? 
(CSM exits.)
===SCENE 8===
HOSPITAL
(Mulder wakes up in a hospital bed, his forehead bandaged. He sees Scully sitting at his bedside. They both smile.)
MULDER: Guess I'm not dead.
(He laughs lowly. She shakes her head.)
SCULLY: What happened? 
(A pause.)
MULDER: Maybe you could tell me.
SCULLY: The state police found you unconscious. You were strapped in the passenger's seat of a rental car that had been driven into a ditch.
MULDER: We were run off the road by two men.
SCULLY: Who's "we"?
MULDER: Krycek.
SCULLY: Krycek?
MULDER: He was in Hong Kong. He's got the digital tape. He's been selling information.
SCULLY: Is that what the men wanted?
MULDER: They ordered him out of the car. I thought they were going to kill him. I though they were gonna kill us both. And then there was this bright flash. That's all I remember.
SCULLY: Well, it may not be the best time to tell you, but... you're not the only one in the hospital. Skinner's been shot.
MULDER: What's his condition?
SCULLY: A bullet perforated his small intestine. The doctor seems to think he'll be fine.
MULDER: Who shot him?
SCULLY: I'm not sure. But I have an idea. 
(She opens a folder.)
MULDER: What are those?
SCULLY: PCR results. This one belongs to the man who shot Skinner. 
(Mulder holds the second sheet up behind the first.)
MULDER: Yeah, and who's this one belong to?
SCULLY: The man who shot Melissa. 
(It's an exact match.)
===SCENE 9===
46TH STREET
NEW YORK CITY, NY
(A Syndicate meeting. Some sit, some stand.)
FIRST ELDER: You may all be wondering why I've called you here on such short notice. We've received disturbing reports from our intelligence sources. A French salvage vessel has came into San Diego, its crew all dying of radiation exposure. Its last given position was the site where we recovered the U.F.O.
WELL-MANICURED MAN: How could they have got information about that location?
SECOND ELDER: We haven't been able to determine that. The French government has denied any involvement.
WELL-MANICURED MAN: Well, they got those coordinates somehow.
FIRST ELDER: It seems we have an information leak, gentlemen.
WELL-MANICURED MAN: Has our associate in Washington looked into this?
FIRST ELDER: Apparently, he has responded to the situation... in a way that I don't think any of us would have anticipated.
WELL-MANICURED MAN: How do you mean?
FIRST ELDER: I don't have all the details yet, but I've asked him to come here and explain it himself.
===SCENE 10===
HOSPITAL
(Skinner's hospital room is flanked by two cops. Scully, still doing the rounds at her friends' sickbeds, holds up her badge and is let in.)
SCULLY: Hi. How are you feeling?
(Skinner is wan but awake.)
SKINNER: Like someone's been inside my stomach redecorating. What have you turned up on the shooter?
SCULLY: We've determined that the man who shot you was the same man who shot my sister.
SKINNER: I bet you had to work to get that, huh?
SCULLY: Yes, I did. You don't seem surprised.
SKINNER: Three men came to see me a few days ago. They warned me about pursuing your sister's murder investigation.
SCULLY: Do you realize what you're saying, sir?
SKINNER: I'm not advancing any conspiracy theory here, Scully.
SCULLY: You're saying that they closed down my sister's case not because of lack of evidence, but because they didn't want us to catch the killer.
SKINNER: You should be very careful about the accusations that you make.
SCULLY: The man who shot you... you said that you've seen him before.
SKINNER: Several months ago, he was one of the men who attacked me in the stairwell. With Krycek.
SCULLY: He was working with Krycek?
SKINNER: They're the ones who stole the digital tape from me.
SCULLY: Damn it! Krycek. Mulder had him.
SKINNER: Listen to me. Anger is a luxury that you cannot afford right now. If you're angry you're gonna make a mistake, and these people will take advantage of that. You've seen how they operate. 
SCULLY: I'll be okay. 
(She walks to the door.)
SKINNER: Scully... if you can't keep your head, it's all right to step away.
