The X-Files - 3.

French title: L'épave - 1
translation: The Wreck - 1

Italian title: L' UFO degli abissi

US Airdate: February 9, 1996

writers: Frank Spotnitz & Chris Carter

director: Rob Bowman

STARRING:

David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder

Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully

Guest Cast:

Jeraldine Kallenchuk ...... Jo Bates

Dr. Seizer ...... Paul Batten

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

Commander Johansen ..... Robert Clothier

Medic ..... Russell Ferrier

Waitress ..... Rochelle Greenwood

Alex Krycek ..... Nicholas Lea

World War II Pilot ..... Robert F. Maier

Wayne Morgan ..... Stephen E. Miller

Young Dana ..... Tegan Moss

Navy Base Guard ..... David Neale

Grey-haired Man ..... Morris Panych

Young Johansen ..... Tom Scholte

First Engineer ...... Joel Silverstone

Bernard Gauthier ..... Ari Solomon

Joan Gauthier ...... Kimberly Unger

WHEN A FRENCH SALVAGE SHIP FINDS A LIVING BEING TRAPPED IN A 50 YEAR OLD SUNKEN AIRCRAFT, THE CREW BEGINS TO DIE. MULDER AND SCULLY UNCOVER A DEADLY SECRET DATING BACK TO HIROSHIMA.

The French salvage ship "Piper Maru" finds the remains of a World War II squadron on the bottom of the Pacific ocean -- but not everything trapped inside is dead. The ship takes aboard a being of deadly force, who walks among them in the guise of a human. Mulder and Scully are called in when the Piper Maru's crew begin to die of radiation exposure. Back in Washington, Assistant Director Walter Skinner is warned by members of the "intelligence community" to shut down the investigation into Melissa Scully's murder, but refuses. Scully visits an old family friend and uncovers an old and shameful mystery from the Pacific war. Mulder tracks an enigmatic "salvage broker" to the Far East, where he finds Alex Krycek selling government secrets from the DAT tape he stole from Skinner. Even as Mulder prepares to bring Krycek back to the States, Walter Skinner is gunned down in a DC restaurant -- apparently as a means of closing Melissa Scully's case for good. Part 1 of 2

Drop Dead Red, the inscription on the side of the Zeus Faber, is also another tribute to Gillian Anderson.

The first appearance of what's come to be known as the "oily alien". The eye effect was created with a combo of balsamic vinegar and engine oil, yum!

The flight Mulder and Krycek take back to Washington is flight number 1121.

The diver shares his name with Dave Gauthier, the X-Files effects supervisor .

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Scully: "You know, it's strange. Men can blow up buildings, and they can be nowhere near the crime scene. But we can piece together the evidence and convict them beyond a doubt. Our labs here can recreate out of the most microscopic details their motivation and circumstance to almost any murder, right down to a killer's attitude towards his mother and that he was a bedwetter. But in a case of a woman... my sister...who was gunned down in cold blood in a well-lit apartment building by a shooter who left the weapon at the crime scene, we can't even put together enough to keep anybody interested."

Skinner: "I don't think this has anything to do with interest."

Scully: "If I may say so sir, it has everything to do with interest. Just not yours, and not mine."

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(Scully laughs at Mulder)

Mulder: "What?"

Scully: "I'm just constantly amazed by you. I mean, you're working down here in the basement, sifting through... files and transmissions that any other agent would just throw away in the garbage."

Mulder: "Well that's WHY I'm in the basement, Scully."

Scully: "You're in the basement because they're afraid of you, of your relentlessness, and because they know that they could drop you in the middle of the desert and tell you the truth is out there and you'd ask them for a shovel."

Mulder: "That's what you think of me?"

Scully: "Well, maybe not a shovel. (smiles) Maybe a backhoe."

Mulder: "Well that's good, because there's some garbage in San Diego I want you to help me dig through." (gives Scully the ticket, she stops smiling)

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Doc: "Whatever these men came in contact with, it was manmade. Levels like this just don't appear in nature."

Mulder: "Not on this planet."

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Mulder: "So it's ok for us to go on board?"

Morgan: "Sure. Probably get more radiation off your cel- phone."

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Morgan: "...It's a mess, huh?" (the ship)

Mulder: "Feels like home."

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Mulder: "Looks like the fuselage of a plane."

Scully: "It's a North American P-51 Mustang."

Morgan: "Yeah, sure is."

Mulder: "I just got very turned on."

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Johansen: "We bury our dead alive, don't we?"

Scully: "I don't know if I understand."

Johansen: "We hear them everyday, they talk to us, they haunt us, they beg us for meaning conscience... it's just the voices of the dead...trying to save us from our own damnation."

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Skinner: "Who are you guys?"

MIB: "We work with the intelligence community."

Skinner: "Remind me not to move there."

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Mulder: "This seat taken, Ms. Kallenchek? Geraldine Kallenchek, isn't it?"

Ms. K: "Jerri, with a 'J'"

Mulder: "I noticed you flew first class. Must be good money selling classified documents."

Ms. K: "It's a bull market, hon. And I'm Miss Popular. Let's Make A Deal."

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Ms. K: "Arrest me? With what, your chopsticks? This is Hong Kong, Mr. Mulder. They don't allow handguns here. They took yours away at the airport."

(Mulder smiles and handcuffs her to him)

Ms. K: "Hey! Hey! You can't do that!"

Mulder: "I just did. (Hauls her up and around to the back) NOW let's make a deal..."

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Mulder: "Open it. (the door to her office, she does nothing so he kicks it open) Pardon my gender type, but after you. (shoves her in) Where are the lights?"

Krycek: "Right here." (points gun)

Mulder: "Krychek. Thought guns were against the law here."

Krycek: "Yeah, well you know what they say,when guns are outlawed..."

Mulder: "Why don't you take that gun and shoot yourself in your head like you shot my father."

Geraldine: "Great.. high noon in Hong Kong."

Krycek: "Aw... why don't you SHUT UP!" (he pushes her out the office and closes the door... she's still cuffed to Mulder)

Geraldine: "My God!"

Mulder: "It's no way to treat your business partner, especially since she's been moving those secrets you've been selling so well." (we hear shots, Geraldine is killed, Krycek is on his way to the window)

Krycek: "Looks like she's your partner now."

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(Krycek approaches Mulder, who punches him in stomach)

Mulder: "That's for your partner. (kicks him below the belt) This is for me. (headbutts him in the nose) And this is for my father." (points Krycek's gun at his stomach)

Krycek: "No! I didn't kill your father."

Mulder: "NOW you tell me..."

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Mulder: "Feeling better?"