Commanding Officer
As soon as we're in position, we'll be on a count of five.
Season 1 · Episode 2
Deep Throat
Character-labelled dialogue prepared from the official DVD subtitle track.
Production code1X01Original airdate · September 17, 1993
294 dialogue entries
NEAR ELLENS AIR BASE
Anita Budahas
Excuse me. That's my house. What's going on?
Commanding Officer
Stand by. Mrs. Budahas? Your husband commandeered a military vehicle and is armed.
Anita Budahas
Oh, my god. You've got to let me talk to him.
Lead Officer
What the hell-- we got him, but he's going to need a doctor... Or something.
( breathing heavily )
WASHINGTON, D.C.
Dana Scully
Hi. I got your message.
Fox Mulder
Sorry for the runaround. Can I buy you a drink?
Dana Scully
It's 2:00 in the afternoon, agent Mulder.
Fox Mulder
That's not stopping the rest of these people. I got something to show you.
Dana Scully
Something you couldn't show me at work?
Fox Mulder
Let's get a table. Okay. That's colonel Robert Budahas. That photo was taken last year when he was a test pilot for the military stationed at Ellens Air Base. Four months ago, budahas experienced a psychotic episode and barricaded himself in his home. The military police were called in. Budahas was removed and hospitalized for the treatment of his condition.
Dana Scully
Which was what?
Fox Mulder
The military will not comment on the cause, nature or status. The military will not comment at all.
Dana Scully
What do you mean?
Fox Mulder
Mrs. Budahas has neither seen nor heard from her husband in over four months. Her inquiries have gone unanswered. Last month, she contacted the FBI and reported it as a kidnapping.
Dana Scully
What reason would the military have to kidnap one of their own pilots?
Fox Mulder
That's the $64,000 question, Scully. Since 1963, six pilots have been listed missing in action from Ellens Air Base. The military will say only that these pilots accepted the risks of flying experimental aircraft.
Dana Scully
Yeah, there are rumors those pilots were shot down at high altitudes while they were routinely penetrating russian airspace.
Fox Mulder
There were other rumors too. I've been tracking this case since it came through the Boise office last month. Last week, it was deprioritized. They shelved this case without an investigation, Scully.
Dana Scully
So...
Fox Mulder
So we're going to the spud state to investigate a kidnapping.
Dana Scully
I don't get it, Mulder. Does this have something to do with an X-File? I thought you only liked those paranormal-type cases. Am I missing something here?
Fox Mulder
Let's just say this case has a distinct smell to it. A certain paranormal bouquet. Excuse me.
Scene 03
Deep Throat
Leave this case alone, agent Mulder.
Fox Mulder
What? Who are you?
Deep Throat
I, uh... Can be of help to you. I've had a certain interest in your work.
( pounding at door )
Fox Mulder
How do you know about my work?
Deep Throat
Let's just say that I'm in a position to know quite a lot of things-- things about our government.
Fox Mulder
Who are you? Who do you work for?
Deep Throat
It's unimportant. I came here to give you some valuable advice. You are exposing yourself and agent Scully to unnecessary risk. I advise you to drop the case.
Fox Mulder
I can't do that.
Deep Throat
You have much work to do, agent Mulder. Don't jeopardize the future of your own efforts.
Scene 04
Dana Scully
You okay, Mulder?
Fox Mulder
Yeah. I'm fine.
( phone ringing )
FBI HEADQUARTERS
Fox Mulder
Hello?
Dana Scully
Mulder, I checked on that file you gave me. You failed to tell me a few things. This isn't some UFO goose chase you're leading me on, is it? Are you there, Mulder?
Fox Mulder
Yeah.
Dana Scully
The bureau has it out for us already and it would make us appear pretty stupid if my field report read like some tabloid story.
Fox Mulder
Listen, I don't want to talk about it on this line. I'll talk to you about it on the flight out, okay?
( sonic boom )
MARRIETTE FIELD
Anita Budahas
Hello?
