The X-Files - 1.

writers: Glen Morgan & James Wong

director: Michael Katleman

LISA WALTZ as Lauren Kyte

BARRY PRIMUS as Robert Dorland

LORENA GALE as Ellen Bledsoe

VENA SOOD as Ms. Saunders

DARYL HAYES as Webster

KELLI FOX as Pathologist

TOM PICKETT as the Cop

TOM HEATON as Groundskeeper

JANIE WOODS\_MORRIS as Ms. Lange

NORA MCCLELLAN as Jane Morris

ANNA FERGUSON as Ms. Winn

WRITTEN BY:

GLEN MORGAN and JAMES WONG

DIRECTED BY:

MICHAEL KATLEMAN

HTG INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGIES, PHILADELPHIA, PA -

HOWARD GRAVES' OFFICE

(Pan along the desk. We see Howard Graves' name plate and a plaque

that reads "One to-day is worth two to-morrows Ben Franklin",

pictures of Howard Graves with past and present presidents.

LAUREN KYTE takes the pictures of Howard and Clinton off the wall

and looks at it while crying. A co-worker, JANE, enters)

JANE: Lauren, I've been looking everywhere! (Lauren puts the picture down)

Are you all right? You want some water?

LAUREN: No, I'm fine.

JANE: Oh honey, it's been a couple of weeks now. Do you want to talk?

LAUREN: No. Really, Jane, I'm ok. It's just that I don't know a lot of

people who's dead, that's all. I've never known anyone that's killed

themselves.

JANE: Oh, maybe after everything gets packed away it will get easier.

There won't be a constant reminder. Here's your paycheck.

(Jane hands it to Lauren.) Come on... go home.

LAUREN: Ok. (Jane leaves. Lauren is about to leave and the plaque

of Ben Franklin's saying moves on the desk. Lauren goes over and

picks it up. She takes it with her and leaves.)

NIGHT - ATM MACHINE

(Lauren is at the machine and makes the deposit of her paycheck.

She is attacked by two men who take her into an alley. She screams)

TWO HOURS LATER

(Two teens are walking by the same alley. A male and female.

The male sniffs in the large garbage dumpster and waves the stink away.

He looks up and sees a fire escape.)

MALE: Hey... I know a great place to crash... up that fire escape.

Come on. I'll give you a boost.

(He hikes the girl on his shoulders as she tries to pull it down, but it's

jammed. A body falls from above to their left and another body falls

from the fire escape ladder. They are the two attackers of Lauren Kyte

and the girl screams. They both run off.)

BETHESDA NAVAL HOSPITAL - BETHESDA, MARYLAND

(Mulder, Scully and another man walk into the morgue where two corpses

lie under sheets on the slabs. On the other side of the room there are two

women and a man standing there.)

MAN: Agent Scully, Agent Mulder, Chief Blevins assures us of your

cooperation. We regret any inconvenience at this extreme hour.

WOMAN: We hope your expertise in extraordinary phenomena matters

will help us in our investigation.

MULDER: You're not FBI, are you?

SECOND WOMAN: Have you ever seen anything like this before?

(She hands Mulder and chart and pulls the sheet off one of the corpse's

body. His arm flinches) Abnormal post mortem muscle reflex.

Both corpses are still responding to high levels of electrostatic charge.

SCULLY: Any sign of external legions or surface burns?

SECOND WOMAN: None.

MULDER: Time of death? (She doesn't answer, just looks at the other

two in the corner.)

SCULLY: Well, it can't be long. The body's still warm.

SECOND WOMAN: Somatic death occurred sometime over 6 hours ago.

Their body temperatures have yet to drop below 98.3 degrees.

MULDER: Where did you find them? (No answer) Look, at least tell

us the mode of transport. That might tell us why the bodies haven't

cooled. (Still no answer from them) Hey, you called us down here.

If you want some answers you have to give some.

(The man finally answers)

MAN: They traveled 60 minutes by air.

MULDER: Thank you.

SECOND WOMAN: The most troubling aspect of their deaths is the

throat area. (She walks over to an X Ray screen.) Larynx, esophagus,

and hyoid bone all have been crushed like chalk. There is no evidence

of tissue damage. It's as if their throats were crushed... from the inside.

