Girl 1
Looks like we got a visitor.
Season 10 · Episode 5
Babylon
Character-labelled dialogue prepared from the official Blu-ray subtitle track.
Production code1AYW05Original airdate · February 15, 2016
397 dialogue entries
Scene 01
Texas · The Bombing
(PRAYING IN ARABIC)
(SPEAKS ARABIC)
(MIDDLE-EASTERN MUSIC PLAYING)
(ENGINE REVVING)
(COUNTRY MUSIC PLAYING ON RADIO)
(GIRLS GIGGLING)
Girl 2
A little brownie.
Man
Are we in the wrong country then?
Girl 1
All right, all right.
(SPEAKING ARABIC)
(CHUCKLES)
(MUSIC PLAYING ON RADIO IN ARABIC)
(MUSIC STOPS)
(PRAYING IN ARABIC)
(PEOPLE SCREAMING)
(THEME MUSIC PLAYING)
(INDISTINCT INSTRUMENT BLARING)
Scene 02
FBI Headquarters · The X-Files Office
Dana Scully
What am I hearing, Mulder?
Fox Mulder
According to eyewitnesses or "earwitnesses," as it were, it sounded like trumpets playing.
Dana Scully
From nowhere In particular?
Fox Mulder
No apparent source. Music as If from the heavens themselves, as if God himself was making music, blowing his own horn.
Dana Scully
Since when do you believe in God, Mulder?
Fox Mulder
What makes you think I do?
Dana Scully
"God himself"?
Fox Mulder
I speak merely as an investigator. Reports from Belarus to Canada, France, Italy, Germany, the Ukraine...
Dana Scully
But as an investigator, you seem to give this phenomenon credibility.
Fox Mulder
It's not important what I believe, Scully. It's important what they believe. The earwitnesses.
Dana Scully
And what do they believe?
Fox Mulder
"And I saw the seven angels that stood before God, "And to them were given seven trumpets.” Revelations 8:2. A herald of end times.
Dana Scully
You know that prophecies like this have been going on for centuries.
Fox Mulder
Failed prognostications of doom, failed prophecy, even in the Bible. Yeah, God told Adam that if he ate the forbidden fruit he'd die, and he lived 930 years. Top that.
Dana Scully
You know that didn't literally happen, right?
Fox Mulder
I'm just sayin’. It's your book.
(KNOCK ON DOOR)
Agent Miller
Hello? Anyone down here?
Fox Mulder
Nobody but the FBI's Most Unwanted. I've been waiting 23 years to say that.
Dana Scully
How'd it feel?
Fox Mulder
Pretty good.
Dana Scully
Yeah?
Fox Mulder
It's open. Come on in.
Agent Miller
Special Agent Fox Mulder?
Fox Mulder
Speaking. And to whom am I speaking?
Agent Miller
I'm Special Agent Miller. This is Special Agent Einstein.
Dana Scully
You're Special Agent Einstein?
Agent Einstein
I claim a distant relation, if that's what you're referring to.
Fox Mulder
Forgive Agent Scully's impertinence. She wrote her dissertation on Einstein's twin paradox.
Agent Einstein
Excuse me, but I was definitely told you were a medical doctor.
Dana Scully
I am. But I'm also a scientist.
Agent Einstein
Because I'm a medical doctor.
Dana Scully
Oh.
Agent Einstein
And you're a profiler, obsessed with the paranormal?
Agent Miller
That's why we're here, actually.
Agent Einstein
When we should be at the airport.
Agent Miller
You both heard about the terrorist bombing of an art gallery in Texas?
Fox Mulder
Yes. Two young Muslim men protesting the depiction of Mohammed.
Dana Scully
Wearing suicide bomber vests.
Agent Einstein
Can we get to the business section, please? Nine people killed in the act but one of the bombers survived. Technically. Medically, he's in a persistent vegetative state. He's dead except for a heartbeat.
Agent Miller
You must imagine why we're here.
Fox Mulder
There have been so-called practitioners...
Dana Scully
I'm sorry. Forgive me, but I can't imagine why you're here.
Agent Einstein
That would make two of US.
Fox Mulder
Agent Miller, a man with a mind obviously open to possibility, would like to communicate with the dead, or the near-dead, (SCOFFS) as the case may be.
Agent Miller
I believe he may have intel ona larger sleeper cell with an aim to commit more acts of terror.
Agent Einstein
Which is where Our energy would be better spent, trying to stop live terrorists rather than stopping to try to speak with dead ones.
Dana Scully
I have to say I agree.
Fox Mulder
There have been noted divinators, oracles, fakirs, necromancers who have claimed the ability... Madame Blavatsky, founder of Theosophism, brought to America a so-called Ancient Wisdom gained from Tibetan spiritual adepts.