Fox Mulder
Mrs. Budahas?
Anita Budahas
Yes.
Fox Mulder
We're from the FBI
Anita Budahas
Oh, yes. Please, come in. I started noticing it about two years ago. Bob developed this rash under his arms. We'd been doing some renovations on the house so we thought it was a reaction to the paint stripper but then everything just went crazy.
Dana Scully
How do you mean?
Anita Budahas
Bob's whole personality-- it was so unpredictable. He started doing things--
Fox Mulder
What kinds of things?
Anita Budahas
It was kind of embarrassing at first. We were having this dinner party once and he sprinkled tetrameal d all over his food.
Dana Scully
Hmm?
Anita Budahas
That's fish food flakes.
Dana Scully
You ever talk to him about this?
Anita Budahas
I tried. It was extremely difficult. Bob would get so angry, he'd... Yell at the kids for no reason. And then he would shake like he was having a seizure.
Fox Mulder
Did he ever talk about his work?
Anita Budahas
It was never discussed, even before the problems. I knew that he worked on top secret projects-- word gets around-- but bob was always a patriot first. He took loyalty to his country as an oath and now they treat us like strangers-- I just want my husband back.
Dana Scully
You know the government is not above the law. They cannot withhold information.
Anita Budahas
And then I think... Well, what if he's-- how would I support the family?
Fox Mulder
You said word gets around. I'm sorry. Have you ever heard of this happening to anyone else?
Anita Budahas
Um... Yeah. Verla mcclennon's husband-- he went kind of crazy but it's not like he didn't get to come home.
VERLA McLENNEN'S HOUSE
Verla Mclennen
The fly-fishing idea was his brother hank's. I was upset at first but when you're the wife of a test pilot you thank god just to have him home alive.
Fox Mulder
Mrs. Mcclennon has anyone ever offered to explain what caused this?
Verla Mclennen
The stress, I guess. You have to understand the military deals with things in a certain way. They've given him plenty of therapy and treatment and I'm thankful for that. They've taken good care of us. And they do volunteer for their jobs. Really, anita-- bringing the FBI to my house.
Anita Budahas
Here. I've called all the numbers about 1,000 times. Please, let me know what you find out.
Dana Scully
We're at the beach grove motel if you need anything.
Anita Budahas
Thanks.
Fox Mulder
So what did you make of uncle fester?
Dana Scully
It's called stereotypy. It's a syndrome produced by stress. P.o.w.s have been known to suffer from it. They've studied it in zoo animals.
Fox Mulder
Yeah, but these guys are test pilots. They're not supposed to fold under pressure.
Dana Scully
Ever hear of something called the aurora project?
Fox Mulder
That's the unacknowledged code name for some defense department surveillance project.
Dana Scully
They've been testing a secret class of suborbital spycraft over the western u.s. Maybe these guys are flying those planes. Maybe these guys are the washouts.
Fox Mulder
You saw the photos. This guy budahas received a presidential commendation. He's never washed out of anything in his life.
BEECH GROVE MOTEL
Fox Mulder
Been on hold with the base director of communications. How about you?
Dana Scully
Somebody named colonel kissel will meet with us... A week from friday.
Fox Mulder
Yeah, right. Did you say kissel?
Scene 09
Fox Mulder
Colonel kissel?
Colonel Kissel
Yes?
Fox Mulder
Can I talk with you? Special agent Mulder, FBI
Colonel Kissel
I've got nothing to say. This is an invasion of my privacy.
Fox Mulder
Why don't you talk to us about colonel budahas?
Colonel Kissel
Why don't you get the hell out of my yard?
Dana Scully
Good thing we still kept that appointment.
Paul Mossinger
Hi. Are you the FBI agents? I'm paul mossinger. I work for the paper. We live near verla mcclennon. You guys are looking into this budahas thing?
Fox Mulder
We're just looking around.