(Mulder and Scully take a close look at the x-rays of the men)

MULDER: Who are these guys? (No answer)

SCULLY: If you've conducted your investigation, why consult us?

WOMAN: Because of your work on the X Files.

Have you ever seen anything like this?

MULDER: Ah, uh. Never.

MAN: Well, thank you for your time Agent Mulder, Scully.

If any inquiry into this meeting be made, we request full denial.

MULDER: I'd say you people already suffer from full denial.

(Mulder and Scully leave)

HALLWAY

(Scully and Mulder walk down the hall outside the morgue.)

SCULLY: You lied. You have seen this before, I can tell.

You lied to them.

MULDER: I would never lie.

I willfully participated in a campaign of misinformation.

SCULLY: Who do you think they were?

MULDER: NSA, CIA, some convert organization Congress will uncover

in the next scandal. It's not important who they are but what they have

and I'm sure they have no idea because they pulled us in. I have X-Files.

Each case with an element of what we saw tonight. Residual electrostatic

charge, internal mutilation without any external causality...

SCULLY: How can the esophagus be crushed without the neck even

being touched?

MULDER: Psychokinetic manipulation.

SCULLY: Psychokinesis? You mean how Carrie got even at the prom?

MULDER: The Russians were doing studies on it. The Chinese still are.

Their findings are kept secret. (They get into an elevator)

SCULLY: Ok, I'm intrigued. How can we investigate, we have nothing to

go on. (Mulder puts his arm around her shoulders and brings his

eyeglasses up and exhales on them. There is a perfect fingerprint on

each lens.

HTG INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGIES - NEXT MORNING

(Lauren walks into work and scans the newspaper on a desk.

Mr. Dorland's secretary comes up to her, scaring her.)

SECRETARY: Just getting in, Lauren? Mr. Graves used to let you get

away with that but Mr. Dorland is in charge now.

LAUREN: I was wondering if I could have a minute with him.

(The secretary looks at his appointments. She pencils in as she talks)

SECRETARY: Tomorrow... at 3.

LAUREN: Can I see him today? It's really important.

(Secretary's coffee cup topples spilling coffee all over her desk.

They both start to wipe it up. Mr. Dorland comes out of his office)

MR. DORLAND: Is everything all right out here?

LAUREN: Can I speak with you?

DORLAND'S OFFICE

(Lauren enters and Dorland shuts the door.

Dorland motions to the chair in front of his desk)

DORLAND: Please. (Lauren sits)

LAUREN: I'm here to give my two week's notice.

DORLAND: Lauren, Jane told me about your crying in Howard's office

and I wanted to tell you that you aren't alone. As a matter of fact,

we share something special. Howard and I started this company 10

years ago and as long as I've known him he had no interest besides work.

So we became like family. I was his brother and you were like a daughter

to him. So, of course, I feel very close to you and I want to take care of

my family. Stay, Lauren. Please, the company needs you. Especially now.

(He reaches down and takes her face in his hands.) I won't let you leave,

Lauren. (A bracelet on his wrist tightens and he flinches, taking his hands

from Lauren.)

LAUREN: What's wrong? (Dorland finally loosens the bracelet.)

I can't. I have to leave. I can't be here anymore.

DORLAND: You've got two weeks. (Lauren leaves his office.)

FBI HEADQUARTERS - WASHINGTON DC

(Mulder is looking at a computer screen with a picture of one of the

corpses.)

MULDER: Mohamed Amalaki. Convictions: Illegal possession of firearms.

Illegal possession of explosives. Falsification of export licenses.

(Scully walks around him with a file and puts it on his desk)

SCULLY: He has ties to extremist group operating in the US. The Isfahan.

They take their name from a city in Iran. Recently they've been working

out of Philadelphia.

MULDER: That's 60 air minutes.

SCULLY: I'll talk to the Philly P.D.

BROAD STREET - PHILADELPHIA

(Mulder and Scully are in the alley of Lauren's attack with a cop)

COP: It was last Wednesday night. I was on routine patrol.

This is where we found them.

SCULLY: Who discovered their bodies?

COP: Nobody. It was about 10. I was on patrol. Just saw them

hanging around. The folks that come around here, they don't witness

very much. You hear what I'm saying?

(Mulder walks off, Scully and the cop still talking. Mulder sees an

anxious woman at the ATM. She leaves and he looks at it.)

