The X-Files - 1.

US Airdate: October 8, 1993

writer: Chris Carter

director: Joe Napolitano

(It is a dark night and a single car is seen driving along a road,

singing can be heard from within the car)

FAMILY: ..was his name-o, B-I-N-G-O, B-I-N-G-O, B-I-N-G-O, and

Bingo was his name-o. There was a farmer had a dog and Bingo

was his name-o, B-I-N-G-O, B-I-N-G-O, B-I-N-G-O, and Bingo

was his name-o. There was a farmer had a dog and Bingo was

his name-o, B-I-N-G-O

(Just then a sudden bang is heard from outside the car)

SON: Dad what was that? What's happening?

DAD: It's ok, it's ok, I just got a flat.

MOM: Ooh Noo.

DAD: No problem here honey.

(There is a flashlight lying on the ground shining on the car while the dad

is removing the panelling to get to the wheel. The dad sets the panelling

down and lifts his wheel wrench, in doing so, he knocks the flashlight

down a hill at the side of the road)

Aaooh. Darn it.

(He throws down the wheel wrench and goes after the flashlight.

We see the man pick up his flashlight and go back up the hill from

the viewpoint of someone or something in the bushes watching him.

The kids are sleeping in the car and the dad taps on the window

beside his wife)

Honey, would you mind holding the light for a secaaaaaah

(The dad is suddenly pulled backwards out of sight very quickly.

The mom gets out of the car)

MOM: Paul. Paul. PAUL. (The mom picks up the flashlight and shines

it down the hill into the woods) Where are you? Paul. What happened?

(We see the mom standing at the told of the hill holding the flashlight

from the same viewpoint of something in the bushes. Next we see the

legs of the dad as he is being dragged into the woods) PAUUL.

(It is dawn and the police are out in the woods with other men and their

tracker dogs. The police officers and some of the men are carrying rifles.

The dogs are sniffing on a scent when a voice calls out)

VOICE: Over here, we found something.

(The men all run off to where the voice was calling from.

They go downhill and the dogs are anxious to get down)

MAN WITH DOGS: Easy, easy.

(The dead body of the dad is lying on the ground, the men look at each other)

POLICE OFFICER: His leg's been eaten off.

(Just then another voice calls out)

POLICE OFFICER 2: HEEYY, UP HERE. (The men make their way

back up the hill and run towards the area where the calls where made.

Several police men are standing pointing their rifles into a cave)

IT'S IN HERE. IT'S AS TALL AS A HOUSE.

POLICE OFFICER 3: We can smoke him out.

POLICE OFFICER: And then what?

(From within the cave, we see the men all pointing their rifles into the

cave, waiting)

POLICE OFFICER 2: I SEE IT.

POLICE OFFICER: He's coming at us.

(All the men begin shooting again and again)

<- FBI HEADQUARTERS, WASHINGTON D.C. ->

(A man is typing on a computer and several voices can be heard in the

background. We see Scully walking through a busy office)

(Mulder is sitting, staring at a centrefold in "Hanky Panky" magazine.

Scully walks in the door and sees what Mulder is looking at, she

pauses and then puts her case on a desk and walks beside Mulder)

SCULLY: Working hard, Mulder?

(Mulder turns the magazine around so that Scully can see it better)

MULDER: This woman claims to have been taken aboard a spaceship

and held in an anti-gravity chamber without food and water for three days.

SCULLY: Anti-gravity's right. (Mulder throws the magazine onto the desk)

Sorry to interrupt your serious investigation, but I just heard a story that'd

just about take your knees out.

MULDER: What's that?

SCULLY: They found a body in the New Jersey woods yesterday,

missing its right arm and shoulder. They think they may have been

eaten off, by a human.

MULDER: Where in New Jersey?

SCULLY: Just outside Atlantic City.

MULDER: Not an uncommon place to lose a body part.

They think it's the mob?

SCULLY: Mmma, it was a homeless man. There doesn't seem to be a motive.

(Mulder gets up and gets his coat)

MULDER: You feeling lucky, Scully?

SCULLY: Relative to whom? (Mulder is looking in a drawer in his office)

It's not our case Mulder, the local police are handling it.

(Mulder pulls out a file) An X-File?

MULDER: Ever hear of something called The Jersey Devil?

(Mulder hands the file to Scully)

SCULLY: Yeah, it's a beast that's supposed to come out of the woods

and attack cars, right. Kind of like an East Coast Bigfoot.

MULDER: Read the file about the case in 1947.

(Mulder leaves the office, Scully closes the file and grabs her case and

follows after Mulder)

SCULLY: Save me the trouble.

(Mulder and Scully walk back through the busy office)

MULDER: 1947, family watches dad get dragged off into the woods,

cops find dad with a few appendages gnawed off. Cops corner a large

naked man in the woods and gun `im down. (They stop at a desk)

Autopsy shows human flesh and bones in the man's large intestine.

A beast man. (Mulder talks to someone behind the desk)

Requisition for a car please.

SCULLY: Is the autopsy report in here?

(Mulder fills in a requsition form)

MULDER: No, the original disappeared from the Patterson PD's files a

few years after the incident. But there is a statement from the attending

pathologist.

SCULLY: Mulder, it's the same story I've heard since I was a kid.

It's a folk tale, a myth.

MULDER: I heard the same story when I was a kid too, funny thing is,

I believed it. (Mulder hands back the form to the person behind the desk

and is given a set of keys) Thanks, Doreen. (Mulder turns to face Scully)

Fact is, we got a cannibalised body in New Jersey, someone or something

out there is hungry.

(Mulder walks off and Scully turns and looks at him)

<- ATLANTIC CITY MORGUE ->

(Mulder and Scully are in the morgue looking at the body of the victim.

