German title: Der Feind - Teil 1
translation: The Enemy - Part 1
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
Notes
The title is the name of the boat featured in this ep and
is a homage to Gillian Anderson's daughter, Piper.
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 .
Quotes
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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."
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)
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."
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 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)