FBI OFFICE

(On the surveillance film from the ATM, we see an older man taking

money out.)

MULDER: A daily visual record is made of everyone who makes a

transaction.

SCULLY: We'll just have to interview everyone who was at the machine

before 10 last night. (We see Lauren at the machine and being dragged

off by the two attackers at 9:45.)

MULDER: There. Back up.

SCULLY: (reading in her file) Lauren Kyte. 858 Franklin, Bensalem.

Why would the Isfahan being robbing someone for 40 bucks at an ATM

machine?

MULDER: Look at that. (He stops the film and there is a ghostly flash

across the screen. Hovering over them.)

SCULLY: It's another person.

MULDER: Maybe, maybe not.

SCULLY: Well, the resolution is too poor.

It won't help much to enhance it.

MULDER: That leaves only one person we know we can talk to.

LAUREN KYTE'S HOUSE

(She's in the process of moving. She is going to wrap glass things in

newspaper when the plaque from Howard's office catches her eye on

the mantle. She picks it up. She is startled by a knock on the door.

She looks through the keyhole. It is Mulder and Scully)

LAUREN: Hello?

MULDER: Miss Lauren Kyte, please. (She opens the door and Mulder

flashes his badge.) I'm Agent Fox Mulder and this is Agent Dana Scully.

We're with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Do you mind if we come in?

LAUREN: Um, I was just in the middle of ...

MULDER: Thank you. We won't be long.

(He squeezes through the door way and past Lauren into the house.

Scully enters and smiles at Lauren, who closes the door behind them.

Scully shows pictures to Lauren)

SCULLY: Have you seen either of these two men before?

LAUREN: No.

SCULLY: Take your time.

LAUREN: I'm sorry. I've never seen them before.

SCULLY: I'm afraid you have. (Scully shows her another picture)

This is a surveillance picture from your ATM. (It's a picture of Lauren

and the attackers. Their faces clear.)

MULDER: Can you tell us what happened that night?

LAUREN: Um... These guys, I was depositing my paycheck.

They grabbed me, I got away. I ran. I just didn't want to file a report.

MULDER: They were found dead.

(She has a reaction. Scully gives her another picture)

SCULLY: Have you ever seen this person before?

(It's the still frame from the surveillance video of the spectral image)

LAUREN: No. I'm sorry. I can't tell you.

MULDER: Does that mean you know?

LAUREN: It means I can't tell who it is.

MULDER: When you can tell me, this is the number where I can be

reached at any time, ok?

LAUREN: Ah hum. (Mulder and Scully leave)

OUTSIDE

(Mulder and Scully walk to their car)

SCULLY: A woman her size breaking free and out running those men?

MULDER: And somehow crushing their necks?

(They get into the car and put on their seatbelts.

Lauren is seen looking at them through her window.)

SCULLY: She knows who the other person in that photo is.

MULDER: Packing, running away, from what?

(The parking brake goes off, the car is put into reverse, and the doors

are locked. Mulder tries to brake, put the car spins backward.)

SCULLY: What the hell's going on?

MULDER: Hang on! (He turns around and steers the car speeding

backward, trying to brake. The car is hit in the intersection by another

car. It comes to a stop) You ok?

SCULLY: Yeah. (Mulder looks over at the other driver, shaking his head

wondering what happened. Lauren is still looking out the window and

she pulls the drapes when Mulder sees her.)

GARAGE

(Mulder is crouched at the side of the dented car. Scully walks up.)

SCULLY: Hi.

MULDER: Hi. The paramedics check you out?

SCULLY: Yeah. I'm fine.

Except I have a waiting-in-line-at-the-DMV-sized headache.

MULDER: Mine's more IRS sized.

SCULLY: They check out the car?

MULDER: Yeah, it's brand new. Only a 100 miles.

SCULLY: Then someone tampered with it while we were in her house.

MULDER: Mechanic said everything is in proper order.

Nothing cut, nothing greased. Check out the lights.

SCULLY: They are on.

MULDER: They're not. The filaments are heated due to massive levels

of electrostatic charge. Just like the bodies at the morgue. And isn't it

interesting that Lauren Kyte was present at both incidents?

SCULLY: She was in our presence the entire time we were at her house.

MULDER: What if it's possible somehow to raise a body's electrostatic

charge to levels we've been seeing and use that energy to affect objects?

