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Season 1 · Episode 24
The Erlenmeyer Flask
Character-labelled dialogue prepared from the official DVD subtitle track.
Production code1X23Original airdate · May 13, 1994
313 dialogue entries
SHIPWORKS · ARLIS, MARYLAND
(siren blaring)
Woman On Apb Wire
What is your present location? Unit 50, go ahead. Suspect is now westbound. Has entered the gate of the shipworks. Unit 50 still in pursuit. Over.
Officer On Bullhorn
Pull your vehicle over and stop!
Woman On Apb Wire
Put your hands on the roof and freeze! Hold it!
(men grunting)
Woman On Apb Wire
Get on the ground! Do it! Did you hear me? Face down! Do it!
(grunting)
(grunting)
Woman On Apb Wire
Stop! Armed officer!
(gunshots)
Woman On Apb Wire
I hit him. I know I hit him. Where the hell did he go? He'd be bleeding bad.
SHIPWORKS · ARLIS, MARYLAND
Lacerio
But theirs is a very light lava.
IMPOUND
Dana Scully
That's what stumped me.
FBI HEADQUARTERS · WASHINGTON, D.C.
Fox Mulder
Because inside there must be something the weight of the heaviest rock. But, professor, that would be icelandic peridotite.
EMGEN CORPORATION · GAITHERSBURG, MARYLAND
Berube
Precisely.
Fox Mulder
There's a piece chipped off.
MULDER'S APARTMENT
Deep Throat
By me.
Fox Mulder
Well, what's the rock inside? Icelandic peridotite, naturally.
Woman On Apb Wire
When I saw this, I stopped chipping.
(phone rings)
Fox Mulder
Mulder.
Deep Throat
Are you watching channel eight? What's your conclusion? Science does not jump to conclusions. Science is not a guessing game.
Reporter
...where a 60-mile high-speed car chase
Female Reporter
Ended early this evening-- the suspect eluding capture by leaping into the harbor but not before injuring several ardis police officers. We have captain roy lacerio standing by. How was the man able to escape and how seriously injured were the officers involved?
Lacerio
Those details are still unclear. I'll be talking with several... I'm sorry-- you'll have to excuse me.
Female Reporter
Captain roy lacerio being pulled away here during an intense manhunt. ...lacerio being pulled away here during an intense...
Dana Scully
Mulder, you've been through this tape 100 times. What exactly are you hoping to find?
Fox Mulder
I don't know.
Dana Scully
And all he told you was to watch channel eight?
Fox Mulder
Yeah, that's all he said.
Dana Scully
Do we even know why the suspect was being chased?
Fox Mulder
As far as I can tell he wouldn't pull over for a moving violation.
Dana Scully
Well, that should put him on the ten most wanted list.
Fox Mulder
There must be something here. Some detail we're not seeing.
Dana Scully
How do you know he's not just yanking your chain? Well, he has admitted lying to you.
Fox Mulder
He wouldn't call if there wasn't something here-- something he wants me to see.
Dana Scully
Then what are you missing?
Lacerio
There were three law enforcement agencies out here last night.
Fox Mulder
Hunting a man on a moving violation?
Lacerio
I know it's not silence of the lambs but it's what we do.
Fox Mulder
This man isn't wearing a badge or a uniform. He's not one of yours?
Lacerio
No, sir. But it was a zoo out here.
Fox Mulder
You say the suspect was shot. Why hasn't the body been recovered?
Lacerio
We got our search ongoing. We're quite certain he will be found.
Fox Mulder
It's been almost 18 hours, captain. Where could the body be?
Lacerio
There are cables and debris all over the bottom. It's a painstaking business. Can I ask what the FBI's interest in this case would be?
Fox Mulder
The suspect matches the description of a federal fugitive.
Lacerio
Really? How's that? No description of the suspect has been released.
Fox Mulder
If you don't mind, can we take a look at the car, please?
Lacerio
It's been taken to impound.
Dana Scully
The report says that the car was registered to a rental agency in gaithersburg. They had no idea the car was even missing. You know, Mulder I think that we're wasting our time here.
Fox Mulder
I don't know what the hell I'm supposed to find. You can't make out the license plate in this photo. Scully, look at this.
Dana Scully
What?
Fox Mulder
Look at the car in the photo. Look at the windshield.
Dana Scully
It's not the same car. It's called a caduceus. It's the adopted symbol of the medical profession.
Fox Mulder
So probably only a doctor would have that on his car.
Dana Scully
Mm-hmm.
Fox Mulder
I had the picture enhanced. The plate is different. "3 a-y-f."
