The X-Files s02e16 Episode Script

I have lived with a fragile faith, built on the ether of vague memories, from an experience that I could neither prove nor explain.
When I was 12, my sister was taken from me.
Taken from our home by a force that I came to believe was extraterrestrial.
This belief sustained me, fueling a quest for truths that were as elusive as the memory itself.
To believe as passionately as I did was not without sacrifice, but I always accepted the risks to my career, my reputation, my relationships to life itself.
Let's move out! He's an F.
B.
I.
Agent.
His name's Mulder.
We need a frostbite bay stat! Let's get ready, please! Take your warmer and get the blood ready.
- Basal temp's 86 degrees.
- Right eye dilated.
Left eye dilated.
Let's get him into that tub or we're gonna lose him.
On three.
One, two, three! - Was Agent Mulder brought here tonight? - This is an authorized area.
- Military personnel only.
- I'm a federal agent.
You're not going anywhere until we see some I.
D.
There is no time for this.
A man is dying.
What happened to me out on the ice has justified every belief.
If I should die now, it will be with a certainty that my faith has been righteous.
And if, through death, larger mysteries are revealed, I will have already learned the answer to the question that has driven me here: That there is intelligent life in the universe other than our own, that they are here among us, and that they have begun to colonize.
I'm Dana Scully.
I'm Agent Mulder's partner.
What are his vitals? He's suffering from extreme hypothermia.
No.
You've got to get him out of the tub.
- He's dying.
He's lost his body heat.
- You've got to listen.
You're going to kill him.
The cold is the only thing keeping him alive.
His heart stopped.
Get me one amp of epinephrine and a cannula.
You got to see this, Captain.
We got a U.
F.
O.
Or something buzzing us.
Right up here.
- It's been hovering up there for about 20 minutes.
- Could be a helicopter.
- Not the way it flew over us.
- It's coming at us again.
It's going to crash.
- Reverse engines.
- All astern.
We're going after it.
has been covering this story, and files this report.
Two days ago, the crew of an ice cutter working the Arctic Circle thought they had seen a U.
F.
O.
When a strange aircraft plunged into the Beaufort Sea.
But a short time later, they recovered what is now believed to be a Russian fighter pilot from the icy water, where he miraculously survived the extreme Arctic temperatures.
The man was airlifted to a military hospital in Alaska, where he was listed in stable condition.
While authorities have been trying to determine who the pilot is, we've learned that he has apparently walked out of the hospital, and is now listed as missing.
Reporting from our - Where is he? - I don't know! - Hey, I've been looking for you.
- I was just down the street.
Someone fired more shots at the White House last night.
You gotta wonder about a country where even the president has to worry about drive-by shootings.
- What are you working on? - I found these in my E-mail this morning.
- Three obituaries.
- Sent by whom? - Nobody I know, but obviously somebody that knows me.
- Why? The deceased are Dr.
Landon Prince of Scranton, Pennsylvania, Dr.
Dale Gayhart of New York City, and Dr.
Harvey Buchanon ofTeaneck, New Jersey.
All worked in abortion clinics.
They died in arson fires.
- Sounds like the work of militant right-to-lifers.
- Sounds like it.
Why would somebody send them to you? - It's taken me all morning to figure that out.
- What'd you find? This is the latest victim: Dr.
Landon Prince.
And these are the other two victims: Drs.
Gayhart and Buchanon.
- Triplets? - No.
I can't find any blood connection between them.
In fact, I can't find any records on them at all.
It's as if before they died, they never existed.
What? Dr.
Prince performed legal, clinical abortions.
Which seems to be having its own share of occupational hazards.
You don't know anything else about him? He went about his work quietly.
None of his family's come forward.
- What about a man you arrested? This, uh, preacher? - Rev.
Calvin Sistrunk.
He's got a motive.
He's threatened abortion docs before.
He was carrying this when we arrested him.
We're hoping for an indictment.
As soon as you locate Dr.
Prince's remains.
Yes.
But that fact hasn't been released.
There have been two identical fire deaths.
Neither body's been found.
We're quite certain he was in the building.
His car was in the parking lot.
We found his keys in the stairwell where the fire was started.
He's been missing since the incident.
- It could be we'll just be finding teeth and bone.
- Good afternoon.
- Reverend Sistrunk.
These are Agents Scully and Mulder.
They want to ask you If Dr.
Prince burns in hell's fire for his murder of the unborn? - If his damnation is God's will? - Is that what you think? I guess it's a question of opinion.
Well, it's my opinion that whoever killed Dr.
Prince will also be linked to two other murders.
- How do you feel about that? - There are those who endorse the killing of the heathen sinner in God's name, but I, sir, am not one of them.