Dana Scully
Maybe I've been part of the X-Files too long, but I happen to know that Madame Blavatsky's dead.
Fox Mulder
Oh. Which would make it that much harder to glean her far-flung abilities.
Agent Einstein
Yeah. That's what I thought. Miller?
Agent Miller
You know of no such practitioner working now whom we might consult?
Fox Mulder
None that I'd waste your time on.
Agent Einstein
Miller, come on. There's a 1:30 flight to Texas, and I want to be on it.
Agent Miller
Thank you for your time. Please call me when you think of something.
Dana Scully
He seemed like a bright young man.
Fox Mulder
She calls him "Miller."
Dana Scully
Hmm.
Scene 03
Airport · Cable News
TV Panelist
(ON TV) Using artwork to desecrate the prophet of someone else's religion just incites fanatical terrorists. (PEOPLE CHATTERING) It's just a painting. Yeah. Of Mohammed sitting on a toilet defecating radical Islamists! Do you know how absurd this all is? It's just absurd! It’s not absurd to the victims of this action and their families...
Scene 04
Washington, D.C. · Airport
Agent Miller
Wearing that vest, those last few steps, knowing you're gonna die, must be so strange.
Agent Einstein
How ‘bout the victims? Imagine not knowing.
Agent Miller
That's even worse. Where does all the hate come from? He's just a kid. A kid needs to be taught this hate. You wonder who got in his head.
Agent Einstein
Well, he's not gonna tell you, Miller. And neither is any necromancer.
Agent Miller
Well, wasn't it at least worth a try? (SCOFFS)
Agent Einstein
You think anyone takes the X-Files seriously? That's why they got them stuck down in that basement office. I pity that poor Agent Scully.
Agent Miller
That's, like, my dream assignment.
Agent Einstein
No self-respecting scientist would spend a career toiling away in obscure realms of science fiction. Why else would she do it? She's clearly in love with him.
Agent Miller
You spent all of five minutes with them. How do you know that?
Agent Einstein
Nothing else would explain it.
Agent Miller
Maybe he values her open mind.
Agent Einstein
Maybe she challenges his B.S.
(CELL PHONE RINGING)
(SIGHS)
Scene 05
Airport · Two Phone Calls
Agent Miller
Special Agent Miller speaking.
Dana Scully
(ON PHONE) Agent Miller, this is Agent Scully.
Agent Miller
Um. Hey. One second. I'll meet you on the plane.
TV Panelist
...Westboro Church is not representative of all Christians! Of course not, but they have...
Agent Miller
Hi.
Dana Scully
You might wonder why I'm calling.
Agent Miller
No. Uh, well, actually, yeah.
Dana Scully
I was thinking about your case, and I have an idea that might help you communicate with your terrorist.
Agent Miller
That is good news. What is it?
Dana Scully
There's something I'd like to try. But I need to meet you in Texas.
Agent Miller
Okay. Yeah. That sounds great.
(CELL PHONE RINGING)
Agent Einstein
Special Agent Einstein speaking.
Fox Mulder
Agent Einstein, it's Agent Mulder. You must wonder why I'm calling.
Agent Einstein
No. I'm completely baffled.
Fox Mulder
I have an idea of how you might communicate with your terrorist.
Agent Einstein
Uh, I think it's Special Agent Miller you're looking for.
Fox Mulder
No, no. I need to speak with you. I got your number from A.D. Walter Skinner, who sings your praises, by the way.
Agent Einstein
Yes, I helped him with his migraines, which he claims are due to you.
Fox Mulder
In any case, I was hoping I might impose upon you to delay your trip out to Texas.
Agent Einstein
You can't just tell me now?
Fox Mulder
It requires some explanation.
Agent Einstein
You do realize the clock is ticking on this case, quite literally.
Fox Mulder
I think it could save lives.
Agent Einstein
Say no more. I'm on my way.
Agent Miller
Where are you going?
Agent Einstein
I'm catching the crazy train. I'll see you down in Texas, Miller.
Scene 06
The X-Files Office · Cable News
TV Panelist
When did radical Muslims become a protected class in America? When the Founding Fathers signed the Constitution, that's when. The same document that’s Supposed to protect my freedom of speech. But not your freedom to hate! What is wrong with you? It is not a freedom to hate! Why do you think these guys are acting this way? Why do you think that guy went up and shot five servicemen in Chattanooga? Because they loved him? Because we treated him well? Because we don't plaster their names as terrorists all over the media? No! Because we hate them. We do not hate them. I will not... Okay. No, we do not hate them. And I will not allow for that. We are not going to continue to spread lies about a people...
(KNOCK ON DOOR)
Scene 07
The X-Files Office · Agent Einstein
Fox Mulder
Ah, come in, Agent Einstein. Have a seat.
