The X-Files - 3.

French title: L'épave - suite
translation: The Wreck (continued)

Italian title: L' UFO degli abissi

US Airdate: February 16, 1996

writers: Frank Spotnitz & Chris Carter

director: Kim Manners

STARRING:

David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder

Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully

Guest Cast:

Agent Pendrell ...... Brenden Beiser

Frohike ..... Tom Braidwood

Hispanic Man aka Luis Cardinal ..... Lenno Britos

First Government Man ..... Dmitry Chepovetsky

Armed Man ....... Jeff Chivers

Cancer Man ..... William B. Davis

Major Domo ...... Martin Evans

Nurse ...... Frances Flanagan

Langly ..... Dean Haglund

Byers ...... Bruce Harwood

Alex Krycek ...... Nicholas Lea

Navy Doctor ...... Barry Levy

Agent Caleca ....... Sue Mathew

Agent Fuller ..... Kevin McNulty

Well-Manicured Man ....... John Neville

Sick Crewman ....... Peter Scoular

Elder #1 ...... Don S. Williams

MULDER PURSUES AN ALIEN TRYING TO RETURN TO ITS SHIP, WHILE SCULLY INVESTIGATES THE SHOOTING OF ASSISTANT DIRECTOR SKINNER.

Assistant Director Walter Skinner warns Scully as he is wheeled into surgery that he recognized the man who shot him. Although the Bureau is ready to write the incident off as a random shooting, Scully presses the investigation and discovers that the man who shot Skinner, Luis Cardinal, is the same one who shot her sister. Mulder, meanwhile, is unknowingly escorting an alien life form into the United States, one which is "hiding" inside Alex Krycek. When the pair is run off the road into a ditch by agents of the Cigarette-Smoking Man, Mulder is too dazed to see Krycek kill their assailants by irradiation. Although Krycek flees, Mulder still has the key to Krycek's locker. With the aid of the Lone Gunmen, he recovers--an empty digital tape box. But he discovers a phone number on the package: the phone number of the Well-Manicured Man. Scully meanwhile fears for Skinner's life; she foils an attempt on his life by Luis Cardinal. Mulder, meanwhile, has learned that the cargo salvaged from the sea floor by the "Piper Maru" is being stored in a missile silo in North Dakota; he and Scully arrive and find dead, irradiated soldiers. Knowing Krycek (and the alien inside him) is in the silo, they stalk him through the darkened halls, but are ambushed by the Cigarette-Smoking Man's agents and hustled away. As they are driven off, Krycek kneels on top of a UFO, the alien entity pouring from his eyes and mouth, re-entering its craft. Krycek, still alive, beats on the locked doors in terror, begging to be released.

The number on the silo door where Krycek and the alien craft are being held is 1013 (Chris Carter's birthday).

Crewman: "That thing ...is still down there! The Navy'll deny it, but you've got to make sure the truth gets out. I can trust you to do that, can't I Mr. Mulder?"

Young Bill Mulder: (Mulder looks left, middle man looks left, left man lights up)

Young Cancer Man: "You can trust all of us... "

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Scully: "How bad is he?"

Fuller: "We don't know. He's been in surgery."

Scully: "What happened?"

Caleca: "Looked like some hot-head drew a gun in a coffee shop. Skinner happened to be in the way."

Scully: "What do we have on the shooter?"

Fuller: "We have a description from the waitress. A handgun was recovered in the parking lot, unregistered, no prints. Our guys got 2 partials off the cash register."

Scully: "Hair and fiber?"

Fuller: "This just happened a few hours ago."

Scully: "This is the assistant director who's been shot. We have to make all resources available.

(Skinner is out of surgery, being wheeled by on a gurney) Excuse me. (she goes to see him) How is he?" (puts her hands on Skinner's)

Dr: "He came out of the surgery all right but he's still in a lot of pain."

Skinner: (he holds Scully's hand, and whispers to her) "I've seen him before... the man who shot me."

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Fuller: "How's he doing?"

Scully: "He's on steady Demerol, he's in and out. I thought I asked for guards to be posted outside."

Caleca: "We put in a request with the DC police."

Scully: "This wasn't a random shooting. I want guards posted here and I want them here now!"

Fuller: "I think it's a matter of pulling men on something else."

Scully: "I've heard the excuses. I don't care if you and agent Caleca have to stand in the hallway yourself. This man has to be protected. Okay?!" (she walks away)

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Cancer Man: "What's the prognosis?" (he puts a cigarette in his mouth)

Dr: "It's just a matter of time, this kind of absorption will have a rapid effect on cellular activity, giving rise to the onset of massive and malignant cancers."

Cancer Man (lights his cigarette): "Has anyone been in to see these men?"