The coroner is there holding up the sheet which covers the body)

GLENNA: Er, they say animals can develop an appetite for human flesh

but, this is no animal. You see the teeth marks, just below the clavicle,

they're human.

(Glenna walks off and removes her surgical gloves)

MULDER: Who found the body?

GLENNA: Park Ranger.

(Scully is examing the body while Mulder walks to the feet of the body)

SCULLY: Was he alive when it happened?

GLENNA: Well, it's hard to tell. (Mulder looks at the toe-tag, it reads:)

CORONER'S DEPARTMENT

NAME CROCKETT ROGER

CASE NO. 2272 DATE AUG 29 / 93

WHERE TAKEN FROM:

N.J. STATE PARK

GLENNA: There's a skull fracture but no sign of a struggle, his blood

alcohol level was up, probably never knew what hit him.

MULDER: Any ideas about that?

GLENNA: The size of that bite mark, I'd say.......

DETECTIVE THOMPSON: I want this on the QT.

(A man walks around a corner into view, and approaches the three of them)

GLENNA: .......large adult male.

MAN: I'll do my best.

GLENNA: Er, Detective Thompson is handling the case.

DETECTIVE THOMPSON: Glenna?

(Scully shows her ID to the detective)

SCULLY: Hi, I'm Special Agent Dana Scully and this is Agent Fox

Mulder.

DETECTIVE THOMPSON: I don't remember anybody calling the FBI

in on this.

MULDER: Well, we're not here on an official capacity, Agent Scully's

a medical doctor, we heard about your victim and, she thought she might

take a look.

DETECTIVE THOMPSON: I'm sorry, I'm gonna ask you to leave.

We have an investigation.

GLENNA: For God's sakes Tommy, this is no time to get pissy.

DETECTIVE THOMPSON: We have jurisdiction here.

MULDER: Any suspects yet, Detective?

DETECTIVE THOMPSON: I don't work for you sir, and unless you

hear different from the Attorney General, er, this case is a local matter.

SCULLY: Agent Mulder, we should go.

MULDER: There's no need to get bent outta shape.

DETECTIVE THOMPSON: On the contrary, I think I've been exceedingly

polite.

(Mulder and the detective stand there staring at each other for a few

moments, and then Mulder leaves)

<- OUTSIDE ->

(Mulder and Scully walk along a street until they reach their car)

MULDER: So what's eating that guy?

SCULLY: He was perfectly in his rights. The FBI has no overriding

jurisdiction in a murder case. Anyway, you'd feel the same way if

someone was horning in on your work.

MULDER: Yeah, chances are he's without a clue. He'll probably be

scratching his head when they bring the next body in.

SCULLY: You missed your opening Mulder, you could've really

humiliated him and er, told him who the perpetrator was, The Jersey Devil.

(Mulder laughs)

(Mulder stands beside the car and talks to Scully, who is standing on

the other side of the car)

MULDER: Hey whatta you say, we grab a hotel, take in a floor show,

drop a few quarters in the slots, do a little digging on this case.

SCULLY: You're kidding, right?

MULDER: Ok, we can skip the floor show.

SCULLY: Mulder, I have to be back in D.C.

MULDER: What, you got a date?

SCULLY: No, I have my godson's birthday party at 6:30.

(Mulder throws the car keys across the top of the car, Scully catches them)

What are you doing?

MULDER: A little poking around, maybe make a weekend out of it.

(Mulder walks off)

SCULLY: Mulder, it's a three hour drive back by myself...

(Mulder waves to Scully)...in Friday night traffic, ooowh.

<- CASINO ->

(We see people playing slots machines, playing at the crap tables.

Mulder is standing beside a telephone, looking through a telephone directory.

He runs his finger down a page until he finds what he is looking for:

PARKS SERVICES - STATE OF NEW JERSEY

Parks Information - General Inquiries

.......................................555 - 9573

Mulder lifts the phone)

<- NEW JERSEY STATE PARK ->

(Mulder and a Park Ranger get out of the ranger's pick-up truck and

walk a couple of feet away from it)

RANGER PETER BOULAY: Found the body just over there, lying face

down in the rocks. 32 years with the park service, I've come across

some weird stuff but I tell ye, never anything like this.

MULDER: Victim was a homeless man, you get many of them wandering

around out here?

RANGER PETER BOULAY: Well, occasionally ar, see some but,

most are scared of the woods.

MULDER: Scared? Of what?

RANGER PETER BOULAY: I don't know, the devil.

MULDER: People say that's just a myth.

RANGER PETER BOULAY: Depends on who you talk to.

MULDER: What do you think?

RANGER PETER BOULAY: Well like I said, now thirty-two years,

I see a lot of weird stuff. Like one time, a little over four years ago,

I saw what I thought was a large man come out of a copse of birch

trees, not, not a stitch of clothing. And he was about, sixty yards

away, and he starts, sniffing the air, you know like a dog. And then

he looks straight at me, and I swear he smelled me because he

took off into the woods so fast, you'd swear it wasn't human.

MULDER: Really. You never saw him again?

RANGER PETER BOULAY: No, but I feel him. And, I found things,

some scat, half buried like a cat's only more human. Found a half

eaten rabbit with what looked like a human cuspid tooth in it.

And some beer bottles, looked like they'd been sharpened into tools.

MULDER: You think it might be what's responsible for the body you found?

(The ranger laughs slightly)

RANGER PETER BOULAY: I got a pension coming up in a few years,

you know, you say the wrong thing...

MULDER: Yeah.

RANGER PETER BOULAY: Er, I'll tell you one thing, I don't ever

come out here without my weapon anymore.

MULDER: How far is it into town from here?

RANGER PETER BOULAY: `Bout a mile, mile and a half.

MULDER: I'm staying at the Galaxy Gateway for the next couple of

days, if you think of anything, will you call me?

