The X-Files - 2.

US Airdate: October 21, 1994

writer: Paul Brown

director: Michael Lange

STARRING:

David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder

Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully

Guest Cast:

Cancer Man .................... William B. Davis

Margaret Scully ................ Sheila Larken

Agent Alex Krycek .............. Nicholas Lea

Asst. Director Walter S. Skinner ..... Mitch Pileggi

Duane Barry .................... Steve Railsback

Mr. X .......................... Steven Williams

MULDER BATTLES HIS OWN SUPERIORS AND ALLIES IN A DESPERATE RACE TO RESCUE SCULLY FROM A KIDNAPPER.

Searching for Dana Scully, Mulder must struggle against opposition within the Bureau as he races against time. Mulder tracks her kidnapper, Duane Barry, to the site of his earlier abduction; a death-defying race on a tramway leads Mulder to Barry's car and to Scully's bloodstained necklace. But though he nabs Duane Barry, there is no trace of Scully. While he interrogates the half-crazed Duane Barry as to her whereabouts, shadowy forces within the Bureau itself --including Mulder's new partner, Alex Krycek -- are maneuvering to thwart his efforts. In the end, Mulder is left only with questions, with no clue to Scully's whereabouts. Second part of three-parter that ends with "One Breath".

Contains infamous playing of the song "Red Right Hand" as Duane drives car, stopped by cop, kills him

At the time of this ep, Gillian Anderson was very pregnant with her daughter, Piper, giving birth a few weeks after filming, so excuse her huge tummy during the abduction scenes okay?

It's 11:23 when Mulder plays Scully's frightening message on his machine, so was she taken at 11:21?

This ep contains our first clues concerning Krycek and his allegiance. Hmmm...just who IS he working for?

Tagline: Deny Everything

(Krycek and Mulder are driving in a car and Mulder almost falls asleep at the wheel)

Krycek: "The Department of Transportation reports that over 10,000 accidents are caused each year by sleepiness."

Mulder: "Did they mention how many of those people were put to sleep listening to their statistics?"

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(Mulder interrogating Duane)

Mulder: "Now what happened after you took her out of the trunk?"

Duane: "We walked a little ways up to the top of the mountain right where you found me."

Mulder: "And where did you take her?"

Duane: "I didn't. They did. That was the deal. Her instead of me."

Mulder: (deathly quiet voice) "Did you kill her?"

Duane: "No. I swear!"

Mulder: "How did you get this?" (indicating burns on face)

Duane: "From the ship?"

Mulder: "What ship?"

Duane: "You saw it!"

Mulder: "I saw a helicopter."

Duane: "They were here. I'm not lying to ya. That's them!! (referring to men in suits in the window) They know what happened."

Mulder: "Sit down Duane."

Duane: "No! You gotta stop them. Hurry, hurry they were right outside, they ..."

Mulder: "Duane! Settle down!" (grabs Duane, slams him on the table)

Duane: "They'll tell you where she is, the military's in on it, just ask them."

Mulder: (notices strands of Scully's hair stuck to Duane's wrist) (yells) "Did you hurt her?! Did you hurt her?!"

Duane: "No!"

Mulder: "What is this?" (shows the hair to Duane, then starts to strangle him)

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(Krycek and Cancer Man hold covert meeting in car park)

Krycek: "Skinner's expecting my report on the Duane Barry incident. What do I tell him?"

Cancer Man: "The truth."

Krycek: "What do you mean?"

Cancer Man: "Confirm Mulder's version of events. You earned his trust. The object now is to preserve it."

Krycek: "For how much longer?"

Cancer Man: "Until this assignment is completed."

Krycek: "If Mulder's such a threat, why not eliminate him?"

Cancer Man: "That's not policy."

Krycek: "It's not? After what you had me do?"

Cancer Man: "Kill Mulder and you risk turning one man's religion into a crusade."

Krycek: "What about Scully?"

Cancer Man: "We've taken care of that."

Krycek: "How?"

Cancer Man: "We tell you only what you need to know."

Krycek: "I think I have a right to know."

Cancer Man: "You have no rights, only orders to be carried out. If you have a problem with that we'll make other arrangements."

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(Mulder in meeting with FBI superiors)

Mulder: "There is another plausible cause of death."

Skinner: "Which is ..?"

Mulder: "Poisoning by ingestion or injection."

Skinner: "Poisoning?"

Mulder: "You won't find that on the Navy pathologist's report."

Skinner: "What are you saying Agent Mulder?"

Mulder: "That the autopsy is incomplete. That the military covered up the toxilogical findings."

Skinner: "And why would they do that?"

Mulder: "Because they may know where Scully is."

Man in suit: "Why are you so paranoid, Mulder?"

Mulder: "Oh I don't know. Maybe it's because I find it hard to trust anybody."

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(Mulder bumps into Mr X outside the Senator's office)

Mr X: "You wasted a trip, Mulder. There's nothing the Senator can do for you now. Not without committing political suicide."

Mulder: "Why? Do they have something on him?"

Mr X: "They have something on everyone Mr Mulder. The question is when they'll use it."

Mulder: "I need his help."

Mr X: "No one can help you Mulder. Your channels of appeal and recourse are closed."

Mulder: "Your predecessor could have helped me. (pause) You know, don't you. You know what's happened to her."

Mr X: "This reaches beyond any of us Agent Mulder. Even my predecessor."

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Mulder: "I want an answer."

Mr X: "Why kill Duane Barry if there was nothing to hide?"

Mulder: "You mean the government."

Mr X: "There are no answers for you Mr Mulder. They have only one policy: Deny Everything."

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Skinner: "I can't protect you Agent Mulder. Past a point this will become a larger Bureau matter."

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(Mulder explains his theory to Skinner)

Skinner: "Why?"

Mulder: "Because Agent Scully got too close to whatever it is they're trying to deny, because she had hard and damning evidence - that metallic implant in her possession. Or her termination would prevent further involvement with me and my work."

Skinner: "Do you think Agent Scully is dead?"

Mulder: "I don't know. How far do you think they'd go? What do you know about Agent Krycek."

Skinner: "I didn't give him the assignment, I ... (phone rings) Yes, thank-you (hangs up) Agent Krycek didn't show up for work this morning. His home number has been disconnected."

Mulder: "That's it? He's gone? He just disappears into the woodwork?"

Skinner: "So it would appear."

Mulder: "Who are these people, who can just murder with impunity and we can't do anything about it?"

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Skinner: "Let it go Agent Mulder."

Mulder: "Like hell!"

Skinner: "There's nothing you can do."

Mulder: "What can YOU do about it?!"

Skinner: "There's only one thing I can do Agent Mulder. As of right now I'm reopening the X-Files. That's what they fear the most."

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(Mulder handing Scully's cross to her mother)

Mulder: "I found this. It's something I never considered about her. If she was ... if she was such a skeptic, why did she wear that?"

Margaret Scully: "I gave it to her on her fifteenth birthday." (presses cross into Mulder's hand)

Mulder: "Don't you want to keep it?"