German title: Die Pine-Bluff-Variante
translation: The Pine-Bluff-Variant
Japanese title: Undercover
Spanish title: Bacterias para la Muerte
translation: Bacteria For The Death
US Airdate: May 3, 1998
writer: John Shiban
director: Rob Bowman
SCENE 1 FOLGER PARK WASHINGTON, DC (MULDER jogging through
park.)
(SKINNER and SCULLY watch from FBI surveillance van.)
TECH 1: (voice) North Perimeter clear. No sign of him.
TECH 2: (voice) South access clear.
SKINNER: Camera one, pan right. Mulder, make for the west
entrance.
TECH 3: (voice) West gate No sign of suspect.
SKINNER: Two, angle south entrance.
TECH 4: (voice) Mid-park clear
SCULLY: (looking at a bus on monitor) There. The bus.
SKINNER: Three, zoom in.
SKINNER: Stay close, Mulder. (Compares mugshot of Haley with
the image of a man getting off the bus. Its Haley.) We have Alpha off an east bound
Metro bus.
(MULDER running.)
TECH 2: I have alpha heading south.
SKINNER: One, follow suspect.
(AGENT READING PAPER on a bench watches HALEY pass and sit on
a bench with another man, the FBI beta target.)
UNDERCOVER AGENT READING PAPER: Contact made.
SKINNER: All right, hold your positions.
(Lots of undercover agents around.)
SCULLY: Whats he looking at?
SKINNER: Two. Pick it up.
(Camera pans over to MULDER.)
SCULLY: Mulder, hes watching you.
(MULDER pauses.)
TECH 2: Hes reaching for something.
SKINNER: Zoom in. One, zoom.
(HALEY hands an envelope to the other man.)
SKINNER: Okay, slowly. Slowly. Wait for it. Wait, wait. Wait
for it.
(MULDER stretches, looking casual. The man meeting with HALEY
on a bench takes the envelope from HALEY and looks in it.)
SKINNER: Okay
(Man meeting with HALEY puts envelope in his pocket, then
suddenly doubles over in pain.)
HALEY: What - what- what -? Hey.
SCULLY: What just happened? Whats happening?
SKINNER: I dont know what the hell happened.
HALEY: Anybody! A doctor! I need a doctor over here.. My
friends sick here. I dont know whats wrong. Oh, God. He just he
just fell Ah, man. (runs off)
SKINNER: What the hells going on?
SCULLY: I cant see anything! Theres
TECH 2: Beta target down!
TECH 3: Weve lost Alpha!
SKINNER: Go! Go! Go!
(Car pulls up and FBI agents get out to pursue HALEY.)
SCULLY: There he is! Hes heading west. Hes on the
move! Hes on the move!
MULDER: (running after HALEY) Im on him!
SKINNER: Maintain your position on the downed Beta. Find the
Alpha on three.
AGENT READING PAPER: (approaching the fallen man on the
bench) Federal agents! Step aside! Oh, my God.
SKINNER: What is it?
AGENT READING PAPER: What the hell did he do to him?
SCULLY: What? What? What? What are you seeing?
SKINNER: Come on, talk to me! Talk to me!
(Man looks like acid has been poured on his face and hands.)
AGENT READING PAPER: Its eating away his flesh.
SCULLY: What?
SKINNER: Haley must be carrying something lethal.
SCULLY: Wheres Mulder?
SKINNER: Mulder was on him. Theres no way he
couldnt catch him.
SCULLY: Mulder, respond!
SKINNER: Can you find him? Zoom in. Zoom in!
SCULLY: I cant see a thing. Mulder, suspect is armed
and dangerous. Pursue Alpha with extreme caution.
(MULDER chasing HALEY.)
SCULLY: Mulder! Damn it!
(SCULLY gets up and jumps out of van. Skinner yells after
her.)
SKINNER: Agent Scully!
(SCULLY runs through park. She sees MULDER stop near a car,
and look around. Car pulls away quickly. MULDER walks away. SCULLY watches. MULDER runs up
to SCULLY)
MULDER: Scully.
SCULLY: What happened?
MULDER: I lost him.
SCULLY: What do you mean?
MULDER: (not looking at her) He got away.
(SCULLY watches MULDER leave. She appears confused.)
Opening credits. Mulder Whooo. Scully rocks.