RANGER PETER BOULAY: Sure.

(Mulder walks off down a path in the woods)

<- SCULLY'S GOD-SON'S BIRTHDAY PARTY, D.C. ->

(We see a gorilla mask and the wearer runs into a room, from which

another kid runs also wearing a gorilla mask and carring a plastic

baseball bat. He runs into a wall and falls on his back and starts to cry.

Scully comes to see what has happened)

SCULLY: Oh c'mon, it's ok, it's alright, what happened, did you bump

your head? Hhmmm.

(A dog is licking the birthday cake while the kids cheer at it, a woman

lifts the dog onto the floor)

ELLEN: Oh, Peter, stop that. (Scully comes in holding the kid who

hurt himself) What, what happened?

SCULLY: Jungle warfare.

ELLEN: Aaar, I'm gonna kill that dog.

SCULLY: If the hit squad doesn't get to him before you do.

(Scully and Ellen laugh)

ELLEN: I'm so glad you're here, Dana.

(Ellen hears the breaking of glass and goes to find out what is broken)

(All the kids are sitting around a table eating food, Scully lifts an

empty plate and goes into the kitchen, where Ellen is washing dishes)

SCULLY: Oooh, you're amazing.

ELLEN: What?

SCULLY: You're just such a natural at all this, I don't know how you

keep it all together.

ELLEN: Mommy radar.

SCULLY: Mmmm, I don't think I'm cut out for this El.

ELLEN: Dana, you went through the FBI academy, what better training

could there be for motherhood. (Scully lifts out a large plastic container

from a cupboard and opens it) Seriously, you're great with kids,

what're you talking about.

SCULLY: When am I supposed to find the time?

ELLEN: Well first you have to get a life.

SCULLY: Ooooh.

ELLEN: And, of course, it helps if you can find a man.

SCULLY: Know of any?

ELLEN: Yeah, they're disappearing faster than the Brazilian rain forest.

What about that guy you work with?

SCULLY: Mulder?

ELLEN: Yeah, I thought you said he was cute.

SCULLY: He's a jerk. He's not a jerk, he's erm, he's obsessed with

his work.

(Mulder is walking along the path. We see Mulder from the viewpoint

of someone or something watching him. Mulder continues his walk,

not aware that he is being watched)

(Scully's godson's party is still going, when there is a ring of the doorbell,

Scully answers it. A man stands outside the door)

ROD: Hi.

SCULLY: Hi.

ROD: I'm Rod, I'm Scott's dad.

SCULLY: Oh, come in.

ROD: Thanks. Hey Tiger. How you doing? Are you having a good time?

(Rod crouches to talk to his son, Scully watches him and smiles.

Ellen is along the hallway talking on the phone, she puts her hand

over the mouthpiece and quietly says something to Scully)

ELLEN: Divorced.

(Scully looks back at Rod, who turns and looks at Scully and smiles.

Scully coyly smiles, puts her head down and looks away)

<- OUTSKIRTS OF ATLANTIC CITY, 6:47 P.M. ->

(Mulder walks along a street filled with homeless people living in

cardboard boxes. The street is littered with boxes and cars stripped

of anything valuable)

MULDER: Did anybody here know, Roger Crockett? (No one

acknowledges Mulder's request) He was murdered two days ago.

(Mulder tries to talk to a woman as she goes past but she just ignores

him) Ma'am, can I..

VAGRANT WOMAN: Hey honey, have you got any change to spare?

MULDER: Roger Crockett? Anybody?

(A man gets up and walks towards Mulder)

JACK: What d'you wanna know?

MULDER: Did you know Roger Crockett? (The man nods his head)

Did you hear how he died?

JACK: Yeah.

MULDER: Any ideas who might've done it?

JACK: You a cop?

MULDER: No, I'm FBI.

JACK: I'll show you something.

MULDER: Ok.

(Jack leads Mulder through a door and into an alleyway)

JACK: I need some money.

(Mulder takes some money out out his wallet and gives it to Jack.

Jack rummages in a black bag, in amongst a sheltered area, and

pulls out a piece of paper from a small plastic bag. He unfolds it

and shows it to Mulder. It looks like a man, but more like a beastly

kind of man)

MULDER: What is this?

JACK: Stuck in the pocket of a jacket I found.

MULDER: Does it mean anything to you?

JACK: I've seen it.

MULDER: Where?

JACK: Right here, digging in the trash..

MULDER: Here? Are you hustling me?

JACK: Swear to God.

MULDER: Who do you think it is?

JACK: I don't know, scared the hell out of me.

MULDER: Has anybody else seen it?

JACK: Oh yeah, everybody's pretty freaked.

MULDER: Anybody told the cops?

JACK: You think they don't know.

MULDER: Where're you sleeping tonight?

JACK: You're standing in my bedroom.

MULDER: You know the er, The Galaxy Gateway?

(Mulder gives Jack his room key) Room 756. Go ahead.

JACK: Hey, they got HBO?

(Mulder laughs)

MULDER: Yeah, they do.

<- ALLEYWAY ->

(It's night time and Mulder is sitting in Jack's bedroom with a blanket

wrapped round him. As he tries to go to sleep he hears a noise,

at first glance he can't see anything but he gets up and quietly looks

around)

(He notices a figure at the end of the alleyway searching in the trash.

Mulder slowly advances to get a better look at the figure. Suddenly the

figure starts sniffing the air, but soon continues to resume searching in

the trash. The figure then climbs over a fence and out of sight. Mulder

runs and jumps up the fence and sees the figure running along a catwalk)

(Mulder then rushes out of the alleyway and into the street to see if he

can see where the figure is going, as it runs along the roof of a building,

Mulder whistles at it. It stops and looks over the edge of the building at

him. A police car and police van approach from behind Mulder and the

figure moves on. The headlights from the police car shine into Mulder's

eyes, the vehicles come to a stop and a police officer gets out of the car)

POLICE OFFICER: Sir.