SCULLY: If a person could generate that much energy, their body would

break down. They'd start glowing like those lights.

MULDER: Well there's evidence of this all through the x-files.

Furniture moving untouched, objects levitating, unexplained electrical

discharges. Frequently people who have psychokinetic power are

unaware of their own capability.

SCULLY: Are you saying Lauren Kyte crashed our car?

MULDER: Either that or a poltergeist.

SCULLY: They're heeeere...

(imitation of the little girl from the movie, "Poltergeist")

MULDER: They may be.

SCULLY: Oh, come on Mulder, look at the tangible evidence. Two

Mid-East extremists are killed trying to assault a woman working

for a manufacturer of parts for the Defense Department. While we

questioned her our car is sabotaged. Now in both those cases,

someone else may have committed those acts. Maybe the same

someone we saw in those ATM photos. The mystery isn't

psychokinetic energy, it's her accomplice.

(They both notice the lights of the car are out.)

HTG INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGIES

(Lauren drives into the parking lot and gets out of her car.

Mulder and Scully are sitting in their new rental,

Mulder with binoculars, Scully going through papers.)

SCULLY: She's clean. No arrest, not even a traffic ticket. The only

thing is, she's in deep with her credit card company... $15,000.

(They look over at Lauren, mad at a sign painter painting over Howard

Graves' parking spot with a new name, Tom Braidwood, who happens

to be a second unit director and Frohike on the show)

LAUREN: No, no. (She grabs the stencil out of the painter's hands)

I'll talk to somebody, just go.

MULDER: A little upset over losing a parking space, wouldn't you say?

So, who is Howard Graves anyway?

FBI HEADQUARTERS

(Scully is pouring over the microfiche film. Scully gets Mulder's attention

and they read an article from a newspaper. "Howard Graves Suicide

Creates Shock".)

MULDER: She was his secretary. That's three people dead in the last

month all associated with Lauren Kyte. (The newspaper article says

Howard slashed his wrists in a bathtub.)

CEMETERY - DAY

(Mulder and Scully pull up to the cemetery to see Lauren put flowers on

a grave. They watch her as she sadly walks away from the gravesite.

They get out of the car and go to the grave she put flowers on.

It's Howard Graves'.)

MULDER: You don't see too many bosses graves without people

dancing on it.

SCULLY: Look at this one. (There is another maker next to Howard's

that reads, "Sarah Lynn Graves September 8, 1966 to August 3 1969".

There's a groundskeeper planting flowers nearby.)

MULDER: Excuse me, Sir? Is there an office here so that I can get

information on those people?

GROUNDSKEEPER: I attend every funeral. I'm the last person to see

them put to rest.

MULDER: Do you know how Sarah Lynn is related to Howard Graves?

GROUNDSKEEPER: His daughter. They were at home one day and he

didn't latch the pool gate. She drowned. His wife left him a year later.

She's buried in a plot in the Northeast corner.

MULDER: Thank you, Sir.

GROUNDSKEEPER: You're welcome.

(He leaves. Mulder and Scully go to Sarah's grave again.)

SCULLY: She was only three years old.

MULDER: If she'd lived, she'd be Lauren's age.

(Scully looks at Mulder and he looks at her.)

DARKROOM

(Mulder is developing pictures)

SCULLY'S

(Scully is typing into her laptop)

SCULLY (Voice over): Further investigation into Lauren Kyte's personal

history reveals an estrangement from her family. Phone records confirm

no contact with her parents for the last two years. Her actions observed

during surveillance (Go back to Mulder looking at photos taken during the

surveillance as Scully continues speaking) indicate a strong relationship

between Lauren Kyte and her employer, the late Howard Graves. (Back

to Scully typing) Was this relationship somehow the motivation for his

suicide? How are the attack and the subsequent murders of the Isfahan

agents related, if at all? I am certain that the answers to these questions

lie in finding the identity of Lauren Kyte's accomplice. (Back to Mulder

looking at the negatives of the photos. One is of Lauren Kyte's house,

the next of her front window. There's a figure standing in the window.)

CRIME LAB

(The photo of the figure in the front window is being put on the computer

and manipulated. The framing of just the window of the photo is enlarged

and we see the figure is Lauren Kyte, but right behind her is another figure.