SCULLY: That's exactly what they want.
(She exits. He sighs.)
===SCENE 11===
(At home, Scully types on her computer.)
SCULLY (V.O.): Addendum to case number 621517. In the absence of any official response my request to have my sister's case reopened, I am now petitioning to devote full Bureau resources to the search for Alex Krycek. Since agent Mulder's release from the hospital, we have had no success locating Krycek or the two men he described as his abductors. Personally, I believe Krycek is the key to identifying the larger forces behind the crime we are investigating. He alone can name the man who shot my sister, and explain the strange radiation deaths aboard the French salvage vessel.
===SCENE 12===
(Entering the X-Files office, Scully is greeted by the diving suit from the Piper Maru, larger-than-life on a metal stand in the middle of the room.)
MULDER: It looked great on me in the store.
SCULLY: What's this doing here?
MULDER: I had it flown in from San Diego as evidence.
SCULLY: Evidence of what?
MULDER: The suit was covered in a thin film of oil, as was the French diver when I found him lying delirious on his kitchen floor.
SCULLY: What kind of oil?
MULDER: Well, from the reports I'm getting, it's the same substance that was found on the French diver's wife when she was discovered on the floor of a Hong Kong airport bathroom a few days ago. 
(He hands her a small vial.)
...According to the analysis, it's 50-weight diesel oil, Scully. That's the same oil that was used on World War II submarines and on P-51 Mustangs, for that matter.
SCULLY: I don't understand.
MULDER: This oil is not only 50 years old, Scully, but its composition has been altered by exposure to radiation.
SCULLY: I still don't understand — how did this get onto the diver and then onto the diver's wife?
MULDER: I don't think this is just ordinary diesel oil, Scully, I think it's, uh... I think it's a medium. A medium being used by some kind of alien creature that uses it to... body jump.
SCULLY: So you're saying that this stuff has intelligence.
MULDER: I think that it came off of whatever they pulled from the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. It's been waiting down there 50 years for another host, another body to bring it up to the surface.
SCULLY: Waiting to jump into the diver and then into the diver's wife.
MULDER: And then to Krycek.
SCULLY: Krycek?
MULDER: I think that Mrs. Gauthier went to Hong Kong under the control of this thing—
(Scully laughs. Continuing, he laughs too.) 
...to find Krycek — I know, I know how it sounds.
SCULLY: Is anybody not looking for Krycek?
MULDER: No but I think that the $64,000 question is, what is this thing looking for? And now that it's in Krycek, what does it want?
===SCENE 13===
ROCKVILLE, MD
(Capitol Ice, skating arena)
(Byers, Langly skate around, browsing at everyone)
(they signal Frohike, and he goes to the lockers, where he recovers an envelope)
(they get out of there and get in Mulder's car, parked across the street)
FROHIKE (handing the envelope to Mulder): Nothing to it.
BYERS: You should call upon our service more often.
LANGLY: We show a talent for these G-man activities.
MULDER: You mean if I want somebody whacked on the knee with a lead pipe?
FROHIKE: Only if you want the job done right.
(Mulder opens the envelope, and he finds an empty tape case)
MULDER: It's gone.
(The Lone Gunmen are disappointed, so is Mulder)
===SCENE 14===
LOCATION UNKNOWN
(The Cigarette-Smoking Man is having some alcohol while watching an old war movie)
(he puts the glass on the table near him, and reaches for his smoking cigarette on the ashtray when a digital tape is thrown on the table)
(The Cigarette-Smoking Man is surprised, stands and turns back, it's Krycek)
KRYCEK: Where is it?
CIGARETTE-SMOKING MAN (regaining confidence, takes a puff): I've been expecting you.
(The Hispanic Man holds a gun on Krycek's neck)
Put that down.
(he follows the order) I have what you want.