Have you been to New York and New Jersey in the past two weeks? No, sir.
- This clipping.
Where'd you get it? - From the newspaper.
Obviously, there are more of God's soldiers seeking this man for judgment.
- Which newspaper? - The local paper, up in Binghamton.
Oh, yeah.
I remember this one.
- The man who placed this paid cash.
- Would you recognize his face? I might.
- No.
That's not him.
- Do you have a record of his name or address? No, we don't.
He wouldn't sign anything.
In fact, he called and asked to place that ad a second week.
So we did, but he never came back to pay.
- Thank you.
- Sure.
- Got a bad feeling about this case.
- What do you mean? Nothing about it makes sense.
We've got three deaths of identical victims, no bodies, a virtual non-suspect - Sounds just like an X-File.
- You don't even know who sent that information.
Mulder, we've been set up before.
If somebody wanted to set us up, would they give us this little to go on? There's something bigger here, Scully.
- I'd be willing to bet there are more of these guys out there.
- More victims? Unless we get to them first.
The deaths follow a pattern: New Jersey, New York, Scranton, and then an ad is placed here in Binghamton looking for a man exactly like the others.
The killer's moving in a northerly direction.
Excuse me? Excuse me.
The, uh, number in the ad.
- Would that be a voice mail? - Yes, it is.
- How would you access that? - Well, you'd start by paying the bill.
Dial the number, then press 12-36.
There's 24 messages responding to the ad.
The first caller has seen the man in the photo in Syracuse.
That's north.
Special Agent Weiss.
This is Agent Mulder.
I need to enlist your help.
- Shoot.
- I'm heading your way with Agent Scully.
A man in your area may be in danger.
His name is Dr.
Aaron Baker.
He's living in Syracuse.
We need you to find him and sit on him until we can get there.
You got it.
I'll call you back as soon as I track him down.
Your plans will not succeed.
Federal Agent.
Drop your weapon.
I said, drop it! What the hell? - Agent Mulder? - Yes.
Agent Weiss? - Yes, sir.
- Did you find Dr.
Baker? No, I'm afraid not.
No one's home.
- There's two weeks' worth of mail in the mailbox.
- We may already be too late.
- We should take a look around anyway.
- Not much to see.
- Agent Mulder has arrived.
- Send him right in.
Agent Mulder, please have a seat.
- I'm sorry I'm late.
I just flew in.
- From? - Syracuse.
- Where you were doing what? Agent Scully and I were following up a lead on a case.
Did anyone authorize this investigation, Agent Mulder? - No, sir.
- Do you have paperwork on this case? No, sir.
L I'd assumed we had an understanding with respect to the X-Files.
I'm sure it doesn't surprise you that the people I have to answer to aren't so understanding, particularly when one of their field agents is dead.
- What? - Special Agent Barrett Weiss.
Out of the Syracuse office.
His body was found stuffed in the trunk of a car in front of a house that you sent him to.
It's impossible.
I spoke to Agent Weiss.
I saw him at the house.
Save it, Agent Mulder.
Save it for your report.
Until this is cleared up, your butt and mine are in a sling.
And your investigation, official or otherwise, is terminated.
- Sir - Don't underestimate the seriousness of this.
A man is dead.
I want a full accounting on my desk in the morning.
- Mulder.
- Mulder, it's me.
Where are you? - I'm at home.
- Agent Weiss is dead, Scully.
- What? - Somebody killed him, and Skinner hit the roof.
We're being grounded until he gets a full accounting.
I just wish I knew what the hell was going on.
Have you checked your E-mail this morning, Mulder? - No.
Why? - I received something unsettling, and I wondered if you'd gotten it too.
- What is it? - It's a digitally-scanned photograph.
There's another one, Mulder.
His name is Dr.
James Dickens.
- And, Mulder? He's here in Washington.
- Yeah? Stay where you are, Scully.
I'll be right there to pick you up.
Agent Mulder? My name is Ambrose Chapel.
I work for the Central Intelligence Agency.
I need to talk to you about the case you're working on.
What case is that? The murder of certain identical victims.
I have a story to tell, Agent Mulder.
Believe me, you want to hear it.
We've known of their existence for a decade.
We had no idea they were in the country until last year.
- Who are they? - We're working on vague intelligence reports, but it appears that early in the cold war, Soviet scientists stumbled on a genetic anomaly in sets of identical twins.
They were able to isolate the specific DNA material that gave the twins their facial features, hair color, texture And they were able to reproduce it.
Are you saying these men are clones? By all outward appearances.
How did they get here? The program went by the code name "Gregor," the name given to every clone.