SCENE 2 (X-Files office. SCULLY is watching surveillance
video. It looks like Mulder is handing off something to HALEY. MULDER enters, avoids
looking at SCULLY.)
SCULLY: I came in early. I wanted to take a look at the
surveillance tape to make sure I wasnt crazy. What happened out there, Mulder?
MULDER: "What happened?"
SCULLY: There were 12 agents yesterday in the park. We had
ownership of the suspect. We were in position to make the capture and you let him get
away. And from what I see now, you may have aided in his escape.
MULDER: (not looking at her) I dont know what
youre talking about.
SCULLY: Its on the video, Mulder. I cant prove it
was you, but I know what I saw. This man is a murderer. He is a terrorist. I have a report
to give this morning. I expect you to give me an answer. I expect you to tell me the
truth.
MULDER: Were late for the hearing.
SCENE 3 JOINT FBI/CIA COUNTER TERRORISM COUNCIL (FBI briefing
room. 15+ agents and MULDER, SCULLY and SKINNER.)
SKINNER: 15 hours ago, a joint FBI/CIA task force assembled
to capture Jacob Steven Haley, second in command of the militia group known as New
Spartans. Intelligence revealed Haley was to make an exchange of money for a quantity of
automatic weapons to conduct domestic terrorist activities and to further their express
goal of overthrowing the federal government. Due to reasons that are still under review,
our operation failed. (SCULLY looks at MULDER. He looks away from her.) Jacob Steven Haley
remains at large. Whereabouts unknown.
CIA AGENT: What about the weapons?
SKINNER: An arms dealer name Cadre who died at the scene
received from Haley a $50,000 bearer bond. Presumably, this was payment for weapons
delivered.
CIA AGENT: In other words, Haley not only got away, he got
away with $50,000 worth of guns? Have we determined a cause of death? How Haley killed
this man?
SCULLY: He was killed by means of a highly toxic biological
agent.
CIA AGENT: What kind of toxin are we talking about?
SCULLY: We dont know. Its affect on the dermis
and the soft tissues, the rapidity of its action it is not a disease known in
nature. It would seem to be genetically engineered. A bioweapon.
CIA AGENT: How the hell did he get it?
CIA AGENT: The former Soviet Union. Security on the Siberian
Vector Lab is, uh, lax. Its conceivable it was stolen, though we have no
confirmation from Moscow.
CIA AGENT: So this is out in the ozone now? Is this stuff
floating through Folger Park?
SCULLY: Level Four decontamination procedures were undertaken
immediately. Our best indications are that exposure was limited and that the toxin was
transmitted directly and not contagious.
CIA AGENT: How do you know that?
MULDER: Were not all dead?
(No one is amused.)
SCULLY: At this point, we can only guess that the toxin was
transmitted by liquid or gas, touch or injection.
CIA AGENT: Anybody care to tell me how this guy, Haley eluded
us?
(SCULLY looks at MULDER. He looks away.)
SKINNER: Video recon indicates Haley had an accomplice at the
park. We have yet to identify who this was, or how Haley knew he was under surveillance.
FBI AGENT: He must have made us.
CIA AGENT: Could he have?
SKINNER: No. Every member was chosen for their lack of
exposure in terrorist circles.
MULDER: Haleys extremely suspicious to the point of
paranoia. Hes got military training and a guerrilla mentality.
SKINNER: Second only to this man. (Shows slide of BREMER.)
August Bremer. Hes the group's mastermind. However, there are reports that he and
Haley are vying for control. This destabilization makes August Bremer our primary threat.
CIA AGENT: Well, this is it. This is the scenario weve
all been worried about, people. Now, I need maximum control of information. Nothing leaves
this room. The media gets a sniff, were going to disavow. We are going to stop these
men. Were going to make it all go away.
(Everyone gets up to leave.)
SCULLY: Mulder.
(MULDER walks out of the room, ignoring SCULLY. SKINNER
watches them.)
SCENE 4 GABLES CORNER, OHIO (Movie theatre. A man, BREMER
comes up to the USHERETTE.)
USHERETTE: The shows almost over.
BREMER: One, please.
(USHERETTE sells it to him.)
BREMER: Thanks.
(BREMER goes inside and up to concession counter.)
BREMER: Id like some popcorn, please.
USHERETTE: (walking from ticket booth to concession counter)
Do you want large, extra large or Jumbo large?
