The X-Files - 2.

US Airdate: May 19, 1995

writer: Chris Carter

story by David Duchovny & Chris Carter

director: R.W. Goodwin

STARRING:

David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder

Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully

Guest Cast:

Byron Chief Moon as Father

Bernie Coulson as The Thinker

Peter Donat as Bill Mulder

Nicholas Lea as Agent Alex Krycek

Mitch Pileggi as Assistant Director Walter Skinner

Paul McLean as Agent Kautz

Floyd "Red Crow" Westerman as Albert Hosteen

Renae Morriseau as Josephine Doane

Aurelio Dinunzio as Antonio

William B. Davis as Cancer Man

Dean Haglund as Langly

Tom Braidwood as Frohike

Bruce Harwood as Byers

Michael David Simms as Senior Agent

Ken Camroux as 2nd Senior Agent

Mitch Davis as Stealth Man

MULDER'S WORLD FALLS APART AROUND HIM AS EVERY SINGLE PERSON HE TRUSTS SEEMS TO TURN AGAINST HIM IN A CONSPIRACY LEADING TO THE HEART OF THE MYSTERY HE CHASES.

When a computer hacker breaks into the most secret files of the Department of Defense, he uncovers a secret going back to the end of World War II. Mulder is drawn in as he is handed what may be the ultimate proof of extraterrestrial existence, government conspiracy and the fate of his sister. But his increasingly irrational behavior alarms Scully, who must save him from himself as his actions take him farther and farther from the tenuous hold the Bureau has on him, into the realms of the most extreme possibility. The conspirators Mulder has fought against emerge with a vengeance, threatening the lives not only of Mulder's family but of Mulder himself in a season-finale cliff-hanger, the first of a three-part series.

Chris Carter himself appears in a cameo (his acting debut) as one of Scully's interrogators in Skinner's office.

Director R.W. Goodwin makes a cameo appearance as a gardener.

On Mulder's screen, as the gibberish scans by, you can see the line "do-ray-me-fa-so-la-todo" (5 lines under the Department of Defense heading).

The tagline changes for the third time to "EL 'AANIGOO 'AHOOT'E", which roughly translates as "The truth is out there" in Navajo.

Nope, that boxcar wasn't actually buried in New Mexico but in good old British Columbia. To achieve the proper look, a rock quarry was painted red with 1,600 gallons of red paint and mixed with composition shots. Voila, New Mexico. Fooled _you_, didn't it? Me too.

Personal notes: What a season ender !!! Not only did we have all summer to fret about how Mulder was going to get out of that boxcar (an answer we'd STILL like!), but we were forced to deal with Cancer Man having a working relationship with Mulder's father, Bill. Of course, Bill never had a chance to explain it all to Mulder as he gets killed by....looks like Krycek right? Maybe, we're still debating who else may have been in that shower...or whether it was really an alien shape-shifter!

This episode is the beginning of our long journey towards the truth about smallpox vaccinations and alien/human hybrids. More questions come up in part two "The Blessing Way" and part three "Paper Clip". Such questions upon questions, where will it end? Who cares, I'm in for the long-haul, however long that may be!

Albert Hosteen: "Leave the snakes alone today, they'll be angry and afraid."

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Thinker: "BITCH! Beautiful!" (as he gains access via computer hacking)

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Mulder: (to Lonegunmen) "I'm not feeling well. I didn't sleep last night. Really not in the mood or

the Three Stooges."

Frohike: "I don't think we've been followed."

Mulder: "Who would follow YOU?"

Byers: "Multinational black opps unit. Code name Garnett."

Langly: "Trained killers. School of the America's alumni."

Mulder: "You boys been defacing library books again?"

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Thinker: "I..I don't want you to know my real name. I..I just don't think it's that important that you know."

Mulder: "Sounds like a line I used in a bar once."

Thinker: "Look, I'm sorry about the wait but I kinda got this ninja party shaking my butt."

Mulder: "Why? What've you got?"

Thinker: "Well, if I'm correct, I got the original defense department's UFO intelligence files. Everything from the 1940's and up."

Mulder: "Everything?"

Thinker: "Everything. Roswell, MJ12 and beyond."

Mulder: "You've read them?"

Thinker: "Not entirely. I downloaded all I could and then I split. I mean, I knew that these guys would be after me."

Mulder: "What makes you think they know who you are?"

Thinker: "I didn't take any precautions. I mean I... I didn't even expect to get inside." (he hands Mulder a package)

Mulder: "You know they always denied that these files even existed. What do you want from me?"

Thinker: "I want the truth. And I want you to promise that those rat bastards answer to the people."

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Mulder: "Are you familiar with the 10 Commandments, Scully?"

Scully: "You want me to recite them?"