(Mulder points up to the roof)

MULDER: You got a man up on that roof.

POLICE OFFICER: Nothing to be afraid of, we're gonna give ye a warm

place to sleep it off.

(The police officer grabs Mulder by the arm but Mulder shakes it off)

MULDER: Hey back off.

POLICE OFFICER: Alright, calm down.

MULDER: I'm telling you, there's a man up on that roof.

POLICE OFFICER: Get in the car, now.

<- ATLANTIC CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT ->

(Mulder is sitting in a small white room, empty except for a table and

some chairs. Through a window in the door, Detective Thompson peers

through before entering)

DETECTIVE THOMPSON: What the hell do you think you're doing?

MULDER: Enjoying the night life here in beautiful Atlantic City.

DETECTIVE THOMPSON: I'll go right to the D.A.'s office if I have to,

obstructing an investigation, misconduct.

MULDER: That's good, let's go see her together, and while we're at it,

why don't we add withholding evidence to the list.

DETECTIVE THOMPSON: Whatta you talking about?

MULDER: Statements given to you describing something stalking the

back streets of Atlantic City.

DETECTIVE THOMPSON: This is the fishing trip they get me up at

three-o-clock in the morning for. Unbelievable.

MULDER: Why else would you be sweeping the streets tonight?

You know it's out there.

DETECTIVE THOMPSON: I got a perpetrator out there. Whether it's

Hannibal the Cannibal or Elmer Fudd, I've got a job, to protect people.

MULDER: Oh is that your job, or is it to keep the dice rolling,

keep the tour buses rolling in. You can't fill those casinos, this town

disappears like a quarter down the slot. (There is a brief pause of silence)

I've seen it.

DETECTIVE THOMPSON: Seen what? (Mulder reaches into his back

pocket and pulls out the piece of paper with the drawing of the creature.

He unfolds it and shows it to Detective Thompson, who looks at it and

laughs) You've been spending too much time in supermarket check-out

lines. (Detective Thompson folds the paper up again and throws it onto

the table) This story's as old as the hills.

MULDER: Who's going to be responsible when you lose your first tourist,

Detective? You are.

DETECTIVE THOMPSON: No, you are sir, because you're wasting my

time, and impeding the solution of this case. (Detective Thompson

opens the door and stands by it) You wanna go on a safari, go to Africa.

In the meantime, enjoy the rest of your weekend.

(He leaves, closing the door behind him, and leaving Mulder sitting by himself)

<- FBI HEADQUARTERS, WASHINGTON D.C. ->

(Scully is walking through the same busy office we've seen at the start,

another agent calls to her from behind a desk)

AGENT: Agent Scully, Agent Mulder line three.

(Scully picks up the phone on the desk beside her, and answers line three)

SCULLY: Where are you?

MULDER: I'm not far from where you left me.

SCULLY: You're still in Atlantic City?

MULDER: Er Scully, you got anything happening this morning?

SCULLY: What's that noise in the background?

(We see Mulder is talking on a payphone outside a jail cell.

In the cell is a man, bent over)

MULDER: That's a guy getting sick.

SCULLY: Mulder where are you? (We see Scully again,

Mulder has just told her where he is) The drunk tank.

(Another agent is looking at Scully, she turns away and continues to

listen to Mulder)

<- ATLANTIC CITY ->

(Mulder and Scully are walking along a street, Mulder's clothes look dirty)

SCULLY: Well, it's not hard to see why they mistook you for a vagrant.

MULDER: You gonna rag on me or you gonna take me to get something

to eat?

SCULLY: Am I buying or did you manage to pan-handle some spare

change while you were at it?

<- A RESTAURANT IN ATLANTIC CITY ->

(Mulder and Scully are sitting at a table, Mulder is eating a meal,

he appears to be very hungry, talking at times with food in his mouth.

Scully is drinking coffee)

MULDER: It moved like a cat, quick and graceful. There's no way a

human could've got up on the roof that fast.

SCULLY: Mulder.

MULDER: What?

SCULLY: What's gonna happen when word of this gets back to the bureau?

MULDER: They dropped the charges, that guy Thompson, he ran

me through the system just to spite me.

SCULLY: I'm talking about this Jersey Devil thing.

MULDER: I saw it, it's exactly the way the ranger described it,

the way it moved, the way it sniffed the air. It's come out of the woods,

probably in search of food.

SCULLY: (watching Mulder wolf down his food ) Hyeah, I'll say.

MULDER: It was peeking through the garbage Scully, if it was a

man-eater, why didn't it come after me? Probably felt threatened

in some way..

SCULLY: Mulder, listen to yourself. You're already ascribing it a

motive and an alibi. This thing, chewing somebody's arm off is not

exactly a defensive posture.

MULDER: But you do believe that I saw something, don't ye?

SCULLY: You saw something, I'll give you that but I'm not about to go

in and sell it. Not when it's nothing more than a sighting in a dark alley.

MULDER: I still got a hotel room I'm paying for.

SCULLY: Yeah well, I have got to get back to Washington by 7:30,

so er..

MULDER: Another birthday party?

SCULLY: No. I have a date.

(Mulder looks at Scully)

MULDER: Can you cancel?

SCULLY: Unlike you Mulder, I would like to have a life.

MULDER: I have a life!

(Mulder and Scully look at each other,

Scully looks away with a slight laugh)

SCULLY: C'mon, I have somebody I want you to meet, on the way home.

C'mon.

(Mulder, with a mouth full of food, lifts his hand and gives a consenting grunt.

He wants to finish his meal)

<- UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND ->

(Mulder pours himself a cup of coffee, Scully is standing, arms crossed,

beside another man who is talking)

DR. DIAMOND: Just about every culture has one.

