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THE X-FILES “Agua Mala” Written by David Amann Directed by Rob Bowman Episode #6ABX14_ i Story No. E00379 Prod. Draft Full Script December 17, 1998 Blue Rev. pgs. 1-30B January 4, 1999 Pink Rev. ‘pgs. 31-60 ; January 7, 1999 Green Rev. -pgs.1,4,8,17,19,19A,21-22,44-56;set January 8, 1999 Yellow Rev. Full Script January 10, 1999 Goldenrod Rev. pgs. 14,27,27A, 34,37, 46,48,52,55, 56, January 11, 1999 : 56A, 56B Salmon Rev. Full Script January 12, 1999 ' Copyright 1998 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation All Rights Reserved 5 This script is the sole property of Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation and may not be photocopied, reproduced or sold.
Salmon Rev. - January 12, 1999 “Agua Mala” CAST LIST Agent Fox Mulder Agent Dana Scully Sara Shipley Evan Shipley Arthur Dales Deputy Greer Roadblock Officer Dougie (Looter) Angela Villareal Walter Suarez : George Vincent Omitted: Deputy Biederman
Salmon Rev. - January 12, 1999 “Agua Mala” SET LIST EXTERIORS BEACH HOUSE TRAILER “THE BREAKERS” CONDOMINIUM COMPLEX /CARPORT TWO DESOLATE ROADS INTERIORS BEACH HOUSE /LIVING ROOM /LAUNDRY ROOM E TRAILER N.D. SEDAN h POLICE CAR 54 VARIOUS HALLWAYS - “THE BREAKERS” CONDOMINIUM COMPLEX -CONDO UNIT #1 / BATHROOM UPSTAIRS CONDO (WALTER AND ANGELA SUAREZ) /LIVING ROOM ; ANOTHER CONDO /KITCHEN GEORGE VINCENT’S CONDO OMITTED: EXTERIORS BEACH HOUSE /SIDE OF THE HOUSE : INTERIORS - BEACH HOUSE /KITCHEN / CRAWLS PACE DEPUTY “'S= SPORT .ULILITY VEHICEE
FADE IN:
1 EXT. BEACH HOUSE -/NIGHT (CGI) > to 1
: }
Whitewater erupts as a storm-tossed’sea pounds the shore, where
a darkened bungalow sits by it £ not far from the water. A
haze of lashing ra obscures the solitary residence,
as a LEGEND appears: GOODLAND, FLORIDA 7:42 PM. Prelap:
; WOMAN'S VOICE
Evan -- where are you!!??
CUTATO:
A2 SARA SHIPLEY (30S) ; A2
In a state of panic, her face dripping sweat. Struggling to nail
an old piece of wood over an interior door. Swinging the hammer
at one in a series of nails which haven't quite gone in cleanly.
(NOTE: The door she's nailing over should hinge out. ADDITIONAL
NOTE: This room and the rest of the house is lit by only
emergency flashlights and lanterns.)
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SARA WATE R QADbE
| EVAR EB geet ae oo ft
CAMERA TILTING DOWN.to see that ing frem under the door, at
Sara's feet, is a Gteady river of water. Soaking into the carpet
or onto the hardwoad, whichever provides-the best effect.
Sai CUT TO:
| yerer CNTle WATER
B2 INT. BEACH HOUSE Rr - NIGHT (homer TARY ) B2
EVAN SHIPLEY, 12, spins the faucéts on a large utility sink but
they only\work for a moment, until they go dry. (NOTE: Evan
wears a Miami—Dolphins jersey with the name SHIPLEY stencilled
over the number on back.) Evan, who's already afraid, reacts to:
; SARA (0.S.)
Evan!! Hurry!! Please!!
EVAN
Nothing's coming out!!
; CUT BACK TO:
2 INT. BEACH HOUSE - LIVING ROOM - NIGHT 2
Where Sara reacts to this. As she swings the hammer one last.
time to seal the interior door closed. Moving toward Evan's
voice, in a hurry. Affording us a view of the room, which we see
has every window boarded with plywood against the storm. WE LAND
on a radio where we catch part of an emergency broadcast.
CONTINUED -—X-FILES "Agua Mala" 6ABX14 (SALMON) 01/12/99 2s 2 CONTINUED: 2 RADIO ANNOUNCER -.. Sitting 25 miles off the coast, the tropical storm known as Leroy has been upgraded to Hurricane Leroy. The entire Gulf Coast is bracing for its arrival... lage CUT BACK TO: 3 OMITTED : PEL TD ATE 3 Ne 4 INT. BEACH HOUSE - LAUNDRY ROOM - NIGHT — 4 Sara rushes in, finding her son still next to the Sink. Pushing in next to him and trying the fau¢ets herself. 3 SARA a7 nen | Dammit! ! EVAN Where's Dad? Mom...? But Sara isn't answering him. Her mind is racing and she knows that Evan wouldn't understand if she had time to explain. Her eyes seeing something o.s. that doubles her sense of urgency. Mom -- € Wate SARA Ue OL WI : We need water, Evan. lee ANGLE ON FLOOR . ae ’ a Where a FLOOR DRAIN in/the middle of th room suddenly has water flowing up through it, as if from some mysterious back pressure. And then, just as mysteriously, it recedes back and disappears. RESUM iF Ce Sc ind racing, enane to think clearly.. Moving to the washing achine, lifting the lid, Ainding a load of laundry soaking ear up to the brim. It"s what she's looking for. See See ete EVAN What about Dad? : WITH WATER |
X-FILES "Agua Mala" 6ABX14 (SALMON) 01/12/99 Se 4 CONTINUED: 4 SARA JUST DO AS I SAY, EVAN!! (then: ) Help me pull the washing machine out. Evan,: please just help me -- And Evan does, responding to his mother's fearful tears now. ; SARA I'm going to pull. I need you to get behind it and push. : NEW ANGLE ON EVAN Squeezing to get behind the washer. ; EVAN Reggie's back here -- EVAN'S POV . Of the family's pet cat, Reggie. Scared as they are. . NEW ANGLE ON SARA SARA . Evan -- just let the cat alone. I need you to unplug the washer, take that hose out of the wall -- : Sara tries her best to be calm, firm. Watching Evan pull the drain hose from the wall, then squeezing behind the washer. SARA I want you to push, Evan. And I'm going to pull. So we can tip ! the washing machine over. As Evan scrunches down to pull the electric plug Sara lowers herself to pull the machine forward, grabbing Xhe inside lid of the machine (where the clothes are soaking) th both hands. ANGLE OVER FLOOR DRAIN TO SARA . As another back surge brings anew pudd e of ete en Oe Eee Sara noticing this with a look_over he: A i greater effort on the machine, but cannot tip its weight. SARA : Are you pushing... Evan -- But she gets no answer. CONTINUED
X-FILES "Agua Mala" 6ABX14 (SALMON) 01/12/99 4, 4 CONTINUED: (2) S a NX Ge 4 ey SARA Cees < Evan -- answer me -- © i 2 he este) OARS ast Rising up now to see: ac Q 0-7) SARA . wok EVAN! ! So ANGLE ON EVAN ot Pe sate The reason he's~not answering is that he c&nnot breathe, let alone speak. ie pulled off his feet, pjined against the wall by a CLEAR, SL yY TENTACLE that has wrapped itself twice around his neck. His eyes are~bugged, focused in on his mother. His mouth opening and closing like a landed fish. SARA Leaps forward to grab at the slimy tentacle, trying to pry it off of her son. Using all her might. But the creature, whatever it is, only seems to tighten its grip. Its muscles contracting. SARA a. Let go of him!! Let go of him!! When all of a sudden, Sara's breath is stolen away, her body jerked away from her son's. She grabs onto the washing machine to keep from being pulled backwards, by something which we cannot see, but which we can only imagine. And off her horror: GO TO MAIN TITLES. 5 OMITTED 3 5 THRU THR 9 9
X-FILES "Agua Mala" 6ABX14 (SALMON ) 01/12/99 Bi a ae i Qokree ACT ONE ° or : ), pe i vale FADE IN: WW bg \ eo A AR —~. OR 10 INT. TRAILER - NIGHT - A D Pe WATER 10 Fattens as it clings to he lip of a faucet, Ahen gives way to A PRESSURE STREAM as a highball glass with g6ld liquid in the bottom is shoved up underneath it. Filled and removed. Sees ANGLE ON A SHORT WAVE RADIO -—————~ Where the glass, a swallow short is set down before it. The same hand as held the glass fine tunes the signal, on which a WEATHERCASTER is delivering an update on: : WEATHERCASTER -.-. Where the hurricane is stalled some twenty miles off : the Gulf Coast, sending high winds and heavy rain onto the coastal communities, but as of yet unleashing none of its potential heavy destruction on a very nervous populace from Naples to Fort Myers... The glass goes up and out of frame again during this, sets back down with a swallow less volume, before the hand goes to the dial and interrupts this last report, :scanning to a police band. POLICEMAN'S VOICE ss we got.no' sign of anything amiss here at that residence out on the spit. Place is all boarded up tight, over -- 2ND POLICEMAN'S VOICE | -- roger, that. Maybe the ; occupants have evacuated, over -- POLICEMAN'S VOICE -- well, that would be the Shipleys, but a neighbor called who says they couldn'ta gone too far without their only vehicle, which is still’in the carport out here, over -- 2ND POLICEMAN'S VOICE -- huh. That sounds like kind of . a mystery, don't it == CONTINUED
X-FILES "Agua Mala" 6ABX14 (SALMON) 01/12/99 6. 10 CONTINUED: 10 As CAMERA TILTS UP to the man who's been drinking, and listening, just 0.c. ARTHUR DALES (5X15). DALES It sure does, you fathead. As HEADLIGHTS coming in the trailer window cause Dales to squint : into the light, checking his watch now, then h&rriedly throwing down the rest of that drink. Getting up,\anticipatttig the pounding at his trailer door. RAI MULDER (0.S.) > Mr. Dales -- lis Dales uses his cane to get to the dogr, opens 4t, révealing Mulder and Scully out in the pouring rain and how ng wind. DALES Well it certainly couldn't be the flights were all booked. MULDER There's a reason people don't head into hurricanes, Mr. Dales. DALES Hurricane's 20 miles offshore! MULDER : (after a moment) Can we come in, Mr. Dales? Dales' answer is to open his door wide, allowing the agents to enter. The casual clothes they're wearing are pretty well soaked. - DALES Who's this with you? ; SCULLY : Special Agent Dana Scully. . j DALES Scully? MULDER : She's my partner. Scully is taking her coat off as Dales eyes her up. DALES : ; Well, I wouldn't get too comfortable here. (more) | : CONTINUED
