The X-Files - 5.

Spanish title: El Interruptor Asesino
translation: The Interrupting Assassin

writers: William Gibson and Tom Maddox

director: Rob Bowman

STARRING:

David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder

Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully

Guest Cast:

Bruce Harwood as Byers

Dean Haglund as Langly

Tom Braidwood as Frohike

Patrick Keating as Donald Gelman

Peter Williams as Jackson

Rob Daprocida as Bunny

Jerry Schram as Boyd

Dan Weber as Figgis

Kristin Lehman as Esther Nairn

Plotline

A SENTIENT COMPUTER PROGRAM TARGETS ITS CREATORS FOR EXTINCTION.

Several heavily-armed crack dealers receive an anonymous telephone call alerting them to the whereabouts of a hated enemy. The men all converge on a diner, but none find their target. Two deputy marshals receive a similar anonymous tip, alerting them about a Colombian fugitive in the same diner. The marshals enter the diner and order everyone onto the floor. Drug dealers draw their weapons and a fierce gun battle ensues.

As the agents observe the aftermath of the shoot-out, Mulder pulls a tarp off the face of Donald Gelman, one of the co-inventors of the Internet. Gelman had been working at his laptop inside the diner when the shooting broke out and became trapped in the cross-fire. Mulder sneaks Gelman's laptop under his jacket and brings it back to Scully's car. He finds a blank CD in the laptop drive, which when placed inside Scully's CD-player emits music from The Platters' Twilight Time. Puzzled, Mulder brings the CD to the Lone Gunmen for further analysis. When they are unable to crack the disc's security code, Scully suggests they check Gelman's e-mail log. They find a message containing a standard ID number for a shipping container. The message is signed by someone named Invisigoth.

The agents track the number to a container yard. A figure springs from the darkness, zaps Mulder with a stun-gun, and runs off into the night. Scully apprehends the suspect, Esther Nairn, a gorgeous young woman with a nose ring, and escorts her back to the container, which is brimming with sophisticated computer equipment. Esther's attention is diverted to one of the monitors. She tells the agents that an armed Department of Defense satellite has locked onto their location. Despite the farfetchedness of the tale, Mulder convinces Scully they must leave the area immediately. Shortly thereafter, a strange green light descends from the heavens and destroys the shipping container.

Mulder concludes that Donald Gelman realized his lifelong dream: the construction of a sentient artificial intelligence, a computer program with its own consciousness. Esther confirms Mulder's suspicion, describing how Gelman unleashed the program onto the Internet so it could evolve --much like the primordial slime from which mankind evolved. She tells the agents that the AI monitors all communication, and will destroy her the moment it locks onto her location. Esther also reveals that Gelman was in the process of creating a special virus program, nicknamed "Kill Switch," that would hunt down and destroy the rogue system. Instead of simply destroying Gelman with a laser from above, Esther is convinced it killed its creator with a dozen crack dealers in an effort to show off its sense of humor. She also believes the virus is holed up on a computer somewhere--and the only way to kill it is to find and destroy its safe house.

By accessing government files, Mulder locates a suspicious T3 line, one that would be needed by the AI to access the Internet. He traces the cable to an abandoned farm on which sits a trailer. Meanwhile, Esther gets the jump on Scully and forces her at gun point to drive to an isolated location where she hopes to find one of her colleagues, a man named David Markham. Esther exits the car and begins crying at the site of a demolished house. During her absence, Scully manages to unshackle her handcuffs. Esther gives Scully back her gun and asks her to "put her out of her misery." Esther then admits to Scully that she and David had planned to download their consciousness and enter the AI. But Gelman forbade the idea.

Mulder gains access to the trailer housing the T3 line. Inside he discovers David Markham's body, his face concealed by a virtual reality mask. Suddenly, several crab-like droids spring from the jungle of cables and constrain Mulder. Mulder experiences strange visions involving nurses in a 1940s hospital who threaten to amputate him, limb by limb, unless he reveals the location of Kill Switch. Meanwhile, the AI pinpoints Scully and Esther in their car near a turntable drawbridge. The pair become trapped and, at Scully's urging, Esther tosses the laptop into the water. Moments later, a green laser blasts the water.

Scully and Esther climb into the trailer where Mulder is bound by the crab-droids. Several of the robotic creatures attack, and Scully dispatches them with her revolver. Scully finds Mulder, his head encased in the virtual reality mask (the source of his strange visions). Esther produces the CD, and Scully gives the AI what it wants, inserting the disk into a drive. The AI releases Mulder, and Scully drags him outside. Esther accesses a keyboard and instructs the satellite to lock onto the trailer's coordinates. When Scully reenters the trailer, she finds Esther wearing the virtual reality helmet, the body of her beloved David nearby. Scully races from the trailer, and Esther instructs the AI to upload. Moments later, the green laser destroys the trailer. When Mulder recovers, he tells Scully that Esther's consciousness may have joined the AI.

Notes

Not finished, as you can see, I'll update as soon as I can, thanks for your patience.

Quotes

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Invisigoth: "You know where Donald is?"

Scully: "Why don't you let us ask the questions?"

Invisigoth: "Why don't you bite me?"

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Scully: "You've just committed felony assault on a federal agent, followed by resisting arrest."

Invisigoth: "Arrest for what? Unless you've got a warrant, you two just busted in here and seriously

violated a buttload of my constitutional rights."

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Invisigoth:"Donald wrote an interlocking sequence of viruses 15 years ago. It got loose on the net."

Mulder: "Wait. What do you mean, 'got loose'?"

Invisigoth: "He let it loose, so it could evolve in its natural environment: Ur slime in silicon."

Scully: " 'Ur slime in silicon'?"

Invisigoth: "The primordial slime, the ooze out of which all life evolved. Except this time it's artificial

slime. Artificial life. One man alone achieving the equivalent of Copernicus, Magellan,

and Darwin."

Scully: "What was your role in all this? Were you the bass player?"

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Frohike: "It can't be! It is!"

Langly: " Esther Nairn. You programmed the autonomous 'bots in "Ninjitsu Princess," the most

gnarliest piece of entertainment software ever."

Esther: "Are these the brain donors that nearly got us incinerated?"

Mulder: "Don't let their looks fool you."

Frohike: "She is so hot."

Esther: "Are you going to take off these cuffs, or do I have to do this with my tongue?"

Mulder: "You don't want to take a vote."

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Mulder: "What is this?"

Esther: "It's the sharp end of the stick. Donald probably tried to feed this sector in over the net, but

it took too long, so the system was able to take countermeasures."

Scully: "Why didn't it just zap him too?"

Esther: "Its creator? No, it needed to impress Donald. Particle beam would've been overkill."

Scully: "Unlike a dozen crack dealers?"

Esther: "No. You see, that's its sense of humor."

Mulder: "All right, but if you load the kill switch, what's to stop it from playing another funny joke on

us?"

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Scully: "I can't get through to Mulder."

Esther: "It's the A.I. It's had time to analyze my voice. It knows I was using your phone."

Scully: "It can interfere with my phone?"

Esther: "Give it enough information, it'll sue you for palimony."

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Scully: "Well, if Esther wanted to leave her body, she got her wish. At least that part of it."

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Scully: "Electrons chasing each other through a circuit? That isn't life, Mulder."

Mulder: "Yeah, but what are we but impulses, electrical and chemical, through a bag of meat and