Yetis, Sasquatch, Russian Almas, Dsonoqua.

MULDER: Why is that?

DR. DIAMOND: Oh, it's a kind of universal wild man myth.

A symbolic fear of our dual natures as humans, as creators of life

and destroyers of it.

MULDER: What's this chart?

(Dr. Diamond walks towards Mulder and the chart)

DR. DIAMOND: It shows the historic entry of man onto each continent

and the effect it had on other animal species, which as you see has

been disastrous.

MULDER: Why?

(Mulder goes to sit down)

DR. DIAMOND: Well, we humans have retained hereditary traits through

evolution that have proven to be extremely destructive. We tend to be

tribal and aggressively territorial, oriented by selfish sexual and

reproductive drives that make, co-operation beyond the family-a-tribe,

extremely hard for us.

MULDER: So we kill other species in order to survive.

SCULLY: Yeah, humans are top carnivores, we sit at the top of the

food chain and we, reduce other species' chance of survival.

DR. DIAMOND: Nice to know Dana left here with more than a degree.

MULDER: But what if something entered the food chain above us?

(Dr. Diamond pours himself a cup of coffee now, and walks back

towards Mulder and Scully, at a table)

DR. DIAMOND: It won't happen, see our intelligence virtually insures

us, barring the introduction of some alien life-form, we will live out our

days as rulers of the world.

MULDER: But, but what if through some fluke of nature, a human was

born, who reverted to its most animal instincts, a kind of carnivorous

neanderthal. Wouldn't he occupy a space above us on the food chain?

DR. DIAMOND: Oh sure, all he'd have to do is wait outside any fast-food

restaurant and eat us on the way in.

MULDER: Right, yeah, and, and haven't there been cases where,

men have been raised in the wilderness by animals who have no

language and hunt like predators?

DR. DIAMOND: Oh yes several, but you see cannibalism is rare,

even among the lower mammals.

MULDER: But even when faced with extinction?

DR. DIAMOND: Well maybe in the jungles of New Gineau or,

it's just, highly unlikely that what you're suggesting could've survived

civilization, a revolution, out in the woods of New Jersey.

MULDER: Yea, highly unlikely, but not outside the realm of extreme possibility?

DR. DIAMOND: Well, it would be an amazing discovery.

(Dr. Diamond nods his head a few times. Mulder looks back at Scully.

Nothing is said, but she turns to look away)

<- FBI HEADQUARTERS, WASHINGTON D.C.. X-FILES OFFICE ->

(Mulder is sitting, looking at some photos, in a dark room.

Photos connected to the Jersey Devil, both photographs of footprints

and the drawing of the creature)

(Scully is sitting in a fancy restaurant with Rod. Both are well

dressed and they are sitting at a table with a candle in the middle

and they both have a drink in front of them)

ROD: Well the hard thing was when my wife remarried I...

Suddenly I felt very competitive for my son's attention. It was weird.

SCULLY: I'm sure.

ROD: I became a superdad on the weekends with Scott, I, had this

unconscious fear of being replaced. I actually had dreams where I

was running over his step-father with my car. Well, you'll understand

when you have kids, having kids changes everything.

SCULLY: That's what they say.

ROD: Maybe some weekend, if you're up for it, we could er,

take the kids out to the beach for the day.

(A waiter brings Scully and Rod's meals to them)

SCULLY: Yeah.

ROD: Great. (Scully looks at Rod and smiles. The waiter puts Rod's

meal down in front of him) Thank you. (The waiter leaves) So, can I

ask about the case you're on or, can't you say.

(Scully picks up a piece of food on her fork, looks at Rod cutting his

food and pauses)

SCULLY: I don't think it's a case we should discuss over dinner.

ROD: I don't suppose you'd wanna hear about the, finer points of the

state planning and taxation.

(Scully looks up at Rod and smiles, she continues to eat her meal)

(Mulder takes off his glasses and rubs his eyes, he looks at the time

on a clock on the wall, it is 7:55 p.m.. The phone rings)

MULDER: Mulder.

RANGER PETER BOULAY: Agent Mulder, this is Peter Boulay of the

Jersey Parks Department.

MULDER: Oh yeah, hi.

(Peter Boulay is talking from his ranger's truck, in what appears to

be part of the park)

RANGER PETER BOULAY: Hi, I found a body out in the woods today,

it looks like it's been dead about six to eight months. A long haired male,

missing the same tooth I found in that rabbit a while back.

It could be your devil.

MULDER: Where's the body now?

RANGER PETER BOULAY: I turned it over to the coroner's office.

MULDER: You're sure it was a male?

RANGER PETER BOULAY: Well, it had all the plumbing.

ROD: Excuse me.

(Rod lifts a small milk jug to pour into his coffee)

SCULLY: Eef-hhmmm. (Scully's beeper goes off) Sorry. (She opens

her handbag and checks the message on the beeper. She closes her

bag again and gets up from the table) Excuse me.

ROD: Certainly.

(The phone in Mulder's office rings again)

MULDER: Scully.

SCULLY: Mulder.

MULDER: Sorry to interrupt your evening.

(Scully is using a phone in the restaurant)

SCULLY: That's ok, what's up?

MULDER: I just had an amazing thought, maybe it isn't a beast-man

we're looking for after all.

(Mulder is holding up the drawing of the creature)

<- ATLANTIC CITY MORGUE ->

(Glenna is looking through a filing cabinet, and pulls out a file.

She walks back towards Scully and the ranger, Mulder is walking beside her)

GLENNA: Well, if they picked it up, nobody logged the body on the chart.

I sure haven't seen it.

RANGER PETER BOULAY: Well, I don't understand.

What else would they have done with it?

SCULLY: I'm afraid we may have called you down here for nothing.