X-FILES "Agua Mala" 6ABX14 (SALMON) 01/12/99 Wes 10 CONTINUED: (2) | 10 DALES (cont'd) You're gonna want to get right back out there -- : SCULLY Out where? DALES : : (to Mulder) You tell her what I told you? MULDER She's not what you'd call easily persuaded, Mr. Dales. DALES How's that? Scully has moved over to the sink where she takes some paper towels off a roll, wiping her face. Using the footpedal trashcan to deposit them in. Halted by what she sees in the trash. SCULLY'S POV Several liter size plastic empty liquor bottles are inside. RESUME SCULLY : Turning to Dales. ‘ : SCULLY | He means I don't hear a story ; about a sea monster and take it for the Lord's gospel truth. DALES Then why the hell you bring her? MULDER She knows your reputation, your early work on the X-files. That, and she's got a way of getting : to the bottom of things. SCULLY Apparently so does Mr. Dales. Scully drops the paper towel in, lets the trashcan lid fall for punctuation. Dales regarding her with immediate dislike. DALES sr 8 Good thing I have a reputation, or how else could it be impugned. es sine CONTINUED -
X-FILES "Agua Mala" 6ABX14 (SALMON) 01/12/99 8. 10 CONTINUED: (3) 10 SCULLY I'm sure there's good reason for your alarm, Mr. Dales. Agent Mulder played me the message you left him. About your friends. DALES The Shipleys. Young couple. Live with their son out on the sandspit. Sara called me in a _ panic, said something in the house grabbed her husband Jack. SCULLY In the bathroom, you said. DALES Yeah. Of all places. MULDER It was your description that caused Agent Scully's... dubiousness, Mr. Dales. DALES Wasn't my description, it was Sara Shipley's. She said it had tentacles, wrapped right around --Wdack's* neck: Choking him, (to Scully) Sound like a sea monster to you? SCULLY (cornered) . And you have no reason to doubt Ms. Shipley's report? DALES 3 No good reason. She and Jack are both marine biologists. At least they were. I fear the worst. Scully and Mulder trade a glance. MULDER She's missing now, too? CONTINUED
A= oES "Agua Mala" 6ABX14 (SALMON ) 01/12/99 OF 10 CONTINUED: (4) 10 DALES (a look) I got on the horn to the local constabulary, but they're 'bout as much help as a fart ina firestorm. I'da gone out there myself, ‘cept for my bum hip. | MULDER It's not the kinda night anybody should be out in. © D DALES . uw Well, I don't see much choice. yw : (turning to Scully) a If anyone wants to get to the bottom of this. —~ Another traded look between the agents, then Mulder\reaches again for the door. Scully taking a wearied breath,/then . starting out. But turning befo stepping back into the rain. SCULLY Es, Can I ask, Mr. Dales... what brings you down here? DALES I come for the weather. Scully smirks at Dales' pointed sarcasm, heading out, when: : DALES Don't sneer at the mysteries of the deep, young lady. The bottom of the sea is as deep and dark as the imagination. : Scully gives Dales one last look, exiting past Mulder, who trades a significant look with his predecessor. CUPS TO: 11 OMITTED 1: THRU ; THR 13 13
X-FILES "Agua Mala" 6ABX14 (SALMON) 01/12/99 9A. 14 INT. BEACH HOUSE - LIVING ROOM - NIGHT 14 We are in the dark living room where Sara Shipley was hammering the plywood over the interior door. But it's completely dark now, the emergency lights either out or very dim, to help show the passage of time. When BEAMS OF LIGHT suddenly hit thé walls, where a FAMILY PHOTO of the Shipleys is crooked on-the wall. CAMERA FOL ING THE _ BEAMS to their source at t front door, where Mulder\is shouldering in the plywood/that covers the front door, squeezing past it as it won't come ¢ompletely off the jamb. Behynd him is Scully, pointing her flashlight in, foo. Standing in’ the lashing rain and wind outside. Squeezing in behind Mulder< yi — CONTINUED Anbicy \ SMOIG -
X=FLLES "Agua Mala" 6ABX14 (SALMON) 01/12/99. 10. 14 CONTINUED: ; 14 . MULDER Mrs. Shipley?! (no response) Hello... 2? Mulder steps in farther, Scully guiding her flashlight around : the room, to all the windows. " SCULLY : At least it looks like they had time and the presence of mind to prepare for the hurricane. MULDER ; Yeah. Got the place all boarded up. Except it's from the inside. (Ob Scully's: Look) Makes you wonder how the Shipleys got out. Mulder's got his beam on Scully. Makes her wonder, too. SCULLY (after a beat) Mrs. Shipley? Hello. Scully moves deeper into the little house, heading for the kitchen, while Mulder heads for: : CUPEOs Al5 INT. BEACH HOUSE - LAUNDRY ROOM - NIGHT A15 Mulder enters, training his flashlight around the room. ANGLE ON WET ARTICLES OF CLOTHING ; Which lay near the floor drain. We recognized them as what Sara Shipley was wearing when she was attacked. But to Mulder, or anyone else, they would just look like wet rags. MULDER : Shining his light around. Stopping on the washing machine, which Sits a short ways from the wall, its lid down. Mulder moving to this, leaning over the washer as he notices something. ANGLE ON WALL DRAIN CONTINUED
X=FILES "Agua Mala" 6ABX14 (SALMON) 01/12/99 2 ha es A1l5 CONTINUED: Al15 Where a thin thread of shiny, clear slime dangles. Mulder's fingers going to this, then CAMERA FOLLOWS his hand back to his face as he looks at it closely. Until Scully's flashlight beam hits him in the face. : ANGLE ON SCULLY - Standing in the doorway. Mulder moving to her. SCULLY ‘ No sign of life, Mulder. ; MULDER: (shows her the slime) Something over here on the drain. Won't come off my fingers. Mulder tries to shake the slime off now, but it won't go. Finally he wipes it on his pants. Looks up at Scully. MULDER IAs Shoutetcvout. Mulder doesn't notice Scully”s smirking reareion because his attention is turned now by fa metatlic THUMP. And then another. Looking over to: \ : WASHER LID THE WASHIN CHINE—LID—— Q O5 () e It's beifg pushed up from inside. Pushed up and then dropped. From some\.unknown rece. ANGLE OVER WAS NG MACHINE TO MULDER AND SCULLY exchange- - As Mulder moves back to the washing machine. As it ([THUMPRS AGAIN.\Scully moving in over his shoulder. Apprehensive in spite of herself. Mulder looking back to her. MULDER I don't know whether I'm going to need my weapon or a harpoon... And he reaches carefully for the lid. Maybe he picks up some kind of cleaning implement with a long handle. Whatever, the moment is not without tension for both of them sant The lid is raised and SOMETHING DARK A SOAKING WET LEAPS O AT MULDER, causing him to scream in f ight. As it does Scully: The dark, mysterious life-form hitting them h in its rapi trajectory skyward. Bounding off them a itting the floor. ANGLE ON FLOOR Y PRE : : eae: is CONTINUED
X-FILES "Agua Mala" 6ABX14 (SALMON) 01/12/99 B2K A1l5 CONTINUED: (2) Al5 Where the agents’ flashlight beams find a trail of water, following this to THE SHIPLEYS' CAT. Looking perfectly indignant about its predicament, as any cat would. Its fur soaked with (X) water, which drips heavily onto the floor. Looking back and up at the agents, hoping for a familiar face. Not finding one and, alas, taking off in a wet streak, disappearing out the door. RESUME MULDER AND SCULLY . . Catching their breath. Relieved, if not perplexed. | SCULLY How the hell'd the cat get in the washing machine? MULDER Maybe he took a dip. After he finished boarding up the windows. And they exit, into: 15 INT. BEACH HOUSE - LIVING ROOM - NIGHT 15 Looking with their flashlights again. Mulder's beam going to: THE BOARDED-UP INTERIOR DOOR Where we last saw Sara Shipley hammering. Mulder moves to it, — noticing the crooked family picture on the wall. MULDER You see this? Scully appears in frame now. Looking at the handiwork. SCULLY What's this go to? MULDER Gotta be the bathroom. The wife told Dales that's where her husband got grabbed. 3 SCULLY Mr. Shipley?! : Scully pounds on the door, gets no answer. Mulder tests the plywood. Going to take some strength and sweat to get it off. MULDER Gimme a hand here, Scully. CONTINUED
X-FILES "Agua Mala" 6ABX14 (SALMON) 01/12/99 hs 15 CONTINUED: 5 They both put their flashlights between their teeth, start prying when A MAN'S VOICE turns them, but quick. DEPUTY GREER (0.S.) _ | Well, a big Howdy do. ANGLE TO INCLUDE DEPUTY GREER 40ish, heavyset. Not the guy who'd win the footrace with one of America's Most Wanted. Wisely, he's got his gun out. DEPUTY GREER Right like that. Let's keep those hands where I can see ‘em. ‘(stepping in) Now who are you and what the hell do you think you're doing? 3 Mulder and Scully have taken their hands off the plywood, but they still have their flashlights between their teeth. All they can do is stare at the lawman, Mulder pointing to his mouth. DEPUTY GREER - Nice and slow. Mulder does, not humored by this turn of events. Nor Scully, who also removes her flashlight. te, MULDER You can put the gun down, Bubba. We're. FBI agents: : DEPUTY GREER Don't all the nuts roll downhill co Florida. SCULLY We're Agents Scully and Mulder. We've got ID if you'd like -- DEPUTY GREER (ignores them, snaps out his radio) This is Deputy Greer out on i Sandspit Road. I got two suspects here at. the Shipley residence. B and E, possible foul play, over... MULDER i Look -- we're out here -- CONTINUED