(zoom on Krycek's eyes, dark glow in his eyes)
(The Cigarette-Smoking Man remains emotionless)
===SCENE 15===
NEW YORK CITY
(the well-Manicured Man's office, a few shadowy figures have tea and coffee)
(The Cigarette-Smoking Man enters, he takes off his coat)
WELL-MANICURED MAN (looks at his watch): You've made us wait.
CIGARETTE-SMOKING MAN: There was a weather delay on the shuttle from Washington.
WELL-MANICURED MAN: You had business there?
CIGARETTE-SMOKING MAN: Yes. (approaches) You huh.. may have already heard (puts a cigarette in his mouth)
#1: We've heard you acted on your own, and moved the salvage UFO to another location.
CIGARETTE-SMOKING MAN: These new attempts to recover it have increased our need for security.
WELL-MANICURED MAN: Who else is looking for it?
CIGARETTE-SMOKING MAN (smoking): In the event, I moved it to as a safeguard.
#1: Somebody better damn now find out how the French even knew how to look for it.
CIGARETTE-SMOKING MAN: I can assure you it will be completely inaccessible now.
#2: Why not bring it to Nevada, like the others?
CIGARETTE-SMOKING MAN: Leaks in security and a heightened public interest have made the base of Nevada unviable. (to the Well-manicured Man) Is this why I was called here?
WELL MANICURED MAN: No, we'd like an explanation about this business with the assistant director of the Bureau, Skinner.
CIGARETTE-SMOKING MAN: Random shooting for all I know.
WELL MANICURED MAN: They have a waitress, who has given a description of the shooter, they released a composite of his face to the press. (hands the Cigarette- smoking man a newspaper, it's the face of the Hispanic-Man) One of yours, isn't he?
CIGARETTE-SMOKING MAN: I don't know what to tell you. If he did, he acted on his own.
WELL MANICURED MAN: Good lord.
#2: This is a very serious exposure for us.
CIGARETTE-SMOKING MAN: I'll take care of it.
WELL MANICURED MAN: My advice to you sir, is to understand the priority here, get the shooter out of the country as quickly as possible, if the assistant director IDs him, our well placed operatives won't be able to stand in the way of an arrest, compromising beyond repair the secrecy of our work, and the security as you so arrogantly assert of our project's future.
CIGARETTE-SMOKING MAN: It'll be handled.
===SCENE 16===
THE LONE GUNMEN'S
FROHIKE (wearing special glasses): I've got something here.. writing somebody wrote on top of the package and left an impression.
MULDER: Let me see that.
BYERS: Your guys at the F.B.I. turned a major serial murderer with a vestigial pen impression.
MULDER: Hand me a pencil.
LANGLY: Your sci-crime guys at the Bureau have a laser there that can measure any change in a surface down to a few nanometers.
(Mulder is going over the impression with the pencil)
BYERS: Actually they can lift perfect impression using magnetic toner and a sheet of mylar an electrostatic device is applied to the specimen, and renders the information, by drawing the toner from the indentation to the mylar surface.
FROHIKE: Actually..
MULDER: Actually, it's a phone number, New York City area code (212), 555 1012. Now don't drop that (giving the pencil to Frohike) that's a finely calibrated piece of investigative equipment. I gotta make a phone call. (Frohike is puzzled)
FROHIKE: I'll be damned.
===SCENE 17===
The Well-Manicured Man's office
(The Well-Manicured Man is putting his coat, helped by a young man when the phone rings.. he's very surprised)
(the young man answers the phone)
(The Well-Manicured Man looks at his watch)
MAN: Yes? No this is a private line, you must have misdialed. No there's no one here to take your call. I'm sorry I can't help you. (The Well-Manicured Man approaches) Please hold on.
(The Well-Manicured Man answers)
WELL-MANICURED MAN: Who is this?
MULDER: Who is this?
WELL-MANICURED MAN: Who gave you this number?
MULDER: You probably know. A man named Krycek.
WELL-MANICURED MAN: Alex Krycek?
MULDER: Yeah, nice guy. Killed my father. You wouldn't happen to know where he is, do you?
WELL-MANICURED MAN: It's Mr. Mulder, isn't it?
