Television News Reporter
As they celebrate scientific history-- the first close-up photographic transmissions of mars
Season 1 · Episode 9
Space
Character-labelled dialogue prepared from the official DVD subtitle track.
Production code1X08Original airdate · November 12, 1993
459 dialogue entries
JET PROPULSION LABORATORY
Television News Reporter
Photos that have created a stir by revealing surprising geologic information:
Television News Reporter
Locked in mars' polar ice caps--
Television News Reporter
Sustained life on the planet. Even more controversial is one image of a land formation-- a formation that looks like a sculpted human face. However, NASA officials are denying it as an indication of an alien civilization. It's nothing more than a trick of light and shadows--
Television News Reporter
Are the solar winds that blow across the surface of mars at 300 Miles an hour, ten months a year.
Young Marcus Belt
I'm seeing-- I've got--
Houston Mission Control
How's it going out there?
Young Marcus Belt
There's something out here.
Houston Mission Control
Can you repeat that, commander?
Young Marcus Belt
It's coming at me! Holy god!
SHUTTLE SPACE CENTER
Florida Mission Control
Pickup terminal sequence, m.p.s. You have a go to proceed.
Shuttle Launch Control
This is shuttle launch control with t minus one minute fifteen seconds and counting.
Orbiter Crew
O.t.c. To c.d.r. How do you read?
Florida Mission Control
Loud and clear. Go ahead.
Orbiter Crew
Roger that. Port setup two zero.
Florida Mission Control
Copy. Setup two zero.
Orbiter Crew
C.d.r. Houston, how do you read?
HOUSTON MISSION CONTROL
Michelle Generoo
Loud and clear.
Florida Mission Control
Side hatch close out and white room configuration is complete. Retracting orbiter arm.
Orbiter Crew
O.m.s. Pressure on. Cabin vent complete.
Florida Mission Control
Roger, we see that. All systems go for a.p.u. Start.
Orbiter Crew
Pre-start complete. A.p.u. To inhibit.
Florida Mission Control
Oxygen vent hood retracted. External tank is at flight pressure. Lock your visors and initiate your o2 flow. Y'all have a good trip.
Orbiter Crew
Roger that.
Shuttle Launch Control
T-minus 20 seconds and counting.
Florida Mission Control
Go for auto-sequence start. Booster hydraulic power units have started. Go for main engine start.
Shuttle Launch Control
T-minus ten, nine, eight seven, six, five, four, three...
Florida Mission Control
Abort liftoff. Abort liftoff. System failure. Abort liftoff. Repeat. We have an aborted liftoff.
WASHINGTON DC
Television News Reporter
I'm here in pasadena with the NASA mission control team
Dana Scully
What did the note say?
Fox Mulder
Just that they worked for NASA. They wanted to talk to somebody
Dana Scully
Why the cloak-and-dagger routine?
Fox Mulder
I have no idea.
Dana Scully
Think it's a crank?
Fox Mulder
It's beginning to look that way.
Michelle Generoo
My name is michelle generoo.
Fox Mulder
Fox Mulder.
Michelle Generoo
I sent you the note.
Dana Scully
Special agent Dana Scully.
Michelle Generoo
I'm sorry to have to take these precautions. I flew up from houston this morning. I work at the space center there.
Fox Mulder
In what capacity?
Michelle Generoo
I'm the mission control communications commander for the shuttle.
Dana Scully
What brings you to washington?
Michelle Generoo
There may be a saboteur at work inside NASA.
Fox Mulder
You have evidence of sabotage?
Michelle Generoo
I don't know. I may. Two weeks ago a shuttle mission was scrubbed three seconds before lift-off when an auxiliary power unit valve malfunctioned. If the flight had not been aborted there was a great chance the liquid fuel system and the orbiter would have exploded on the launch pad. This was sent to me in the mail. It's a material analysis that shows deep-grooved scoring marks inside this a.p.u. Valve-- marks that could have caused a malfunction.
Fox Mulder
Evidence of tampering?
Michelle Generoo
That's what it looks like, but... According to the person who gave me your names you have expertise in unexplained phenomena. And what's unexplainable is how anybody could have done it.
Dana Scully
How do you mean?
Michelle Generoo
The valve is made of ferrocarbon titanium. To score that material would take extreme launch pad temperatures. If NASA looked at that analysis they would say no one could do that type of damage undetected.