X-FILES "Agua Mala" 6ABX14 (SALMON) 01/12/99 Liar, 15 CONTINUED: (2) 15 POLICEMAN'S VOICE (OVER RADIO) -- Roger that, Deputy. We're coming at you. Make the arrest. Greer snaps his radio back onto his belt. Waves his gun. DEPUTY GREER I'm putting you under arrest. You have the right -- MULDER \ -- we're out here looking for the Shipleys, too. DEPUTY GREER -- the right to remain silent -- MULDER —- we got a call from Mr. Arthur Dales -- DEPUTY GREER -- anything you say can and will be used against you -- you have the right to a lawyer. If you don't have one -- MULDER -- do you know Mr. Dales? : Deputy Greer stops Mirandizing for a moment. DEPUTY GREER : I know Dales. ; MULDER That make any difference to you? DEPUTY GREER I got a call from him, too. . Drunk as a skunk. What's new? SCULLY What else would anyone be out here on a night.like tonight? CONTINUED
X-FILES "Agua Mala" 6ABX14 (SALMON) 01/12/99 PON Xe 15 CONTINUED: (3) 15 DEPUTY GREER D You could be looters. For all I ainfoiY know you could be part of the e Manson Family. ye Suddenly the Shipleys' cat races out ofnow , heading past the unsuspecting Deputy and into the-rainy/nighb, Causing Greer to, teeter slightly, losing his focys cae e°agents. .:.. just “long enough for Mulder to step forward fand KICK the gun out of his hand. It takes Greer so flatfooted@, so much by surprise, that he doesn't even think to scramble to\pick it up. stead throwing his. own hands up in the air. Letti Mulder pick up the gun. DEPUTY GREER : Oh, god. You're gonna kill me. Mulder hands Greer back the gun as he whips out his ID. : MULDER Now Lim not But rd like to. ; DEPUTY GREER (reading the ID) The FBI? For real? Mulder nods painfully. Scully glides past them, on her way out. SCULLY I'll be in the car. She's out the door, into the stormy night. DEPUTY GREER Seas . I gotta at least make a report. : MULDER (to Greer) First you're gonna help me finish what you interrupted. Otis the Deputy. iy D CUT..T0: plein Al6é. INT. MULDER AND SCULLY'S RENTAL SEDAN - NIGHT. i. Al6 Scully sits in the car alone, THE”EMERGEN BLINKERS from Deputy (X) Greer's prowler playing on her face. She's clickirig off her cell (x) phone as her eyes go to Mulder,| running past the’ Deputy's police: (xX) car, through the pouring wind and rain. Getting to the car and (X) tees let CONTINUED
X-FILES "Agua Mala" 6ABX14 (SALMON) 01/12/99 16(X). A1l6 CONTINUED: Al6 slinging the door open, jumping in and slinging it shut. The (X) weather is NASTY. (NOTE: For production economy, this staging (X) puts the Deputy's prowler obscuring what would otherwise be a (X) view of the Shipley's place.) (X) MULDER No one in the bathroom, Scully. (off her look) The Deputy helped me pull the (X) plywood off. No sign of anything, except more of that slime in the tub. And about three inches of water on the bathroom floor. It looks like someone left the taps running before boarding up the door. SCULLY (nodding politely) They're threatening to close the airport, so we better hurry. : MULDER Aren't you at all curious? About what happened to these people? SCULLY | I'm curious, Mulder. And suspicious. I think Mr. Dales' story is fueled by more than his imagination, and not much deeper than the bottom of a highball. : MULDER ; I wouldn't just write him off, Scully. He discovered the X- (X) files 40 years before I did. (X) He's seen things I've only read (X) about. SARA Sea monsters can only be read ; about. Because there aren't any. MULDER If the sea's where life began, where our ancestors first walked ashore, who's to say in the uncharted depths what other, new (X) life forms might be developing? ; (X) _ Scully is staring at Mulder with the most strained expression. ~ CONTINUED
X-FILES "Agua Mala" 6ABX14 (SALMON) 01/12/99 16A(X). Al6 CONTINUED: (2) Alé SCULLY Maybe you are a member of the Manson family. (beat) Mulder, there's nothing more we can do. Nothing that local law enforcement can't do for us. These people are missing, I don't know where else to look. I've done my duty. To Mr. Dales *" and my conscience. Haven't you? CONTINUED
X-FILES "Agua Mala" 6ABX14 (SALMON) 01/12/99 AO c Al6 CONTINUED: (3) Al6 MULDER (troubled) Well, we should at least tell . (X) him we're giving up. (X) Mulder can't get any kind of guilty reaction out of Scully, so (X) he turns the key in the ignition. And we: (X) CUT TO: 16 EXT. BEACH HOUSE - NIGHT 16 HOLDING ON THE HOUSE as Mulder and Scully's car pulls away. ; Leaving only Deputy Greer's patrol car out front. The wind and rain continue to lash at the house. (NOTE: It should be a distinctive prowler. Let's make it CAR 54.) CUT-310: 17 INT. BEACH HOUSE - LAUNDRY ROOM - NIGHT 7 Where Deputy Greer pokes his head in. He feels a bit of a fool after the Mulder and Scully incident. DEPUTY GREER (muttering to himself) Sea monsters... FBI agents... ; I'm the one who needs a drink... Using his own large size flashlight, Greer gives the place the once over. About to turn and leave when something grabs his attention. He shines the flashlight beam down to: ANGLE ON FLOOR DRAIN Where the mysterious back pressure has Caused water to rise up out of the drain agdin. Its level rising not too far, but always in motion -- ris¥ng and falling -- as if thére is something alive in the pl ing system. ; ANGLE ON DEPUTY GRE ae CONTINUED (murky Beow N)
X-FILES "Agua Mala" 6ABX14 (SALMON) 01/12/99 zs EN print avse/ FAL 17 CONTINUED: UW 17 Reacting to this. Bending over the drain wi his light up close now. Seeing something else now, his fingers/going into the water and pulling at the drain grate. It won't b dge. ' Greer sets his flashlight down on the groynd now, goes to his utility belt again. If nothing else,—Greer is prepared. For anything. Snapping off a Leathérman-stylé tool “from which he _ extracts a screwdriver. Dipping the screwdriver ddwn~into the water covering the drain (which is sti subtly rising d falling) and unscrewing the sérew that holds it in place, This done, Greer lifts the drain grate off and reaches down into the drain hole. We're afraid for him right now -- we've seen what lives in this plumbing system. His hand wiggles and wriggles up to the mid-forearm and then suddenly he\JERKS_IT TAN ONE QUICK MOTION, as if he's been ittensBut he : he's done is fished out a piece of clothing, rch we see as he kes it out is the Miami Dolphins Jéersey—wi the name SHIPLEY on back. The audience wondering how that t down there, as is Greer : 4 aS Pills Oot Serse As the CAME PANS OFF this, ba to the floor drain, where the water levey rises and falls for moment, then slowly sinks back : until there is no watenleft. this image: A568 FALC | to ATER cuf To: A1l8 EXT. DESOLATE ROAD - NIGHT RA\ [wind A18 There are lighted cones and flashing blinker lights and a ; barricade created by two POQKICE VEHICLES sitting nose to nose. Wind and rain are beating fhe crap out/of the OFFICERS who are right now getting out of fhese vehic¥es, as HEADLIGHTS appear, coming up the road. The O€ficers mOving out into the middle of the road, waving the car toa stop. | MATCH CUT TO: B18 INT. MULDER AND SCULLY'S RENTAL/SEDAN -“NIGH RAO /w/ORe Through the beating windshield wipers an Yiving rain Muider and Scully see the Officers waving thelrcar te--asstop One of them moving around to the driver's side window./ Mulder rolls down the window, the Officer syuinting in at em. ROADBLOCK OFFICER Howdy do. You folks'll have to turn around and find yourself someplace dry to spend the night. CONTINUED
X-FILES "Agua Mala" 6ABX14 (SALMON) 01/12/99 19/19A(X). B18 CONTINUED: B18 MULDER What's the problem, Officer? ROADBLOCK OFFICER Road's washed out up ahead. SCULLY as This is an emergency. ROADBLOCK OFFICER I understand, m'am, but unless your car has wings there's no getting through on this road. - SCULLY What about the airport? There must be an alternate route. : ROADBLOCK OFFICER Airport? Not tonight. This (X) Hurricane's bearing down on us. (X) There's trees and powerlines (X) down all over town. You folks (X) shouldn't be out here. I want (X) you to drive to the first safe (X) place you can find. Understand? (X) Mulder looks at Scully, can't help but smile. But she's not giving up. Looking past him to the Officer. SCULLY It's important that we evacuate the area. We're FBI agents and we have reason to be on our way. ROADBLOCK OFFICER (nods suspiciously) Don't all the nuts roll downhill to Florida. SCULLY I'd be happy to show you my ID -- CONTINUED
X-FILES "Agua Mala" 6ABX14 (SALMON) 01/12/99 20(X):. B18 CONTINUED: (2) B18 MULDER (cutting her off) -- Thank you, Officer. Mulder puts the car in reverse and hits the accelerator. CUT BACK TO: 18 OMITTED pts )ND 18 | ee | Al9 EXT. DESOLATE ROAD-= NIGHT _ ~ Al19 Where Mulder ba¢éks the rental sedan\for about ten yards, then throws it into /a Bob Bondurant reveyse, spinning 180. (X) CUT BACK TO: (X) B19 INT. MULDER AND SCULLY'S RENTAL DAN - NIGHT Blsg Mulder is putting the car into drive now, looking over at Scully before he steps on the gas. SCUREY ssc R ) : Mulder ==) =. PY Uke [wD MULDER ; That was just one howdy do over : My< LM == CUT TO: eos
X-FILES "Agua Mala" 6ABX14 (SALMON) 01/12/99 Diss 19 OMITTED =) 19 20 EXT. "THE BREAKERS" - NIGHT Raw Me 20 A LOW RENT condo complex, seen\through sheets of wind and rain. The building itself has no~visible lights in any window, though : there are dim lights coming from the carport area. There are SEVERAL CARS parked in the pa ing lot. As... DEPUTY GREER'S CAR 54 pulls into f.g.\ pulling-to a stop. CULSTO 21 INT. CAR 54 - NIGHT - CONTINUOUS YA Greer is behind the wheel, looking out at the condo complex when his radio erupts. A woman dispatcher's voice. DISPATCHER'S VOICE (RADIO FILTER) Car 54, where are you? Greer snatches up his unit, brings it to his chin. DEPUTY GREER Yeah, this is=cari54.5b'm, out here on Nance Rd., over... DISPATCHER'S VOICE Car 54, please report back to the emergency shelter along with all other officers. We're asking all mobile units to stay off the road due to extreme weather conditions forecast for the next : three to four hours, over... ; ' DEPUTY GREER Ten four. Gonna make a quick stop out at The Breakers condo complex. Looks like there's some folks stranded without power. CONTINUED
