The X-Files - 2.

writer: Chris Carter

director: Daniel Sackheim

STARRING:

David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder

Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully

Guest Cast:

Detective Norman ............... Freddy Andeiuci

Agent Brisentine ............... Marc Bauer

Flukeman ....................... Darin Morgan

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

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

AN ATTACK ON A NEW JERSEY SEWER WORKER LEADS MULDER TO SUSPECT A MUTANT LIFE FORM HIDING IN THE BOWELS OF A SEWAGE PLANT.

Assistant Director Walter Skinner sends Mulder to investigate a corpse found in a New Jersey sewer. Still angry about the closing of his X-Files, Mulder confronts his boss over the meaningless, make-work assignments he is being given. But Scully's autopsy of the corpse reveals the presence of a mutated parasite capable of growing to human size. When other workers are attacked by a sewer-dwelling monster, Mulder must track down a killer spawned in the belly of Chernobyl itself.

Notes

Check those credits again...yup, Darin Morgan plays the flukeman! Under all that makeup is one of the finest writers the show ever had, Emmy-winning author of "Humbug", "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose", "War of the Coprophages", and "Jose Chung's 'From Outer Space' ". His brother, Glen Morgan, worked on the show "Space: Above and Beyond", and the two shows have borrowed each other's actors frequently.

The autopsy Scully performs is case number DP112148 (Chris Carter's wife, Dori Pierson, initials and birthdate) of John Doe number 101356 (Chris Carter's birthdate).

Quotes

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(sailor tells Dmitri to clear blockage in sewage tank)

Dmitri: "Why is this always my job?"

Sailor: "Because you are young. And because it is terrible and smelly work."

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Mulder: (giving seeds to Boze) "Treat yourself."

Agent Boze: "You're flying out of National. Your contact in Newark is Detective Norman."

Mulder: "How'd I draw the assignment?"

Agent Boze: "Assistant Director Skinner made the request."

Mulder: "Skinner requested me?"

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Mulder: (steps in sewer) "Ugh!"

Det. Norman: "Watch yourself."

Mulder: "Yeah, wouldn't want to *step* into anything."

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Norman: "They say it cuts the smell if you don't breathe through your mouth."

Mulder: "They lied."

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Det. Norman: "Would you like us to turn the body over?"

Mulder: "No, I'll take your word on it."

Det. Norman: "Hey, Agent Mulder! What would you like us to do with the body?"

Mulder: (yells) "Wrap it up and send it to the FBI care of Assistant Director Skinner."

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Skinner: "Is there a problem, Agent Mulder?"

Mulder: "Yeah, there is."

Skinner: "Then make an appointment."

Mulder: "It's kinda hard to make an appointment when you're up to your ass in raw sewage being jerked from one meaningless assignment to another."

Skinner: "Excuse me?"

Mulder: "What's my next punishment? Scrubbing the bathroom floors with a toothbrush?"

Skinner: "You're way out of line, Agent Mulder."

Mulder: "So I gathered."

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Scully: "Is this seat taken?"

Mulder: "No, but I should warn you, I'm experiencing violent impulses."

Scully: "Well, I'm armed, so I'll take my chances. I hear you really endeared yourself to Assistant Director Skinner today."

Mulder: "You know sometimes it just gets hard to smile through it when they ask you to bend down and grab your ankles, you know?"

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Mulder: ..."There's nothing to it."

Scully: "There's a dead body, isn't there?"

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(on Mulder's mobile phone)

Mr X: "You have a friend at the FBI."

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(Mulder looks at flukeworm)

Mulder: "How big can these things get?"

Scully: (zoned out for a second) "Sorry, for a second there it felt like old times."

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Scully: "Apparently it had attached itself to the bile duct and was feeding off the liver."

Mulder: "LOVE-ly."

Scully: "Believe it or not something like 40 million people are infected worldwide."

Mulder: "This isn't where you tell me some terrible story about sushi, is it?"

Scully: "Well maybe you'd rather hear what you could catch from a nice rare steak?"

Mulder: "So, what? The murder weapon was a top sirloin?"

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Scully: "...they are not creatures that go around attacking people."

Mulder: "Well, that's good. I didn't want to have to tell Skinner that his murder suspect was a giant bloodsucking worm..."

Scully: "No..."

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(Mulder at the sewer)

Reed: "City runs on several different systems. Some new, some built around the turn of the century. Almost as old as Charlie here. Isn't that right, Charlie?"

Charlie: "Ah, yes sir."

Mulder: "And all the sewage comes through this plant?"

Reed: "560,000 people a day call my office on the porcelain telephone."

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Reed: "Wouldn't surprise me. No telling what's been breeding down there in the past 100 years."

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(Mulder and Scully looking at the fluke)

Scully: "Platyhelminthes are often hermaphroditic. Mulder, this is amazing. Its vestigial features appear to be parasitic, but it has primate physiology. Where the hell did it come from?"

Mulder: "I don't know. But it looks like I'm gonna have to tell Skinner that his suspect is a giant bloodsucking worm after all."

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Scully: "Somebody shoved this under my door. I guess you really do have a friend in the FBI."

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(on Mulder leaving the FBI)

Scully: "I want you to know that I'd consider it more than a professional loss if you decided to leave."

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Mulder: "This is not a man, it's a monster. You can't put it in an institution."

Skinner: "And what do you do with it, Agent Mulder? Put it in a zoo?"

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Skinner: "This should have been an X-File."

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Skinner: "We all take our orders from someone, Agent Mulder."

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Mulder: "Whatta ya got?"

Norman: "Well we got a dead marshall and an escaped prisoner. Other than that we got Bupkis."

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(on Mulder's mobile phone)

Mr X: "Reinstatement of the X-Files must be undeniable."

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Scully: "Is this seat taken?"

Mulder: "No, but I should warn you I may reek a bit of the sewer."

Scully: "I'll take my chances."

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Scully: "Mulder, Nature didn't make this thing. We did..."