Dana Scully
Do you have any idea who sent that to you?
Michelle Generoo
No idea. The official analysis of the malfunction was simple mechanical failure.
Fox Mulder
Does anybody share your suspicions?
Michelle Generoo
If they do they're not talking to the FBI I believe in the space program and the people who run it but there's another launch window tomorrow. My reasons may sound selfish, but my fiance is a shuttle commander on that mission.
HOUSTON SPACE CENTER
Television News Reporter
From the viking observer spacecraft--
Television News Reporter
The presence of large amounts of water
Television News Reporter
Water that some speculate could have possibly
Television News Reporter
A geologic anomaly. The only sculptors at work
Dana Scully
Why would somebody want to sabotage the space shuttle?
Fox Mulder
Well, if you were a terrorist there probably isn't a more potent symbol of american progress and prosperity. If you're an opponent of big science NASA itself represents a vast money trench that exists outside the crucible and debate of the democratic process. And, of course, there are those futurists who believe the space shuttle is a rusty old bucket-- a dinosaur spacecraft built in the '70s by scientists setting their sights on space in an ever-declining scale.
Dana Scully
And we thought we could rest easy with the fall of the soviet union.
Fox Mulder
Not to mention certain fringe elements who accuse our government itself of space sabotage-- the failure of the hubble telescope and the mars observer are directly connected to a conspiracy to deny us evidence.
Dana Scully
Evidence of what?
Fox Mulder
Alien civilizations.
Dana Scully
Oh, of course.
Fox Mulder
Look at that-- gemini eight.
Dana Scully
What?
Fox Mulder
The man we're seeing-- colonel belt-- nearly died on that mission. Made an emergency landing in the middle of the pacific ocean.
Dana Scully
You remember that stuff?
Fox Mulder
You never wanted to be an astronaut when you were a kid?
Dana Scully
I missed that phase.
Colonel Marcus Aurelius Belt
Come in.
Dana Scully
I'm special agent Dana Scully. And this is...
Fox Mulder
Fox Mulder. I'm a big fan. It's an honor to meet you. You were a big hero to me.
Colonel Marcus Aurelius Belt
Thank you.
Fox Mulder
I stayed up all night when I was 14 to watch your space walk.
Colonel Marcus Aurelius Belt
Well, now it's like a stroll around the block. So... How can I help you?
Dana Scully
This found its way to the FBI do you recognize it?
Colonel Marcus Aurelius Belt
Sure. It's an auxiliary power unit valve.
Dana Scully
Do you have any reason to believe that the damage done to it was in an effort to sabotage the space shuttle program?
Colonel Marcus Aurelius Belt
No.
Dana Scully
Any reason to suspect sabotage at all?
Colonel Marcus Aurelius Belt
No reason whatsoever. And if you have any respect for this program and for the people who have devoted their lives to it you'll be careful to whom you make those accusations.
Dana Scully
Looking at this evidence, sir would you consider postponing the shuttle flight until a full investigation could be conducted?
Colonel Marcus Aurelius Belt
I don't know where you got this specious artifact but every precaution has been taken to rectify the problem. We've been waiting two weeks for a window to initiate this mission. We've got a payload to deliver.
Dana Scully
Has an internal investigation ever been done on this matter?
Colonel Marcus Aurelius Belt
The part you have here has been installed, inspected, and designed by over 100 highly trained technicians. With the security measures we take it would be virtually impossible for one man working by himself or two, or four men to do what you're suggesting. I can assure you there isn't a person in this facility that doesn't want to see that shuttle go into space complete its mission and come back like winged victory herself. And in about ten hours, god willing you'll see just that.
Fox Mulder
Do you think there would be a problem with us watching the lift-off from mission control?
Colonel Marcus Aurelius Belt
Well, being that you'd probably go over my head anyway please, be my guest.
Fox Mulder
It was an honor, sir.
Dana Scully
Thank you. Didn't you want to get his autograph?
NASA Technician
Where did you say you got this?
Dana Scully
It came to us anonymously.
NASA Technician
This is an a.p.u. Valve, all right.
Dana Scully
This doesn't make sense.
NASA Technician
This scoring here. This valve is made out of ferrocarbon titanium.
Fox Mulder
You didn't order the analysis?