Dana Scully
Fast-forward.
Fox Mulder
That's all you can make out. The rest is obscured. Hey, danny, it's Mulder. Run a Maryland plate for me. All I got is a partial. Registered to a doctor, or used to be. Yeah, I'll hold. They switched cars and lied about it.
Dana Scully
Why would they do that?
Fox Mulder
Maybe the real owner of the car has something to hide.
(animal squeals)
Fox Mulder
Dr. Berube?
Berube
Yes?
Fox Mulder
We're with the FBI can we have a minute?
Berube
I'm very busy.
Fox Mulder
Are you aware that a car registered to you was involved in a high-speed chase in ardis yesterday?
Berube
Excuse me?
Fox Mulder
A silver ciera, doctor. Do you own one?
Berube
Yes. It was used for what?
Fox Mulder
A crime. Were you aware it was even missing?
Berube
Not until now. I have a housekeeper, and she often uses the car. It's a second car... Please! They should not be excited. Nothing should be touched.
Dana Scully
I thought they were friendly.
Berube
They're part of an experiment.
Fox Mulder
What kind?
Berube
Am I under some kind of suspicion?
Fox Mulder
No.
Berube
Then I think I've answered all your questions. Excuse me. I have more work than time.
Fox Mulder
Thank you. Did he bite you?
Dana Scully
No, but he tried to.
Fox Mulder
Well, it's almost 5:00. Let's check with the doctor's housekeeper about the car.
Dana Scully
No.
Fox Mulder
No? What do you mean?
Dana Scully
This has reached the point of absurdity. We're out here on half a hunch off a cryptic phone call chasing down a clue that's based on speculation.
Fox Mulder
Well, that's all we've got.
Dana Scully
That's all he's given us. Who is this deep throat character? We don't know anything about him.
Fox Mulder
He's in a delicate position. He has access to information and indiscretion could expose him.
Dana Scully
You don't know that this isn't just a game. He's toying with you. Rationing out the facts.
Fox Mulder
You think he does it because he gets off on it?
Dana Scully
No. I think he does it because you do.
Deep Throat
Calling it a night mr. Mulder?
Fox Mulder
My mother usually likes me home before the street lights come on.
Deep Throat
I'm surprised at you.
Fox Mulder
Why?
Deep Throat
Your level of commitment seems to have diminished.
Fox Mulder
My level of commitment?
Deep Throat
I expected that you'd be working through the night putting the pieces together.
Fox Mulder
Maybe if you'd given me something more to work with.
Deep Throat
I've given you all I can.
Fox Mulder
A news report?
Deep Throat
And where has it led you?
Fox Mulder
Not very far.
Deep Throat
It may be further than you realize.
Fox Mulder
This has always been on your terms. I've been the dutiful son. This time we can just cut out the obi wan kenobi crap and save me the trouble.
Deep Throat
I fear you've become too dependent on me.
Fox Mulder
Look, I've got plenty to do without chasing down your vague leads or trying to decode your circular logic. Maybe it's you who's become too dependent on me-- on my willingness to play your games.
Deep Throat
Mr. Mulder?
Fox Mulder
What?
Deep Throat
Don't give up on this one. Trust me. You've never been closer.
Fox Mulder
Closer to what?
(door opening)
EMGEN CORPORATION · GAITHERSBURG, MARYLAND
Berube
Hello? Hello? Who's there?
Crew-Cut Man
Working late tonight, doctor?
Berube
What do you want here?
Crew-Cut Man
He's alive, isn't he? Has he contacted you?
Berube
Please. You're going to have to leave.
(banging cage violently)
Berube
If you're from the FBI I've already answered all your questions.
Crew-Cut Man
What questions?
Berube
I had nothing to say to them. I have nothing to say to you.
Crew-Cut Man
Where's doctor secare?
Berube
I don't know what you're talking about. Please. My work is very important. I must get on with my work.
Crew-Cut Man
I'm afraid... Your work is done.
(loud shattering, equipment falling)
SHIPWORKS · ARLIS, MARYLAND
Scuba Diver
Anybody see anything?
WASHINGTON, D.C. · THIRTEEN DAYS LATER
Fox Mulder
No.
Scuba Diver
Nothing.
Lacerio
I'm calling it off. Let's get those guys out of the water.
Officer
Yes, sir. Bring it in.
Dana Scully
The county sheriff's office is conducting the investigation. On the preliminary reports it's being listed as a suicide.
Fox Mulder
Suicide?
Dana Scully
They think that, for whatever reason he trashed his lab and then killed himself.
Fox Mulder
How?