We believe the original Gregor came here sometime in the mid-'70s, on a German passport.
Using that same document, they were able to bring a small cadre of clones into the country, several of which have obtained strategic positions in the medical establishment.
- For what purpose? - In the event of war, they would mobilize simultaneously at different facilities across the U.
S to contaminate blood supplies, sabotage pharmaceutical factories essentially destroy the country's immune system.
If you've known about this for a year, why hasn't anything been done? Well, this is where the story gets perhaps even more incredible.
In a secret agreement, someone is allowing the Gregors to be systematically eliminated by a man who I believe is a Russian spy-killer in exchange for the absolute suppression of the program's existence and to obtain the science that created it.
- What's your business in this? - I believe we share similar sentiments on our government's policies of denial, which is why they've been trying to contact you.
- Who? - The Gregors.
You've obviously got a reputation as someone who might protect them and bring these misdeeds to light.
What makes you think we've been contacted? Your inquiries into their deaths.
And your response to the ad I placed.
We're talking state-sanctioned murder.
If we can find them first, maybe the truth can be known.
We know where one of these men may be.
Okay.
Let's go.
- Who is it? - Agents Scully and Mulder.
We're with the F.
B.
I.
- Dr.
Dickens? - Yes.
- I believe you've been trying to contact us.
- Uh - May we come in, Dr.
Dickens? - Uh It's okay, sir.
There's nothing to be afraid of.
I'll call the paramedics.
He's moving.
He's getting up! I'll call you back.
- You okay? - Okay.
I just got the wind knocked out of me.
- Don't lose him.
Go! - Okay.
Are you all right? He's gone.
- Where? - He blindsided me.
Went up the fire escape before I could grab him.
I'm gonna go see if I can find a way up on the roof.
How are you feeling? Like I should have used the crosswalk.
- A lot better than my phone.
- Maybe we should have dropped this case when you were told.
Scully, if what our friend from the C.
I.
A.
Says is true, this could blow the lid off one of the biggest national security conspiracies ever.
Our "friend" from the C.
I.
A.
Is about as unbelievable as his story, as is everything about this case.
Whatever happened to "trust no one," Mulder? I changed it to "trust everyone.
" I didn't tell you? I ran a full background check on this guy.
Ambrose Chapel is a 17-year veteran.
Special Intelligence Clearance.
He's the real thing, Scully.
Why would a man with his experience need our help? And how could he let a man he's been looking so hard for slip away so easily? That doctor wasn't running away from us.
He was running away from Agent Chapel.
I think you're being overly paranoid about him, Scully.
Paranoid.
Have you stopped to consider that maybe it was Chapel who killed that agent in Syracuse? Is that what you want me to put on my report? I'd be happy to have you explain that to him.
Damn it, Mulder, that is not my job.
You'll pursue a case at the expense of everything, to the point of insanity, and expect me to follow you.
There has to be somewhere to draw the line.
Three identical men are dead.
A fourth identical man is alive and on the lam.
If the pursuit of this case seems like insanity to you, step away from it.
An F.
B.
I.
Agent died because of our pursuit of this case.
Those are the risks we take.
You either accept them or you don't.
We all draw our own lines.
I have to show you something.
I got these a week ago.
I stepped in something last night that ate clean through the sole.
Now, maybe I'm being paranoid, but it was in the exact spot where this man Chapel said the doctor escaped.
Why don't you send it to our lab guys for analysis? While you're at it, why don't you arrange for an autopsy bay? - An autopsy bay? - Putting together my report for Skinner, I came across something I think you'll appreciate.
Whoever killed that field agent in Syracuse was so clever no clear cause of death can be established.
There's no penetrating knife or gunshot wounds, no ligature marks or abrasions from strangulation; the toxicological is clean; and the blood work well, the blood work is strange.
- Strange how? - There's evidence of polycythemia excessive production of red blood cells.
- How excessive? - Extremely.
The doctor who made this report has it that the blood was "curdled like jelly.
" As if something caused the blood to thicken or clot prior to death.
- Due to what? - Possibly a coagulating agent introduced into the body, but it would have shown up on the toxicological.
Didn't Agent Chapel say something about these doctors being able to contaminate the blood supply? Couldn't one of those contaminants have been used to kill this man? I don't know, Mulder.
L There was a doctor's bag I took as evidence from the apartment.
Agent Mulder? Assistant Director Skinner's been looking for you.
All right.
I'll be right there.
Check the bag.
See if you can find anything.
We'll connect.
Skinner's gonna want to know why you didn't file your report.
What are you going to say? Just the truth.
I got hit by a car.
I'm sorry this is so late.