Mulder and Scully are with the computer operator.)

SCULLY: Enhance it by 10. (He does.) That's Howard Graves. He's alive.

MULDER: Not necessarily.

LAUREN KYTE'S HOUSE - NIGHT

(Lauren is asleep in the bed. Her cat is sitting on the end of it and

hisses and takes off. We can hear banging. Lauren wakes up.

She is scared. The stairs creak. Lauren slowly goes to her closet

and gets out a bat. She slowly moves to the door, opens it and looks

into the dark hallway. She enters the hallway and the pounding gets

louder and we can also hear a man saying, "No." She walks down

the hallway and there are other voices too, I can't make out what is

said besides, "No." Then a reverberating "Don't do this to me."

Lauren moves to the bathroom. The door is ajar and she pushes it

open with the bat as we hear, "No. Stop. No, no, no. Please!"

She guardedly moves into the bathroom and turns on the light.

The shower curtain is closed. The man's voice is now crying.

Lauren pulls open the shower curtain and there is a tub full of water,

with a cloud of red in the middle. It grows and soon the entire tub is

full of blood.)

LAUREN: Oh, Howard. (The tub drains)

NATIONAL BUREAU OF MEDICAL EXAMINERS, PHILADELPHIA, PA

(Scully and Mulder walk down a flight of steps in a stairwell.)

SCULLY: I think Howard Graves faked his own death.

MULDER: Do you know how difficult it is to fake your own death?

Only one man has pulled it off, Elvis.

SCULLY: He and Lauren Kyte are in on something. Maybe an illegal deal

through his company. Something the CIA was interested in.

MULDER: You may be right.

(They get to the door to the office of Ellen Bledsoe, ME.)

SCULLY: Wait, you think I'm right?

MULDER: Sure, all you got to do is prove that Howard Graves is still alive.

(He knocks on the door.)

ELLEN BLEDSOE'S OFFICE

(We see a dour black woman's face, Ellen Bledsoe, I presume.)

ELLEN: Howard Graves is very dead.

SCULLY: May we see the autopsy report, please?

(Ellen tosses it across the desk)

ELLEN: Knock yourself out. (Scully reads the report)

SCULLY: Cause of death... arterial hemorrhage...

ELLEN: 4 to 6 liters of blood down the tub.

SCULLY: Well there seems to be some blood work missing here.

ELLEN: We only do that when we suspect homicide.

MULDER: I don't suppose you ran any dental conformation?

ELLEN: What for? It was him.

SCULLY: How did you know?

ELLEN: It said so on the toe tag.

MULDER: Who made positive ID on the body?

(Scully looks through the report again.)

SCULLY: Lauren Kyte.

MULDER: But Howard Graves was cremated. There would be no way to

run a dental check or to get a DNA sample.

SCULLY: Yes, there is. His body's tissues and organs were donated.

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL

(Mulder and Scully and another man in a lab coat are standing in a hallway

looking through a window to the Cryogenics lab while the man talks.

There are lots of people working in the lab.)

MAN: Howard Graves is in 5 different people. They harvested his organs

immediately after death. His kidneys were sent to Boston, his liver to Dallas,

and his corneas to Portland, Oregon. They've all been transplanted.

Because of his age, we could only cryo-preserve the dura matter, the

membrane of the spinal column. We have Mr. Graves' hospital records,

we'll extract a sample, run a test and in a couple of hours... confirm the

identity of the donor.

HTG INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGIES, PHILADELPHIA, PA

(There's a party going on.

Balloons, champagne hats, lots of people, music, etc.)

JANE: I knew you would rush, so I made sure to have your check before

you leave. (She hands it to Lauren) Oh, I'm going to miss you. (They hug.

Jane gets teary eyed. Lauren smiles and gives her a glass of champagne.)

LAUREN: What? Here.

JANE: Bye.

LAUREN: Bye. (Lauren walks away from her. She goes to her desk

which has all her stuff in a box. She puts her desk nameplate in it.

She takes the box and starts to leave, but turns and goes into Howard's

office instead, careful to see no one was watching her.)

HOWARD GRAVES' OFFICE

(The office is bare of all personal effects from the beginning of the show.

The bare furniture is all that's left. Lauren looks around the office and is

startled when the door shuts. She turns and sees Dorland leaning back

to the door and smiling.)

