The X-Files - 3.

French title: Monstre D'utilité Publique(suite)
translation: Monster of public use (continued)

Italian title: Autopsia di un alieno

US Airdate: December 1, 1995

writer: Frank Spotnitz

director: Rob Bowman

STARRING:

David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder

Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully

Guest Cast:

Brenden Beiser as Agent Pendrell

Colin Cunningham as Escalante

William B. Davis as Cancer Man

Robert Ito as Dr. Shiro Zama aka Dr. Takeo Ishimaru

Stephen McHattie as Red-Haired Man

Michael Puttonen as Conductor

Don S. Williams as Elder

Steven Williams as Mr. X

MULDER BOARDS A TRAIN CARRYING A BOMB AND A MYSTERIOUS QUARANTINE SUBJECT AS SCULLY LEARNS MORE DETAILS OF HER ABDUCTION.

At a remote leper colony in West Virginia, leprosy victims watch in hiding as other patients are rounded up by a death squad and systematically murdered. Aboard a speeding train, Mulder searches for the Japanese doctor in charge of the mysterious being he saw loaded on a quarantine car -- a doctor whom Scully identifies from photographs as having been present during her abduction. When Mulder finds the man garroted in a bathroom, he goes in search of the killer still on the train. Scully links the Japanese doctor to a West Virginia leper colony, and discovers a mysterious informant with a tale of human medical experimentation dating back to World War II. Mulder's belief in alien hybridization experiments is tested against Scully's conviction that the evidence points to extensive medical atrocities. Only Scully's memories and cryptic messages from X can save Mulder who is trapped in a sealed train car with a bomb, a cold-blooded killer, and an occupant who may or may not be a human/alien hybrid. Part 2 of 2.

The number combination Mulder uses to free himself from the boxcar is #101331 (10/31 is Chris Carter's birthday)

Tagline: Apology Is Policy

Scully: "I want to know what's on that train."

Mr. X: "It doesn't matter now."

Scully: "Our government is operating a secret railroad. They put something on that train in West Virginia. Something living!"

Mr. X: "What more is there to know?"

Scully: "What the Japanese have to do with it. How a man named Ishimaru is involved."

Mr. X: "That I don't know." (he turns to leave, she pulls out her gun, grabs him and points it at him)

Scully: "Don't tell me you don't know you smug son of a b...!" (he grabs the gun from her, too fast for her to react, she looks at him in shock)

Mr. X: "There are limits to my knowledge."

Scully: "I don't have time for your convenient ignorance!"

Mr. X: "What are you gonna do? Shoot me? Just like the men that shot your sister?"

Scully: "You know them too?"

Mr. X: "You wanna know what's on that train? Who killed your sister? You find out what they put in your neck."

Scully: "The implant."

Mr.X: "It holds more than I could ever tell you. Maybe everything you need to know."

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Mulder: (the journals are in Japanese) "Why did I study French in high school?"

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Mulder: "Have you ever used a gun before?"

Conductor: "No." (eyes wide with fright)

Mulder: "I just want you to point it at him. (clicks empty gun) Don't pull the trigger. That will kinda give away the game."

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Scully: "Well done, Agent Pendrell. Keep up the good work."

Pendrell: "Hey, thanks. Keep it up yourself!... (Scully leaves) ... 'Keep it up yourself' .. what a doof."

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Woman: "Ooh, God. He's dead!"

Mulder: "Sshh! He's just got a little motion sickness. I'm gonna go find a doctor. Why don't you and the young man just find another bathroom?"

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Mulder: "The NSA? Since when did they start issuing you guys piano wire instead of guns?"

Red Haired Man: "Since we learned there's a bomb on this train."

Mulder: "There's something on this train but it's not a bomb."

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Elder: "This was one of the most frightening places on the earth. A place where society sent its monsters to live in shame and isolation. Now, their disease is all but conquered. Science has eliminated thousands of years of misery."

