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Do you have an appointment?
[Skinner and Mulder flash their badges.]
(rudely) Do you have an appointment?
[They look at each other, surprised, and flash their badges again.]
(insistent) Maybe you missed this the first time around.
Dr. Voss, can you enlighten us as to what Dr. Scobie intended to tell the grand jury? We know it had to do with company research.
[The Lead Counsel, a large lawyerly looking man sitting next to Voss interrupts as Voss is about to answer]
I'm sorry. Dr. Voss would be in violation of his employment confidentiality clause in answering that question.
Dr. Scobie was your friend?
Yeah, for 14 years, mm-hmm.
And yet you demoted him five weeks ago. You took him off a particular project. Can you tell us why that happened?
[interrupting] As before, Dr. Voss would be in violation of his confidentiality clause in answering questions regarding the nature of his work here at Morley. I'm sure you understand our cooperation cannot extend itself to revealing corporate secrets.
[getting pissed] Yeah, I'm not sensing any "cooperation" whatsoever. In fact, I'm one more non-answer away from getting a federal warrant and searching this entire building.
Then this meeting is over. Dr. Voss. [The lawyers all begin to get up from the table. Mulder pulls an evidence bag from his pocket]
Dr. Voss... can you tell me what that is? [He tosses the bag to Voss. Inside is the dead beetle from Jim Scobie's glass]
It's a tobacco beetle. Why?
We found it at Jim Scobie's house.
Well, you'll find a lot of these around here. They're everywhere. There's probably a dozen in the grill of your car right now.
May I ask where you're going with this, Agent?
[sarcastically] I'm sorry, I can't. Answering that question would violate FBI confidentiality due to the sensitive nature of our investigation.
Sir, have I pissed you off in a way that's more than normal?
One more pun and I pull out my gun.
You're both crazy.
Well, why do you say that?
(to Mulder) Well, you're crazy for believing what you believe. (to Scully) And you're crazy for not believing what he believes. I'll leave you with that. Thank you. (leaves)
I miss him already.
Is being made a fool of a crime, Agent Mulder?
I'd be doing life if it were, sir.
How...?
[answering the question before she asks] 42.
You've seen this movie 42 times?
Yes.
Doesn't that make you sad? It makes me sad.
(on the phone with Skinner) Uh... So what are you up to right now, sir?
I'm taking a bubble bath.
Uh, hold on just one second, sir. (clicks over on the receiver to talk to Scully, grinning with delight) Hey, Scully, Skinman is calling me from a bubble bath.
It's still me, Mulder.
[Scully takes a sip of her wine, not hearing anything. Mulder is embarrassed.]
Uh, sir, well, hold on one second, sir. (He clicks the receiver again) Scully?
Yeah?
Yeah, Skinner is calling me from a bubble bath.
Wow, he's really gone Hollywood.
Totally.
You know, Mulder, speaking of Hollywood, I think that Tea Leoni has a little crush on you.
Oh, yeah, right. Like Tea Leoni's ever going to have a crush on me.
I think that Shandling likes you a bit, too.
Really?
This is an FBI fleet sedan from our Kansas City field office requisitioned by two seasoned agents there driven into a tree at 43 miles an hour by the female agent in a novel effort to kill her male counterpart. Now, you might think I'm going to suggest psychokinesis-- pk-- someone or something controlling the agents with remote, mind-bending power.
But it's not?
Both agents sustained critical injuries. Their stories eerily similar ...
[Two slides of the woman who looks like Scully lying in full body cast in the hospital.]
...as if they temporarily lost control of their minds unable to alter their behavior.
[Two slides of the man who looks like Mulder, also in full body casts]
You may think that I'm going to say it's past lives unresolved or fate, stalking the agents like an animal ...
... but you're not.
No, the interesting thing about these agents is they had worked together for seven years previously without any incident.
Seven years?
Yeah, but they are not ... romantically involved if that's what you're thinking.
Not even I would be so farfetched.
[Mulder smiles slightly. The next slide shows that the two agents are in the same hospital room, with their matching injuries.]
You have any ideas, Scully, any thoughts?
What I'm thinking, Mulder, is how familiar this seems. Playing Watson to your Sherlock. You dangling clues out in front of me one by one. It's a game, and... and, as usual, you're, you're holding something back from me. You're not telling me something about this case.