(Scully is talking to Dr. Diamond, who is also standing with the others)

MULDER: They're going to try and sweep this whole thing under the carpet.

DR. DIAMOND: Why?

MULDER: Any publicity and you're got the streets crawling with the

kind of people who aren't here to play the crap tables. Word gets out

there's something still on the loose, forget it.

DR. DIAMOND: You said it was a female.

MULDER: The body they found was a male, there's a fifty-fifty

chance there was a mate. We may never know unless we find out ourselves.

DR. DIAMOND: If it's true, what're the chances of catching it alive?

<- ALLEYWAY ->

(Mulder is cutting the wire attaching the wire fence to the metal post

with a small pair of wire-cutters)

DR. DIAMOND: If it is a primate, it would have a natural fear of heights.

It would also want to stay close to it's food source.

(Mulder steps through the fence and holds it back so that Scully,

Dr. Diamond and Peter Boulay can get through. The ranger is carrying a rifle)

MULDER: This thing has no fear of heights. We'll stay together and

start with the lower floors. How much time will that dart give us?

RANGER PETER BOULAY: It'll put down a five hundred pound bear

for an hour, if I hit it.

(They all enter a building, the same building that Mulder saw the

creature enter and run across the roof. It is an old building, with

bars on the doors and windows, the windows have been smashed)

(Out on the street, a police car drives by and stops when the two

officers inside the car notice the ranger's truck)

POLICE OFFICER 1: What the hell's a park ranger vehicle doing here?

POLICE OFFICER 2: I don't know.

POLICE OFFICER 1: Check it out.

(Both officers get out of the car, the first one walks off while the second

one lifts the radio)

POLICE OFFICER 2: Run a check for me on a...

(Back inside the building, Scully is walking past some lockers while

Dr. Diamond is looking at a pile of rubbish. He lifts a few empty bags

and plastic covers, and then he notices something. He crouches

down and picks up a piece of cloth and smells it)

DR. DIAMOND: Something here. (The others arrive at the location of

Dr. Diamond, who gets up) It's blood. She could be bringing her killing

here. She could be injured.

(A S.W.A.T. team member stands outside the building and turns

looking at the surroundings, he is holding a machine gun and has

a headpiece on)

S.W.A.T. TEAM OFFICER: Roger, zebra team in position.

(More S.W.A.T. team men gather outside an entrance to the building

with one man pointing out directions for the others)

(Everyone is still looking inside, but now they are up a few floors.

Mulder peers over a railing and looks down, Scully comes near)

MULDER: What if it is a female, Scully? How close is she to you or me?

Does she feel emotion? Or are her days just spent looking for food?

SCULLY: Maybe, she spends her day shopping.

MULDER: Eight million years out of Africa, I don't think we're all that different.

(S.W.A.T. team members are running quietly through the bottom floor

of the building)

SCULLY: Mulder, we've put men into space, we've built computers

that work faster than the human mind.

MULDER: While we over-populate the world and create new

technologies to kill each other with. Maybe we're just beasts with big brains.

(Scully is standing, not moving, a still face gazing into nothingness) What?

SCULLY: No I was just, thinking about my godson's birthday party,

eight little six year old boys running around, talk about primitive behaviour.

(Mulder hears the voice of Detective Thompson and peers, once again,

over the railing. He sees the detective standing talking to Dr. Diamond

with a couple of police officers standing beside them)

DETECTIVE THOMPSON: Now look, his name is Mulder and he's

a federal agent, you ever hear of him?

DR. DIAMOND: No.

DETECTIVE THOMPSON: You know him?

DR. DIAMOND: No.

(Mulder puts his finger to his mouth, Scully turns and looks down over

the railing as well)

DETECTIVE THOMPSON: Well, what are you doing here?

DR. DIAMOND: I'm a professor of Anthropology.

DETECTIVE THOMPSON: Mulder, does that sound familar to you?

Look, I know he's here somewhere. Would you check you upstairs,

Andrew, go check upstairs. I want this place searched...

(Mulder and Scully continue their search of the higher levels of the building.

Outside, two S.W.A.T. members appear on a bridge looking into the

building, they take a quick look and then run on)

(Mulder is looking through a room and stops, suddenly he hears a noise

and as he looks in the direction of the noise, a figure runs past a window.

Mulder gives chase, Scully hears the sounds of Mulder's feet running as

she is close by. Mulder stops after coming around a corner and walks

slowly along the corridor. Mulder hears Scully's voice, quiet and soft

as not to arouse the attention of the police)

SCULLY: Mulder? Mulder where are you?

(Mulder looks out a window and sees the figure, the beast-woman,

running across the top off an adjacent building. Scully is walking down

a corridor, looking for Mulder as well as the beast. Mulder jumps onto

the roof of the other building and as he lands, rolls over and scrambles

to his feet, trying to catch up with the beast. Scully appears in the

same corridor Mulder was in recently. When she peers out a window,

she sees Mulder running across the top of the other building)

(The S.W.A.T team is quickly making their way up through the building)

(Scully lands on top of the roof of the other buidling, and like Mulder,

rolls on landing. She takes out her gun and gets to her feet, crouching

under large metal girders, making her way to where she saw Mulder going)

(Mulder is crawling slowly on his hands and feet, making no noise,

trying to hear where the beast might be. The creature walks quickly

and quietly across a boarded walkway on top of the roof, close to

where Mulder is. As the creature goes past, Mulder jumps up onto

the walkway and runs after the beast)

(The walkway leads down some steps and into a dark building.

Mulder slows his pursuit once inside the building, he reaches the

bottom of the steps and enters a dark room, cautiously looking it over.

Beams of light shine in through the spaces of a fan as the fan is spinning.