Paul Mossinger
I got you. Right. A lot of people out here just looking around. UFO nuts mostly but it's not every day we get FBI
( sonic boom )
Paul Mossinger
By the time you hear them, they're already gone. So this budahas thing-- are you getting anywhere?
Fox Mulder
I'm not at liberty to comment.
Paul Mossinger
Well--
Fox Mulder
Paul... Right? You've lived in this area a while. You ever seen a UFO?
Paul Mossinger
Never. Bunch of hooey if you ask me. People see what they want to see.
Fox Mulder
But if I wanted to talk to one of those UFO nuts you referred to earlier, where would I go?
( sonic boom )
FLYING SAUCER DINER
Zoe
F-15 eagle, pulling about four g's. Those boys think they are such hotshots. Get a few drinks in them, you'd think it was them up there flapping their wings.
Fox Mulder
Who's the photographer?
Zoe
Various and sundry. I took the one on the end there.
Fox Mulder
You're kidding. Where?
Zoe
Out on the back porch. Taking out the garbage. And there it was... Just hovering. Quiet like a hummingbird. For a minute there, I thought it was going to land and I was going to serve 'em lunch. I'm selling limited edition prints-- $20. Down to my last five, if you're interested.
Fox Mulder
Put it on my tab.
Dana Scully
Sucker.
Fox Mulder
What would be the chances of someone like me seeing a UFO?
Dana Scully
Catch you outside. You want to see something weird, Mulder? Ellens Air Base isn't even on my map.
Fox Mulder
I know. Let's go.
Dana Scully
You know? Where are we going?
Fox Mulder
We got our own map, sucker.
OUTSIDE ELLENS AIR BASE
Dana Scully
What do you honestly hope to see?
Fox Mulder
I don't know. Maybe nothing.
Dana Scully
Is this why we came out here, Mulder? To look for UFOs? Yeah, this is going to look real good on my field report.
( rattling )
( screams )
Fox Mulder
Scully, wake up! You gotta see this.
Dana Scully
What are they?
Fox Mulder
I don't know. Just keep watching. It's unbelievable.
Dana Scully
That's unreal. I've never seen anything like it.
Fox Mulder
They've been going at it for half an hour.
Dana Scully
That can't be aircraft. Aircraft can't maneuver like that.
Fox Mulder
What else could they be?
Dana Scully
Lasers, maybe-- being shot from the ground, reflecting off the clouds. Oh, my god.
Fox Mulder
Here comes another one.
Dana Scully
That's not a plane. That's a helicopter.
Fox Mulder
Hey!
Emil
Let's get out of here! Okay, don't shoot.
Fox Mulder
Stay right there.
Ladonna
We didn't do anything.
( helicopter approaching )
Fox Mulder
Come on!
( chuckling )
Emil
That was extreme.
Fox Mulder
Let's go. You're coming with us.
Emil
What?
5:02 a.m.
Dana Scully
So, what exactly were you guys doing in there?
Emil
We were, um-- we were just--
Ladonna
We kind of have this spot.
Emil
You know, we kick back and listen to some tunes and watch the air show.
Fox Mulder
Were you ever chased out before?
Emil
No. Our friend showed us the hole in the fence about a year ago.
Ladonna
One time they dropped these bombs-- whoa.
Emil
It was kind of heavy. Oh, uh, there's this place called the yellow base where they're supposed to store all this stuff. My friend said there's land mines all around it and junk like that.
Paul Mossinger
I've got a 20. Over.
Walkie-Talkie
Roger, redbird. Assume fallback position. We're opening the cage.
Paul Mossinger
Redbird out.
Emil
Sometimes they come in real low and put on the skidders, right? It's like... ( screeches ) then they just hover without making a sound, and you just think who turned down the volume, right?
Fox Mulder
What do you think they are?
Emil
But I think it's some kind of star wars-cybertac newfangled hardware, right? Probably roll it out for desert storm ii. Cruise right over saddam's house. He'd be like, what?
Fox Mulder
Do they look anything like this?
Emil
No. They look exactly like that. Thanks.