X-FILES "Agua Mala" 6ABX14 (SALMON) 01/12/99° 22. 21 CONTINUED: 21 DISPATCHER'S VOICE Ten four, Deputy Greer. Please be advised that we won't be able to give you backup or assistance. Greer hangs up his mike, turns the wheel and heads into the driveway of the condo complex. CUR. TOs 22 EXT. "THE BREAKERS" - NIGHT ry \ pO Lv | jo \ 22 We're in the carport/outside t front entrance, where Car 54 pulls in and under,/ out of e/rain. Deputy Greer exiting, heading into the bhilding; thréugh double glass doors. CAMERA HOLDS for a moment, as if in-4nticipation. Then: LOW ANGLE ON UNDERSIDE OF CAR The car's engine TICK TICK TICKs, cooling when suddenly something drops from the engine compartment. It should scare us, but for a moment. Until we realize it's only the Shipleys' cat. A stowaway. Running off now, happy to be out of the rain. ; CUTZ TOs 23 INT. "THE BREAKERS" - NIGHT . 23 Deputy Greer is through the double glass doors, COMING TOWARD CAMERA down .a long hall. Off this hall are a series of doors that are entrances to the condo units. As he comes forward, he's knocking on each door. (NOTE: The hallway emergency backup lights are on.) DEPUTY GREER Deputy Greer, County Sheriff. If you're home please answer your door. If you can't answer the door, please call 911 and let. them know you need help. Hello? No answer. Deputy Greer checks the lock, moves to the next door where he does the same thing. Knocking on the door. DEPUTY GREER Deputy Greer, County Sheriff. If you're home please answer your door. (more) | CONTINUED
X-FILES "Agua Mala" 6ABX14 (SALMON) 01/12/99 ZI3\s 23 CONTINUED: 23 DEPUTY GREER (cont'd) If you can't answer the door, please call 911 and let them | know you need help. Hello? He checks the lock now, finds the door open. Pushing in, to: 3 CUT TO: sae: 24 INT. CONDO UNIT #1 - NIGHT - CONTINUOUS 24 Greer steps in the darkened condo, shining his flashlight. DEPUTY GREER Hello... somebody here? ; As he swings his flashlight right and left, something catches his eye. Greer takes another step in, squinting: DEPUTY GREER Sir? M'am? GREER'S POV The beam of light has landed on someone. Someone SELTING; Lt appears, on the toilet. Seen through a partially open bathroom door all the way across the condo. RESUME GREER Stepping in cautiously, moving to the bathroom door which he kicks while keeping his distance, his hand which isn't holding the flashlight resting atop his holstered weapon. And when the door squeaks open, Greer reacts in surprise and horror, at: | ANGLE ON BODY SEATED ON TOILET [Us ae It isn't so much a body, as a mound of slime Gene rough configuration of a male body/ still with itd pants pulled down at the knees and its shoes gn. It appears that whoever this was wasn't wearing a shirt at e time. The man/s appears to have been elderly, what little hkir he had on bis head now encased in the slime which his body is \fast becoming. DEPUTY GREER : Stands pointing his flashlight, a safe distance back, before he steps forward now. Moving in and leaning in for a better look. DEPUTY GREER Well, sweet howdy do... CONTINUED
X-FILES "Agua Mala" 6ABX14 (SALMON) 01/12/99 24. 24 CONTINUED: 24 And then he JUMPS. Seeing: GREER'S POV ; There's movement near the thick, sagging, gooey mid-section of the seated body. Something which is uncoiling itself. It was there all the time, but because it is of the same transparency .and substance as the body, it appeared to be part of it. These coils stacked, moving in cross directions from one another. Slow and oozing. They are, in fact, part of the body. RESUME GREER ; What made him jump at first has him curious now, leaning back in and reaching out to touch whatever the hell it is. As we: CUT BACK WIDE ON SCENE, FROM THE ENTRANCE As Greer is suddenly PULLED FORWARD- the mound of slimy goo. Pulled face first into the body, into the\ toilet, leaving his feet as if he's been lassoed like a steer. CLOSER ON DEPUTY GREER He hasn't been lassoed, but close to it. The cdils that were moving are actually tentacles, and now they are s eezing the life from Deputy Greer. He is flailing for his utili belt; for the handy dandy tool that he used to unscrew the drai grate, but his hands are so slimy that he can't get a purchasé. And now he's grabbing at the tentacles, trying to pry them off. Gasping for breath, his eyes going all buggy. And off this image: 25 OMITTED 25 END OF ACT ONE LL ALN S9? -
X-FILES "Agua Mala" 6ABX14 (SALMON) 01/12/99 Z5Oi(X es ACT TWO D FADE IN: (ole 26 EXT. ANOTHER DESOLATE ROAD ~ NIGHT a 26 WE ARE HIGH ANGLE as h€adlights ) toward us. The wind is blowing the rain sidéways in eets/ as Mulder and Scully's N.D (xX) SEDAN turns off the/road and into e drive of "The Breakers", (X) where EMERGENCY LIGHTS are flashing on The Deputy's prowler in the carport. . CUT TO: 27 OMITTED Day,
X—EELES "Agua Mala" 6ABX14 (SALMON) 01/12/99 26(X). 28 EXT. "THE BREAKERS" - See aye ain /w wv 28 Mulder and Scully's car pulls in.afd they exit into the (X) protected carport in fhe b.g.-AS THEY COME TOWARD CAMERA, we are (X) ARMING DOWN to REVEAL\CAR 54 as they react to it. (X) . (X) Mulder, isn't that...? ( (X) MULDER Forrest Gump. (X) They both start into the building; dubious about this being (X) : exactly the kind of "safe place" they had in mind. (X) CUTS TO} 29 INT. CONDO UNIT #1 - NIGHT - CONTINUOUS 29 We can hear Mulder and Scully out in the hall but we can't see them yet, though the door is open, the way that Deputy Greer left it. Then Scully pokes her head in, Mulder moving past. SCULLY Deputy? Hello. Anybody here? Scully reacts to A LOW MOAN from somewhere inside the condo, close to us, though we cannot see from where, or from whom. . SCULLY ‘ Mulder -- : Scully comes in now, pointing her flashlight around. As Mulder appears behind her, with his own flashlight. : . 2 4 ASOLO PEIN He's over here. ANGLE ON DEPUTY GREER -- MOVING POV Lying on the floor near the open door of the bathroom. Scully entering the shot, moving to Greer, turning him over, as Mulder shines his flashlight on the man's face. ) Greer's eyes are open but unfocused, through he is trying to make out who's above him. Around his neck, in two sets of rings, - are evenly spaced PUNCTURE WOUNDS, swollen and red around each puncture. Scully is busy checking the man's pulse at his wrist. SCULLY Sib -—>.can*you talk:to me? Are : you having trouble breathing? CONTINUED
X-FILES "Agua Mala" 6ABX14 (SALMON) 01/12/99 5 29 CONTINUED: ; 29 He nods, but Scully doesn't know quite what to do for him. Looking up at Mulder, getting up and moving to the kitchen. SCULLY This man needs a trach, or he's going to die real soon. MULDER What happened to him? He gets no answer from Scully o.s., as he shines his flashlight onto: THE TOILET IN THE BATHROOM We notice immediately that the jelly man who was sitting on the toilet is no longer there. He is gone, completely, though there is a thick residue of slime left on the toilet, dripping off the seat. On the floor, however, at the base of the toilet, are the man's pants and shoes, also covered in slime. How he vanished is a mystery with these meager clues, but he's gone. RESUME MULDER, SCULLY As Mulder steps over the Deputy into the bathroom, shining his flashlight down into the toilet. Reaching down in now, o.s., fishing out... a wristwatch. MULDER 5 I've heard of passing time -- buteouch.s<.. SCULLY : “Mulder, I'm going to ask you to : : hold this man's head steady -- Mulder -- he can't breathe -- Mulder turning now, kneeling as Scully finds the Deputy's slimy Leatherman tool on the ground, dials to the long, sharp blade. From the kitchen, she's found a short plastic straw. Scully putting the blade down to Greer's soft neck.:- : CLOSE ON MULDER, OVER SCULLY Mu incing as Scully's body tenses and she fo s the knit own-into the Deputy's flesh. There is A POPPING/ a fine sp: of blood... and then Greer's breaths, SUCKING through the hola. PUTY GREER pee IWIN Micro eeee eens TO See a A CONTINUED EivE SPRAY OF BLOOP
X-FILES "Agua Mala" 6ABX14 (SALMON) 01/12/99. 27A. 29 CONTINUED: (2) 29 Scully puts the short straw in the hole bubbling at his neck, his chest moving up and down with a fresh air supply. He, however, with the wounds on his neck, does not look anything close to the picture of renewed health. CONTINUED
X-FILES "Agua Mala" 6ABX14 (SALMON) ONE Z AIO) 2 28(X). 29 CONTINUED: (3) 29 RESUME MULDER AND SCULLY MULDER It looks like he was attacked by something, Scully. Or he was stung. What are those? | SCULLY SSF I don't know. But he's having a (X) reaction which is affecting his . autonomic response. MULDER It looks like whatever did it may have come up through here... Mulder is nodding to the toilet. Scully is looking at the slime covered porcelain, looking back to Mulder. It does look that way, though she's right now loathe to be drawn into that Bopic: SCULLY All I know is right now we've got to figure out how to get a , medivac unit out here. Scully is searching around at Deputy Greer's utility belt, finding his radio clipped on the side opposite her. MULDER : Lf at's in. the plumbing,) ‘Scully, we need to make sure there's no ; | one -else.in this building. Mulder is on his feet, moving out. Scully watches him, all business, bringing the radio up to her face -- and startling herself -- it's covered in GOOEY SLIME. She catches herself, then gingerly turns on the unit, depressing the talk button. SCULLY This is Special Agent Dana Scully with the Federal Bureau of Investigation... CURSOS 30 OMITTED 30 A31 INT. TRAILER - NIGHT - DALE'S RADIO | A31 A hand fiddling with the reception, ADJUSTING UP TO DALES, who is listening to Scully's voice on his shortwave. 3 CONTINUED -