BREMER: Could I get some fresh popcorn, please. The sign says
"Fresh Popcorn."
USHERETTE: This is fresh popcorn.
BREMER: No, fresh-fresh --- hot out of the machine
back there. Please. A large.
USHERETTE: (turns her back to him) Ill have to make it.
Probably take a minute.
(BREMER puts on gloves and takes out an unmarked aerosol can
and uncaps it.)
SCENE 5 AARON BURR MOTOR COURT ANGOLA, DELAWARE (MULDER
drives up to a hotel lobby to check in. SCULLY pulls in behind him and watches MULDER
enter the office.)
(Later, in hotel room, MULDERS phone rings. He
answers.)
MULDER: (on phone) Yeah?
HALEY: (on phone) You set me up.
MULDER: I saved your ass.
HALEY: (on phone) Then why wasnt I told?
MULDER: (on phone, voice) I didnt know about the
operation.
HALEY: (on phone) It was your operation.
MULDER: (on phone) No. The Justice Department got an
anonymous tip. I found out a half hour before it went down. I did what I could.
HALEY: (on phone) Youll have to do better than that,
Mulder.
MULDER: (on phone) What else can I say? I-I got as much to
lose here as you do. They catch you, youll flip me. Look, I believe in your ideals
and your goals but the only reason I tolerate your methods is because the
governments are worse.
HALEY: (on phone) Wow. What a ringing endorsement.
MULDER: (on phone) Hey, you came to me, remember? I mean,
what more do you want from me? Ive risked everything. Ive given you
information. My partner is seriously suspicious. If thats not enough for you,
thats all Ive got. (hangs up)
(HALEY sighs and hangs up.)
SCENE 6 (Outside movie theatre in Ohio, two teens sit on
curb.)
TEEN 1: Aint nobody home.
TEEN 2: Eh, shes in there. Shes just hiding or
something.
TEEN 1: Im thinking we could break for it right through
the front doors.
TEEN 2: (holding up a coathanger) Why? I got us front row
seats.
(They use the hanger to open the exit door behind the theatre
and enter the theatre. They sit on front row. Die Hard With a Vengeance is the feature.)
TEEN 1: She see us? Is she coming?
TEEN 2: (turning around) Hey, man.
(Other patrons in the theatre are dead, their faces eaten
away.)
SCENE 7 (Hotel lobby.)
SCULLY: (with attitude rings lobby bell) Maybe you can tell
me whats going on.
MANAGER: What?
SCULLY: There seems to be a problem. A man just told me you
gave him keys to my room, room 130.
MANAGER: Who are you?
SCULLY: Who am I? Who is he?
MANAGER: Mr. uh, Kaplan.
SCULLY: Mr. Kaplan.
MANAGER: Yes.
SCULLY: Thank you. (starts to exit)
MANAGER: Are you the wife?
SCULLY: Not even close.
(SCULLY leaves the office, angry.)
SCENE 8
(MULDERs hotel room. Phone rings. MULDER answers.)
MULDER: (on phone) Yeah?
BREMER: (on phone) Well proceed as planned.
(MULDER hangs up and goes out of his motel room. SCULLY hides
behind a car. Another car drives up beside MULDER.)
DRIVER: Agent Mulder? You coming with us?
(SCULLY watches MULDER get into a car. She gets in her own
car and follows without her lights on. She is run off the road by another car.)
SCULLY: Shi .!
(MAN gets out of his car and knocks on SCULLYs window.)
MAN: Step out of the car.
(Commercial 1.)
SCENE 9 (SCULLY is being escorted down a hallway by four
men.)
SCULLY: Exactly what agency are you from? Obviously not the
Office of Information.
(MAN knocks at a door. SKINNER and CIA operative are seated
at a desk.)
CIA AGENT: Agent Scully, take a seat.
SCULLY: What the hell is going on?
CIA AGENT: I apologize for our methods.
SKINNER: They may well have saved Agent Mulders life.
SCULLY: What about my life? I dont appreciate being run
off the road.
CIA AGENT: We had our reasons.
SKINNER: Youre suspicious Agent Mulders betrayed
his country.
SCULLY: I dont know what youre talking about.
CIA AGENT: Your discretion is understandable. In point of
fact, Agent Mulders actions are entirely honorable. What youve stumbled into
is a classified action, a deep-cover assignment.