Dr: "No, your orders were to isolate them. (Cancer Man looks through the bandages of the sick man, his eyes still move). But I think we should get a specialist in here because, frankly, I've never seen anything like this before."

Cancer Man: "I have."

Dr: "Do you know what caused this?"

Cancer Man: "Have the bodies destroyed." (walks away)

Dr: "But.. but sir...these men aren't dead yet!"

Cancer Man: "Isn't that the prognosis?" (leaves)

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Mulder: (wakes up to Scully's smiling face) "Guess I'm not dead."

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Scully: "Hi. How are you feeling?"

Skinner: "Like someone's been inside my stomach redecorating. What have you turned up on the shooter?"

Scully: "We've determined that the man who shot you was the same man who shot my sister."

Skinner: "I bet you had to work to get that, huh?"

Scully: "Yes I did, you don't seem surprised."

Skinner: "3 men came to see me a few days ago, they warned me about pursuing your sister's murder investigation."

Scully: "Do you realize what you're saying sir?"

Skinner: "I'm not advancing any conspiracy theory here Scully."

Scully: "You're saying, that they closed down my sister's case not because of lack of evidence but because they didn't want us to catch the killer."

Skinner: "You should be very careful about the accusations that you make."

Scully: "The man who shot you.. you said that you've seen him before."

Skinner: "Several months ago, he was one of the men who attacked me in the stairway, with Krycek."

Scully: "He was working with Krycek?"

Skinner: "They're the ones who stole the digital tape from me."

Scully: "Damn it! Krycek, Mulder had him."

Skinner: "Listen to me, anger is a luxury that you cannot afford right now. If you're angry you're gonna make a mistake, and these people will take advantage of that, you've seen how they operate."

Scully: "I'll be ok." (walking out)

Skinner: "Scully.. if you can't keep your head.. it's all right to step away."

Scully: "It's exactly what they want." (leaves)

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Scully: (comes into Mulder's office and notices diving suit hanging up)

Mulder: "It looked great on me in the store..."

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Mulder: "This just wasn't ordinary diesel oil, I think it's um....I think it's a medium, a medium being used by some kind of alien creature that uses it to .. body jump."

Scully: "So you're saying that this stuff has intelligence."

Mulder: "I think that it came off of whatever they pulled from the bottom of the Pacific ocean, it's been waiting 50 years down there for another host, another body to bring it up to the surface."

Scully: "Waiting to jump into the diver and then into the diver's wife..."

Mulder: "And then into Krycek."

Scully: "Krycek?"

Mulder: "I think that Mrs Gauthier went to Hong Kong under the control of this thing (Scully laughs) to find Krycek. I know, I know how it sounds."

Scully: "Is anybody NOT looking for Krycek?"

Mulder: "No, but I think that the 64 thousand dollar question is what is this thing looking for? And now that it's in Krycek, what does it want?"

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(the Lone Gunmen, after ice skating at a public rink, join Mulder after discreetly picking up a package for him; note: can you catch the ice skating/Tonya Harding/Nancy Kerrigan joke?)

Frohike: "Nothin' to it."

Byers: "You should call upon our services more often."

Langly: "We show talent for these G-man activities."

Mulder: "You mean if I want somebody whacked on the knee with a lead pipe?"

Frohike: "Only if you want it done right."

Mulder: (opens case, no tape) "It's gone."

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Well-Manicured Man: "...we'd like an explanation about this business with the assistant director of

the Bureau, Skinner."

Cancer Man: "Random shooting for all I know."

Well-Manicured Man: "They have a waitress, who has given a description of the shooter, they released a composite of his face to the press...(hands him a newspaper, it's the face of the Hispanic-Man)....one of yours, isn't he?"

Cancer Man: "I don't know what to tell you. If he did, he acted on his own."

Well-Manicured Man: "Good lord."

Elder #2: "This is a very serious exposure for us."

Cancer Man: "I'll take care of it."

Well-Manicured Man: "My advice to you sir, is to understand the priority here, get the shooter out of the country as quickly as possible, if the assistant director IDs him, our well placed operatives won't be able to stand in the way of an arrest, compromising beyond repair the secrecy of our work, and the security as you so arrogantly assert of our project's future."

Cancer Man: "It'll be handled."

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Frohike: (wearing special glasses) "I've got something here.. writing somebody wrote on top of the package and left an impression."

Mulder: "Let me see that."

Byers: "Your guys at the FBI turned a major serial murderer with a vestigial pen impression."

Mulder: "Hand me a pencil." (starts rubbing on paper)

Langly: "Your sci-crime guys at the Bureau have a laser there that can measure any change in a surface down to a few nanometers."

Byers: "Actually they can lift perfect impression using magnetic toner and a sheet of mylar an electrostatic device is applied to the specimen, and renders the information, by drawing the toner from the indentation to the mylar surface."

Frohike: "Actually.."