X-FILES "Agua Mala" 6ABX14 (SALMON) 01/12/99 29(X) es A31 CONTINUED: A31 SCULLY (RADIO FILTER) -.. I have an officer in need of emergency medical assistance -- DISPATCHER'S VOICE -- please state your name again, m'am -- | SCULLY (RADIO FILTER) DALES My name is Dana -- -= SCULLY! !, Ha Ha! SCULLY (RADIO FILTER) I'm a medical doctor, requesting a medivac unit for a Sheriff's Deputy who is injured -- (X) DISPATCHER'S VOICE -- you have a deputy down? ; SCULLY (RADIO FILTER) -- I have Deputy who's been attacked by something as yet unidentified -- DALES : Unidentified my ass! CULETOs 31 INT. "THE BREAKERS" - NIGHT - A HALLWAY ot Where a flashlight beam appears, then Agent Mulder rounds a corner, COMING TOWARD CAMERA, where suddenly A BODY is backing into frame in f.g. Carrying something. (His name is DOUGIE.) MULDER : Excuse me -- sir -- The man freezes. Looking rather tense as Mulder approaches. MULDER Is everything alright -- (off the man's. stare) ; In your apartment? DOUGIE Oh,- yeah. It's all good. MULDER Do you need some help, sir. With VOUR.c. seClevis Ton we ce CONTINUED
X-FILES "Agua Mala" 6ABX14 (SALMON) 01/12/99 30% 31 CONTINUED: : 32 As Mulder says this, he realizes what's up. And Dougie sees that Mulder realizes. There is a moment of wonder about what each is going to do, when: A DOOR DOWN THE HALL OPENS — A smallish man bolts out, WALTER SUAREZ (33). He's got a _ panicked look about him. His eyes going from Mulder to Dougie. WALTER SUAREZ I thought I heard voices. Thank god. We didn't think anyone was coming -- you're the doctors...? | Both Dougie and Mulder are trying to catch up. MULDER ; No. Do you need medical help -- WALTER SUAREZ (a little alarmed now) We called 911. No one came. Everyone else had already evacuated. We don't have a car -- and then the phone died -- MULDER Who? Who are you talking about? WALTER SUAREZ - My wife and I. She's pregnant, a week past her due date. Mulder and Dougie exchange a look. Uh oh. . WALTER SUAREZ God, I hope one of you has a car. MULDER You don't know this man, Mr. -- ; WALTER SUAREZ | Walter. Walter Suarez. No. He's not with you? : Now Walter is getting the picture. Dougie still holding the TV, getting more sheepish by the moment. He steps back in the apt. DOUGIE A PT Spuc tt oback. MULDER Everything in your pockets, too. CONTINUED
X=EDLES "Agua Mala" 6ABX14 (SALMON) 01/12/99 Sle. 31 CONTINUED: (2) Si Dougie goes back inside, Mulder closing the door behind him. Moving to Walter Suarez now, urgency in his step. Moving to: 32 OMITTED ; 32 THRU THR Si) 35 36 INT. WALTER AND ANGELA SUAREZ'S APARTMENT - NIGHT 36 Mulder steps in, finding Angela lying on the sofa. She and her ballooning belly bathed in only the light from a couple odd emergency-type lanterns and a few candles. Getting up as: WALTER SUAREZ Angela, this is Mr. -- : MULDER Mulder. Stay there, Mrs. Suarez. l We're going make sure your baby makes it safely into the world. ANGELA Thank you, but I'm not iin) labor. And my name is not Suarez, it's Villareal. He tells people I'm his wife. Like he's so macho. She shoots a look at Walter as she gets up. This is obviously an . issue. Not lost on Mulder, who gets a shrug from Walter. MULDER peed Angela, Walter... I'm going to ask you.to leave your apartment and come downstairs with me -- . ANGELA You got a car? Walter here doesn't have a car, not to © mention a job. MULDER ; Right now I just want to get you someplace I know you'll be safe. ANGELA From what? : MULDER I don't know. But whatever it is, it may have seriously injured a Sheriff's Deputy -- CONTINUED
X-FILES "Agua Mala" 6ABX14 (SALMON) 01/12/99 Bo. 36 CONTINUED: 36 WALTER SUAREZ Who? Where? MULDER In the manager's apartment. It may be in the complex's plumbing. WALTER SUAREZ In the plumbing?! ANGELA Great, I have to go to the bathroom bout every ten seconds. But she's waddling out, as if this is just another in a string of indignities and inconveniences. And she's out the door. Mulder looks over at ball-busted Walter. MULDER Kid's gonna be a fighter. (off Walter) \ Are you sure there's no one else in the complex? WALTER SUAREZ No one. Well, there's George. MULDER | George -- ‘ WALTER SUAREZ George Vincent. He lives on the first floor. I asked him for : ; help, but he just yells go away. i He never listens to no one. MULDER Well, he's going to want to listen to me. CUT. TO . 37 OMITTED SH AND AND 38 38
X-FILES "Agua Mala" 6ABX14 (SALMON) 01/12/99 33k A38 INT. GEORGE VINCENT'S APARTMENT - NIGHT} 3 mols aze : ( AMBiEHT ome CLOSE ON THE DOOR, where there's a pounding from outside. MULDER (0.S.) Mr. Vincent?! George Vincent... ; A man's head comes into frame, his eye moving up close to the peephole. Looking out at Mulder, we presume. : | | GEORGE VINCENT Quit banging on the damn door! Spel i mole 39 INTERCUT WITH MULDER,~- INT. HALLWAY >) AMBIENT S 39 Mr. Vincent, I'm a Federal Agent. I'm going to ask you to open the door, so -- GEORGE VINCENT -- Ask away. Then go away. MULDER Mr. Vincent, you may be in danger if you refuse to leave your apartment. GEORGE VINCENT You may be in danger if you refuse to quit harassing me. I'm armed, and within my rights. lee MULDER : Thats "Great, .sir. > Tos pus tayou may not be armed for what it is I'm talking about -- GEORGE VINCENT -- I'm armed against the junta, and Castro and Cuba, and I ain't gonna cede my home to no revolutionaries without a fight. You got anything else you want to throw at me -- bring it on! Mulder is on the other side of the door, shaking his head. MULDER (under his breath) All the nuts roll down to Florida. CUT TO: |
X-FILES "Agua Mala" 6ABX14 (SALMON) 01/12/99 34(X). 40 OMITTED 40 41 INT. CONDO UNIT #1 - NIGHT - CONTINUOUS 41 The apartment is now lit up with emergency lanterns and such that have been pulled from cupboards and closets. CAMERA PANNING THESE LIGHTS to Scully, who has Deputy Greer lying on the floor, his head propped up on a cushion, an old blanket pulled up to his chest. His eyes are open but lifeless, his complexion has become ashen. The bites on his neck somewhat more pronounced. (NOTE: Let's get a medical TA to tell us what household stuff we might use to create a realistic makeshift medical setup.) SCULLY (looking up, o.s.) He's had some kind of foreign organism released into his body. (X) His condition is worsening. ANGLE TO INCLUDE ANGELA AND WALTER Standing over Scully and Greer, both wide-eyed at what they see. ANGELA I can see that. What the hell was chewing on his neck? SCULLY I don't know. (off their looks) It may be some kind of water- borne parasite. (X) ANGELA (to Walter) You see what happens when you live in a dump? WALTER SUAREZ Where's Harry? SCULLY I don't know who Harry is -- _ ANGELA : The slumlord who owns this place. SCULLY He may have evacuated. ANGELA Harry? Right. And I'm gonna give birth to the Christ child. . | CONTINUED
X-FILES "Agua Mala" 6ABX14 (SALMON) 01/12/99 35): 41 CONTINUED: 41 WALTER SUAREZ (OLE-ocully sslook) Harry's legs hardly worked. He | : had to use those crutches. Walter is pointing to a pair of metal crutches against a wall in the shadows. The kind that have a brace around the forearm. | ANGELA ; He don't have no car and nobody likes him cause he never lifts ; a finger on this rat trap. Just now, heads turn when Mulder enters, pushing Dougie the looter in front of him. Gesturing to Scully. MULDER Can I, uh, talk to you a sec. Scully gets up, moves to Mulder, who's moving back out into the hall. While Dougie steps in, gets sized up by Angela. ANGELA Now who are you? DOUGIE Nobody. ANGELA . : Nobody? Well, it's nice to be surrounded by so many great men. CUT TO: A42 INT. "THE BREAKERS" - NIGHT - A HALLWAY A42 Where Scully has joined Mulder out in the hallway, where they speak in urgent, though hushed voices. MULDER We've got to get out of here, Scully -- as soon as possible -- SCULLY We can't. =- MULDER We can put the Deputy in his car and drive him to the hospital -- CONTINUED
X-FILES "Agua Mala" 6ABX14 (SALMON) 01/12/99 36; A42 CONTINUED: A42 SCULLY Mulder, I was just on the radio, they won't even chance sending a rescue vehicle out to us right . now. The roads are impassible -- and I don't know if the Deputy's even movable in his condition. : MULDER (beat, then:) © You mean we're stuck here -- Scully nods, with an ironic and not unhostile smile. MULDER -- with them? Mulder and Scully look back to: THEIR POV Dougie, Walter looking rather sheepish. Standing behind Angela, her arms folded -- put out beyond all belief. ANGELA Nobody likes a secret squirrel. RESUME MULDER AND SCULLY - FISH EYE POV As they look at each other, then go back into the apartment. : CUL.TO: ; eT DRO 42 INT. GEORGE VINCENT'S APARTMENT - NIGHT Polat ye Where George has his eye pressed to th eephole, looking out at the activity. Pulling away now, gru ing to himself as he pulls a clip or magazine out of his fatigue top, slams it into the handgun he's carrying. Turning from the door and heading into his apartment, lit by various and sundry emergency lights. CAMERA HOLDING as he een SLOWLY UP to the ceiling, wher& A TRAIL OF WATER DROPLET as begun to form. As if from a leak in the apartment or roof—above. Forming a straight line tha iling-mounted light fixture, where th¢ ig_beginning to fill the globe, or dis And then, back} th i we see AT COIL SLOWLY into the fixture. Slowly winding its length onto the the glass. And off 2 mt hais: ie cera te END OF ACT TWO