SKINNER: Until now, Agent Mulders true mission was
known only to the US Attorney and myself.
SCULLY: His true mission?
SKINNER: The council we sat in was a front to make the New
Spartans believe we were unaware of Agent Mulders complicity.
SCULLY: Why him? Why choose Agent Mulder?
SKINNER: We didnt choose him. They did.
CIA AGENT: He spoke at a UFO conference in Boston where he
broadcast his feelings about the government and their conspiracies against the American
people. Somebody from the organization was listening so the man who escaped, Haley, sent
out feelers in hopes that Agent Mulder was a man whose politics were in line with his own.
Someone on the inside that he could use.
SCULLY: To what aim?
SKINNER: That we dont know.
SCULLY: Youve put Agent Mulders life in danger by
not telling me.
SKINNER: I advised him not to tell you. Hes at a very
delicate point. Everything he does now must work to build trust.
SCULLY: Including letting this man Haley get away with
murder? Sir, we know nothing about this bioweapon. We dont know what they want to
use it for. We dont even know if they have the capacity to store it safely. Putting
Agent Mulder in this situation is extremely risky.
SKINNER: They want something from him. We have no other way
of learning what.
(Knock at door. AGENT enters.)
AGENT: Movie theatre in Ohio. Whatever theyre using,
theyve used it again.
SCENE 10 (Car pulls up to warehouse. Three men exit the car
and pull MULDER, who is wearing a hood, out and seat him at a table inside the warehouse.
They strap his hands to top of the table, then step away.)
MULDER: (still wearing the hood) Ooh. Is this the Pepsi
challenge? How bout some, uh, fresh air, boys?
(They pull the hood off. MULDER blinks his eyes against the
light. HALEY is sitting across from MULDER.)
HALEY: Welcome, Agent Mulder.
MULDER: Okay, deal me in.
(One of the men who brought MULDER in grabs MULDERs
left pinky finger and holds it in his fist.)
HALEY: This is just a little method that we use to learn the
truth.
MULDER: Well, you might want to put that hood back on me
unless you want to see a grown man cry.
HALEY: What happened in the park?
MULDER: I told you on the phone.
(FINGER BREAKING MAN twists and breaks MULDERs finger.
MULDER screams in pain.)
MULDER: I was set up. Im telling the truth. Wait, wait!
Wait! I let you go!
HALEY: Youre spying on us, arent you?
MULDER: No. No. No.
(FBM twists the finger again. MULDER screams.)
MULDER: You want me to lie and say yes?
(FBM twists again. MULDER screams.)
MULDER: (to FBM) Im going to kill you, you son of a
bitch! Im going to kill you! (to HALEY) If I set you up you think Id even get
into the car with this Nazi piece of shi !
(FBM twists again. MULDER yells and head butts FBM, knocking
FBM to the floor.)
MULDER: (in lots of pain) I risked everything! If I was
lying, thered be federal agents descending on this place like the wrath of God right
now. (to FBM) If you touch me again, youd better kill me!
(FBM twists again. MULDER screams, weaker now.)
HALEY: A war is going on, Agent Mulder. Either youre on
the right side or the wrong. (Pulls out aerosol can and holds it pointed at MULDERs
face.) Youve seen the effects of this?
MULDER: (weakly) Yeah.
HALEY: Would you like to see them again?
MULDER: No, I didnt set you up. If you got set up, it
was one of yours.
(FBM bends the finger all the way back. MULDER cries out,
then puts his face down on his unbroken hand and sobs.)
HALEY: (thoughtfully) You know what? I believe you.
SCENE 12 (Outside movie theatre. SKINNER and SCULLY approach
a TECHNICIAN.)
SCULLY: What are you reading in there?
TECH: Weve been through and through. No hot zones. No
atmospheric. Youre clear, Agent Scully.
SCULLY: (taking kit from the TECH) Thank you.
(SKINNER and SCULLY enter the theatre lobby.)
SKINNER: 14 victims total, including patrons, a projectionist
and an employee.
(They look behind the counter. SCULLY is disturbed by the
sight of the body. We dont see it.)
SKINNER: Thats the usherette. There were two survivors.
Two teenage boys.
(They enter the theatre and shine flashlights over about 10
plastic covered dead bodies still in their seats.)
SKINNER: How did it happen that those two kids survived?