NASA Technician
No, but we're on outside contract to NASA. They may have ordered it.
Fox Mulder
Wouldn't you order a material analysis if a part malfunctioned?
NASA Technician
Every shuttle has flown with that same valve with no problem. To do an analysis would delay the program for months not to mention the cost.
Dana Scully
In order to avoid delays is the program being pushed ahead without proper safety precaution?
NASA Technician
There are about 17,000 things that can go wrong with the shuttle and about 17,000 people who make sure they don't.
Dana Scully
Who makes the final determination as to its safety?
NASA Technician
We make a recommendation but ultimately, the decision is colonel belt's.
Dana Scully
What do you think?
Fox Mulder
I can't believe how much faith we put in machines.
Dana Scully
You think colonel belt knows more than he's saying? He lied about his knowledge of a saboteur?
Fox Mulder
I can't believe colonel belt would endanger the lives of those astronauts knowing that something might go wrong. He was an astronaut himself.
Dana Scully
So you think this x Ray is bogus?
Fox Mulder
God, I hope so.
SHUTTLE LAUNCH CONTROL
Florida Mission Control
Boost your hydraulic power units.
Shuttle Launch Control
This is shuttle launch control with t-minus one minute 45 and counting.
Fox Mulder
Here we go.
Shuttle Launch Control
This is shuttle launch control with t minus one minute 30. Final approach sequence. Main engines ready. Main engine check. Switching off ground supply.
Houston Mission Control
Pick up terminal sequence m.p.s. O.t.c. To c.d.r. How do you read? Charge capacitor energy storage banks are all at 241. O.t.c. To c.d.r. How do you read?
Orbiter Crew
Loud and clear.
Houston Mission Control
C.d.r. To houston. How do you read?
Orbiter Crew
Loud and clear.
Florida Mission Control
Side hatch closeout and white room configuration complete. Retracting orbiter arm. All systems go for a.p.u. Start.
Orbiter Crew
We have a.p.u. Start.
Florida Mission Control
B.b.s.r. Power down and ready for launch. Transfer to internal power. Main engines complete. Aero surfaces in launch position.
Houston Mission Control
Military recorder is running.
Orbiter Crew
Okay. Copy.
Florida Mission Control
Oxygen vent hood retracted. External tank is at flight pressure. Okay, c.d.r., lock your visors and initiate your o2 flow. Y'all have a good one.
Orbiter Crew
Roger that.
Florida Mission Control
Go for auto-sequence start. Booster hydraulic units have started. Go for main engine start.
Shuttle Launch Control
T minus ten and counting. 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Zero. Ignition. We have liftoff.
Florida Mission Control
C.d.r. To houston. Great job.
Michelle Generoo
Roger that. 10-4.
Florida Mission Control
Roger. Throttle back. Main engine at 65 percent. Roger. Throttle at 110 percent.
Scene 07
Fox Mulder
I have to admit that I fulfilled one of my boyhood fantasies.
Dana Scully
It ranks right up there with getting a pony and learning how to braid my own hair.
Fox Mulder
You have to admit that was exciting-- mission control, countdown...
Michelle Generoo
Mulder! Wait! Something's gone wrong.
Fox Mulder
What happened?
Michelle Generoo
Something's wrong with the shuttle. We had some trouble with the solid rocket boosters but we fixed it. Got a phone call 20 minutes ago. Communication with the shuttle had gone down. We've got to get back to houston.
WET ROAD
Fox Mulder
They have a press blackout in effect. Chances are, the media doesn't know about it.
Dana Scully
Sabotage?
Fox Mulder
Things go wrong all the time.
Dana Scully
But they usually fix them.
Fox Mulder
Usually.
Dana Scully
She's turning.
Fox Mulder
Michelle! I can see her.
Dana Scully
Michelle!
Fox Mulder
You all right?
Michelle Generoo
I'm stuck!
Dana Scully
Can you move?
Michelle Generoo
Just get me out of here! I'm wedged in.
Fox Mulder
You all right?
Michelle Generoo
I'm wedged in.
Fox Mulder
Can you push with your legs?
Dana Scully
Be careful.
Michelle Generoo
Just get me out of here!
Fox Mulder
Come on. Okay.
Dana Scully
It's okay. Don't try to move.
Michelle Generoo
Oh, I got to get back to houston.