DORLAND: You're going to leave without saying goodbye? Well, I've

come to say goodbye... to wish you luck, and to leave you with this

little thought... I know Howard told you and if it ever gets out, I won't

waste my time trying to pin the source. I'll go straight to you.

LAUREN: And you'll do to me what you did to Howard?

I know you had him killed.

DORLAND: Why would you say that?

LAUREN: He told me. (She takes her box off the desk and goes to the

door, but Dorland grabs her. They jostle and Lauren gets out of the office

and walks away. She walks into the party and uses the phone)

UNIVERSITY OF PA OFFICE

(Mulder and Scully are reading and fidgeting. Mulder's cell phone rings.

While he answers it, the lab guy enters and talks to Scully.)

MULDER: Mulder. (Cut between Lauren and Mulder)

LAUREN: It's Lauren Kyte. How soon can you get to my house?

MULDER: Why?

LAUREN: Please hurry. (She hangs up and takes her box and leaves.

Dorland stands in Graves' office doorway watching her)

SCULLY: The tests are conclusive, the dura matter does belong to

Howard Graves. He is indeed, very dead. (Mulder gets up and walks away)

LAUREN KYTE'S HOUSE

(Lauren walks down stairs. She has her suitcases and puts them on the

dining table. She finishes up packing up things at her desk. A car with

a man and a woman pulls up outside her house. They get out and walk

to the front door. Inside, Lauren is pacing. There's a knock on the door.

She is relieved and walks across her empty house to the door.

She opens the dead bolt. It slides closed again.)

LAUREN: Just a second. (She opens it again, she hears a noise behind her.

She jumps out of the way of a kitchen chair that moves across the house

and wedges itself under the door knob. The door flies open and the man

and woman enter. The man has a switchblade in his hand.)

MAN: Go run the bath. (Lauren falls back into the living room floor.)

LAUREN: Get out of here! (The bulbs in the lamps around the room

shatter. The man grabs Lauren and a table slams into him. She gets away.

The only light in the room is coming from the window. A spectral presence

moves from the dining room to the front door where the woman sees it

and tries to get out of the house.) No! (The woman is flung to the door.

Her neck is crushed. Lauren screams no as the woman falls to the ground.

The man gets out from between the table and fireplace and runs to the

door but is flung back on the floor. He looks all around. He stands up.

He gets punched in the face, drawing blood but there are no hands.

It's like Lauren can't move from where she stands. She screams some more.

Mulder and Scully drive up outside. They hear screams from inside the

house and race to the front door. Mulder pushes the woman aside as

he opens the door. He looks into the living room and the man is hanging

from nothing in the middle of the room. Lauren is crying. The man falls

to the floor as Scully enters the house, gun drawn. They look at Lauren

whimpering in a crouched position on the floor.)

INTERROGATION ROOM

(Mulder is sitting across the table from Lauren as Scully leans against

a window ledge.)

SCULLY: You know, you're not under arrest. You're just here for

questioning. The sooner you talk to us the sooner you get to go home.

(Pause) What happened to those people tonight? (Lauren's not saying

anything) Do you have any idea who they might be. Why did they attack

you? (Mulder picks up a picture and walks around the table and shows

it to Lauren)

MULDER: Do you know who this is? (The man from the beginning,

the non-talker at the morgue walks in)

MAN: Scully, Mulder... He'll keep an eye on her.

(He motions to an officer who enters the room after him.)

Come. Now. (Scully and Mulder leave the room with him and the

woman from the morgue is there too.)

WOMAN: You've seriously compromised our investigation.

MULDER: We were following leads pertaining to an x-file.

MAN: I want to know every detail of your activities concerning this case.

SCULLY: What case? You're the ones who've been withholding information.

(They all fall silent.)

MULDER: Then we have nothing more to talk about.

(Mulder and Scully walk away.

The woman and man follow them to the hallway.)

WOMAN: We believe HTG Technologies was selling restricted parts to

the Isfahan. Partial serial numbers from their manifest were recovered

in the wreckage of a July bombing of a Navy transport van.

MULDER: How's Lauren Kyte involved?

MAN: We don't quite know. Your actions impeded our investigation.

WOMAN: In any case, we don't have enough evidence to hold her.

If she doesn't talk, she goes free and we lose our chance to break this

company.