X-FILES "Agua Mala" 6ABX14 (SALMON) 01/12/99 SHA. ACT THREE FADE IN: A43 INT. CONDO UNIT #1 - NIGHT - CONTINUOUS A43 CLOSE PROFILE ON THE FACE OF DEPUTY GREER, covered in beads of sweat. His ashen pallor has given way to a bright red hue. The PUNCTURE WOUNDS on his neck seem to have become more pronounced, more swollen. As if they've become infected, or maybe something in them has begun to grow. Greer has a thermometer stuck in his mouth, though he is hardly aware of it, or anything else. CAMERA FINDING, RACKING TO SCULLY as she works on the opposite side of Greer, wearing makeshift scrubs from a cooking apron, which has something ironic written on the front. (X) SCULLY (X) I don't think these wounds are (X) : bites, or even stings. There's (X) something here, under the skin. (X28 Wearing kitchen cleaning gloves on her hands, a bandana over her (Xx) mouth. And someone's (Walter's?) eyeglasses. Working with the = Deputy's Leatherman tool. SCULLY Tongs. Fall: CAMERA FINDS WALTER standing above Scully, hands on his knees. Rising and reaching for a pair of hot dog tongs that Angela has : been sterilizing in a candle flame. Taking these and handing them down to Scully. ; SCULLY | : Mulder -- what's his temperature? A hand reaches in, pulling the thermometer out. CAMERA FOLLOWING THIS TO MULDER who tries to read the instrument from every angle, before: MULDER He's either got no temperature or he's getting ready to spontaneously combust... . SCULLY Lemme -- ; Mulder lowers it to her eye level while she continues to work on _ Deputy Greer's neck. : CONTINUED
X-FILES "Agua Mala" 6ABX14 (SALMON) 01/12/99 37A(X). A43 CONTINUED: é A43 SCULLY You're not that far off. He's at (X) a hundred and six. Somebody fill the tub with cold water, find whatever ice there is left in ‘ the freezer -- She's looking at: CONTINUED
X-FILES "Agua Mala" 6ABX14 (SALMON) 01/12/99 38:(X)) A43 CONTINUED: (2) A43 ANGLE TO INCLUDE WALTER SUAREZ, ANGELA, DOUGIE Dougie being the only one who isn't doing anything. All eyes going to him now. DOUGIE I thought you said this thing , was in the plumbing. SCULLY - Maybe it is, but either way he's not going to make it unless we get his body temperature down. CLOSE ON SCULLY As Scully says this, she's pulling something out of one of the punctures on the Deputy's neck. It is TRANSPARENT AND WRIGGLING, like a worm, or the end of a tentacle. ANGLE ON ANGELA, WALTER, GEORGE VINCENT (X) All REACTING with wide-eyed horror, wincing. Disgust. Etc. (X) RESUME (X) Scully holding the wiggling organism. (X) SCULLY I need a container. Mulder, you and one of the men lift him up. UJ ATeY eH Let's get him in that tub. HoT CULELO' D (demav 43 INT. CONDO UNIT #1 - BATHROOM - NIGHT“”- CONTINUOUS 43 DOUGIE is nervously turning on the tap tha les and spits and then begins to stream water Anto the tub. Noticing the WRISTWATCH that alder found in the toilet sitting atop the toilet tank. es (tt eee : Which he pockets, just Mulder and Walter appear:carrying the Deputy, head and feet, into the bathroom. Dougie making way for them as they drop him gently into the tub. When: GUNSHOTS RING OUT, from somewhere o.s. One, then two, then three four. Everyone freezes, then Mulder takes off outta the room. MATCH CUT TO:
X-FILES "Agua Mala" 6ABX14 (SALMON) 01/12/99 38A(X). 44 OMITTED 44 A45 INT. CONDO UNIT #1 - NIGHT - CONTINUOUS A45 ANGLE ON SCULLY has the transparent tentacle in a mason jar filled with water, reacting, too, to the gunshots. When Mulder runs past her, heading out into the hallway. Angela waddles in CONTINUED
X-FILES "Agua Mala" 6ABX14 (SALMON) 01/12/99 39s, A45 CONTINUED: A45 from the kitchen with a Tupperware container full of ice. The others coming out into the room, too. Looking at Scully. WALTER SUAREZ | That's George -- 5 re) Wa wv Nat as CUT TO: \A\ss SRN Nor nA . 3 wu oe! 45 INT. GEORGE VINCENE!S APARTMENT - NIGHT Cc 45 een eo George Vincent is firing wildly at hi ling - BOOM BOOM BOOM! Knocking backwards /into his’ lanterns d provisional light sources, creating fa kind of madhous effect) Then he fires again - BOOM BOOM BOOM! But what he's ea at can only be imagined, as the lights are up ended _ant CAMERA STAYS ON GEORGE. A46 INT. HALLWAY OUTSIDE GEORGE VINCENT'S APT. - NIGHT A46 Where Mulder runs up, reacting to another round of SHOTS - BOOM BOOM BOOM. Mulder sidesteps the door frame, then pounds on the door with his fist in a backhanded fashion, so as not to get hit with an errant shot. 3 MULDER Mr. Vincent! ! There's no answer. Only silence from inside the apartment. MULDER'S POV Where, down the hall, Scully and the others poke their heads out to see what's going on. Looking back at: MULDER | | He's got his own weapon drawn as a precaution. His back still flat against the wall next to George Vincent's door -- when the knob rattles and the door opens. Mulder spins out into a crouched firing position, both hands on his weapon. Pointing his gun at George Vincent who stands in the doorway. MULDER ; ; DROP YOUR WEAPON!! PUT IT DOWN!! Vincent, who indeed has the weapon he was firing still in hand, only looks at Mulder wild-eyed. CONTINUED
X-FILES "Agua Mala" 6ABX14 (SALMON) 01/12/99 40(X). A46 CONTINUED: A46 GEORGE VINCENT Gonna take more than this to kill whatever I just saw. Reh CUT TO: B46 INT. GEORGE VINCENT'S APARTMENT - NIGHT B46 The living space looks more like an armory or the clubroom at a shooting range than one man's home. Only now it looks like . there's been a hurricane inside, everything upended and knocked around by George's one-man war. Against: os (ae GEORGE VINCENT (0.S8.) p~pyAwe e ae I don't know what the hell it 7 sual was, but it came down outta DEI? Ehere: == ae CAMERA FINDS GEORGE AND MULDER and the hers (minus Dougie) standing in the apartment. George points to the ceiling, where not only the light fixture has been ripped away, but A LONG, ROUGH GASH has been torn in the drywall, meeting another LONG, : ROUGH GASH at~another Ss. These following the lines of a suspended SBWAGE PIPE Sole is dripping water down into the room. = |) MULDER You didn't see it? GEORGE VINCENT i Caught it out of the corner of my eye -- came swooping at me. Mulder catches a look from Scully: ; SCULLY All that happened here is the sewage pipe burst -- : (X) GEORGE VINCENT -- no -- it was after me -- MULDER That looks like the four-inch tie-in. for the. second floor, Whatever itis), didn ’tqust rip through the ceiling... ANGLE OVER PIPE -- LOOKING THROUGH A SPLIT f “in the material both top and bottom. Looking down to Mulder and George Vincent. Water drip drip dripping down onto them. CONTINUED
X-FILES "Agua Mala" 6ABX14 (SALMON) 01/12/99 41(X). B46 CONTINUED: B46 MULDER --.- It looks like it ripped right through the pipe. NEW ANGLE ON GROUP ; ; Looking at the carnage, at one another. WALTER SUAREZ Where did it go? MULDER Somewhere else in the building. It's in the outflow system. WALTER SUAREZ Maybe it'll just... flow back out. GEORGE VINCENT : (in his face) Or maybe it'll come up outta the can and grab you by the nugs. MULDER (to: Scully) SOrEo) Somebody's already got him by ; the nugs. SCULLY : Alright -- lookit -- whatever it is, there's no evidence yet that i it's going to kill you -- 4 . WALTER SUAREZ What about the man in the bathtub? SCULLY | The man in the bathtub can very possibly be saved if he can last out the storm. We may all be (X) . safe, so let's remain calm. ' ANGELA Remain calm? I’ got to pee so bad my back teeth are swimming. CUT TO: ae
X-FILES "Agua Mala" 6ABX14 (SALMON) 01/12/99 42. C46 INT. CONDO UNIT #1 - BATHROOM - NIGHT - CONTINUOUS C46 CLOSE ON DEPUTY GREER, lying in the tub, still with his clothes on. His breathing is rhythmic, but his gaze is still unfocused, pointed at some indistinct spot on the ceiling. CAMERA ADJUSTING to REVEAL DOUGIE knelt over him. Leaning from his knees, over the bathtub, where he is struggling with: ANGLE ON DOUGIE . Working like crazy to get the Deputy's wedding rang off his finger. Struggling with a bar of soap, which is among several and different under-the-sink powders and detergents he has sitting on the side of the tub. But he is, as of yet, unsuccessful, until one hard pull slips the ring off. | Dougie looks at it, the satisfaction of a hard fought victory, then VOICES from the group returning to the apartment cause him to wheel -- and KNOCK the BOXES and BOTTLES of powders and detergents into the tub. ANGLE ON BOX OF EPSOM SALTS : CLEARLY MARKED, its contents spilling into the tub through the : box top. Sinking to the bottom, along with other boxes and other bobbing bottles of detergent, etc. DOUGIE : Rises, thinking fast about what to do-now. So he closes the translucent shower curtain on the Deputy and the tub. CUTS TO: 46 INT. CONDO UNIT #1 - NIGHT - CONTINUOUS 46 Mulder and Scully enter back into the apartment. — SCULLY How is he? ANGLE ON DOUGIE Coming out of the bathroom, closing the door. DOUGIE He's good. Dougie shrugs, as if unaware of his understatement and the looks it brings from Mulder and Scully. Who are split apart now when ; Angela waddles into the room, making for the toilet. CONTINUED