Fox Mulder
Later, dude.
Scene 13
Dana Scully
What's that?
Fox Mulder
Evidence.
( music playing )
Fox Mulder
Kids today, huh?
Dana Scully
You believe it all, don't you?
Fox Mulder
Why wouldn't I?
Dana Scully
Mulder, did you see their eyes? If I were that stoned--
Fox Mulder
If you were that stoned, what?
Dana Scully
You could have shown him a flying hamburger and he would have told you that's exactly what he saw.
Fox Mulder
I want to show you something. This is a photo of a UFO that reportedly crashed in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947. Now, I know you don't believe that story but just hear me out. Now, Ellens Air Base, where we're at right now-- the same base that doesn't appear on your u.s. Government map-- is supposedly one of the six sites where parts of the wreckage were shipped.
Dana Scully
Mulder, are you suggesting that the military is flying UFOs?
Fox Mulder
No. Planes built using UFO technology.
Dana Scully
Mulder, come on! You've got two blurry photos one of them taken almost 50 years ago and another one you purchased today, in a roadside diner. You're out on a big limb.
Fox Mulder
Tell me there isn't a remarkable resemblance.
Dana Scully
Tell me one good reason why either of these photos is authentic.
Fox Mulder
You saw what I saw tonight. What do you think they were?
Dana Scully
Just because I can't explain it doesn't mean I'm going to believe they were UFOs.
Fox Mulder
Unidentified flying objects. I think that fits the description pretty well. Tell me I'm crazy.
Dana Scully
Mulder, you're crazy. And it still doesn't explain to me what happened to colonel budahas.
( knocking )
BEECH GROVE MOTEL
Fox Mulder
You didn't come to raid my mini-bar, did you?
Dana Scully
You ready for this?
Fox Mulder
What?
Dana Scully
We got a message from mrs. Budahas. Her husband came home last night.
Scene 15
Dana Scully
We got your message. ( sniffling )
Fox Mulder
Mrs. Budahas, are you okay?
Anita Budahas
Come inside.
Dana Scully
What is it?
Fox Mulder
What? What's wrong?
Anita Budahas
That... Is not my husband.
Lt. Colonel Robert Budahas
Honey... Who are these people?
Anita Budahas
That is not him. That is not my husband. They've done something to him.
Lt. Colonel Robert Budahas
What are you talking about?
Fox Mulder
It's okay. Just relax. I'm special agent Mulder from the FBI we're investigating your disappearance, colonel budahas. I'm wondering if you have any explanation of your whereabouts over the past four months.
Lt. Colonel Robert Budahas
I was in the hospital.
Fox Mulder
Here? On base?
Lt. Colonel Robert Budahas
I think so.
Fox Mulder
Colonel budahas, do you mind if I ask you your birth date?
Lt. Colonel Robert Budahas
November 21, 1948.
Fox Mulder
And the names of your kids.
Lt. Colonel Robert Budahas
Josh and leslie. They're right there.
Anita Budahas
Yeah.
Fox Mulder
Green Bay fan.
Lt. Colonel Robert Budahas
Yes, sir.
Fox Mulder
Bet you remember the super bowl of '68, huh? Don chandler.
Lt. Colonel Robert Budahas
Kicked four field goals. Lombardi's last game. Why do I have to answer these questions?
Anita Budahas
It's not him.
Fox Mulder
Colonel budahas, you're a pilot, isn't that right?
Lt. Colonel Robert Budahas
Yes, sir.
Fox Mulder
Bet you've flown just about everything with two wings. I got this hotshot pilot friend who said he could do an immelemann at a sustained eight g's. Is that possible?
Lt. Colonel Robert Budahas
I... I don't... I can't... Anita. I can't remember.
Anita Budahas
No.
Scene 16
Dana Scully
Mulder, would you explain to me what's going on?
Fox Mulder
I think they rewired that man's brain-- some kind of selective memory drain.
Dana Scully
The brain doesn't work like that. You can't just erase certain files.