SCULLY: I dont know. But its going to help us
establish a method of delivery. (looks closely at one of the dead patrons whose skin has
been dissolved) Its doubtful the pathogen was airborne. They found no atmospheric
traces. So its got to be something that everybody touched.
(SCULLY bends down, and with gloved hand picks up a ticket
stub)
SCENE 13 (MULDER enters his dark apartment. He closes the
door and looks at his broken finger.)
SCULLY: Dont be alarmed.
MULDER: (startled, then rubs his face tiredly with his good
hand) Scully, get out of here.
SCULLY: Mulder
MULDER: Get out of here!
SCULLY: I know what youre doing. Skinner told me
everything.
MULDER: I dont know what youre talking about
SCULLY: What happened to your hand?
MULDER: Nothing.
(SCULLY takes MULDERs hand and inspects the damage.
MULDER winces.)
SCULLY: Oh, Mulder, what did they do to you? God, this needs
to be set. Youre in pain.
(SCULLY goes to kitchen.)
MULDER: Yeah, if you keep pulling it around like that.
(MULDER sits on his couch.)
SCULLY: Lets get the swelling down.
(SCULLY brings ice wrapped in a towel and sits on the coffee
table in front of him and holds the ice on MULDERs hand.)
SCULLY: Theyve killed again, Mulder. 14 people in a
movie theatre in Ohio. The same toxin they released in the park.
MULDER: 14 people? That doesnt make any sense.
SCULLY: Unless it was a test for something bigger.
(Camera brings old adhesive X shaped tape marks on window
into focus. The rest of the scene is heard through a handheld listening device pointed at
MULDERs apartment.)
SCULLY: (voice) Why do this to you, Mulder?
MULDER: (voice) Theyre testing me, too. Haleys
paranoid and spooked. I was sure he was going to kill me.
SCULLY: (voice) What stopped him?
MULDER: (voice) They still need something from me and
Im sensing theres someone Haley trusts even less The man giving him his
orders. Someone I havent met yet. A guy named August Bremer.
(We see that the listening device is being held by August
Bremer sitting in a van outside.)
(Commercial 2.)
SCENE 14 FBI HEADQUARTERS 3:14 AM (MULDER, finger in a
splint, <yea, Scully> walks down hall and enters SKINNERs office. SKINNER and
the CIA AGENT are waiting for him.)
SKINNER: What happened to your hand?
MULDER: Terrorist lie detector.
CIA AGENT: Well, did you pass?
MULDER: Well, I must have. Im still here. They told me
what they want. Documentation from the federal reserve bank. Fund transfer schedules for
the eastern seaboard. Cash money.
CIA AGENT: Theyre going to hit a bank or an armored
car.
SKINNER: Thats it? Thats all?
MULDER: I think I convinced Haley that the near miss in
Folger Park was due to a mole inside his own group. He wants surveillance files on them.
SKINNER: How soon?
MULDER: Theyre waiting for my call.
SKINNER: All right, well need some time to redact.
Dummy something up.
CIA AGENT: No, I anticipated this. Ive got files ready
to use. (goes to his briefcase)
SKINNER: You know, Im getting a bad feeling about this.
I want a tail on him.
CIA AGENT: No tail.
SKINNER: Once they get what they want from Mulder,
whats to keep them from killing him?
CIA AGENT: They spot a tail on him, theyre gonna shoot
him on the spot. We have got no other way of learning what they want past this What
the big picture is.
SKINNER: You may not have another chance to contact us.
MULDER: (leaving the room) If you dont hear from me by
midnight feed my fish.
SCENE 15 (FBI biology lab. Microscope image of bacteria.)
TECH: Thats it. Thats your bug.
SCULLY: Its a bacterium.
TECH: An especially virulent one. We isolated it from the
bearer bond.
SCULLY: Was the bacterium also found on the ticket stub?
TECH: Actually, no. Barring the usual particles and dust
mites the ticket stub was clean.
SCULLY: Well, then how was the biotoxin spread throughout the
theatre?
TECH: I dont know.
SCULLY: It looks like streptococcus.
TECH: A strain of streptococcus, but one that has been
genetically altered to make it extraordinarily lethal.
SCULLY: But strep wouldnt be able to survive any kind
of exposure to the environment.