Fox Mulder
What happened?
Michelle Generoo
I don't know. Something came at me in the fog and next thing I knew, I was upside down.
Dana Scully
Was it some kind of an animal?
Michelle Generoo
No. It had a face. It was... It was grotesque. I don't know what it was.
Dana Scully
You okay?
Michelle Generoo
Yeah.
HOUSTON MISSION CONTROL ROOM
Michelle Generoo
Orbiter, this is houston. Do you copy?
Orbiter Crew
Your transmission is breaking up, houston.
Michelle Generoo
What's happening?
Houston Technician
A malf in the o.m.s. And r.c.f. Systems. They can't get the orbiter into attitude rotation. Cabin temperature is 103 and they have downlink transmission...
Michelle Generoo
What happened to you?
Colonel Marcus Aurelius Belt
I had an accident. What's their position?
Houston Technician
Just over eastern africa.
Colonel Marcus Aurelius Belt
Try patching them into the seychelles tracking station.
Michelle Generoo
Hang in there, o.t.c.
Fox Mulder
The orbiter maneuvering systems malfunctioned. They need to rotate the shuttle away from the sun to keep the orbiter cool.
Houston Technician
Drop in cabin pressure 21 kilopascals and declining.
Michelle Generoo
They're going to burn up.
Fox Mulder
Where's colonel belt?
Houston Technician
On his way.
Michelle Generoo
What happened?
Houston Technician
Backup system failed.
Michelle Generoo
Can we auto-activate their systems from down here?
Houston Technician
We cannot. It's like someone's screwing with the uplink communications from this end.
Michelle Generoo
Can you trace it?
Houston Technician
Digital processor.
Michelle Generoo
They'd have to be in the data banks.
Fox Mulder
Where's that?
Michelle Generoo
Come on.
Dana Scully
Mulder?
DATA BANK ROOM
Fox Mulder
I'm a federal agent. Come on out of there. What are you doing in here?
NASA Data Technician
I work here.
Michelle Generoo
Let me see your clearance.
NASA Data Technician
There was a malfunction in one of the processors.
Michelle Generoo
Did you find it?
NASA Data Technician
No.
Fox Mulder
Did you see anybody else here? Call security. I don't want anybody coming in or out of this building who doesn't have proper clearance.
( garbled transmission )
MISSION CONTROL ROOM
Colonel Marcus Aurelius Belt
What's the attitude of the orbiter?
Houston Technician
They're flying tail first, sir belly towards the sun. Flash evaporator system is working but it's not enough to cool them down. Cabin temperature 116.
Colonel Marcus Aurelius Belt
Where's..?
Michelle Generoo
Somebody's jamming our transmissions. Somebody or something is interfering with our ground communications and scrambling our uplink telemetry. The shuttle is not responding to override signals.
Colonel Marcus Aurelius Belt
I'm cutting off telemetry.
Michelle Generoo
We might lose contact for good.
Colonel Marcus Aurelius Belt
We have to give it a chance.
Michelle Generoo
We have to bring them down.
Colonel Marcus Aurelius Belt
We have to give them control of the ship to perform that rotation maneuver and deliver the payload.
Michelle Generoo
What if they can't? We could be stranding them.
Colonel Marcus Aurelius Belt
Abandon telemetry. Go to fly-by-wire mode.
Fox Mulder
They're cutting off ground control to the orbiter. The astronauts will be flying the shuttle all by themselves.
Dana Scully
Is it gonna work?
Michelle Generoo
How's the weather up there?
Orbiter Crew
Sunny and warm, houston. What's the forecast?
Michelle Generoo
O.t.c., we're going to fly-by-wire mode. We're going to abort ground control to see if you can bring those systems back up.
Orbiter Crew
Roger that, houston and leave the driving to us.
Michelle Generoo
David... You take care.
Dana Scully
What just happened?
Fox Mulder
They cut off contact with the shuttle.
Michelle Generoo
45 seconds. If they were able to execute they'd have done it by now.
Colonel Marcus Aurelius Belt
Standing by.
Michelle Generoo
60 seconds.
Colonel Marcus Aurelius Belt
Go to reestablish uplink communication.
Houston Technician
Video signal's failed.
Michelle Generoo
Do you copy?
Michelle Generoo
Where are you?
