The X-Files - 2.

writers: Glen Morgan & James Wong

director: R.W. Goodwin

STARRING:

David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder

Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully

Guest Cast:

Frohike ........................ Tom Braidwood

Doctor Daly .................... Jay Brazeau

Nurse G. Owens ................. Nicola Cavendish

Captain William Scully ......... Don Davis

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

Langly ......................... Dean Haglund

Byers .......................... Bruce Harwood

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

Melissa Scully ................. Melinda McGraw

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

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

WHEN SCULLY SUDDENLY REAPPEARS IN A HOSPITAL, HER LIFE HANGS IN THE BALANCE AS MULDER PULLS OUT ALL THE STOPS IN AN EFFORT TO COUNTERACT THE BIZARRE EXPERIMENT THAT IS KILLING HER.

Mulder is shocked when Dana Scully finally reappears -- comatose -- in a Georgetown intensive care unit with no trace of where she has been or how she got there. She lingers on the brink of death, kept alive by machines, as Mulder frantically searches for her kidnappers, for an explanation and for a cure. Evidence points to an exotic and dangerous DNA experiment whose by-products are poisoning Scully, but no one can cure her. All his efforts fail him, leaving Fox Mulder at the end of his resources, his strength and his hope. Finally, he faces a stark choice between bloody revenge and a re-affirmation of his faith in his partner.

On a personal note, one of my top ten faves this one, hence the large amount of quotes. Some very touching, human moments with Mulder, especially when he goes to her hospital room, despite knowing he is throwing away a chance at catching the men responsible. I've included the full speech that Skinner gives Mulder about his Vietnam out-of-body experience because it hit me as telling us more than we knew up to this point about Skinner and his allegiances. And besides, I'm just goofy about Skinner, so deal with it!

A definite nod in our general direction with the comment by Langley about "hopping onto the internet to nit-pick the scientific inaccuracies of Earth2", Xphiles on the net LOVE to nitpick!

The Thinker (talked about here, seen later in Anasazi) is a reference to xphile Yung Jun Kim (also known as 'DuhThinker').

Nurse Owens is named for Glen Morgan's grandmother.

Dana Katherine Scully

1964 - 1994

Loving Daughter & Friend

The spirit is the truth.

--Inscription on Scully's tombstone

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Mrs Scully: "That day in the woods I felt for my daughter. But at this moment, I know how my daughter felt."

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(Scully has returned and Mulder rushes into the hospital room)

Mulder: "Who brought her here? How did she get here?"

Nurse: "Sir, will you please ..."

Mulder: (shouting) "How did she get here?"

Nurse: "Ms Scully was in this condition when I arrived for the evening shift. If you'll step outside, perhaps Dr. Daly ..."

Mulder: "Is that Daly? Are you Dr. Daley? What's going on? How the hell did she get here?"

Daly: "Would you settle down .."

Mulder: "Was it paramedics, FBI, military? Answer me right now!"

Daly: "I ..."

Mulder: "What, you're telling me she just appeared?"

Daly: "Sir .."

Mulder: "Who did this to her?!"

Daly: "Sir .."

Mulder: "I want to see her admission forms. (starts searching main desk) Who did this to her? I want to see what else they've done. (security guards drag Mulder away) Listen, if you're hiding anything, I swear, I will do *anything*, whatever it takes, I will find out what they did to her!"

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Mulder: (to Margaret) "She doesn't want to live this way."

Dr Daly: (to Mulder) "You signed the will as her witness."

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Melissa: "I was told not to call you Fox."

Mulder: "By who?"

Melissa: "Dana, just now."

Mulder: "Dana talked to you just now? If she talked, the EEG would have moved."

Melissa: "Her mind is here. (Mrs Scully walks in) Hi Mom."

Mrs Scully: "I'm glad you could come Melissa."

Mulder: "You're Scully's sister."

Melissa: "Dana's choosing whether to remain or move on. (Mrs Scully walks off) You can feel her, here. (places hands above Scully). Here."

(we see Scully in a rowboat, tied to the shore, Mulder and Melissa on the wharf, a nurse figure, smaller than the others, in the distance)

Mulder: "She's not here."

Melissa: "No, your anger ... your fear's blocking your positive emotions she needs to feel"

Mulder: "I need to do more than just wave my hands in the air."

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Nurse: "May I help you?"

Frohike: (with flowers) "Dana Scully please."

Mulder: "Frohike?!"

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Byers: "Good work sneakin' out these charts..." (Scully's medical charts)

Frohike: "Tucked them in my pants."