MAN: I could make her talk.

MULDER: My advice to you. Don't get rough with her.

LATER

(The door to the interrogation room opens.)

WOMAN: That was a waste of time.

(The woman and man walk out. The woman keeps walking.

The man regards Mulder and Scully off screen.)

MAN: Your turn. (He leaves. Scully and Mulder walk into the room.)

INTERROGATION ROOM

(Scully and Mulder enter.)

SCULLY: Lauren?

LAUREN: I won't talk to you, either.

MULDER: Ok, then you're free to go. (Lauren looks up surprised and

gets up from her chair. Scully throws a surprised look in Mulder's

direction as Lauren walks by her. Lauren pauses at the door.)

LAUREN: I can't go back to that house.

MULDER: Why? Because of Howard Graves?

LAUREN: He's dead.

MULDER: I know. He's watching over you, isn't he?

LATER

(A tape recorder is rolling)

LAUREN: I don't know if you've ever been a secretary. Sometimes

your boss can talk as if you weren't even in the room, which can hurt,

you know? Sometimes... you're all he has to talk to. Which is

how it was all the time with me and Howard. One night, late, I went into

his office. He was crying, more scared than sad. The Pentagon contracts

were being canceled, the company was going under, he felt personally

responsible for each of his employees... seeing and feeling their fear

every day... it really wore him down. Then this one time, Dorland came

with that group... that Mid East group... Isfahan, that terrorist group.

They'd buy parts at an outrageous price. Not just once, but for as long

as they could get away with it. That night Howard was crying, he'd just

found out the Isfahan had just claimed responsibility for killing a couple

of sailors in Florida. He was never the same. And I thought that was

why he killed himself. But he didn't... I saw ... Howard showed me

how Dorland had him killed. Made it look like a suicide because he ...

see Howard was going to put an end to the deal.

MULDER: So now Howard is protecting you?

LAUREN: It sounds so ridiculous.

SCULLY: But you believe it.

LAUREN: He was closer to me than my father. I told him that.

I still feel his presence. Sometimes... I even smell his aftershave.

If you just could've ... seen ... the things I've seen... I just...

want all that to go away. I'm leaving. Maybe he can move on.

(Scully gets up from the table and goes to Lauren.)

SCULLY: That's not enough. You've been given the chance to tell him again.

Take it. Tell him you love him, by showing him, by... helping us finish

his unfinished business. Lauren, how will you ever be able to rest if he

never can? (Lauren nods.)

LAUREN: Ok. (Scully nods too.) I'm a mess.

I'm um, going to wash up. (She leaves.)

MULDER: What are you doing, Scully? You don't believe.

SCULLY: Mulder, there's no such thing as ghosts or psychokinesis.

I'm sure there's an explanation. But I believe that she believes.

And my priority is to get to her help us stop Dorland.

MULDER: Well, we may have just sacrificed our best opportunity to

observe spectral phenomena.

SCULLY: I'm giving us a chance to solve a case that's tangible instead

of chasing after shadows.

(Scully leaves leaving Mulder to ponder.)

STAIRCASE

(Lots of FBI come down the stairs, Mulder with them.

He goes to Lauren standing by a car. Scully approaches.)

MULDER: You ready? (She nods. Scully addresses the troops)

SCULLY: All right, everyone. We have a warrant to search the premises

for evidence of the sale of restricted manufactured parts. The evidence

may be in the form of falsified export licences, parts manifests,

communiques. It could be on computer disks or hard copy.

MAN ( from morgue and interrogation room) Once there, when in doubt, ask.

We need this to be clean. This is the culmination of a year long investigation.

If we don't come out of there today with something proving a connection to

the Isfahan, this guy could walk.

SCULLY: Let's go. (The men break up. Lauren walks with Scully.)

Now, it will most likely be in Dorland's office. We'll conduct the search,

but we need you to guide us so we need you to be strong, okay?

(Scully opens the back door of the car for her. Lauren gets in.

The cars pull out.)

HTG INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGIES

(The FBI walk into the office. Scully walks in with them with her badge.)

SCULLY: Everybody stay calm. Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Ma'am, could you step away from those files, please?

(The FBI moves people around and out of the way and others start looking

in files, drawers, reports, etc. Dorland comes out of his office.

Scully and Lauren walk by him into his office.