Orbiter Crew
Howdy-do, houston. Looks like we finally got this bird to fly right.
Orbiter Crew
Music to our ears.
Houston Technician
Cabin temperature stabilizing.
Colonel Marcus Aurelius Belt
O.t.c., this is mark belt in houston. How's the crew holding up?
Orbiter Crew
They're looking good, sir.
Colonel Marcus Aurelius Belt
Y'all get some rest. We'll get back to work at about 0700.
Orbiter Crew
Roger, houston.
Colonel Marcus Aurelius Belt
Let's get to work on that telemetry problem. We got a big day ahead of us. Let's just let the electronic press
( shouting questions )
NASA PRESS CONFERENCE
Fox Mulder
From the FBI
Colonel Marcus Aurelius Belt
Do you want to test this mike?
Colonel Marcus Aurelius Belt
I know you have a lot of questions. I'll get to them.
Dana Scully
How did he know it was going to work?
Fox Mulder
He didn't. They could have died and there would have been nothing we could have done. They'd have been a ghost ship stuck in orbit.
Dana Scully
Why would he take that risk?
Michelle Generoo
Bring those men back without delivering that payload? That's millions of wasted dollars. That's all Congress would need to shut down NASA.
Colonel Marcus Aurelius Belt
As of 2200 hours the crew has been conducting on-board tests and tasks and resting up for their first full day in space. I'm happy to say after a beautiful night launch the shuttle orbiter has performed magnificently.
( reporters shouting questions )
Dana Scully
So much for your boyhood hero.
Fox Mulder
Colonel belt? Colonel belt? Can I talk to you for a moment?
Colonel Marcus Aurelius Belt
You want to know why I lied to them. You're asking yourself if this means I'd lie to you. You know what it means to be an astronaut, sir? You risk your life every time you get into your spacecraft for nothing more than the good progress of mankind.
Fox Mulder
No argument from me. You're true american heroes.
Colonel Marcus Aurelius Belt
Heroes? We made headlines when we did our job right. Now they bury you in the back of the paper. Name me two astronauts on the last shuttle. You make the front page today only if you screw up. They only know your name if you're the unlucky s.o.b. Sitting on 500 tons of dynamite. That's what they're really waiting for.
Fox Mulder
Sir, I have to ask. I'm sorry, it's my job. Do you think someone is sabotaging the shuttle?
Colonel Marcus Aurelius Belt
My answer to you, sir, will be to bring those men back safely to earth.
BELT'S APARTMENT
Houston Mission Control
How's it going out there?
Young Marcus Belt
There's something out here!
Houston Mission Control
Can you repeat that, commander?
Young Marcus Belt
It's coming at me! Holy god!
SHUTTLE ORBITER
Orbiter Crew
Houston, we just heard something weird up here.
HOUSTON MISSION CONTROL
Houston Technician
O.t.c. Houston, can you describe it?
Orbiter Crew
Sort of a dull thump, like something bumped the ship. Got any ideas about that?
( banging )
Orbiter Crew
There it is again.
NASA Data Technician
Yeah.
NASA Data Technician
They've got an oxygen leak onboard the orbiter.
Orbiter Crew
Our o2 gauges are going all screwy, houston.
Houston Technician
We got problems. We've got an o2 leak in the main tank.
Michelle Generoo
What happened?
Houston Technician
They don't know. They just said it was a thump. An astronomer in winnipeg just spotted a gaseous cloud a mile long trailing in our orbit.
Fox Mulder
That's the liquid o2 leaking into space. This happened to colonel belt on an apollo mission.
Michelle Generoo
How much time do they have?
Houston Technician
But it will be a guesstimate.
Michelle Generoo
I need some answers. And where is colonel belt?
Houston Technician
He was due 90 minutes ago to begin payload deployment.
Orbiter Crew
Houston? We're wondering when we have to start holding our breath.
Michelle Generoo
We're working on it. I need those calculations and a worst-case scenario. We don't know if both o2 tanks are damaged. Worst-case scenario! And someone find colonel belt.
Houston Technician
We'll find colonel belt. They've got 30 minutes of backup oxygen.
HALLWAY
Fox Mulder
Why does she need belt?
Dana Scully
She doesn't know how serious the leak is.
Fox Mulder
It's an oxygen leak. Even I know what happens when you run out of oxygen.