Dana Scully
He tied one end of a roll of medical gauze around his neck and the other end to this gas outlet. Then he jumped.
Fox Mulder
Were there any witnesses?
Dana Scully
Nope.
Fox Mulder
He kept this place like he was waiting for the people from good housekeeping to show up. I would never have pegged him to do this... Or a greg louganis out the window.
Dana Scully
I know. That gauze is troubling.
Fox Mulder
It's a bit too calculated, huh? As if someone wanted to make doubly sure he'd break his neck before he hit the ground. What else do we know about dr. Berube? Um...
Dana Scully
"terrence allen berube. Harvard med, 1974." he was working on the human genome project. Are you familiar with that?
Fox Mulder
Yeah. The mapping of all human genes. Maybe the most ambitious scientific endeavor in the history of mankind.
Dana Scully
There's nothing extraordinary about that. There were thousands of scientists working on that project.
Fox Mulder
But only one who owned a silver ciera and went bungee jumping with medical gauze wrapped around his neck.
Dana Scully
I'm seeing the pieces but I'm not seeing the connection.
Fox Mulder
Maybe that's just it. Maybe we're not seeing it because it can't be seen, not in any obvious way. What is this?
Dana Scully
I don't know.
Fox Mulder
Can you find out?
Dana Scully
What will you do?
Fox Mulder
I'll see what else I can find out about dr. Berube.
Dana Scully
Okay, Mulder, but I'm warning you. If this is monkey pee, you're on your own.
(doorbell rings)
Carpenter
My first impression is it's some kind of bacteria specimen. Can I ask you where you got it?
Dana Scully
It was recovered at a crime scene.
Carpenter
We've come a long way from colonel mustard in the den with a rope, haven't we?
Dana Scully
I'm expecting it will turn out to be nothing.
Carpenter
No. You've definitely got something here. Wow. Look at this.
Dana Scully
What are they?
Carpenter
They're the size of bacteria but no bacteria I've ever seen.
Dana Scully
How do you mean?
Carpenter
Well, most bacteria are symmetrical and smooth. These are... I don't know. It's strange.
Dana Scully
You have no way of identifying them?
Carpenter
Well, we could do a freeze fracture. Take a thin slice off and see what's going on inside these babies... If you don't mind waiting.
Dana Scully
No. No, I'll wait.
Fox Mulder
Hi, danny. Yeah, it's Mulder again. Look, I've got a number this time-- 555-2804, area code 301. I need an address, a name if you can get it for me. All right. I'm at, uh... Same prefix, 1517. All right. Thanks, danny.
(ringing)
Fox Mulder
That was fast.
Man's Voice
Terry, is that you?
Fox Mulder
Yeah. Who's this?
Secare
They shot me, terry. Oh, god. I've been in the water for three days. I'm hurt.
Fox Mulder
Where are you now?
Secare
At a pay phone.
Fox Mulder
I'll pick you up. Where are you?
Secare
Terry...
Man
You okay?
Fox Mulder
Are you there? Hello?
Man
Hello. This man's been hurt here. I think he needs medical attention.
Fox Mulder
What's the street? What's the street?
Man
I'm going to call an ambulance.
Fox Mulder
Sir?
(telephone ringing)
Fox Mulder
Don't hang up.
Dana Scully
You got it.
Danny
I got it.
Fox Mulder
Let me get the address.
Danny
All right, you ready? Mulder?
Fox Mulder
I'm just writing it down now. Go ahead.
Danny
Belongs to a company called zeus storage. 1616 pandora.
Fox Mulder
Zeus storage. Yeah. 1616 pandora street.
Danny
That's it.
Fox Mulder
All right, thanks.
(siren wailing)
Medic
White male, 40, weak vitals
Man
Severe dyspnea and hypotension. He also has a green fluid coming from a wound right upper quadrant.
Doctor
Is he responding to cpr?
Man
No, and we're noticing rope veins at the neck and a hypersonant sounding chest. He's going real blue on us now.
Man At Hospital
Release the air pressing on the heart cavity.
Man
I'm going to need a cannula. We're going to do a needle decompression.
(air rushes out)
Man
Ah...
(coughing)
Doctor
What's going on in there?
(coughing)
Man At Hospital
Answer me. What is the problem? Come in, please!
(telephone ringing)
Fox Mulder
Mulder.
Dana Scully
It's me.
Fox Mulder
He's alive, Scully.
Dana Scully
Who?
Fox Mulder
The driver of the silver ciera. He called the doctor's house.
Dana Scully
Where is he now?
Fox Mulder
I don't know. Where are you?
Dana Scully
I'm at the georgetown microbiology department. I've got something for you.