TECH: Normally. But whoever produced this has cleverly coded
the bacterium with a synthetic protective covering. The covering gives them an adhesive
quality. Its like a scratch and sniff. Dermal contact activates the contagion.
Its ingenious in its own evil way.
SCULLY: Developed by the Russians?
TECH: Ive seen everything in the Russian arsenal.
Theyve got nothing this sophisticated.
SCULLY: Well, then by whom?
(TECH shrugs.)
SCENE 16 (MULDER drives up to motel. Enters room. Overhead
light doesnt work. FINGER BREAKING MAN turns on table lamp. MULDER is startled.
HALEY enters.)
HALEY: Do you have what we need?
MULDER: Tell the gimp to back off.
(HALEY nods. FBM leaves the room.)
HALEY: Give me the files.
(MULDER tosses down a roll of film.)
MULDER: I need that back by tomorrow.
(HALEY takes it to the lamp and looks at the images.)
HALEY: Lies within lies. (Pulls hood out of a briefcase.) Put
the hood on. Youre going with us.
(MULDER picks up hood and looks at it.)
MULDER: No.
HALEY: You put it on or the gimp puts it on for you.
SCENE 17 (SKINNERS office. Phone rings. SKINNER answers
using speaker phone.)
SKINNER: Skinner.
SCULLY: (on phone) The biotoxin was applied to the bearer
bond with an aerosol spray, but there is no evidence whatsoever of it on the theatre
stubs. Now, I still have no idea how these kids were unaffected.
SKINNER: (on phone) Have you IDd the toxin? (no answer)
Agent Scully?
SCULLY: (on phone) Sir, are you alone?
SKINNER: (on phone, looks at CIA AGENT) No. Why?
SCULLY: (on phone) Id like to speak with you in
private.
SKINNER: (turning off speaker phone) Youre off the
speaker.
SCULLY: (on phone) Thank you. Now, CIA Intelligence suggested
that this biotoxin was stolen from the Russians, but my research indicates that it was
almost certainly developed domestically.
SKINNER: (on phone) The United States has no bioweapons,
Agent Scully. President Nixon dismantled our program in 1969.
SCULLY: (on phone) Yes, sir, thats what weve been
told, but the CDC database contains evidence of a streptococcus bacterium being developed
by the Armys Pine Bluff Facility in the 1960s. It appears to be a very
primitive strain of what were seeing here.
SKINNER: (on phone) What are you saying?
SCULLY: (on phone) What Im saying is that the
bioweapons program may have continued in secret and that someone may be sending Agent
Mulder on a suicide mission.
SKINNER: (on phone) Right. Thank you. (hangs up)
CIA AGENT: What is it?
SKINNER: Shes just .. concerned for her partner.
SCENE 18 (Black car drives up to a barn. Inside the barn are
lots of men with guns. HALEY enters with MULDER, hooded. BREMER is there. Once inside,
MULDER is unhooded.)
BREMER: You put us all at risk bringing him here.
HALEY: We took the usual precautions. Anyway he came through
for us. Federal Reserve schedules for tomorrow. (gives Bremer film from MULDER)
BREMER: (to MULDER) Youre a believer?
MULDER: I have my beliefs.
BREMER: You willing to die for them?
MULDER: Id prefer it didnt come to that.
BREMER: We have a job to do.
(BREMER tosses MULDER a rubber Dracula mask.)
BREMER: Youre Dracula.
SCENE 19 6:04 am (SCULLY sitting in her car on stake out
outside motel?.)
SCULLY: (to herself) Oh, damn. (realization) The money. Oh,
my God, the money.
(Starts her car.)
SCENE 20 (Terrorists and MULDER in a moving armored car
truck. They are putting on Halloween masks and checking guns.)
HALEY: (wearing werewolf mask, handing MULDER an evil looking
gun) Mulder, take it.
BREMER: (wearing purple demon mask) Make sure you point that
the right way.
(FINGER BREAKING MAN puts on skeleton mask.)
FIRST SOVEREIGN BANK OF PENNSYLVANIA HARRISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA
(MANAGER is walking through large bank.)
MANAGER: Euna, can I have the keys, please?
(Secretary gives him the keys. He walks back to the armored
car loading dock. Guard opens gate. Manager unlocks door. Backup alarm beeps. As he
reaches armored car, terrorists get out of car.)
BREMER: You do what I say, or Ill shoot you!
HALEY: Three minutes!