MULDER: It's so nice of you to remember.
WELL-MANICURED MAN: Mr. Mulder, can we meet somewhere?
MULDER: I would love to.
WELL-MANICURED MAN: Give your phone number to my assistant, he will call you back in 5 minutes. (to the assistant) Tell him I'll meet him in 3 hours in Central Park, near the lighted walkway off 79th, near the reservoir. When you hang up, have this number disconnected.
(the assistant takes over the phone)
===SCENE 18===
FBI HEADQUARTERS
WASHINGTON, DC
(slide showing)
FULLER: Well we got a name to go with the face.
SCULLY: Beautiful.
FULLER: His name is Luis Cardinal (The Hispanic Man), native of Nicaragua, school of the America's alumni, career mercenary, apparently impressed a lot of people with his marksmanship during the Iran contra deal.
SCULLY: I'll bet.
FULLER: That's actually the good news.
SCULLY: What do you mean?
CALECA: He entered the country without a visa or papers. As far as we can tell we can't find anything on him, address, phone number, financials, nothing.
SCULLY: Does he have an alias?
CALECA: Several, non-checked out either in all likelihood, this guy's already out of the country.
SCULLY: Damn it, they think they can just get away with it.
FULLER: I wish I could tell you otherwise.
SCULLY: Keep looking for him.
FULLER: We.. pretty much exhausted our avenues.
SCULLY: What's it gonna take?
CALECA: At this point? Other than a sign from God?
SCULLY: I've seen stranger things, believe me.
MAN: I believe she has.
===SCENE 19===
CENTRAL PARK
(Mulder is waiting)
(The Well-Manicured Man finally shows up)
WELL MANICURED MAN: I trust we're all alone.
MULDER: We're all alone in New York City, sir.
WELL MANICURED MAN: You're looking for Alex Krycek, to kill him, in revenge. What makes you think we haven't done that already?
MULDER: What for?
WELL MANICURED MAN: Tell me what you know and I'll consider giving you Krycek.
MULDER: No, you'll answer a few questions for me first, like what was pulled off the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.
WELL MANICURED MAN: It was a UFO, a so-called foo-fighter, downed by American fighter pilots in the 2nd World War.
MULDER: Left out until now?
WELL MANICURED MAN: There was salvage attempts. A US sub was sent in 50 years ago, but there were complications.
MULDER: Almost the entire crew died.
WELL MANICURED MAN: Yeah, it's still a mystery.
MULDER: A mystery to whom?
WELL MANICURED MAN: The cover story said it was the 3rd A bomb bound to Japan, but the truth is, no one knows what killed that crew.
MULDER: I know.
WELL MANICURED MAN: Do you now?
MULDER: You give me Krycek and I will tell you.
WELL MANICURED MAN: Mr Mulder, I've given you so much this evening, you offered me next to nothing in return.
MULDER: You haven't told me anything I didn't already know.
WELL MANICURED MAN: I'm curious, if you've encountered Krycek, why didn't you kill him then?
MULDER: 'Cause he has the tape.
WELL MANICURED MAN: Ahh yes, the tape .
MULDER: The tape he's been selling those secrets off. (The Well-Manicured Man is surprised) You don't know where he is either, do you? (the Well-Manicured man smiles) You're looking for him too.
WELL MANICURED MAN: Mr Mulder, everyone can be gotten to, certainly, you've no doubt of that. (Mulder walks away) Mr Mulder?
===SCENE 20===
FBI HEADQUARTERS
(phone rings, Scully answers)
SCULLY: Scully.
MULDER: Scully it's me. (Mulder's calling from his cell phone) The 2 guards you had posted in front of Skinner's room, are they still there?
SCULLY: They should be why?
MULDER: I want you to get down there and double check for me, ok?
SCULLY: I got it covered Mulder.
MULDER: Just get down there and check, ok?
===SCENE 21===
HOSPITAL
SCULLY: Nurse, what happened to the guards who were outside this room?
NURSE: They've left.