Fox Mulder
Is it smaller than a silver ciera?
Dana Scully
Much. And it's not silver. It's green.
Fox Mulder
What is it?
Dana Scully
Some kind of bacteria, each containing virus. Berube may have been cloning them. They also contain something that looks like chloroplasts-- plant cells. They've never seen anything like it.
Fox Mulder
What could he have been doing with them?
Dana Scully
The only reason you clone a virus inside a bacteria is to inject it into something living. It's called gene therapy and it's still highly experimental.
Fox Mulder
Maybe that's what he was doing with those monkeys. Can they tell you anything else?
Dana Scully
They're just about to run some primary cell cultures and a dna sequence. Now, I may be understating the strangeness of this, Mulder. Bacteria like this-- it may have existed, but not for millions of years... Not since before our ancestors first crawled out of the sea. Are you there, Mulder?
Fox Mulder
Yeah. Scully, keep up the good work.
Carpenter
Agent Scully.
Dana Scully
Oh, dr. Carpenter, I fell asleep.
Carpenter
I've done some work. These are the dna sequences from the bacteria sample you brought in. You know something about molecular biology.
Dana Scully
What are you looking at? I think those are genes.
Carpenter
Right. They're called base pairs. Each pair is made up of something called a nucleotide. Only four nucleotides exist in dna, four. And through some miracle of design that we have yet to fathom every living thing is created out of these four basic building blocks. What you're looking at is a sequence of genes from the bacteria sample. Normally, we'd find no gaps in the sequence. But with these bacteria, we do.
Dana Scully
Why is that?
Carpenter
I don't know why. But I tell you, under any other circumstances my first call would have been to the government.
Dana Scully
What exactly did you find?
Carpenter
A fifth and sixth dna nucleotide-- a new base pair. Agent Scully what you are looking at it exists nowhere in nature. It would have to be by definition... Extraterrestrial.
(ringing)
Fox Mulder
Hello.
Dana Scully
Mulder? Where on god's earth have you been? I've been trying to call you all night.
Fox Mulder
I had a situation. I left my phone in the car.
Dana Scully
Mulder... That bacteria I had analyzed-- they're saying that it doesn't exist in nature. They're saying that it could be extraterrestrial.
Fox Mulder
Scully...
Dana Scully
What?
Fox Mulder
How soon can you be here? There's something I gotta show you.
Dana Scully
Wait a second. Mulder... I just want to say that I was wrong.
Fox Mulder
That's all right. Don't worry about it.
Dana Scully
No, um... If you'd have listened to me, we wouldn't be here right now. I should know by now to trust your instincts.
Fox Mulder
Why? Nobody else does.
Dana Scully
You know, I've always held science as sacred. I've always put my trust in the accepted facts. And what I saw last night... For the first time in my life, I don't know what to believe.
Fox Mulder
Whatever it is you do believe, Scully when you walk into that room... Nothing sacred will hold. There were tanks here... And five bodies suspended in solution. There were computers monitoring them. They were alive, Scully, underwater.
Dana Scully
What happened to them?
Deep Throat
God only knows. Most likely they've been destroyed. Miss Scully. We met ever so briefly.
Fox Mulder
Destroyed by whom?
Deep Throat
I don't know.
Fox Mulder
I don't believe you.
Deep Throat
There are limits to my knowledge mr. Mulder. Inside the intelligence community there are so-called black organizations-- groups within groups conducting covert activities unknown at the highest levels of power.
Fox Mulder
There were three men-- I was chased.
Deep Throat
If you were chased, you would have been killed. Those men are trained well for that sort of business.
Dana Scully
Were those the same men who killed dr. Berube?
Deep Throat
Presumably.
Dana Scully
Why?
Deep Throat
Why? Good lord. You've worked so hard and you still don't see it.
Fox Mulder
Dr. Berube was conducting human experiments with extraterrestrial viruses.
Deep Throat
Yes, but that's been going on for years. We've had the tissue since 1947 but not the technology.
Fox Mulder
Roswell?
Deep Throat
Roswell was a smoke screen. We've had a half a dozen better salvage operations. Dr. Berube was killed because his work was too successful. You're standing in the room where the first dna transplant took the first human-alien hybrid was created. Six volunteer patients all terminally ill. One, dr. William secare, an old friend of dr. Berube's was dying of melanoma cancer. And as a result of the e.t. Gene therapy all six patients treated in this room began to recover from their illnesses. Dr. Secare was able to live a more or less normal life-- as normal as possible for a man who has developed inhuman strength and the ability to breathe underwater.