(BREMER takes MANAGER by the collar and leads him back into
the bank.)
BREMER: Open the gate. Open it!
TERRORIST 1: Get down! Now! Everybody down! Now!
TERRORIST 2: Dont be foolish. Give us the money and
well be gone. Move back! Move it! Come on! Move it! Down! Move it! Down, here, now!
Dont touch that phone!
(Employees obey, with minimal screaming.)
BREMER: Dracula, take the teller.
MULDER: Right.
(MULDER holds young male teller at gunpoint.)
HALEY: Step away from the counter! Open the doors! Put your
hands up on the windows now! Now! Do it! Get down!
TERRORIST 2: You! Here! Get down! Now! Get down!
HALEY: Two minutes!
BREMER: (leading MANAGER to vault) Lets open it! Open
it!
(MANAGER begins opening vault.)
FBM: Dont move!
MULDER: I got it!
(Teller that MULDER was watching is shot by FBM, but not
fatally. A woman screams.)
HALEY: Is he dead?
MULDER: No. Hes still alive.
HALEY: Finish him!
(MULDER points his gun at the wounded teller.)
(Commercial 3.)
SCENE 21 (Bank scene continued. MULDER holds his gun aimed at
the man lying on the floor.)
HALEY: One minute thirty!
(MANAGER finishes opening vault.)
HALEY: You! Face down on the floor! Right here!
(HALEY pushes MANAGER to the floor. Terrorists go in vault
and begin stuffing money in bags.)
HALEY: (to MULDER) What are you waiting for? Do it!
(MULDER aims gun again.)
TERRORIST 2: Get down!
(In vault, BREMER sprays money that they are not stealing
with an aerosol can.)
HALEY: (to MULDER) I told you to finish him. Finish him!
(MULDER stands ready to fire. TELLER is frightened.)
BREMER: (pushing MULDER aside) That weapons traceable.
Go.
(Behind MULDER, BREMER shoots <and kills?> the TELLER.
Other employees cry and moan.)
BREMER: Get the hell out of here. Go! Go!
(Terrorists leave.)
SCENE 22 (MULDER throws his Dracula head onto a bonfire,
disgusted with himself. BREMER puts money on the bonfire, also.)
MULDER: What are you doing? What are you doing?
BREMER: The bills could be traced.
MULDER: The bank heist was a decoy. To contaminate the money
you didnt take.
BREMER: No more tests, Mr. Mulder. This is the real deal.
Youve been a big help. (Points a gun at MULDER.)
HALEY: (stopping BREMER) Put that down.
BREMER: Hes a liability now.
HALEY: To who? You? If you think youre going to kill
Mulder to protect your secret, its too late. I already know your secret. Agent
Mulder provided us with FBI surveillance reports files which contain the name of a
source whos been leaking information on us for a period of two years Charles
Bogard. (to other terrorists) See, Bogard is an alias, an old one for August
Bremer.
BREMER: Agent Mulder knows my alias just as he knew a false
report would feed your ambition and pit you against me.
HALEY: Mulder risked his life for us.
BREMER: Are you sure about that?
(BREMER plays tape of MULDER and SCULLY in MULDERs
apartment.)
MULDER: (taped) They're testing me, too. Haley's paranoid...
and spooked. I was sure he was going to kill me.
SCULLY: (taped) What stopped him?
MULDER: (taped) They still need something from me. And I'm
sensing there's someone Haley trusts even less.
HALEY: (to Mulder) What the hell is this?
(MULDER does not answer.)
SCENE 23 (FBI headquarters. SCULLY, upset, enters command
center for the operation and goes to SKINNER and the CIA AGENT.)
SCULLY: Director Skinner, youve got to get to Mulder.
Youve got to find the bank that they hit..
SKINNER: Thats what were trying to do.
SCULLY: Agent Mulders life is in danger -- and anybody
else who touches the currency at that location. Theyre putting the biotoxin on the
money.
SKINNER: Weve got no way of contacting him not
without blowing his cover.
SCULLY: Youve got no choice.
CIA AGENT: We had surveillance tapes satellited to us --
There have been 27 robberies in seven eastern states, all this morning.
SKINNER: Theres been no sign of Mulder.
SCULLY: Well, hes got to be on there somewhere.
(SCULLY looks at several monitor freeze frames. One of them
has MULDER in the Dracula mask.)