Dana Scully
Colonel belt's been in the same situation. He'll know what to do. Where the hell is he?
Michelle Generoo
I'm going to go get security.
Michelle Generoo
Are you all right?
Colonel Marcus Aurelius Belt
Yeah. I wasn't feeling well.
Michelle Generoo
They need you at mission control. There's been another accident.
HOUSTON MISSION CONTROL
Colonel Marcus Aurelius Belt
Is your orbital maneuvering system still operational?
Orbiter Crew
Roger, houston. We're ready for reentry. Just say the word.
Colonel Marcus Aurelius Belt
How bad's the leak?
Michelle Generoo
We have no way to determine.
Colonel Marcus Aurelius Belt
O.t.c., what's the condensation on your cabin?
Orbiter Crew
Windows are getting a little steamy.
Michelle Generoo
Carbon dioxide buildup.
Colonel Marcus Aurelius Belt
Okay, o.t.c. Everything's going to be fine. I want you to get in your spacesuits and de-pressurize your cabin. And then I want you to vent that co2.
Orbiter Crew
And then what?
Colonel Marcus Aurelius Belt
I want you to stay in your suits. I want you to prepare to use your emergency oxygen systems. And then I want you... To... Deliver your payload.
Michelle Generoo
Those are men up there.
Colonel Marcus Aurelius Belt
You're out of line. You want to tell me how to do my job? I've been up there in that situation, miss generoo. There's more at risk here than your personal life. If you can't accept that or operate effectively in these circumstances then maybe you'd better leave the decisions to people who can.
Colonel Marcus Aurelius Belt
Do you copy?
Orbiter Crew
Roger, houston. We're waiting on those o2 calculations.
( sniffling )
HALLWAY
Dana Scully
Michelle!
Michelle Generoo
They're going to die.
Fox Mulder
You don't know that.
Michelle Generoo
It's unconscionable putting that payload before those men's lives.
Dana Scully
I think she's right. He's losing it.
Fox Mulder
He saved their lives earlier.
Dana Scully
Did he, or did he put their lives in jeopardy? If he can't deliver that payload Congress kills the space program.
Fox Mulder
Killing astronauts won't have the same effect?
Dana Scully
I think somebody must have sabotaged the space shuttle. I think colonel belt has known about it from the beginning.
Michelle Generoo
We've got to stop him. We've got to pull them out of orbit.
Fox Mulder
He doesn't want those men to die.
Michelle Generoo
He put them up there.
Fox Mulder
He may be the only person who can get them down alive. How can you be certain that what he's doing won't save their lives? I need access to your records in a hurry.
COMPUTER ROOM
Fox Mulder
I need everything on the hubble telescope the mars observer, the shuttle challenger and the current orbiter mission.
NASA Data Technician
That's tens of thousands of documents.
Dana Scully
What are we looking for?
Fox Mulder
X rays, diagrams, schematics-- any proof that belt knew about a sabotage.
Dana Scully
A needle in a haystack.
MISSION CONTROL
Orbiter Crew
Payload deployment initiated.
Houston Mission Control
Roger that, o.t.c. Tracking it now.
Orbiter Crew
Looks good from here. Payload delivery is complete, houston. We're awaiting your order.
Colonel Marcus Aurelius Belt
System check for reentry de-orbit burn.
Orbiter Crew
There's someone outside the ship!
Colonel Marcus Aurelius Belt
Can you repeat that, o.t.c.?
Orbiter Crew
There's some kind of ghost outside the ship!
Colonel Marcus Aurelius Belt
No!
(screaming)
FILE ROOM
Dana Scully
Mulder I found it. This is the same diagram that was sent to michelle. Ordered by colonel belt, which means he knew about the faulty valve.
Fox Mulder
This is from the challenger. It's the o-ring fitting that failed.
Fox Mulder
One week before the space shuttle blew up. The analysis was ordered by colonel belt.
Dana Scully
You're saying he might have known about the challenger defect?
Fox Mulder
Something weird is going on here, Scully.
Michelle Generoo
Colonel belt's collapsed. He's in his office.
BELT'S OFFICE
Michelle Generoo
He was just here.
( whimpering )
Dana Scully
Oh, my god.
Michelle Generoo
What's wrong with him?
Fox Mulder
Get a doctor.