Fox Mulder
Then you explain it.
Dana Scully
There are types of amnesia--
Fox Mulder
This is not amnesia. It's something far more deliberate and insidious.
Dana Scully
The science or medical technology to do what you are suggesting does not exist.
Fox Mulder
And neither does the technology to fly the aircraft we saw last night. They can do this. That man should have known the answer to the question. It just wasn't in his head anymore.
Dana Scully
Even if they could, why would they?
Fox Mulder
To control information. I think after his psychotic episode colonel budahas became a security risk.
Dana Scully
It couldn't be that he had a nervous breakdown with a concomitant memory lapse?
Fox Mulder
I think men like colonel budahas are incapable of dealing with the stress of flying that aircraft. We're talking about a technology so sensitive and advanced that it's taken almost 50 years to make it work. UFO technology, Scully.
Dana Scully
What the hell is this?
Fox Mulder
Hold on!
Man
Please, step out of the car.
Fox Mulder
You think if maybe we ignore him he'll go away?
Man
Please, step out of the car.
Fox Mulder
Guess not. Special agent Mulder, FBI
Dana Scully
We're federal agents.
Fox Mulder
You want to tell me what this is about?
Man
National security. Now get in your car. You'll be escorted back to your motel. You'll pack and leave town immediately or assume the consequences of intense indiscretion.
Scene 17
Dana Scully
Nothing under Idaho plate cc1356? No plate registered under that number? ( sighs ) thanks, gail. No, no, no. I'm sure the other one's bogus too. Bye. So who were those guys?
Fox Mulder
I don't think it was those kids they were chasing away from the base last night. I think it was us. They knew we were coming before we ever arrived and they returned colonel budahas as a decoy. There's something I didn't tell you.
Dana Scully
Something else?
Fox Mulder
A man in D.C. Warned me to stay away from this case. He didn't give me his name and my phone was being tapped.
Dana Scully
What?
Fox Mulder
Why would they go to all this trouble? Out of a need for security? Security of what? I think there's a huge conspiracy here, Scully. They've got a UFO here and they'll do anything to keep it a secret including sacrificing lives and minds of pilots because what if that secret got out?
Dana Scully
If-- if-- that were true it would be a national scandal.
Fox Mulder
No. You're not thinking big enough. If it were true it would be confirmation of the existence of extraterrestrial life.
Dana Scully
Did you ever stop to think that what we saw was simply an experimental plane like the stealth bomber or this aurora project? And a responsibility to protect its secrets?
Fox Mulder
Yes, but at what cost? When does the human cost become too high for the building of a better machine?
Dana Scully
These are questions we have no business asking. Our kidnap victim is no longer outstanding. Let's get out of here, Mulder, while you still have a job.
Fox Mulder
Aren't you even curious? Um... I'm going to shower, I'll pack and then we'll get out of here.
( engine starting )
Dana Scully
Mulder! Where are you going?
( tires squealing )
Scene 18
Emil
Right here.
Fox Mulder
Hey, aren't you guys coming?
Emil
No. We've only gone in at night.
Fox Mulder
Okay. This spot you told me about where you watched the air show, how far is it?
Emil
Uh... 45 minutes?
Fox Mulder
Will I be able to find it?
Girl
Stay on the path.
Fox Mulder
What about this other place-- yellow base with the hangar there?
Emil
Don't. It's like... Ten Miles. Nobody's ever been that far!
Ladonna
Hey, don't go past the edge of the tall weeds.
Emil
Oh, man. Did we tell him about the land mines and junk? Hey!
Scene 19
Voice
Go, go!
Fox Mulder
No!
Military Officer
Come on. Hold him.
6:30 a.m.
Dana Scully
Yeah, I'm trying to make a call to washington, D.C. And I can't seem to get a long-distance line. Hello? Hello? Excuse me. My phone's not working. Can I use yours to make a credit card call, please?
Motel Manager
Sure thing. Thank you.
Dana Scully
This one's not working either.