Mulder: "Just number 4, the one about obeying the Sabbath. The part where God made heaven and earth but didn't bother to tell anybody about his side projects?"

Scully: "What are you talking about?"

Mulder: "The biggest lie of all." (Mulder's computer screen says "Department Of Defense. Top Secret.")

Scully: "What is this?"

Mulder: "The Holy Grail. The original defense department files. Hard evidence that the government has known about the existance of extraterrestrials for over fifty years."

Scully: "Where did you get this?"

Mulder: "Your friendly neighborhood anarchist. (the screen shows a strange code) I don't believe this. This is just gibberish. (he stands up and hits a pencil holder) Damn it. I'm so sick of this crap, BS and double talk. I can't believe this."

Scully: "Mulder, this may not be gibberish."

Mulder: "It's a joke Scully, it's a bad joke."

Scully: "I think it's just encrypted and I think I recognise it. It looks like Navajo. It was used in World War 2. My father told me it was the only code the Japanese couldn't break, I... I remember the long strings of consonants."

Mulder: "Well can you find out?"

Scully: "Well only a handful of people can decipher it."

Mulder: "Then find one of 'em." (he goes to walk out)

Scully: "Mulder, are you okay?"

Mulder: "Yeah, I just haven't been sleeping."

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Bill Mulder: "No one was supposed to know."

Cancer Man: "Who could have predicted the future Bill? That the computers that you and I only dreamed of, would someday be home appliances capable of the most technical espionage."

Bill Mulder: "The files should have been destroyed."

Cancer Man: "They should have, but they weren't. Regret is an inevitable consequence of life."

Bill Mulder: "How do you know my son has them?"

Cancer Man: "The man who stole them has come forward."

Bill Mulder: "Oh God."

Cancer Man: "As always we maintain plausible denial. The files are only as real as their possible authentication."

Bill Mulder: "My name is in those files."

Cancer Man: The files have been encrypted, of course. We have a certain luxury of time. We endeavoured to prevent that fact from ever coming to light."

Bill Mulder: "You wouldn't... harm him?"

Cancer Man: "I've protected him this long, haven't I? Your son has been provident in the alliances that he's created. The last thing we need is a martyr in a crusade."

Bill Mulder: "But if he should, learn of my involvement..."

Cancer Man: "You're your own man Bill. You always have been. But I strongly encourage you in that event, to deny everything. It's good to see you again Bill. You look well."

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Mulder: "I came home. Must be running a fever. Maybe it's the threat of being burned at the stake."

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Scully takes the tape to a Navajo Woman to help decipher it

Scully: "Can you tell me which words you do recognise?"

Navajo Woman: "This word, it means goods, merchandise. And this one means vaccination. They're both modern words which is why they stand out."

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Bill Mulder: "It's... it's so clear now. Simple. It was so complicated then. The, the choices that needed to be made."

Mulder: "What choices? Dad..."

Bill Mulder: "You're a smart boy Fox. You're smarter than I ever was."

Mulder: "About what?"

Bill Mulder: "Your politics are yours, you've never thrown in. The minute you do that, their doctrines become yours and you can be held responsible."

Mulder: "You're talking about your work in the state department."

Bill Mulder: "You're going to learn of things... Fox, you're going to hear the words and they'll come to make sense to you."

Mulder: "What words?"

Bill Mulder: "The merchandise. Look I, I've been taking some medication. You'll have to excuse me for a moment."

Bill goes to the bathroom and opens a medicine cabinet. From the reflection in the mirror, Krycek is seen in the shower. A gun shot is heard and Mulder runs into the bathroom.

Mulder: "Dad? Dad. Dad.. (he hears tires screech) Oh dad..."

Bill Mulder: "Forgive me..." (Bill Mulder dies)

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On the phone, Mulder has woken up to find his gun missing, Scully is running ballistics tests on it Mulder: "You took my gun. You think I did it don't you?"

Scully: "I took your gun to run it through ballistics to try and clear you, Mulder."

Mulder: "Well, why didn't you ask me?"

Scully: "You had a temperature of 102 last night, I didn't want to wake you."

Mulder: "What, were you afraid that I was gonna shoot you too?"

Scully: "Mulder, I'm being called into Skinner's office this afternoon, they're gonna want answers and I'd like some good ones to give them."

Mulder: "So you can clear your conscience and your name?! You've been making reports on me since the beginning, Scully, taking your LITTLE NOTES!"

Scully: "Mulder, you're sick, you're not thinking straight, I'm on your side. You know that."

Mulder: "Look, you have my files and you have my gun. Don't ask me for my trust."

Scully: "Mul..." (he hangs up on her)

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Mulder: "You shot me!"

Scully: "Yes, I did. You didn't give me much choice. You were about to kill Krycek."

Mulder: "Why'd you shoot ME? HE'S the one..."