(whimpering)
Colonel Marcus Aurelius Belt
Help me. Help me.
Fox Mulder
How can we help you, colonel?
Dana Scully
He's having some kind of a seizure, Mulder.
Michelle Generoo
Come on, come on!
Colonel Marcus Aurelius Belt
It's tearing me apart!
Paramedic 1
See if I can get a pulse.
( moaning )
Michelle Generoo
Help me. Oh, help me. I'm bringing that shuttle down.
Colonel Marcus Aurelius Belt
It's out there!
Paramedic 1
Easy, easy.
Colonel Marcus Aurelius Belt
Spacesuits!
Dana Scully
Give him diazepam.
Fox Mulder
No.
Dana Scully
He's going to hurt himself.
Fox Mulder
He's trying to tell us something.
Michelle Generoo
Those men are running out of oxygen.
Colonel Marcus Aurelius Belt
They don't have to die.
Fox Mulder
I want you to focus. Focus your breathing. Focus your pain. Right here.
Paramedic 1
Blood pressure 174 over 120.
Dana Scully
Mulder you're risking an aneurysm.
Fox Mulder
Focus. Now you're focused. Right here. Now, you're going to save those astronauts and you're going to tell me how to do it.
Colonel Marcus Aurelius Belt
The shuttle can't survive reentry.
Michelle Generoo
No. He's lying.
Fox Mulder
How do you know it can't survive?
Colonel Marcus Aurelius Belt
The fuselage... The fuselage is damaged. The silicone tiles are destroyed.
Michelle Generoo
How does he know?
Fox Mulder
How has it been damaged?
Colonel Marcus Aurelius Belt
I'm responsible.
Fox Mulder
Did you sabotage the shuttle?
Colonel Marcus Aurelius Belt
No, but I couldn't stop them. Nobody can stop them.
Fox Mulder
Stop who?
Paramedic 1
Pulse 194.
Dana Scully
You'll kill him.
Fox Mulder
Stop who?
Colonel Marcus Aurelius Belt
They don't want us to know. They don't want us to know.
Fox Mulder
Who?
Colonel Marcus Aurelius Belt
It came to me. It lives in me.
Young Marcus Belt
It's coming at me! It's coming at me!
(screaming)
Colonel Marcus Aurelius Belt
Help me! It's coming back!
Michelle Generoo
That's the face I saw in the fog.
Paramedic 1
We're losing him. Defib.
Paramedic 2
Here you go.
Paramedic 1
Clear.
Paramedic 2
Hit it.
Houston Technician
They're out of oxygen. They've got exactly 30 minutes left in the backup system.
Michelle Generoo
They're going to suffocate up there. I've got no choice but to bring them down. It's the only chance I've got.
Paramedic 1
Again.
Paramedic 2
O2 standing by...
Paramedic 1
Hold on. We've got vitals.
Dana Scully
We've got to get him to a hospital.
MISSION CONTROL
Michelle Generoo
O.t.c., this is houston mission control. Do you copy?
Orbiter Crew
Roger, houston. We've got some spooky stuff up here.
Michelle Generoo
O.t.c., we're going to bring you down. We want you to instigate de-orbit burn and begin deceleration.
Orbiter Crew
Roger, houston. I was hoping you'd say that. Activating o.m.s. Rockets. All systems go for reentry.
HALLWAY
Fox Mulder
They're bringing the shuttle down. You said the shuttle would burn up on reentry. Is there anything we can do to save it?
Colonel Marcus Aurelius Belt
Change the trajectory.
Fox Mulder
Change the trajectory to what?
Colonel Marcus Aurelius Belt
Change the reentry trajectory to 35 degrees.
Mission Control
Fox Mulder
We've got to change the reentry trajectory.
Michelle Generoo
What?
Fox Mulder
Change it to 35 degrees.
Houston Technician
30 seconds to ionosphere reentry.
Fox Mulder
Belt...
Michelle Generoo
I can't.
Houston Technician
25 seconds.
Fox Mulder
It's your only shot.
Michelle Generoo
We'd have to change landing site and inform them before blackout.
Houston Technician
15 seconds to blackout.
Michelle Generoo
What's the weather in albuquerque? Are we go for an emergency landing?
Houston Technician
Weather in albuquerque? Landing conditions go in albuquerque. T-minus five seconds to blackout.