Scully: "I've seen your methods of elimination. What happened to the man who was with me in the forest? What about the people who were in this room?"

Elder: "They had been exposed."

Scully: "Exposed to what?"

Elder: "The same thing all these victims have been exposed to him... victims of an inhuman project run by a man named... Zama."

Scully: "You mean Ishimaru. You hid him here after the war. He stayed here, and he continued his experiments."

Elder: "The ruler of the world is no longer the country with the bravest soldiers, but the greatest scientists. Unfortunately, Ishimaru began to conduct his work in secret, not sharing with those who had risked much in giving him his asylum."

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Scully: (on phone to Mulder) "Mulder we've gotten involved with something, but it's not at all what you think."

Mulder: "What are you talking about?"

Scully: "Whatever is on that train is not alien."

Mulder: "You're wrong Scully."

Scully: "Mulder, Ishimaru-Zama he was experimenting on innocent human subjects. He'd been doing it for years operating out of a leper colony."

Mulder: "Well, whatever his name was Scully, he's dead. I don't think this has anything to do with lepers."

Scully: "The leper colony was just a front. The tests weren't just on lepers, they were on the homeless, on the insane. They were brought here and they were subjected to diseases and radiation tests."

Mulder: "Who told you this?"

Scully: "The man who handed me the phone."

Mulder: "Well, why do you believe him?"

Scully: "Because of what he's shown me."

Mulder: "What? (pause) What's he shown you?"

Scully: "Mulder I am standing in a train car just like the one on your alien autopsy video. Only I realize that I've been here before."

Mulder: "What are talking about Scully?"

Scully: "This is where they brought me Mulder! This is where they put the implant in my neck, in one of these cars!"

Mulder: "Scully...."

Scully: "It all makes sense Mulder! Ishimaru-Zama he was using the secret railroad to conduct his tests across the country. The women in Allentown, they all remember these cars...."

(phone connection starts breaking up)

Mulder: "Scully? Scully ?!"

Scully: "Can you hear me?"

Mulder: "Yeah. So what are you saying, that Zama's the one who abducted these women?"

Scully: "What I am saying Mulder is that there is no such thing as alien abduction. It is just a smoke-screen happily created by our government to cover up the biggest lie of all."

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Elder: "What's the next stop?"

Scully: "It's not on the map."

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Mulder: "Scully, let me tell you, you haven't seen America till you've seen it from a train."

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Mulder: "What about that thing locked back there? What provisions were made for saving its life?"

Red-Haired Man: "I don't know. I wasn't expected to fail."

Mulder: "You know what it is don't you? You're gonna die for that thing, is it important enough to die for? What is it a plague carrier? A leper?! (no answer as Mulder walks towards him, still bound on the floor) We're both gonna die in here, the difference is I'm gonna die quickly. (cocks trigger on gun aimed at Red-Haired Man) As an employee of the National Security Agency you should know that a gunshot wound to the stomach is probably the most painful and the slowest way to die. But I'm not a very good shot. And when I miss... I tend to miss low."

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Scully: "I think I may have a code for you. I'm watching Zama punch it into a keypad in one of the train cars."

Mulder: "What are you watching?"

Scully: "Your alien autopsy video."

Mulder: "You mean I might get my $29.95's worth after all?"

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Mulder: "They're getting away with it, Scully."

Scully: "They've gotten away with it, Mulder. The bodies at the leper colony have all been removed."

Mulder: "I know what I saw on that train car. It wasn't a leper and it wasn't human."

Scully: "And I know what I saw at that research facility. It was barely recognizable as human. Don't you see Mulder? You're doing their work for them.You're chasing aliens that aren't there, helping them to create a story to cover the shameful truth. And what they can't cover they apologize for. Apology has become policy."

Mulder: "I don't need an apology for the lies. I don't care about the fictions they create to cover their crimes. I want them held accountable for what DID happen. I want an apology for the truth."