SCULLY: Where did they go? And what happened to the man who was in this room?
NURSE: Mr Skinner is no longer a patient here.
SCULLY: Where is he?
NURSE: Well the oderlies were here a few moments ago, and they took him away.
SCULLY: Where did they take him?
NURSE: To another hospital, the ambulance must have just left.
SCULLY: Thank you.
(Scully catches up with the ambulance)
SCULLY (showing her badge): I'm with the FBI, are you transporting a Walter Skinner?
DRIVER: yeah, is there something wrong?
SCULLY: No everything is fine, I'm just gonna ride with you the rest of the way, ok?
(she gets in by the back)
SKINNER: Agent Scully, what are you doing here?
SCULLY: I just wanted to make sure you got where you were going safely.
(the ambulance stops at a red light)
(there's something wrong)
(rattling)
SKINNER: What is this Scully?
SCULLY: You just lie still (stands and draws her gun)
(is about to open the door, the Hispanic Man fires but missed, he runs away now, and Scully chases him)
(the Hispanic Man is hit by a car, but he gets up and continues running)
(he eventually stumbles and falls)
SCULLY: Federal agent stop right there! (yelling) Are you Luis Cardinal?! Are you Luis Cardinal?!
CARDINAL: Please.
SCULLY (still yelling): Are you the man who shot my sister?!
CARDINAL: Don't kill me, please.
SCULLY: You shot my sister!
CARDINAL: Please I can tell you.
SCULLY: Tell me!
CARDINAL: I can tell you.
SCULLY: Tell me!
CARDINAL: I can tell you what you want, you want Krycek, I can tell you where he is? Please, please don't shoot me.
(sirens wailing)
(cop cars arrive)
OFFICER (yelling): Drop the gun! Put the gun down! Put it down now!
SCULLY (shows her badge): FBI.
OFFICER: Don't move.
(Cardinal is arrested)
(Scully has tears in her eyes)
(Mulder's in a car)
(cell phone rings)
MULDER: Yeah Mulder.
SCULLY: Mulder it's me, where are you?
MULDER: At the airport in New York.
SCULLY: What are you doing?
MULDER: I'm looking for my rental car agreement.
SCULLY: What are you doing in New York?
MULDER: I'll tell you when I see you.
SCULLY: Mulder, your instincts were right about Skinner. We've just arrested a man for what looks like attempted murder.
MULDER: Who?
SCULLY: It's him Mulder, the man who shot my sister.
MULDER: Scully..
SCULLY: Mulder listen to me, he said he knows where Krycek is. I don't know if this makes any sense to you, he says he's headed towards an abandoned missile site somewhere in North Dakota.
MULDER: I want you to meet me at the DC airport in an hour, I want you to get 2 tickets on the 1st flight for North Dakota.
SCULLY: What's in North Dakota?
MULDER: The salvaged UFO.
===SCENE 22===
BLACK CROW, NORTH DAKOTA
(Mulder and Scully arrive at the site)
(they get out of the car)
SCULLY: There must be 200 silos out here. If I'm correct they were all filled with concrete in accord with the disarmament treaty when the base was decommissioned.
MULDER: I didn't sign any disarmament treaty. (they draw their guns and enter the 1st silo)
(the door's lock has been broken)
(it's dark in there, they both have their flashlights)
SCULLY: My ears are still popping.
MULDER: We're 8 stories down.
(they get in a missile silo)
SCULLY: Where's the concrete?
MULDER: Apparently, nobody else signed that treaty either.
SCULLY: 1 down, 199 silos to go.
(they go on searching)
MULDER: These tunnels must go on for miles.
(there's a noise)
(Mulder and Scully switch off their flashlights)
(they go in another way where military operatives are down)
MULDER: He's here.
(they have burns on them)
(the lights are on)
(other armed operatives arrive)
MAN: Hold it right there!
(Mulder and Scully run)
MAN: Hold!
(Mulder and Scully continue running, but they are cornered)
MAN: Hands in the air! Come on! Come on!