Mulder: "Actually, it's a phone number, New York City area code (212), 555 1012. Now don't drop that (giving the pencil to Frohike) that's a finely calibrated piece of investigative equipment. I gotta make a phone call." (Frohike is puzzled)

Frohike: (looking at pencil) "I'll be damned."

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Well-Manicured Man: "Who gave you this number?"

Mulder: "You probably know. A man named Krycek."

Well-Manicured Man: "Alex Krycek?"

Mulder: "Yeah nice guy, killed my father, you wouldn't happen to know where he is, do you?"

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Fuller: "His name is Luis Cardinal (The Hispanic Man) , native of Nicaragua, school of the America's alumni, career mercenary, apparently impressed a lot of people with his marksmanship during the Iran contra deal."

Scully: "I'll bet."

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Scully: "Keep looking for him."

Fuller: "We.. pretty much exhausted our avenues."

Scully: "What's it gonna take?"

Caleca: "At this point? Other than a sign from God?"

Scully: "I've seen stranger things, believe me."

Man: "I believe she has."

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Well-Manicured Man: "I trust we're all alone."

Mulder: "We're all alone in New York City, sir."

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Well-Manicured Man: "I'm curious, if you've encountered Krycek, why didn't you kill him then?"

Mulder: "Cause he has the tape."

Well-Manicured Man: "Ahh yes, the tape ."

Mulder: "The tape he's been selling those secrets off. (The Well-Manicured Man is surprised) You don't know where he is either, do you? (the Well-Manicured Man smiles) you're looking for him too."

Well-Manicured Man: "Mr Mulder, everyone can be gotten to, certainly, you've no doubt of that...(Mulder walks away) Mr Mulder?"

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Scully: "Federal agent! Stop right there! Are you Luis Cardinal?!! Are you Luis Cardinal?!!"

Cardinale: "Please..."

Scully: "Are you the man that shot my sister?!!! YOU SHOT MY SISTER!!!!"

Cardinale: "Please don't kill me! I can tell you..."

Scully: "TELL ME!!!"

Cardinale: "I can tell you what you want. You want Krycek! I can tell you where he is. Please--please don't shoot me."

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Scully: "There must be 200 silos out here. And if I'm correct they were all filled with concrete in accord with the disarmament treaty when the base was decommissioned."

Mulder: (pulling out gun) "I didn't sign any disarmament treaty.."

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Scully: (in silo) "Where's the concrete?"

Mulder: "Apparently nobody else signed that treaty either."

Scully: "One down, 199 silos to go."

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Mulder: "He's here. You led him here, didn't you?"

Cancer Man: "There's nothing here but holes in the ground Mr Mulder."

Mulder: "Why are you here? Why all these men?"

Cancer Man: "I don't know, you owe me answers."

Mulder: "The UFO's here. That's what Krycek's after, isn't it?"

Cancer Man: "Krycek? Alex Krycek disappeared 5 months ago."

Scully: "We saw bodies in there! (she's taken away) Men with radiation burns!"

Cancer Man: "You saw nothing." (enters the silo)

Mulder: "You won't get away with this! You can't bury the truth!"

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Mulder: "Actually I wanted to talk to you, I wanted to... thank you for everything you did."

Skinner: "You mean me getting shot in the gut?"

Mulder: "You got a shot because you stood up to these people"

Skinner: "I think you're perceiving from a mistaken impression, what I did, I did it because it's my job."

Mulder: "From what I understand, you put your job and your life on the line for Scully."

Skinner: "This isn't my crusade agent Mulder. A woman was murdered, I mistakenly thought that we could bring the man who committed that crime to justice."

Mulder: "What do you mean mistakenly?"

Skinner: "This is what I need to talk to Scully about."

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(at her sister's grave, with Mulder)

Scully: "I was just thinking about something that a man said to me. That the dead speak to us from beyond the grave, that that what's conscience is."

Mulder: "It's interesting, I never thought of it that way."

Scully: "You know I thought... when we found him, this man that killed Melissa, that..that when we brought him to justice, I would feel some kind of closure. But the truth is no court.. no punishment is ever enough."

Mulder: "I came here to tell you something (they start walking away) there may be some justice, just not the kind you're looking for."

Scully: "What are you talking about?"

Mulder: "They found this man, Louis Cardinal, dead in his cell."

Scully: "How?"

Mulder: "They made it look like a suicide. The men he worked for couldn't take the chance that he point his finger at them."

Scully: "And what about Krycek?"

Mulder: "Oh he was there. I know that."

Scully: "You think they got to him too."

Mulder: "I don't know, but if they haven't they will. I doubt it'll weight on their consciences though."

Scully: "I think the dead are speaking to us Mulder, demanding justice. Maybe that man was right. Maybe we bury the dead alive."