Mulder looks along one side of a piece of machinery and then back

towards the fan. Suddenly the beast jumps Mulder and they both fall

to the ground. Mulder lands on his back, and lifts his head trying to

see where the beast has gone and wondering what it might do to him.

The beast appears from the darkness and sits on Mulder's legs.

Mulder lies back, breathing heavily, waiting)

(Scully has made her way to the top of the steps, and descends slowly

with her gun trained in front of her. The beast backs off from Mulder,

and Mulder tries to sit up, as he does so the beast-woman swipes at

him, knocking him back to the ground and hitting his head.

Scully approaches the bottom of the steps)

SCULLY: Mulder?

(The beast-woman runs off, Scully quickly runs down the last few steps)

MULDER: Scully.

(Mulder is sitting up when Scully enters the room,

she puts away her gun, and attends to Mulder)

SCULLY: Lay back. Oh, Mulder you're hurt.

MULDER: You should've seen her, she was beautiful.

SCULLY: Yeah well, she just about ripped your lungs out.

<- OUTSIDE BUILDING ->

(Mulder is sitting in the back of an ambulance getting medical attention,

he is holding his shirt up while a medic attends to his wound.

Dr. Diamond is sitting in the ambulance also)

MULDER: She could've torn my head off, Scully, but she didn't,

she sensed that I wasn't a threat..

AMBULANCE DUDE: You've gotta hold still.

(Scully is talking on her cellular)

SCULLY: Yeah, I need to talk somebody who can get me federal

jurisdiction on this case. Mulder.

MULDER: What?

DR. DIAMOND: How old would you say she was?

(Both Scully and Dr. Diamond are talking to Mulder at the same time

but he turns his attention to Scully)

MULDER: What?

SCULLY: The US assistant D.A.'s on the phone with the bureau right

now, he wants to know what the hell is going on up here in Atlantic City.

MULDER: Well, tell him he's got a real live neanderthal on the loose.

She was young, I, I, I don't know...

It's hard to say exactly what, what, what...

SCULLY: The Atlantic City major crime unit has filed a complaint that

we're endangering a murder investigation.

MULDER: That is such crap, you can..

(The ranger comes over to the ambulance)

RANGER PETER BOULAY: Agent Mulder, they got her cornered,

in a building.

MULDER: Let's go.

(The S.W.A.T. team have followed the beast-woman into another room.

One officer is talking on a walkie-talkie)

DETECTIVE THOMPSON: Can you see it?

S.W.A.T. TEAM OFFICER: It crawled into the walls.

DETECTIVE THOMPSON: Can you get a man in there?

S.W.A.T. TEAM OFFICER: That's affirmative.

DETECTIVE THOMPSON: And keep these people outta here.

(Two police officers restrain Mulder as he tries to get past)

MULDER: You could take her alive.

DETECTIVE THOMPSON: What's going on in there?

S.W.A.T. TEAM OFFICER: I got a man down, I got a naked woman

just jumped from a second storey window. (The S.W.A.T. officer is

looking out of a window as he is talking) Suspect is headed south

into the woods on foot.

<- NEW JERSEY STATE PARK ->

(Police officers with tracker dogs approach the woods.

Mulder, Scully, Dr. Diamond and the ranger all travel to the woods in

the ranger's truck. They come to a stop at the woods and they all get

out of the truck)

RANGER PETER BOULAY: I know these woods, if she's going for

cover, she'll be down by the rocks. (They make their way into the woods.

Meanwhile, the police are tracking through the forest slowly. As the

others make their way to the top of a rockface, the ranger notices the

beast-woman and points her out) Look.

MULDER: Can you reach her from here?

RANGER PETER BOULAY: I can try.

(Peter aims at the beast-woman and fires, the dart hits her in the back

of the right shoulder. She pulls the dart out and continues on her way.

Mulder leads the others down the side of the rockface, holding his side,

and they run across a bridge. Down by the river, with the bridge still in

sight, Detective Thompson comes into view. As the others come to the

end of the bridge, they hear gunshots and run in the direction from

where they came)

VOICES: I got it. Up ahead. I got it. She tried to take my arm off.

Watch it right here. (A man is sitting holding his arm, as Mulder

arrives at the scene of the shooting, blood staining his shirt from

his wound, he stops and looks at the scene and advances to the

body of the beast-woman) Right there. Looks like she was trying

to bury herself.

(The beast-woman lies dead on the ground, leaves partially covering her

lower back and legs. Mulder crouches down beside her and pulls back

her hair and moves his hand over her eyes, shutting them. He pauses

for a moment and then gets up and walks over to Detective Thompson)

MULDER: Why did you have to kill her?

DETECTIVE THOMPSON: Same reason you kill a rabid animal.

(Mulder stands looking at the detective, Scully moves to Mulder and

touches his arm. Mulder looks at Scully, without saying a word,

Scully walks off, followed by Mulder. Peter Boulay looks from the

detective to the body)

<- FBI HEADQUARTERS, WASHINGTON D.C.. X-FILES OFFICE. ONE WEEK LATER ->

(Mulder is looking at photos of the body of the dead beast-woman,

he puts them with the rest of the file into a filing cabinet. Scully

enters the office carrying a file. Mulder sits down, Scully passes

something to Mulder)

SCULLY: Hi, this just came through, it's the posthumous medical

exam on the woman's body. They found fragments of human bones

still in her digestive tract, they estimated her age to be twenty-five to

thirty years. Now they allowed Dr. Diamond to do a medical exam

of the body but he found nothing that suggested prehistoric bone

structure or physiology. Now the ACPD has her listed as a Jane Doe,

and a search for her identity in state psychiatric records has begun,

in earnest.

MULDER: Good luck.

(Scully gives Mulder the file she is holding)

SCULLY: They have also released the medical exam from the male

body that they found, his age is estimated to be about forty years.

MULDER: There would have been offspring.