I had trouble with the data That's not why I called you in here, Agent Mulder.
Your father's been trying to reach you.
There's been a family emergency.
Thank you.
Hello? - Mom? - Fox, is that you? Yeah, I didn't expect you to answer.
What are you doing at Dad's? Is he all right? Yes.
Let me put him on.
- Hello? - Dad? I got a message there was a family emergency.
I received a very strange phone call this afternoon.
I called your mother.
We think it's important that you come up here as soon as possible.
- Can you tell me what this is about? - I'll know more when you get here.
I didn't find much of anything to go on, but we've got an address.
Check it out.
I'll call you as soon as I can.
- Where are you going? - Home.
This is Fox Mulder.
Leave me a message and I'll get back to you as soon as I can.
- Mulder, it's me.
I need to talk to you immediately.
I've got some new information on this case.
Mulder, I think I'm in danger.
I'm in my apartment, and I think I've been followed.
Your mother needs some time.
You said it was an emergency.
She wanted you to come.
It's a difficult time.
I appreciate your coming at such short notice.
What is it, Dad? The certainty becomes a comfort that allows you to move on.
We bury our memories so deep, after all that has been destroyed, never expecting Who is Mom talking to? Your sister.
Fox.
After all those sleepless nights, now I can hardly keep my eyes open.
Well, you're exhausted.
We all are.
- It's after 5:30.
- Oh, I just need a couple of hours.
Try and get some sleep.
- Fox.
- Yeah, Mom? It is really her.
Isn't it? Um, I don't see who else it could be.
Go on.
Go to sleep.
Is it too late for a game of Stratego? It's 22 years too late.
I don't think Dad could think of anything to say.
He just sat here.
So much has happened.
Where do you begin? I must have been nine or ten when I was returned.
I had no memory.
I was placed with a family who raised me as a daughter.
Who were they? I knew they weren't my parents, but I didn't remember Mom or Dad.
Or you.
But you came to remember us.
I started having trouble several years ago.
It was diagnosed as free-floating anxiety.
Nothing worked for me.
I hit rock bottom.
Until I underwent regression hypnotherapy.
And it all started coming back.
The abductions, the tests I'm in danger, Fox.
I'm in danger, Fox.
- What do you mean? - You've been contacted.
You know there's a man hunting my father and the other doctors.
Your f Your father? My adoptive parents.
They're only visitors here.
What people would call aliens.
A bounty hunter's been sent to kill them.
You've met this man.
His lies to you have caused others like my father to die.
He won't stop until he's killed them all and anyone who tries to stop him.
He'll come for me soon.
Hi.
This is Dana Scully.
Please leave a message, and I'll get back to you as soon as I can.
- Scully, it's Mulder.
Pick up the phone.
Okay, if you're screening, pick up the phone.
I need to talk to you.
All right.
Do not under any circumstances trust the C.
I.
A.
Agent.
Your life may be in danger.
Call me.
She may not be able to recognize him.
He has the ability to disguise himself.
- Disguise himself? How? - As anyone.
As anyone? You gotta be kidding.
No.
You can't recognize him, but I can.
- Hello.
This is Fox Mulder.
Leave a message, please.
Mulder, it's me.
I've just left my apartment and I don't think I've been followed.
I'm going to be staying at the Vacation Village Motor Lodge off the I-90 in Germantown.
By the time you reach me, I should have some important information regarding this case.
Wait! Stop! Federal Agent.
Put your hands against the wall.
- Do it! - You won't shoot me.
Put your hands against the wall.
Now.
You cannot harm us.
- Sir - It's all right.
We are the last remaining.
Unless you protect us, we are already dead.
These men are to be held at maximum security protective custody.
No visitors, no press, no anybody.
- Okay? - Yeah.
Can I ask? Who are these guys? I'll let you know when I figure it out myself.
I should have some important information regarding this case.
- Vacation Village? - Yeah, I need to speak to Dana Scully, please.
Just a moment.
I'm sorry.
There's no one registered by that name.
All right.
I need her to call Fox Mulder.
As soon as she checks in, okay? Fox Mulder.
- Fox Mulder.
- Yes.
Will do.
Now, who's this message for? I'd like a single for one night, please.
Ah, see what I got.
- Whose post is this? - Mine, sir.
We're on changeover.
I'm gonna talk to the prisoners.
You wanna give me a coffee? Sugar and milk, no cream.
- Do you want me to keep an eye open? - No, just give me the coffee.
Yes, sir.
- Who is it? - Scully, it's me.
- I got your message.
- Where have you been? Hang on.
- Scully.
- Scully, it's me.
Where are you? Scully? Are you there? Scully?