Mulder: "There's plenty of room down there."

Langly: "You look down, Mulder? Tell you what, you're welcome to come over Saturday night. We're all hoppin' on the Internet to nit-pick the scientific inaccuracies of Earth 2..."

Mulder: "I'm doing my laundry."

Byers: "The charts show abnormal protein chains in the blood. The amino acids sequences are in combinations I've never seen before. I've downloaded Scully's medical data to the nearest Lone Gunman."

Frohike: "He goes by the name "The Thinker"."

Byers: "The guy's a hacking genius." (stuff appears on the computer screen)

Mulder: "What?"

Byers: "The Thinker reports that the protein chains are the byproducts of branched DNA."

Mulder: "Branched DNA?"

Langly: "The cutting edge of genetic engineering."

Byers: "The biological equivalent of a silicon microchip."

Langly: "This is way beyond cutting edge. This is technology 50 years down the line."

Mulder: "What's it used for?"

Frohike: "Could be a tracking system."

Byers: "Developmental stages of a biological marker."

Mulder: "You mean a high tech identity card?"

Langly: "Or something as insidious as grafting a human to something ...inhuman."

Byers: "Good theories, gentlemen, but all for naught. This branched DNA is inactive. Waste product. Whoever was experimenting with Scully is finished. Now it's nothing more than a biological poison."

Mulder: "Will she live?" (Lone Gunmen look uneasily at each other)

Byers: "Um, her immune system has been decimated, and uh ..I doubt even a healthy human body has the ability to fight this. Mulder, there's nothing you can do."

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(in the hospital car-park)

Mr X: "I didn't expect you here until after visiting hours."

Mulder: "There was a man, he took Scully's blood."

Mr X: "Forget him."

Mulder: "Get that gun out of my face."

Mr X: "This high capacity compact Sig Sauer 40 caliber weapon is pointed at your head to stress my insistence that your search for who put your partner on that respirator desist immediately."

Mulder: "You ignore my call for help and you expect me to do what you say?!"

Mr X: "You got *him* killed. (refers to Deep Throat) You got her killed. That's not going to happen to me. You're my tool, do you understand? I come to you when I need you. Right now you're heading in a direction that can lead them right here."

Mulder: "What the hell are you talking about?"

Mr X: "You're not supposed to know. That's the point."

Mulder: "I owe her more than just sitting around doing nothing."

Mr X: "She was a good soldier, Mulder. But there's nothing you can do to bring her back."

Mulder: "She's not dead."

Mr X: "Listen to you. Listen. You're a damn schoolboy, Mulder. You have no idea, no idea."

Mulder: "OK, then tell me. Tell me."

Mr X: "I used to be you. I was where you are now. But you're not me, Mulder. I don't think you have the heart. Walk away. Grieve for Scully. And then never look back. You will be able to live with yourself Mulder. On the day you die."

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Mulder: "It's possible branched DNA can be treated with designer anti-biotics."

Dr Daly: "Agent Mulder, I don't know where you developed this bizarre theory, but I do believe you are in no position to continue ..."

Mulder: "You've never provided an answer as to why she's here and what's wrong with her. We need to study her."

Melissa: "She's not a piece of evidence."

Mulder: "She's here because of unnatural circumstances."

Melissa: "She's dying. That's perfectly natural."

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Mulder: "That's very politically correct."

Melissa: "That's very human."

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Cancer Man: "If you're having trouble sitting on Mulder, Assistant Director, Skinner, I'm sure you know that we would have no trouble."

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Skinner: "Yeah, come in. Sit down. I called you right up here because of rumors about an incident at the hospital last night?"

Mulder: "Is this about the tooth that was found in the cafeteria Jell-O?"

Skinner: "The rumor has it that you were involved? In the laundry room?"

Mulder: "No sir?"

Skinner: "A man was executed, Agent Mulder."

Mulder: "I was with Scully."

Skinner: "Traces of her blood were found at the scene."

Mulder: "May I see the police report?"

Skinner: "There is no police report of this incident, Agent Mulder, and there is no body. You know that."

Mulder: "Since I am unfamiliar with any such incident, sir, no, how would I know that?"

Skinner: "Knock it off!"

Mulder: "How does it feel? Constant denial of everything. Questions answered with a question?"

Skinner: "I want to know what happened, dammit!"

Mulder: "Him! That's what happened. Cancer Man! He's responsible for what's happened to Scully."

Skinner: "How do you know that?"