SCULLY: The medical exam of the women's uterus does seem to indicate

that she may have given birth.

MULDER: She was just protecting her children, Scully, it all makes sense.

(Mulder gets up and gets his coat from behind the door) The male dies

and she comes out of the woods in search of food.

SCULLY: Mulder, will you do me a favour, will you just go out and

have a beer, will you take the day off. I'll cover for you, will you just,

take some time for yourself.

MULDER: Thanks for the offer but I've got an appointment at the

Smithsonian with.. (The phone rings)...an ethno-biologist, I can't

wait to tell him about this. (Mulder answers the phone)

Mulder, yeah just a second, it's for you.

(Scully takes the phone and Mulder rushes out of the office)

SCULLY: Hello?

ROD: Hi Dana, it's Rod.

SCULLY: Oh hi.

(Rod is sitting behind a large desk, in an office or a study,

books line the shelves behind him)

ROD: Sorry to call you at work, it's just I have Scott for the night and

er, we have two extra tickets for Cirque De Soliel, we thought maybe

you'd like to ask Ellen if you could take Trent and join us.

(Mulder approaches a reception desk at the head of a busy office)

MULDER: Requisition for a car please, Fran. Thank you.

(Mulder is filling out the form when Scully arrives)

Who was that on the phone?

SCULLY: A guy.

MULDER: A guy. Same guy as the guy you had dinner with the

other night?

SCULLY: Same guy.

MULDER: You gonna have dinner with him again?

SCULLY: I don't think so.

MULDER: No interest?

(Mulder finishes filling in the form and passes it back to Fran)

SCULLY: Not at this time.

(Fran gives Mulder a set of keys)

MULDER: Thanks, Fran. (Mulder walks away from the desk and

towards a door. Scully walks with him) What are you doing?

SCULLY: I'm going with you to the Smithsonian.

MULDER: Don't you have a life, Scully?

SCULLY: Keep that up, Mulder, and I'll hurt you like that beast-woman.

(Scully stops at the door, her hand on the handle)

MULDER: Eight million years out of Africa.

(Scully opens the door)

SCULLY: Look who's holding the door.

(Mulder walks through the doorway followed by Scully)

<- NEW JERSEY STATE PARK ->

(A man and a boy are walking through the woods, wearing backpacks)

BOY: Dad, did you just see something down there?

DAD: Where?

(The boy points to part of the woods)

BOY: Over there.

DAD: Naah, I'm sure it was nothing.

BOY: No, I saw something.

DAD: Hey, did you ever hear the story of the Jersey Devil?

You know when I was a kid, my dad used to tell this story

about a creature who lived out down the woods...

(As the father and son walk off, the camera pans down to the ground

and from a hole appears the face of a young girl. The offspring of the beasts)

STARRING

DAVID DUCHOVNY Agent Fox Mulder

GILLIAN ANDERSON Agent Dana Scully

Guest Starring

CLAIRE STANSFIELD The Creature

WAYNE TIPPIT Detective Thompson

GREGORY SIERRA Dr. Diamond

MICHAEL McRAE Ranger Paul Boulay

Co-Starring

JILL TEED Glenna

TASMIN KELSEY Ellen

ANDREW AIRLIE Rod

BILL DOW Dad

HROTHGAR MATHEWS Jack

Featuring

JAYME KNOX Mom

SCOTT SWANSON First Officer

SEAN O'BYRNE Second Officer

DAVID LEWIS Young Officer

D. NEIL MARK S.W.A.T. Team Officer

CREATED BY

CHRIS CARTER

Line Producer

JOSEPH PATRICK FINN

Supervising Producers

HOWARD GORDON & ALEX GANSA

Co-Executive Producers

JAMES WONG & GLEN MORGAN

Co-Executive Producer

R. W. GOODWIN

Written by

CHRIS CARTER

Directed by

JOE NAPOLITANO

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

CHRIS CARTER

Co-Producer

PAUL RABWIN

Casting by

RICK MILLIKAN, C.S.A.

Vancouver Casting by

LYNNE CARROW, C. S. A.

Original Casting by

RANDY STONE, C. S. A.

Music by

MARK SNOW

Director of Photography

JOHN S. BARTLEY, C.S.C.

Art Director

MICHAEL NEMIRSKY

Editor

STEPHEN MARK

Production Manager

J. P. FINN

First Assistant Director

TOM BRAIDWOOD

Second Assistant Director

COLLIN LEADLEY

Set Director SHIRLEY INGET

Asst. Art Director CLYDE KLOTZ

Script Supervisor WENDY McLEAN

Costume Designer LARRY WELLS

Costume Supervisor JENNI GULLETT

Property Master KEN HAWRYLIW

Transportation Coordinator BOB BOWE

Construction Coordinator ROB MAIER

Hair Stylist MALCOLM MARSDEN

Make-up FERN LEVIN

Location Manager LOUISA GRADNITZER

Camera Operator ROD PRIDY

Focus Fuller MARTY McINALLY

Production Coordinator ROBERTA SHEEHY

Asst. Prod. Coordinator ANITA TRUELOVE

Visual Effects Producer MAT BECK

Chief Lighting Technician DAVID TICKELL

Key Grip AL CAMPBELL

Special Effects DAVID GAUTHIER

Sound Mixer MICHAEL WILLIAMSON

Stunt Coordinator KEN KIRZINGER

Assistant Editor RON SOUTH

Main Title Sequence by

CASTLE/BRYANT/JOHNSEN

Processing by

GASTOWN FILM LABS

Telecine by

GASTOWN POST AND TRANSFER

Electronic Assembly by

ENCORE VIDEO

Post Production Sound by

WEST PRODUCTIONS INC.

Supervising Sound Editor THIERRY COUTURIER

Music Editor JEFF CHARBONNEAU

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