X-FILES "Agua Mala" 6ABX14 (SALMON ) 01/12/99 43% 46 CONTINUED: 46 ANGELA Super Tanker coming through. But Walter's right behind her grabbing her hand and spinning her. WALTER SUAREZ You can't go in there. | ANGELA My bladder is pressing on your ‘ unborn child, Walter. It's going to have a head like a tortilla. WALTER SUAREZ This thing's in the plumbing. ANGELA The volume alone could wash it right back out to sea. MULDER (to Scully) That's how this thing's here. That hurricane's been sitting just offshore churning up god knows what. It must have been driven into the city's reclamation system through an offshore outfall pipe.. Scully's gone into the kitchen, returning with a plastic bucket. oe SCULLY ' We'll be right outside the door. ANGELA Thank you. CUAL Os 47 INT. CONDO UNIT #1 - BATHROOM - NIGHT - CONTINUOUS : 47 5; ANGLE THROUGH THE SHOWER CURTAIN, OVER THE TUB. Through a crack in the curtain, we can see Angela enter with her bucket and close the door. But as she sets the bucket down atop the toilet and pulls up her maternity dress, the combination of the cropping and the transparency of the shower curtain should serve to make the act perfectly discreet. ; CONTINUED -
X-FILES "Agua Mala" 6ABX14 (SALMON) 01/12/99 44(X). 47 CONTINUED: 47 ANGELA I know you probably can't hear me in there, but no listening . anyway... AS CAMERA TILTS DOWN to the Deputy, who now has something moving under his shirt. Doing a slow squirm. In fact, there seem to be TWO of them. TENTACLES. One, now, which threads its way between. buttons on the front of the deputy's uniform. One which threads its way up out of his collar. Off this: | CUT BACK TO: 48 INT. CONDO UNIT #1 - NIGHT - CONTINUOUS 48 Where Mulder continues to pitch his theory. MULDER Something welled up out of the uncharted depths of the sea, maybe that had been down there undiscovered for ages. SCULLY Mulder, there's still no evidence of any creature here. Those organisms could be simply (X) water borne parasites, -but CX) something from Jules Verne they're not -- (X) George Vincent wanders in from the hall, keeping his eyes on the ceiling. He and Dougie meet looks, wondering who each other are, then Dougie steps aside, letting him in. Just as, Angela SWINGS THE BATHROOM DOOR WIDE OPEN. ANGELA DS SAW yt Lal SAW LEY EES INTHE BATHTUB! ;WITH ‘THE DEPUTY!!! IT HAD GIANT ARMS LIKE AN OCTOPUS!! There is a moment where everyone's frozen in place, scared. Then Mulder pushes past Scully, past Angela. Into:
X-FILES "Agua Mala" 6ABX14 (SALMON) 01/12/99 45. 49 OMITTED 49 A50 INT. CONDO UNIT #1 - BATHROOM - NIGHT - CONTINUOUS A50 ANGLE THROUGH THE SHOWER CURTAIN as Mulder comes Sigal. throws back the curtain while keeping his distance. Jumping back as he pushes the plastic drape aside with an outstretched arm. .But his reaction is not what we're expecting. After his initial fear, Mulder's steps forward, looking down into the tub, as the others crowd behind him on the other side of the doorway. SCULLY Mulder -- GEORGE VINCENT What the hell is it? MULDER He's gone. | SCULLY It's gone?! ANGLE OVER MULDER As he reaches down into the bathtub and lifts up the Deputy's wet. uniform shirt, holding it up to the others. MULDER : No, he's gone. Deputy Greer. ANGLE ON TUB Where the rest of the Deputy's uniform lies near the drain, along with the box of Epsom Salts and several plastic cleaning solution bottles. TILTING UP TO THE GROUP. SCULLY Where did he go? MULDER I think the Deputy went out with the bathwater. GEORGE VINCENT He was in there with it? MULDER I don't think he was. A . CONTINUED
X-FILES "Agua Mala" 6ABX14 (SALMON) 01/12/99 46(X). A50 CONTINUED: A50 WALTER She said she saw it. MULDER I'm sure she did. Everyone is looking at Mulder now, wondering what the hell he's talking about. As he's trying to make sense of it himself. MULDER I think I know why no one's ever seen this thing before -- (off their looks) It doesn't just live in water, it is water. Taking shape only when it attacks, like it did when the hurricane backed up seawater in the plumbing. ; Virtually unseeable until then. Scully grabs the specimen that she removed from the Deputy's neck, in the water-filled jar. Holding it up to Mulder. SCULLY If that were true, this wouldn't be visible, would it? Water actually appears to kill it. MULDER ‘ You may have impeded its : reproductive process. It may need time to complete its cycle. Like it had with the Shipleys. SCULLY They weren't even in their house. MULDER That's where they were attacked. Just like the Deputy was here. Using the victim's body to lay its spawn. Using the body's own water content to reproduce itself. To make itself anew. WALTER You mean... he turned into one (X) of these things...? (X) ANGELA There's more of them? (X) CONTINUED
X-FILES "Agua Mala" 6ABX14 (SALMON) 01/12/99 46A(X). A50 CONTINUED: (2) A50 MULDER We've got to get out of here -- SCULLY We're in the middle of a hurricane -- MULDER We'll get to another building. CONTINUED
X-FILES "Agua Mala" 6ABX14 (SALMON) 01/12/99 47(X). A50 CONTINUED: (3) i A50 Mulder rushes out past everyone, into: 50 INT. CONDO UNIT #1 - NIGHT - CONTINUOUS 50 Mulder is moving toward the door, when he's stopped, by: SCULLY . Mulder -- wait -- (off Mulder) We can't leave. We can't transport everyone -- MULDER We can take the Deputy's prowler -- how many of us are there? Two, four... sonofabitch. Mulder rushes from the room. No one quite knows why, until: (X) WALTER (X) - The looter. (X) CULGTO 51 OMITTED } Dose DAWG 51 52 INT. "THE BRE — NIGH A LWAY OVE 52 \ ANGLE THROWGH DOORS, wh Mulger bangs through them. Stopping just short\of them, upon seejrig: MULDER'S POV OORS The Prowler is no longer where it once sat. It's gone. RESUME MULDER Reacting to this, when the EMERGENCY LIGHTS suddenly go out in the hallway, casting him in darkness. Silhouetted only by the dim light coming (somehow!) through the doors. SCULLY «(O).,Si-) Mulder! MULDER Yeah... ; SCULLY: (0.5) What do you want us to do? CONTINUED
X-FILES "Agua Mala" 6ABX14 (SALMON) 01/12/99 48. 52 CONTINUED: A 52 Mulder shakes his head in futility. He hears GLASS BREAK overhead, looks up to see: HIS POV A icthe eee O Tees S Inside the £XUsh rectangular lighting fixture in the ceiling above, A LONG SILHOUETTED TENTACLE is coiling)on the glass, when SUDDENLY IT\BREAKS, the tentacle and water inside crashing right at Mulder, as-we: ee 53 OMITTED 53 END OF ACT THREE xz =) Oe as Oe j roe 2 aye ee
X-FILES "Agua Mala" 6ABX14 (SALMON ) 01/12/99 49(X). ACT FOUR FADE IN: AS54 INT. "THE BREAKERS" - NIGHT - A HALLWAY A54 The hallway is still cast in darkness, only we are on the dimly lit figures of Scully, George Vincent, Walter and Angela. SCULLY : Mulder -- But there's no answer. Scully squints into the darkness. SCULLY Mulder -- are you there? Are you alright? HER POV The silhouette of Mulder is staggering toward them in the © moonlit frame of the glass double doors. But only when he gets within a few feet does it become apparent what's happened. Mulder eyes have gone buggy. He is trying to keep his balance by keeping his hands on the walls. His neck is RINGED WITH PUNCTURE WOUNDS. He can't speak, though his mouth is trying to form words. REVERSE ON SCULLY, THE OTHERS Reacting to this. Then George Vincent reaches out and grabs Scully by the back of the collar, A HANDGUN to her head. Dragging her unexpectedly back into the apartment and, with Angela and Walter backing in behind him, Walter SLAMS THE DOOR on Mulder. MATCH] CUD sTO< 54 INT. CONDO UNIT #1 - NIGHT 54 George whipsawing Scully in. Scully starting at him angrily. (X) SCULLY What are you doing?! - GEORGE VINCENT Saving our lives. SCULLY S That's my partner out there! CONTINUED
X-FILES "Agua Mala" 6ABX14 (SALMON) 01/12/99 50(X). 54 CONTINUED: 54 GEORGE VINCENT If he was your partner he shoulda listened to you. Scully's anger is at a pitch here, but she's also at gunpoint. (X) Trying reason now, though her intensity in not lessened. (X) SCULLY 3 We can't leave him out there -- GEORGE VINCENT I'm not letting him in here -- SCULLY He's going to die out there -- WALTER What are you going to do for him? | SCULLY s I can keep him breathing -- WALTER You couldn't save the Deputy -- SCULLY You've got to let me try. I'ma (X) _ medical doctor -- Angela, who's been backed o.c. during this, finally speaks: ANGELA Thats good... . ae ANGLE TO INCLUDE ANG Yi RPOOV Ge Standing in a pute of wa : Rada ANGELA ve Because my water just broke. Off everyone's reactions: | : CUT ATO}: 595 OMITTED 55 AND AND 56 : 56 z ?
X=<PLGES "Agua Mala" 6ABX14 (SALMON) 01/12/99 50A(X). 57 INT. "THE BREAKERS" - NIGHT - A HALLWAY 57 MULDER is siting on the floor, agai mane. wall. Each breath is a struggle. Sensing something now, hearing something above him. - Tilting his head, his eyes finding, focussing on: CONTINUED | RA / Wot D a ) ae mY OX |
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57 CONTINUED: SS Exo {2 & 57.
WATER Fite
INSERT -- MULDER'S POV
In the glass plate rectangular light fixture, he can see, in dim
Silhouette, the slitheririg action of more tentacles. Water
dripping from—areun edges of the glass: if the fixture
eects has filled with water from a burst pipe.
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RESUME MULDER
Pushing himself up with his legs, using all his strength.
Wobbling as he gets to his feet. Moving away from danger. (X)
CUT BACK TO: (X)
58 INT. CONDO UNIT #1 - NIGHT (X) 58
WALTER AND ANGELA (X)
She is on the floor now, lying on her back, and, not unlike ‘
Mulder working for each breath. Walter is propping a sofa throw
pillow under her head.