Scully: "If he is, then his weapon is probably the same one that killed your father."

Mulder: "What are you talking about?"

Scully: "If you killed Krycek with that weapon there would have been no way to prove that you didn't kill your father. I'm sorry about your father Mulder, I haven't been able to tell you."

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Albert: "You're lucky she's a good shot."

Mulder: "Or a bad one..."

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Scully: "I'm afraid you're on your own with this. I didn't show up for a meeting with Skinner the day before yesterday and I don't know what the repercussions will be."

Mulder: "You've taken a big risk."

Scully: "I was certain they would have killed you Mulder."

Mulder: "Thank you. Thank you for taking care of me."

Scully: "There's something else. My name is in those files. It appears in the latest entries with Duane Barry's."

Mulder: "In what context?"

Scully: "It's not clear, but it has something to do with a test. I want you to find out Mulder. I need you to."

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Mulder and Albert Hosteen are driving in a car

Mulder: "You said you knew I was coming."

Albert: "In the desert, things find a way to survive. Secrets are like this too. They push their way up through the sands of deception so that men can know them. Here, this is my house."

Mulder: "But why me?"

Albert: "You are prepared to accept the truth aren't you, to sacrifice yourself to it."

Mulder: "I don't understand."

Albert: "There was a tribe of indians who lived here more than 600 years ago. Their name was Anasazi, it means ancient aliens. No evidence of their fate exists. Historians say they disappeared without a trace. They say that because they will not sacrifice themselves to the truth."

Mulder: "And what is the truth?"

Albert: "Nothing disappears without a trace."

Mulder: "You think they were abducted."

Albert: "By visitors who come here still." (Albert gets out of the car, Mulder follows him)

Mulder: "What's buried out there?"

Albert: "Lies. You will see for yourself." (Mulder gets on the back of Eric's bike)

Eric: "It's through these rocks. It's down there." (Mulder climbs down the rockface and his cell phone rings)

Mulder: "Mulder."

Cancer Man: "You're a hard man to reach."

Mulder: "Not hard enough apparently."

Cancer Man: "Where are you?"

Mulder: "I'm at the Betty Ford center, where are you?"

Cancer Man: "I need to talk to you, Mr. Mulder, in person. There are some things to explain."

Mulder: "I'll save the government the plane fare, I just need to know which government that is."

Cancer Man: "Your father may have told you things, Mr. Mulder. I should warn against taking those things at face value."

Mulder: "Yeah, which things are those?"

Cancer Man: "He was never an opponent of the project. In fact he authorised it. That's what he couldn't live with."

Mulder: "No, he couldn't live with it because you had him killed."

Cancer Man: "We weren't involved in that."

Mulder: "Now listen to me, you black lunged son of a bitch, I'm gonna expose you and your project, your time is over."

Cancer Man: "Expose anything and you only expose your father." (Mulder hangs up, Cancer Man gets out of a car and climbs into a helicopter)

Black Opps Guy 1: "Sir, we got a co-ordinate on F we're ready to go."

Cancer Man: "Let's go."

Black Opps Gut 2: "Need a cigarette?"

The helicopter takes off. Back at the reservation Mulder uncovers a plaque in the dirt which reads Sierra Pacific Railroad RTC - 567 480

Eric: "Over here."

Mulder: "This is a boxcar." (Mulder and Eric open the hatch into the boxcar)

Eric: "Refrigeration car."

Scully's cell phone rings

Scully: "Scully."

Mulder: "Yeah, it's me."

Scully: "Where are you?"

Mulder: "Nowhere I ever expected."

Scully: "What do you mean?"

Mulder: "I'm in a boxcar buried inside a quarry. There are bodies everywhere."

Scully: "Bodies?"

Mulder: "Stacked floor to ceiling."

Scully: "What happened to them?"

Mulder: "I don't know."

Scully: "Mulder, in these files I found references to experiments that were conducted here in the US by Axis Power scientists who were given amnesty after the war."

Mulder: "What kind of experiments?"

Scully: "Some kind of tests, on humans. What they referred to as merchandise."

Mulder: "But these aren't human Scully. From the look of it I'd say they were alien."

Scully: "Are you sure?"

Mulder: "I'm pretty damn sure. Wait a sec... (Mulder looks at the arm of one of the 'merchandise') This one... has a smallpox vacination scar."

Scully: "Mulder..."

Mulder: "Oh, my God, Scully, what have they done?" (The hatch closes. A helicopter lands and black opps military rush out)

Black Opps Guy 1: "Move out, get away from there, keep him back. Cover us we're going in. Go."

Cancer Man: "What's your name, boy?"

Black Opps Guy 1: "He's not here."

Cancer Man: "Where's Mulder?! He's here!"

Black Opps Guy 1: "No sir, if he was, he's vanished without a trace."