Motel Manager
Phones are undependable around here. People say it's the military interference, but they say that about everything.
Dana Scully
Thanks.
Scene 22
Paul Mossinger
Hi. I was just looking for you. I knocked, but I saw the door was open.
Dana Scully
I was in the lobby trying to make a call.
Paul Mossinger
Phones down again?
Dana Scully
Yeah.
Paul Mossinger
What are you doing?
( tapping on window )
Paul Mossinger
Excuse me. There's nothing in there.
( grunting )
( hammer cocking )
Dana Scully
Against the car! Hands on the car! Do it!
Paul Mossinger
Put the gun down, and we'll talk.
Dana Scully
I said hands against the car. Who are you?
Paul Mossinger
You're a long way from home. Nobody wants to come to violence now.
Dana Scully
Where's Mulder?
Emil
We took him to the base.
Ladonna
We waited for him.
Dana Scully
Get on that walkie-talkie and find out where Mulder is.
Paul Mossinger
I don't think I can.
Dana Scully
I think you can or I'm going to have every newspaper writing about your experimental aircraft.
Paul Mossinger
There are other ways to go about this.
Dana Scully
Yeah, I've already seen where you get with tears and a sad story.
Guard
( man over walkie-talkie ) roger.
Dana Scully
What are we doing?
Paul Mossinger
Waiting.
Dana Scully
I want the car running. I said start the car! And put your hands on the wheel where I can see them.
Paul Mossinger
You do anything stupid and this situation could get big in a hurry.
Dana Scully
You just keep telling yourself that. Keep the car running and step out of the car. Get in the car, Mulder. Get in the car!
Paul Mossinger
I just want to say everything you've seen here is equal to the protection we give it. It's you who have acted inappropriately.
Dana Scully
You okay, Mulder?
Fox Mulder
I think so. Scully, I...
Dana Scully
What?
Fox Mulder
How did I get here?
Scene 23
Fox Mulder
Hi.
Anita Budahas
Hello.
Fox Mulder
We came by to see how your husband was doing.
Anita Budahas
Oh, he's fine. He's getting much better now.
Fox Mulder
Do you think maybe we could see him?
Anita Budahas
Um, well, he's resting now.
Lt. Colonel Robert Budahas
Who is it now?
Anita Budahas
Thank you for your concern.
Fox Mulder
They got to her, Scully. They were here. They threatened her--
Dana Scully
That's enough, Mulder! We don't know anything-- anything more than when we got here and that's what I'm going to write in my field report. Let's get out of here, Mulder as fast as we can.
FBI Headquarters · Washington, D.C. · One Week Later
Dana Scully
Lieutenant colonel Robert Budahas was returned to his home though his knowledge of his disappearance and whereabouts is vague and inconclusive. Special agent Mulder's insistence that budahas may have been a test pilot on a top secret project involving aircraft using "recovered UFO" technology and may have suffered severe stress-related trauma by flying these aircraft is also inconclusive. Though this agent can corroborate agent Mulder's eyewitness account of two unidentified flying objects in the northern sky over Ellens Air Base their exact nature or design could not be determined. Barring further authorized inquiry...
Scene 25
Deep Throat
Your lives may be in danger.
Fox Mulder
Why?
Deep Throat
You've seen things that weren't to be seen. Care and discretion are now imperative. As I said, I can provide you with information but only so long as it's in my best interest.
Fox Mulder
What is your interest?
Deep Throat
The truth.
Fox Mulder
I did see something... But it's gone. They took it from me. They erased it. You have to tell me what it was.
Deep Throat
A military UFO? Mr. Mulder, why are those like yourself who believe in the existence of extraterrestrial life on this earth not dissuaded by all the evidence to the contrary?
Fox Mulder
Because all the evidence to the contrary is not entirely dissuasive.
Deep Throat
Precisely.
Fox Mulder
They're here, aren't they?
Deep Throat
Mr. Mulder, they've been here for a long, long time.
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