(finger to his mouth, pretending to think hard about it) Hmm...
Okay, so these agents were investigating something. (Mulder chuckles) Something... much like what they themselves were almost killed by. Uh, something they came into contact with. Uh... Third party? (Mulder, playing with her, holds up two fingers) Two third parties. Twins? Relatives? A doppelganger? (Mulder shakes his head and taps his nose) A corporeal likeness that appears unbidden from the spirit world the sight of which presages one's own death or... a double, conjured into the world by a technique called bilocation... (Mulder stops teasing and looks up at her in awe as she continues) which in psychological terms represents the person's secret desires and impulses committing acts that the, uh, real person cannot commit himself... or herself? (he smiles at her; she's annoyed) Mulder, the slide, please! (He finally advances the projector to show a slide of the Kansas driver's license of Betty Templeton. Scully proudly claps her hands.) Yes!
(pouting) Don't go thinking I'm going to start doing the autopsies.
Who is it?
It's me.
(lets her in; she goes and sits on the bed) What's wrong, Scully? You look sick.
I don't know what's wrong.
Come in.
I, um... I was starting to get ready for bed and I started to feel really dizzy - vertigo or something - and then I just... I started to get chills.
You want me to call a doctor?
No, I just... I just want to get warm. Thank you. (she climbs under the covers, he tucks her in before crawling in next to her and spooning with her)
It's not worth it, Scully.
What?
I want you to go home.
Oh, Mulder, I'm going to be fine.
No, I've been thinking about it. Looking at you tonight, holding that baby... knowing everything that's been taken away from you. A chance for motherhood and your health and that baby. I think that... I don't know, maybe they're right.
Who's right?
The FBI. Maybe what they say is true, though for all the wrong reasons. It's the personal costs that are too high. There so much more you need to do with your life. There's so much more than this. There has to be an end, Scully.
Mulder, if any of this is true...
If it is, or if it isn't, I want you to forget about it, Scully.
Forget about it?
You're not going back out there. I'm not going to let you go back out there.
What are you talking about?
It has to end sometime. That time is now.
Mulder...
Scully, you have to understand that they're taking abductees. You're an abductee. I'm not going to risk... losing you.
I won't let you go alone.
I see the money bleed out, but it just doesn't seem to make the results of your work any better. So many of the cases you investigate are left unexplained. Makes it hard to justify the expense.
So much of the work that we do cannot be measured in standard terms.
How would you measure it?
We open doors with the X-Files, which lead to other doors.
Doors leading to... "A conspiracy of men who cooperated with alien beings to create human alien hybrids." So we could all become slaves of an alien invasion.
I believe that there was once a conspiracy. I believe I was taken by men who subjected me to medical tests, which gave me cancer and left me barren.
But you don't believe in aliens?
I've seen things that I cannot deny.
(enters her hospital room) Agent Scully.
Hi.
Hi. How you feeling?
I'm feeling fine. They're just running some tests on me.
Well... um... (he looks like he's in pain; he can't say it)
(almost crying) I already heard.
(voice breaking) I lost him. I don't know what else I can say. I lost him. I'll be asked... what I saw. And what I saw, I can't deny. I won't.
(crying) We will find him. I have to. (Skinner nods and starts to leave) Sir, um... there's something else I need to tell you. Something that I need for you to keep to yourself. (she looks torn between laughing and crying) I'm having a hard time explaining it. Or believing it. But, um... (she smiles - half joy, half pain) I'm pregnant.
[Skinner is speechless. Scully tries to smile but is both laughing and sobbing.]
I don't believe this.
This isn't about finding Mulder - this is about Kersh covering the FBI's ass.
Why do I get the feeling they'd be happy if we never found him at all?
Look... I saw what I saw. I have to make a statement in there. I'm not going to tell them it didn't happen.
Well, you heard Kersh. They don't want the truth. You give them the truth, and they'll hang you with it.
They can hang me with a lie, too. I'm not going to sell Mulder out.
What good are you to Mulder if you give them the power to ruin your career? (he doesn't answer) We will find him.
What's my theory? My theory is you don't know Mulder at all. You never did. (flips his badge over, showing his name) "John Doggett." Kersh's task force leader. You might have just introduced yourself.
Well, I was getting around to it.
(throws a cup full of water in his face) Nice to meet you, Agent Doggett.
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