Fox Mulder
That's how he eluded capture.
Dana Scully
What was he running from?
Deep Throat
Dr. Secare was never supposed to have survived. Dr. Berube's research was part of a top secret government project. All they were interested in was the technology. To have a hybrid living out in the real world-- too great a liability. What if he should need emergency medical procedure? The man has a blood chemistry that is alien and very likely toxic. That story should hit the press.
Fox Mulder
It was easier to kill dr. Secare.
Deep Throat
Of course. There was only one problem. Dr. Berube was able to warn him.
Dana Scully
There's just one thing I don't understand-- why you gave us so little to go on in the beginning. And why are you giving us so much now?
Deep Throat
I didn't anticipate the speed and precision of their cleanup operation. They're systematically destroying all the evidence-- dr. Berube, the bodies here. Without the evidence you two have no case. Who would believe the story I just told you? You must put together everything that you have found and you must find dr. Secare before they do. I'll have no further contact with you on this matter.
Dana Scully
I'm going to get back to georgetown and get all the lab work.
Fox Mulder
I'm going to find dr. Secare.
Dana Scully
Where?
Fox Mulder
I don't know. I'm going to trust my instincts.
Dana Scully
I'm looking for dr. Ann carpenter. I've been unable to reach her by phone and she's not in her office.
Woman
She was in a terrible car accident... Her whole family. And dr. Carpenter is, um, dead.
(thump)
(thump)
Fox Mulder
Dr. Secare? Wait! I'll protect you.
(gunshot)
(air rushes out)
Fox Mulder
Ah...!
(coughing)
(ringing)
Crew-Cut Man
Your cellular phone's been ringing off the hook.
Fox Mulder
I'm a popular guy. Why don't you answer it for me?
Crew-Cut Man
Oh, I don't like talking on the phone. I have this thing about unsecured lines. When you feel like talking let me know, though.
Deep Throat
He's not home.
Dana Scully
Where is he? He's been gone all night.
Deep Throat
I wish I knew.
Dana Scully
Something's happened to him.
Deep Throat
They won't kill him.
Dana Scully
How do you know that?
Deep Throat
He's become too high-profile and you've got evidence that could expose them.
Dana Scully
And they may have killed in order to get it.
Deep Throat
The evidence still exists.
Dana Scully
Where?
Deep Throat
It might be difficult to obtain but with your medical background I might be able to get you inside.
Dana Scully
Inside where?
Deep Throat
The high-containment facility at fort marlene, Maryland.
Dana Scully
What do they have there?
Deep Throat
The wellspring, miss Scully-- the original tissue. If they've got agent Mulder they might be willing to make a deal. It could save his life.
(click)
Guard
Name?
Dana Scully
Dana Scully.
Guard
Company or institution?
Dana Scully
Federal government.
Guard
Project password? Project password?
Dana Scully
Purity control.
Guard
Log in, please.
Dana Scully
You're late.
Deep Throat
Do you have it?
Dana Scully
Yes.
Deep Throat
Good. They're willing to make the exchange.
Dana Scully
You spoke to them?
Deep Throat
Yes. I'll take the parcel.
Dana Scully
No, sir. I'll make the exchange.
Deep Throat
I made the deal, Scully. They're expecting me.
Dana Scully
I don't trust you.
Deep Throat
There's no one else to trust.
Dana Scully
I don't know who you are. I know nothing about you.
Deep Throat
For god's sake don't screw this up. In 1987, a group of children from a southern state were given what their parents thought was a routine inoculation. What they were injected with was a clone dna from the contents of that package you're holding as a test. That's the kind of people you're dealing with.
Dana Scully
So, why give it back to them?
Deep Throat
To save Mulder's life.
Dana Scully
At the risk of other lives?
Deep Throat
You and Mulder are the ones who can bring it to light. Now, give me the parcel. Give me the parcel, Scully.
Dana Scully
No! Mulder. Mulder.
Deep Throat
Trust... Trust... No one.
(telephone ringing)
Dana Scully
Hello.
Fox Mulder
Hey, Scully, it's me.
Dana Scully
Where are you? They're shutting us down, Scully. What?
Fox Mulder
They called me in tonight and they said they're going to reassign us to other sections.
Dana Scully
Who told you that?
Fox Mulder
Skinner. He said word came down from the top of the executive branch.
Dana Scully
Mulder...
Fox Mulder
It's over, Scully.
Dana Scully
Lodge a protest. They can't...
Fox Mulder
Yes, they can.
Dana Scully
What are you going to do?
Fox Mulder
I'm... Not going to give up. I can't give up... Not as long as the truth is out there.
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