Michelle Generoo
Change your trajectory to 35 degrees. You'll be landing in albuquerque.
Houston Technician
Ionosphere reentry.
Michelle Generoo
They get that transmission?
Houston Technician
Two minutes to reestablish.
Michelle Generoo
Damn it. How much oxygen do they have?
Houston Technician
16 minutes.
Michelle Generoo
Come in, o.t.c.
Michelle Generoo
Come in, o.t.c.! Anything? What's the point of their new reentry?
Houston Technician
West of hawaii. Hawaii's picked the shuttle up on radar.
Dana Scully
They made it.
Houston Technician
Not necessarily.
KIRTLAND AIR BASE
Houston Mission Control
Albuquerque, do you have radar confirmation?
Albuquerque Ground Control
Negative, houston. Nothing on the screen.
MISSION CONTROL
Michelle Generoo
Come in, o.t.c.
Michelle Generoo
Come in, o.t.c.!
Orbiter Crew
You know a good place to eat in albuquerque?
Orbiter Crew
Whoo!
Houston Technician
O.t.c., welcome home. You're looking real good.
Mission Control Staffer
Yes!
PRESS CONFERENCE
Michelle Generoo
The space shuttle touched down today at 10:56 central standard time. The orbiter delivered its payload after just 13 orbits and returned to earth without incident. We at NASA are looking forward to our next shuttle mission and to future successful explorations of space. And for the future of mankind.
(beeping)
( door opens )
X-FILES OFFICE
Fox Mulder
Come here.
Colonel Marcus Aurelius Belt
Are we set up in here?
Fox Mulder
Oh, god.
Dana Scully
I just heard.
Fox Mulder
Something had possessed him-- something he must have seen out there in space. The doctors who examined him
Dana Scully
Said he was experiencing severe dementia.
Fox Mulder
I don't think he ever really knew exactly how it was working through him or that he ever knew that he was... Responsible for his own actions.
Dana Scully
He ordered those x rays of the damaged parts.
Fox Mulder
I think he was trying to warn her. I think that he sent michelle those x rays like he was trying to reach out to her without quite knowing why as if his own instinctual impulse was to save those men.
Dana Scully
While simultaneously trying to kill them?
Fox Mulder
Scully, we send those men up into space to unlock the doors of the universe and we don't even know what's behind them. I think whatever it was, he took it with him. And in the end, that was the only way he knew how to stop it.
Dana Scully
There's an investigation, you know. They haven't ruled out foul play.
Fox Mulder
He gave his own life. He was an astronaut. That was something he was prepared to do.
MILITARY FUNERAL
Dana Scully
Colonel belt.
Fox Mulder
Colonel belt.
Fox Mulder & Dana Scully
Thank you. Thank you.
Houston Mission Control
Roger, o.t.c.
Minister
Roger, o.t.c.
Minister
Help!
Houston Technician
All right.
Minister
O.t.c., this is houston.
Minister
O.t.c., this is houston.
Minister
O.t.c., this is houston.
Minister
O.t.c., do you hear that?
Colonel Marcus Aurelius Belt
Get their sound equipment set.
Minister
Pull it out?
Minister
That one right there.
Houston Technician
We're doing the calculations
Michelle Generoo
Colonel belt? Colonel belt!
Michelle Generoo
Colonel belt.
Colonel Marcus Aurelius Belt
O.t.c.
Minister
O.t.c.
Colonel Marcus Aurelius Belt
(whimpering) no, no, no!
Fox Mulder
It's dated
Minister
No!
Minister
Vitals are rising.
Minister
And now--
Michelle Generoo
O.t.c., this is houston.
Michelle Generoo
O.t.c., this is houston.
Michelle Generoo
O.t.c., this is houston.
Michelle Generoo
O.t.c., this is houston.
Michelle Generoo
O.t.c., this is houston!
Orbiter Crew
Houston, this is o.t.c.
Orbiter Crew
We could meet for dinner.
Colonel Marcus Aurelius Belt
No... No more!
Minister
Colonel marcus aurelius belt devoted his life to the exploration and understanding of space-- learning its mysteries and experiencing it not just for himself but for humanity. Lord, take this man's soul and let it rise up to your heavens, higher than he could ever go as a man. Let him know the true nature of the universe that he sought to learn.
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