Mulder stays outside with him.)

DORLAND'S OFFICE

(Scully puts things into a box.

Lauren searches through his bureau and books.)

LATER

(The man and woman from the morgue go to Mulder and Scully.)

WOMAN: This is all we could find.

MULDER: We don't have him. He's not even breaking a sweat.

(Dorland is standing in a corner with the employees, engaging in

small talk. The man walks up to Mulder.)

MAN: Our case is blown. A wasted year. This guy is going to walk.

(The man and woman leave.)

DORLAND'S OFFICE

(Scully walks to the door and out with a box of things taken from his

office as Mulder enters)

SCULLY: Let's get out of here.

(Mulder walks to Lauren still at the bureau. She is distraught.)

MULDER: Lauren, it's over. We have to go. (She looks around the room

as Dorland enters.) What we're looking for isn't here. (Lauren takes a

letter opener from the desk and smashes the glass in a picture frame

and takes out the photo.)

DORLAND: Look! She isn't an agent. I don't want to be uncooperative

or combative, but she has no right destroying my personal property.

(Lauren takes a painting from the wall and opens the back.

Nothing but a painting.)

LAUREN: Destroying property? What about that van that blew up and

killed those servicemen?

DORLAND: Oh, I don't know what you're talking about you stupid bitch!

(Lauren rushes Dorland with the letter opener.)

MULDER: Lauren, no!

(Dorland pushes her away and he is pushed against the wall by "Howard".

The door slams shut. Dorland starts grasping at his neck. He can't breath.)

LAUREN: He'll kill him. Help us find it!

(Dorland slides to the floor. The track lighting explodes.

The bulbs in the lamps explode. Mulder grabs Lauren.)

MULDER: Get down.

(Outside the office, Scully hears the commotion and runs back to

Dorland's office door. It's locked.)

SCULLY: Mulder!

(Inside the office, it's dark and we hear Scully yelling. Pictures fly from

the wall. Drawers open and papers fly around the room. The letter

opener hovers in front of Dorland's face. It turns and flies into the wall.

It slits the wallpaper about two feet and stops. The noise and flying

papers die down and Scully bolts into the room. She looks around at

the mess.)

SCULLY: My God.

(Mulder walks across the wall to wallpaper and takes a floppy disk out

from behind the wallpaper.)

MULDER: I guess what we're looking for is here.

LAUREN KYTE'S HOUSE

(A moving trailer is hitched to Lauren's car.

Scully, Lauren and Mulder walk to it. Lauren is carrying a box.)

SCULLY: The US Attorney's office is going after Dorland with everything

they've got. Including the murder of Howard Graves.

LAUREN: I'll come back to testify. (She puts the box in her trunk.)

MULDER: Where are you going?

LAUREN: Away from here. (Lauren gets into the drivers seat and starts

the car.) Thanks. (She drives off.)

MULDER: Boy, she's in a rush to get out of here.

SCULLY: Out of here, or away from the ghost of Howard Graves?

(They walk to the car.)

MULDER: Hey, Scully. Do you believe in the afterlife?

SCULLY: I'd settle for a life in this one.

MULDER: Have you ever seen the Liberty Bell?

SCULLY: Yes. (They get into the car and fasten their seat belts.)

MULDER: You know, I've been to Philadelphia a hundred times and

I've never seen it.

SCULLY: You're not missing much. It's just a big bell with a big crack,

and you have to wait in a long line.

MULDER: Yeah, (Mulder starts the car and drives off) but I'd really like to go.

SCULLY: Why now?

MULDER: I don't know. How late do you think they stay open?

LAUREN'S NEW WORKPLACE

(Howard Graves' plaque with Ben's quote is on her desk.

She brings a report to her new head secretary.)

HEAD SECRETARY: Miss Kyte, I asked for this 25 minutes ago.

LAUREN: I know. I'm sorry.

HEAD SECRETARY: Maybe that's the way they work back in the East,

but here in the Midwest, punctuality is a virtue. (She takes the report

and goes back to what she was doing. The coffee cup on the secretary's

desk starts shaking. Lauren is nervous. The secretary sees it and covers

it with her hands.) We really need to find a new office space. Every time

a truck goes by the whole building shakes. (She takes a sip of her coffee.

Lauren is relieved.) That's all Lauren.