Mulder: "It's a rumor... Who is he?"

Skinner: "It's not your..."

Mulder: "Oh, you can have it all, my badge, you can have the X-Files. Just tell me where he is."

Skinner: "And then what? He sleeps with the fishes? We're not the Mafia, Agent Mulder. I know it's easy to forget it, but we work for the Department of Justice."

Mulder: "THAT'S what I want."

Skinner: "Agent Scully was a fine officer. More than that, I liked her. I respected her. We all know the field we play on and we all know what can happen in the course of the game. If you were unprepared for all the potentials, then you shouldn't step on the field."

Mulder: "What if ... I knew the potential consequences but I never told her."

Skinner: "Then you're as much to blame for her condition as ... 'Cancer Man'."

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(Dream sequence: Scully's dad comes along, Dana lying on a table)

William Scully: "Hello Starbuck. It's Ahab. People would say to me, "Life is short. Kids, they grow up fast. Before you know it, it's over." I never listened. To me, life went at a proper pace. There were many rewards until the moment that I knew, I understood, I would never see you again, my little girl. And my life felt as if it had been the length of one breath, one heartbeat. I never knew how much I loved my daughter until I could never tell her. At that moment, I would have traded every medal, every commendation, every promotion, for one more second with you. We'll be together again, Starbuck. But not now. Soon."

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Nurse Owens: "Dana, I know death is at arm's reach tonight, but Dana, your time is not over."

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(Mulder threating Cancer Man with a handgun)

Mulder: "Sit down!"

Cancer Man: "How did you find me?"

Mulder: "Tonight I ask the questions and you're going to answer them you son of a bitch."

Cancer Man: "Don't try and threaten me, Mulder. I've watched presidents die."

Mulder: "Why her? Why her and not me? Answer me!!"

Cancer Man: "I like you. I like her too, which was why she was returned to you."

Mulder: "You should be the one to die."

Cancer Man: "Why? Look at me - no wife, no family, some power. I'm in the game because I believe what I'm doing is right."

Mulder: "Right?! Who are you to decide what's right?"

Cancer Man: "Who are YOU ? If people were to know of the things I know, it would all fall apart. I told Skinner you shot the man in the hospital, but I didn't really believe it. And here you are with a gun to my head. I have more respect for you Mulder. You're becoming a player. You can kill me now but you'll never know the truth. (Mulder's finger tightens on the trigger but slowly releases it) That's why I'll win. Don't worry. This will be our little secret. We wouldn't want others to start rumors."

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(Mulder has resigned and is packing up his office)

Skinner: "When I started out this room was where they kept the copier."

Mulder: "At least back then it wasn't just wasted space."

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Skinner: "When I was 18, I went to Vietnam. I wasn't drafted Mulder, I enlisted in the marine corp the day of my 18th birthday. I did it out of blind faith. I did it because I believed that it was the right thing to do. I don't know, maybe I still do. Three months into my tour, a 10 year old North Vietnamese boy walked into camp, covered with grenades. And I blew his head off from a distance of ten yards. I lost my faith. Not in my country or in myself, but in everything. There was just no point to anything anymore. When out on patrol we were caught, and everyone, everyone fell, I mean everyone. I looked down at my body, from outside of it. I didn't recognize it at first. I watched the VCs strip my uniform, take my weapon, and I remained, in this thick jungle. Peaceful, unafraid. Watching my good friends, watching myself. In the morning the corpsmen arrived and put me in a body bag in Talmad, I guess they found a pulse, I don't know. I awoke in a Saigon hospital two weeks later. I'm afraid to look any further beyond that experience. You? You are not."

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Skinner: "Agent Mulder, every day, every life is in danger. That's just life."

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Mr. X: "Your plane ticket..."

Mulder: "We barely know each other..."

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(Mulder waits in the dark in his apartment for the men due to come trash the place)

Melissa: "Why is it so dark in here?"

Mulder: "Because the lights aren't on."

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Melissa: "I don't have to be psychic to see that you're in a very dark place."

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Melissa: "Only the light..."

Mulder: "Oh, enough with the harmonic convergence crap. You're not saying anything to me."

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Melissa: "You know, just because it's positive and good, doesn't mean it's silly or trite."

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(at the hospital, Scully has regained consciousness)

Mrs Scully: "Hello, Fox."

Scully: "Not Fox, *Mulder*."

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Mulder: "I brought you something... Superstars of the Superbowls."

Scully: "I knew there was a reason to live."

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Scully: "Mulder, I had the strength of your beliefs."