(their guns are taken away, and they are escorted out, they walk away of a red isolation door marked with the numbers 1013 on it)
(outside)
(the Cigarette-Smoking Man arrives, as the FBI agents get out)
MULDER: He's here. You led him here, didn't you?
CIGARETTE-SMOKING MAN: There's nothing here but holes in the ground Mr Mulder.
MULDER: Why are you here? Why all these men?
CIGARETTE-SMOKING MAN: I don't know, you owe me answers.
MULDER: The UFO's here. That's what Krycek's after, isn't it?
CIGARETTE-SMOKING MAN: Krycek? Alex Krycek disappeared 5 months ago.
SCULLY: We saw bodies in there. (she's taken away) Men with radiation burns!
CIGARETTE-SMOKING MAN: You saw nothing (enters the silo).
MULDER: You won't get away with this! You can't bury the truth!
(Mulder and Scully are both taken away in a blue van)
(in the silo)
(the Cigarette-Smoking Man sees the men with burns)
CIGARETTE-SMOKING MAN: Take these away.
(he walks towards the door with 1013 on it, lights a cigarette, takes a puff, and leaves)
(zoom into the little window of the 1013 red door)
(retching)
(Krycek is spitting oil out, oil which is also leaking through his eyes and his nose)
(he's on a triangular UFO)
(as the oil leaks its way inside the UFO, Krycek is horrified with what he sees)
===SCENE 23===
FBI HEADQUARTERS
WASHINGTON DC
(Mulder is writing something, at his desk, he has his glasses on)
(knocking)
MULDER: Yeah.
SKINNER (with a cane): Agent Mulder.
MULDER (stands up and shakes Skinner's hand and helps him to the chair): Sir, I didn't expect you back to work for a few weeks.
SKINNER: I was looking for agent Scully, there was something I wanted to talk to her about, thank you. (sits)
MULDER: Actually I wanted to talk to you, I wanted to thank you for everything you did.
SKINNER: You mean getting a shot in the gut?
MULDER: You got a shot because you stood up to these people.
SKINNER: I think you're perceiving from a mistaken impression, what I did, I did it because it's my job.
MULDER: From what I understand, you put your job and your life on the line for Scully.
SKINNER: This isn't my crusade agent Mulder. A woman was murdered, I mistakenly thought that we could bring the man who committed that crime to justice.
MULDER: What do you mean mistakenly?
SKINNER: This is what I need to talk to Scully about.
(Scully's walking in a cemetery, with flowers)
(She puts them before a tombstone saying: Melissa Scully, beloved sister and daughter,
1962-1995)
(Mulder arrives by car, with flowers too)
SCULLY: I was just thinking about something that a man said to me. That the.. that the dead speak to us from beyond the grave, that that what's conscience is.
MULDER: It's interesting, I never thought of it that way.
SCULLY: You know I thought... when we found him, this man that killed Melissa, that..that when we brought him to justice, I would feel some kind of closure. But the truth is no court.. no punishment is ever enough.
MULDER: I came here to tell you something (they start walking away) there may be some justice, just not the kind you're looking for.
SCULLY: What are you talking about?
MULDER: They found this man, Luis Cardinal, dead in his cell.
SCULLY: How?
MULDER: They made it look like a suicide. The men he worked for couldn't take the chance that he point his finger at them.
SCULLY: And what about Krycek?
MULDER: Oh he was there. I know that.
SCULLY: You think they got to him too.
MULDER: I don't know, but if they haven't they will. I doubt it'll weight on their consciences though.
SCULLY: I think the dead are speaking to us Mulder, demanding justice. Maybe that man was right. Maybe we bury the dead alive.
===SCENE 24===
(banging)
KRYCEK'S VOICE: Help!
(in the missile silo)
(Krycek is banging at the door, the UFO's still there, behind him) Help! (groans) Help! (screaming)
(zoom out from Krycek's face, from the little window of the red door with 1013 on it)
Help me!
Help me!
Help me!
(screaming)
[THE END]
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