The X-Files · Season 8
[Mulder closes the laptop and removes the hard drive.]
What are you doing?
I'm going to book myself on that Princess cruise.
I'll book it for you. (takes the harddrive - and the responsibility - from him. He covers up the boxes, smiles and follows her.)
[Frohike opens the door of Scully's apartment for Mulder. They both smile.]
You know, it's really not fair. You've been dead for six months and you still look better than me. But not by much. (they hug tightly, Mulder laughs softly)
Melvin. I'd be a whole lot happier to see you if you'd just take your hands off my ass.
(embarrassed, lets go and steps back) Sorry.
I think it goes without saying that we're all, uh, tremendously relieved.
(smiling) And not just because we got big questions about your involvement in a certain... blessed event.
[Langly glances significantly at Scully. Mulder appears surprised and looks over at her; she ignores his look and the comment.]
Well, just remember, boys, this is America - Just because you get more votes doesn't mean you win.
(on radio) Frohike? Langly? Byers? Let's go. I'm dying out here.
(on radio) Well, let us just finish our cappuccino and biscotti, and we'll see what we can do.
[All three Gunmen are held up by harnesses in what looks like an elevator shaft filled with wires.]
(on radio) You can start walking now, Mulder.
Is the system bypassed?
You'll know if it's not.
Great.
I don't need someone using me to get another man killed.
You think this about Mulder. It's about the truth, John.
What truth?
You got it all right in front of you. It's all in the X-Files. I'm just one man trying to point you in the right direction.
[Mulder knocks on Scully's door]
(exasperated) Mulder!
(startled) What?
I was just about to get in the shower, but I was waiting for the pizzaman.
(mockingly suspicious) You got something going on with the pizzaman I should know about?
(chuckling) The pizzaman?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but you just said you were waiting for the pizzaman to jump in the shower.
No, what I mean was, the pizzaman's usually late, and so..
(squints like he doesn't understand)
..Do you want to come in?
Thank you.
[turns and walks back into the apartment, doesn't see Mulder placing a gift under the pillows;] I feel like I'm in an episode of Mad About You.
Yeah, well, small technicality.. Mad About You was about a married couple, and we just work together.
Well, you know what I mean.
I do, I do. And what I am saying is that we do not have much information about this man. And what I am saying [pointing at Scully's tummy] is that the pizzaman is not above suspicion.
I see.
[hintingly glances towards the couch (he has placed a gift under the pillows)]
(looks and notices gift) Is that for me?
Yep.
Nice package.
(stutteringly quietly) Thank you.
[Knock on Scully's door]
Little Caesar, I presume?
[Scully nods, sits down with her present. Mulder opens the door, and turns to squint suspiciously at Scully.]
(to deliveryman) Hi. Just give it to the man with the funny look on his face.
Yeah, it's 29.08.
29.08? What'd she get on it, a tank of gas?
[Doggett is called to look at a body at a crime scene to see if he was a 'vision' of it appearing burned/ashen.]
Sorry, Agent Reyes - I don't see it. (turns and begins walking away)
I think you do.. You're just afraid to go there.
Whew.. Man, you just keep shooting 'til you hit something, don't you?
You'd rather blind yourself to the connections, but I can't.
You keep talking about these connections - Connections to what? To who?
What if this is a thread of evil, connecting through time.. though men, through opportunity - Connecting back to you? ..In India, in Africa, in Iran, in the Mid-East, in the Far East, most of the world - they take it as a given. They see evil in death the way other people see God in a rose.
I saw Elvis in a potato chip once.
(To Mulder) You know what I'm talking about.
Yes, I do. I do. But if this man doesn't see it, he doesn't see it, right?
(Talking about Doggett) Can you help him?
You can't help a man who can't help himself.
He's worth the effort, Mulder.
What are you scared of? ..Why does it scare you?
..I gotta believe I did everything I could to find.. my son.
You did do everything to find your son.
I gotta believe I did everything I could to save him. To get him back safe. To not let him down. I gotta believe I did everything humanly possible.. 'Cause if I can't believe that.. then these-these 'other possibilities' that you talk about, that Mulder talks about, that Agent Scully talks about - If they're real.. If they're real, then.. that's something else I could have done to save my son.
We, uh, we caught this killer, Jeb Dukes. He's in the ICU - He may not make it.
And now you're wondering if there really was a connection? (Doggett gives him a slight look) ..You know, when I uh, I first came to work at the FBI, I worked at Violent Crimes. And I saw.. I saw the worst of humanity - I saw monsters. And I wondered how they became that way, how these men became so evil. I knew there were psychological explanations - victims of their environment, victims of their parents - but.. the scientific explanations were never truly satisfying, and I began to think about evil like a disease. You know it goes from man to man or age to age. Most of us walk around thinking we're incapable of any acts of evil, and we are - You know we can stifle that momentary urge to kill, or to hurt. We have some kind of immunity to it. But I think it's possible that there's.. an occurrence in somebody's life; a tragedy or a loss that.. leaves them vulnerable - hurts their immunity to evil. And all of a sudden, at that point in their lives, when they're weakened - they're open to evil, and they can become evil.
If that were true, then what you're saying is.. this man when wheeled in here tonight is infected with evil - The same evil that killed my son.. You really believe that, Agent Mulder?
Uh, I'm not really a good test for questions like that - I'll believe almost anything, you know? But the uh.. the pisser is that you may never know. It may be like Agent Reyes says, it could be random and meaningless - who it affects, who it goes to.
What if it isn't?
Well then you'd be seeing something I don't, Agent Doggett.
Agent Mulder - I understand that you have more than just a proprietary interest in these cases, but I can't help it if you're not assigned to this unit anymore. ..I didn't see any reason to pursue this oil worker case.
Oh, well maybe you missed the fact this worker's corpse washed ashore at Port Aransas, Texas - Massive flash burns on 90% of his body.
I read the report, Agent Mulder, if you're insinuating I didn't.
Then you must also know that this man was not the only man to disappear from the Galpex-Orpheus platform that night, but one of two men; The communications officer is also missing.
The company attributes that to an explosion on the rig - a "blowout" - which is what they say caused Simon de la Cruz's burns.
Burns the M.E. said in his report were not inconsistent to exposure to high levels of radiation.
"Not inconsistent" - That's not exactly what I'd call a ringing endorsement.
These files include the same kind of radiation phenomena. Tissue destroyed by exposure to -
- Black oil. ..Five years ago you and Agent Scully investigated a case of a World War II plane salvaged from the bottom of the Pacific Ocean - Where a substance was brought to the surface which you describe as a highly contagious virus of extraterrestrial origin, that has radioactive properties and can take over a man's body. And is a part of an alien conspiracy to colonize the planet, if I'm not mistaken.
(slightly bemused) And you'd love to help, but you left your lightsaber at home.
I never would've believed it - These stories about you.
Really? What stories are those?
That you could find a conspiracy at a church picnic.
..What church?
..I'm out. I'm eighty-sixed, Agent Doggett.
What do you mean - You're out of the FBI?
Kersh could barely contain himself when he - (slaps his hands) stuck it to me.
..So you're taking the fall? Not for me?
For you, for the X-Files - You're all the credibility this office has left. You have Kersh's ear and you've seen it now. Out on that platform, you saw it for yourself.
[phone on Mulder's desk rings]
..Answer the phone, Agent Doggett. You're in charge now.
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