WALTER
You're going to be okay --
ANGELA
Yeah? Easy -for you to Say --
ANGLE ON SCULLY, GEORGE VINCENT (X)
she's* still ‘at gunpoint, no choice but to accept’ the task that (X)
literally lays before her. (X)
SKC Opiinl inne .(X)
I need water. Bottled will work. (X)
We won't be able to boil it, but (X)
it'll at least be clean. (X)
Walter gets up, heads for the kitchen. Scully glaring at: (X)
GEORGE VINCENT i
; Isn't much of a choice, really. (X)
CONTINUEDX-FILES "Agua Mala" 6ABX14 (SALMON) 01/12/99 52 (X). 58 CONTINUED: 58 Scully heads for the kitchen, followed at loose gunpoint by George Vincent. Walter is going through the refrigerator, (X) through the cabinets, etc., looking for water. Scully going under the sink, pulling out a box from which she extracts a new pair of kitchen cleaning gloves. SCULLY If I'm going to try to deliver this baby, you can point the gun away. Scully is rolling up her sleeves. (x) . GEORGE VINCENT How do I know you're really a doctor? SCULLY Youndon't . And truth is, i've never delivered a baby before, so stand back or make yourself useful. But get outta my way. Scully means business. Snapping the gloves on, moving around George Vincent. Off George, and his surprise: ay. & pn JP ue ap CUT TO: ! ee | , V a foe RA 59 INT. "THE /BREAKERS" - NIGHT - A HALLWAY 59 W é€ Mulder is stumbli ck toward the /gGlass<double doors, which slam and bang in the wind. Still flighting for breath, the : ring of pu wounds rs neck turgild“and pronounced. NEW ANGLE As Mulder drops to his knees just short of the glass double doors,-rolling ore hee -oeck and lying still as a dead man as ey beat and bang jist feet from his head. i a ses r CONTINUED | = & oe Ja Loner pee a are
X-FILES "Agua Mala" 6ABX14 (SALMON) 01/12/99 532 59 CONTINUED: 59 HIGH CLOSE ANGLE OVER MULDER His face straining and going red. This would be the point where we found the Deputy, where Scully said he'd need a trach. Off this desperate image of Mulder, his mouth wide, sucking for air: CUT BACK TO: 60 ANGELA 60 Her face no less red, no less strained. Mouth wide, and: ANGELA AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH! !!!! Walter's face drops into frame. WALTER Long even breaths -- ANGELA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH! !!!! ANGLE TO SCULLY OVER ANGELA Angela's knees are up, the bottom of her dress obscuring the business end of this operation. Where Scully has her gloved hands. Knelt down between Angela's spread legs with George Vincent standing opposite her. Eyes wide. SCULLY Angela, you're going to have to push. You're going to have to help me help you. Let's push -- ANGELA ; AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! SCULLY oT Towels. I'm gonna need towels -- \eore ee ANGELA Ia} AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH! ! ! Except that Angela is raising her arm now, pointing. At: CLOSE ON GEORGE VINCENT Watching this, wide-eyed and horrified./While ABOVE~HIM) AND JUST BEHIND HIM, on the ceiliyg, A LI OF WATER DRIPS HAS BEGUN TO FORM. 5 . CONTINUED
X-FILES "Agua Mala" 6ABX14 (SALMON ) 01/12/99 54. 60 CONTINUED: 60 ANGLE OVER GEORGE VINCENT TO SCULLY Scully looks up at George, seeing that he hasn't moved. i Pgh Oa SCULLY EK yok TOWELS, DAMMIT! [U/X 4 te FE! aS a ess George jumps. It take shim a moment, but he's off, running for . the bathroom. Scully watching hip, then her eyes going to: INSERT -- THE LINE OF DRIPS Like we saw previously in George Vincent's apartment, a line of wate é Ormed. DECe See or it in a path to the light egisett ieee! Sk RESUME—S€CULLY Knowing this means something, and it isn't good. But putting her head down and resuming: SCULLY It's coming, Angela. Keep - pushing. bets go, Ss rn CUT BACK TO: \Daot Wea | ooo 61 MULDER x ; 61 Lying face upon the /floor. STILL ANGDE OVER HIM, his mouth wide and gasping. (The doofs banging just o.s. And then something else, another\sound. The sound of...<A CAT MEOWING. ee CAMERA BOOMING DOWN, TILTING to find THE SHIPLEYS' CAT just outside the banging doors. Doing drive-by figure 8's (or just sitting or standing or doing whatever the hell we can get him to do for the shot, probably.) He's SOAKING WET. Mulder hears the meowing, rolling over onto his stomach to see the ‘cat; Still, gasping for air. ANGLE: OVER CAT THROUGH DOORS TO MULDER He's staring_a the cat. And staring. Realizing something now, which conptpels him to find the strength to start crawling. Toward the banging doors, toward the cat, toward the hurricane outside. As we: ; | CUT BA | Ww (n 6 ik Chalo. x BVA QOo~
X-FILES "Agua Mala" 6ABX14 (SALMON) 01/12/99 54A. 62 THE OVERHEAD LIGHT FIXTURE - CONTINUOUS 62 Water has begun o drip into the Spe taign in a thin stream. Starting to pool in the bottom of the ee | Np nati _ CONTINUED & File r \ Lop
X-FILES "Agua Mala" 6ABX14 (SALMON) 01/12/99 55 62 CONTINUED: 62 ANGLE DOWN ON GEORGE, SCULLY, ET AL Looking up at this, while Angela's breathing like a locomotive. SCULLY I can feel it up there. _ UP ANGLE ON SCULLY TO GEORGE VINCENT As she bends back down into business: S ON WALTER, OVER ANGELA "| Qe re hor Agee Breathing along with Angela. Kal ee cw WALTER Wea She can feel it up theré. L RESUME LIGHT F Where tffe end of a SILHOWETTED\TENTACLE slithers into the light water-filled light fiture. RESUME SCULLY Septrk ‘Here it comes -- ON WALTER, OVER ANGELA ' Breathing with over-exaggeration. Spurring her on. WALTER Here it: comes -- RESUME TENTACLES ; Slithering into the globe, coiling. RESUME SCULLY , Sweat on her face, focussed on her mission. Dousing her hands in the bucket of water next to her, when she catches herself. Looking at the bucket. Angela still huffing and puffing. .But Scully now distracted, enough to alert: ANGLE UP ON GEORGE The tentacles slithering in the globe just over his head. ; | GEORGE VINCENT ; Hey, lady -- what are you doing? CONTINUED
X-FILES "Agua Mala" 6ABX14 (SALMON ) 01/12/99 55A. 62 CONTINUED: (2) 62 SCULLY Looking up at George Vincent, realizing: SCULLY It's the water -- GEORGE Looking at her like she's lost it. GEORGE VINCENT : . What? WALTER AND ANGELA She's huffing and puffing, FASTER THAN EVER. : WALTER 3 What? ANGELA | eee AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH! ! ! ! peor RESUME GEORGE VINCENT ate GEORGE VINCENT os When he feels Gicpins on his ey on his gun hand. . Looking up, to\see? Sr ume ANGLE ON TENTACLES Raney i Slithering just out of the fixture now, Soe completely. RESUME GEORGE — a ss Reacting to this. i ie ae SCULLY ; . Reacting to this. WALTER AND ANGELA “She still working like a slave. Walter with her all the way. ANGELA ; , I'm having it!! I'm having it!! : AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH! !!!!! QUICK CUTS: , CONTINUED
X-FILES "Agua Mala" 6ABX14 (SALMON) 01/12/99 55B. 62 CONTINUED: (3) 1 e® 62 SCULLY , e\r ate , x as Looking up at George. in ae ae A Ca FOLe GEORGE Qo v) \ LY Looking at Scully. 2X THE Lien URE _-f ¥S IT BURSTS, py ér and the coiled tentacles RIGHT AT AMERA. As: SCULE Reaches in and delivers a slimy wet WAILING newborn baby. The speed of its delivery strangely rapid, as if matching the speed of the attacking tentacles. ANGLE ON WALTER, ANGELA Walter reacting to the delivery. While, next to him, Angela is still huffing and puffing, but with her head cocked up now to see: SCULLY Holding the baby, but otherwise with horror in her eyes. Due to: ANGLE ON GEORGE Who now has the attacking tentacle wrapped around his neck, strangling him. His gun falling from his hand, to: : THE FLOOR . Next to Walter, who CAMERA FINDS, TILTING UP. His horror now matching Scully's. Reacting now. to: SCULLY ; Still holding the baby. Her eyes going to Walter. . : SCULLY The gun!! Pick up the gun!! GEORGE Still with the giant tentacle wrapped around his neck. WALTER Scared shitless, but picking up the gun. : CONTINUED
X-FILES "Agua Mala" 6ABX14 (SALMON) 01/12/99 DOC. 62 CONTINUED: (4) e 62 SCULLY Still holding the baby, yelling at Walter: SCULLY Shoot the sprinkler heads! Shoot! WALTER , Hesitates, then looks up at: INSERT SPRINKLER HEAD ON CEILING d Pv Ir Near the burst“light fixt a6 + | Viste reel ia HIGH ANGLE DOWN O LTER Looking up, then raising his gun AT CAMERA. And firing: AND THE SCREEN GOES BLACK All sound FADES OUT. Before we: FADE BACK IN:
X-FILES "Agua Mala" 6ABX14 (SALMON) 01/12/99 56. | : -D0wY 63 OMITTED [Y Gch 63 AND AND 64 ond 64 2) ore A65 EXT. DALES' TRAYLER - D A65 The round is. it's not raining. The raging wind is now e.br sihe storm has passed. In fact, it's SUNNY. teping. The way we always imagine Florida. As Mulder and Scully's rental car pulls up. Scully at the wheel. Mulder, however is not with her. As she gets out, moving to the door: B65 CLOSE ON MULDER'S NECK B65 An expertly applied bandage is being lifted, revealing the series of punctures beneath, which have been dressed. We are: : INT. DALES' TRAILER - DAY It's Arthur Dales who's got the bandage lifted, looking at the wounds with a wincing expression. DALES E-gads. I had no idea -- They both react to the a knock on the door, which is already partially open. Scully pushing through. SCULLY : ji Well, it's official. Ten pounds, ten ounces of piss and vinegar. El Nino Grande, Leroy Walter ; Villareal Suarez, Jr. MULDER (reapplying his bandage) Ohrseno SCULLY Oh, yes. DALES Amazing. I mean, truly amazing! SCULLY What's that, Mr. Dales? : CONTINUED
X-FILES "Agua Mala" 6ABX14 (SALMON ) 01/12/99 56A. B65 CONTINUED: B65 DALES That you'd come here in the face of a hurricane, chasing a sea ~ monster no less, and end up bringing new life into the world. Then slay the monster and save Mulder as he was quite literally circling the drain. ; MULDER She didn't save me -- DALES With a gun to her head, no less! SCULLY Mulder, how would you ever have : known to go out into the rain; that fresh water was what killed the. organism, <1£-r hadn*t pointed it it out to you? MULDER I saw the Shipley's cat -- DALES Son, all due respect -- even I _ have a hard time swallowing that. MULDER No -- the cat had been in the washing machine, and it'd been saved, while the Shipleys'd boarded themselves up in the house and only could've vanished if the creature had come up through the plumbing in a backwash of seawater -- (Dales is rolling his eyes at scully) -- and that there were Epsom Salts in the bathtub when the Deputy disappeared -- Dales gets up, playing to Scully. Moving to the cupboard. DALES Nevertheless -—=- if Agent Scully hadn't been here with you... I shudder to think. (more) CONTINUED
X-FILES "Agua Mala" 6ABX14 (SALMON) 01/12/99 obi B65 CONTINUED: (2) B65 DALES (cont'd) Takes a big man to admit it, Agent Mulder -- but if I'd had someone so saVvy at my side all those years ago on the X-files, why I might never've retired. _ Now Mulder rolls it eyes, as Dales pulls a bottle of booze out of the cabinet. Grabbing three glasses, pouring. DALES So, I think it fitting we toast your good fortune. I hope you'll join me because I insist. -(looking up) Water, anyone? ; MULDER AND SCULLY (definitively) NO! ! CUT TO BLACK 65 OMITTED A 65