SCENE 24 (MULDER and HALEY are kneeling on the ground.)
BREMER: (to MULDER) Weve made some decisions.
(BREMER places leather pouch of keys on top of HALEYs
head.)
BREMER: (to HALEY) Take it and get out of here. I dont
want to see your face again. Go.
(HALEY gets up, gets in car and leaves.)
BREMER: (to MULDER) On your feet.
MULDER: I dont need a car. You can just call me a cab,
thatd be fine.
BREMER: Lets go.
MULDER: Go where?
(FINGER BREAKING MAN roughly pulls MULDER to his feet.)
BREMER: Witnessing the murder of a federal agent will make
these men an accessory to the crime.
MULDER: (to the FINGER BREAKING MAN) You hear that?
FINGER BREAKING MAN: I wouldnt miss it for the world.
(They walk a ways into what looks like it used to be a
greenhouse area.)
BREMER: (not looking at MULDER at first) Stop there. Down on
your knees. Hands behind your back.
(After a look, MULDER complies. The FBM points his gun at
MULDERs head. Gunshot. MULDER jerks forward. Slow motion camera. We see that BREMER
has shot and killed the FBM.)
BREMER: Theres a car for you just over the rise. Head
south till you get to the highway.
MULDER: Who are you?
BREMER: Go on. If they come out here and find us,
theyll kill us both. Go.
(MULDER runs toward the car.)
SCENE 25 (MULDER pulls up in front of bank that was robbed.)
POLICE: Hey! Hold it ! Who are you?
MULDER: FBI. Whos in charge? Whos in charge? I
need everybody out of the bank!
(SCULLY comes running toward him.)
SCULLY: Mulder.
MULDER: The money! They sprayed the money.
SCULLY: We got here an hour ago before any of the funds were
touched or transferred. The cash supply is being isolated. Its being locked down in
the vault.
MULDER: How did you know it was this bank?
SCULLY: I recognized you from the surveillance tape.
MULDER: With the ?
SCULLY: Your finger.
(MULDER laughs shortly. SKINNER comes over .)
MULDER: August Bremer, or whatever his real name is
hes working with us.
SCULLY: Mulder, before you go any further you should know
that the biotoxin they used may have come from government labs. Our government.
MULDER: Youre saying I was set up?
SKINNER: We have no definitive information to justify that
position.
MULDER: I was being used? This whole operation? The people
who died in that theatre?
CIA AGENT: (walking over) Agent Mulder. Our government is not
in the business of killing innocent civilians.
MULDER: The hell they arent. Those were tests on us to
be used on someone else.
CIA AGENT: Those bills have been analyzed. The money in the
vault gave no readings. Theres absolutely no evidence of any biotoxins. So, before
you climb on any bandwagon
SCULLY: You knew about this all along. You knew about this
the whole time!
MULDER: I want that money rechecked.
CIA AGENT: That money has been cleared. Its being used
as evidence in a federal crime.
MULDER: That moneys as dirty as you are, isnt it.
Isnt it?
CIA AGENT: Say that were true. Then what do you hope to
accomplish , Agent Mulder, as a whistle-blower? To mobilize a civil rights action? To
bring down the federal government? To do the very work that group you were a part of is so
bent on doing? What do you want? Laws against those men, or laws protecting them?
MULDER: I want people to know the truth.
CIA AGENT: Well sometimes our job is to protect those people
from knowing it. Excuse me.
(CIA AGENT walks away from SKINNER, MULDER, and SCULLY.)
SCENE 26 (Two lane road. Car that HALEY took begins weaving,
then drifts off the road, horn blowing steadily. Interior shot of car shows HALEY dead
against the wheel, his skin quickly being eaten away. Close up of leather key pouch that
BREMER gave him.)
The End.
US Airdate: May 3, 1998
writer: John Shiban director: Rob Bowman
STARRING: David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder Gillian
Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully Mitch Pileggi as Assistant Director Walter Skinner
Guest Cast: Daniel Von Bargen as Haley J.B. Bivens as Field
Agent Armin Moattar as Goatee Man Sam Anderson as Leamus Michael MacRae as August Bremer
Kate Braidwood as the Usherette Trevor Roald as Martin Kett Turton as Brit Douglas Arthurs
as Skin-head Man John B. Lowe as Dr. Leavitt Michael St. John Smith as CIA Operative