Agent Einstein
I came here in good faith, Agent Mulder, but lives are at stake.
Fox Mulder
I'm all about that. If there were another act of terror, and I'm in here listening to some woo woo treatise on the paranormal, I don't think I could forgive myself.
Agent Einstein
(STUTTERS) I don't do woo woo. Okay, what's your big idea? How are we going to talk with this terrorist?
Fox Mulder
Well, first, can we talk about the nature of reality, as you perceive it?
Agent Einstein
My reality is new chatter on the Internet about more suicide bombs.
Fox Mulder
But do you believe that thoughts have mass? That ideas such as faith and forgiveness have weight much the same way this desk has weight? Or any material, really.
(SIGHS)
Agent Einstein
You are too much, Agent Mulder.
Fox Mulder
It's a legitimate question.
Agent Einstein
There's a legitimate answer. No.
Fox Mulder
How can you be so sure?
Agent Einstein
Because when I stand on the scale and think of ice cream, my ass doesn't grow. Need I illustrate further?
Fox Mulder
Yes, but I'm sure you believe that words have weight, the weight to move people to go kill other people.
Agent Einstein
People kill people. Bombs kill people. Words can incite people to kill people as instruments of hate, but are not lethal in and of themselves.
Fox Mulder
Ever suck on a lemon, Agent Einstein? Do you feel a sensation right now? A quasi-measurable effect?
Agent Einstein
I am getting a taste of what Agent Scully must suffer.
Fox Mulder
Neo-Darwinists believe that every word spoken, every thought, every perception, lest I misperceive, is a step in the evolution of mankind.
Agent Einstein
Yes. A butterfly beats its wings in China, but that butterfly won't be defusing explosives in any suicide vests.
Fox Mulder
Agent Einstein, you have a terrorist lying in a state of existence somewhere between life and death. If he holds valuable intel on other terrorists, maybe in order to reach him, you need to expand your mind on the so-called material world.
Scene 08
Texas Airport
Dana Scully
I got here as fast as I could. Thank you.
Agent Miller
Let me say, I'm blown away you came down here to help me at all.
Dana Scully
Well, I sensed your frustration.
Agent Miller
I just want to believe there's some way of reaching this young man and learning what he might know.
Dana Scully
Well, I believe there may be, but not the way you think.
Agent Miller
What way is that, Agent Scully?
Dana Scully
Well, not through an oracle or a psychic or a seer, but through science.
Agent Miller
I don't know how you mean.
Dana Scully
This may sound heavy, but this is a bit of a personal quest for me. My mother was in a coma recently, and I wasn't able to communicate with her, either.
Agent Miller
I take it she’s passed?
Dana Scully
I wish I'd had the presence of mind to think of this when she was still alive. It might've solved a mystery that I may never know.
Scene 09
The X-Files Office · Agent Einstein
Agent Einstein
Please enlighten me, Agent Mulder, how nine years of college, three degrees, and two years at Quantico has left me such a simpleton.
Fox Mulder
Not a simpleton. A mugwump.
Agent Einstein
I resent that characterization, and I don't even know what it means.
Fox Mulder
It means sit down and shut up. (GASPS)
Agent Einstein
You talk to Agent Scully like that?
Fox Mulder
Only when she's being a mugwump. Please have a seat.
Agent Einstein
I'll give you two minutes, Agent Mulder, and then I'm due back on Earth.
Fox Mulder
Behold. Psilocybe tampanensis.
Agent Einstein
I'm afraid where this is going.
Fox Mulder
The so-called magic mushroom, the study of which has begun anew by respected medical practitioners from Columbia University to Oxford.
Agent Einstein
Oh. (SNICKERS) Highly contested studies.
Fox Mulder
Highly uncontested results. Test subjects report experiences that transcended space and time, confrontations with the dead, touching the very face of God.
Agent Einstein
That's nice, Agent Mulder. You've got about a minute and counting.
Fox Mulder
Test subjects have also reported that once the impediment of the physical body is removed, deep and lasting truths are revealed that the conscious mind won't allow. Feelings of ineffability, sacredness, peace, unity, joy, all without altering brain chemistry.
Agent Einstein
Are you proposing, Agent Mulder, that we administer the magic mushroom to the terrorist?
Fox Mulder
No. No. I am proposing that you administer it to me, so that I can communicate with the terrorist, (SIGHS) learn what he knows, and prevent future acts of terror.
Agent Einstein
To a technically dead man?
Fox Mulder
Death is now viewed by some as merely another plane of existence. I don't think our terrorist has even achieved that plane. I believe he's still reachable on this plane.
Agent Einstein
So you called me back here to ask me to administer this drug, this illicit Schedule 1 substance.
Fox Mulder
As a medical professional.
Agent Einstein
Which Agent Scully is as well.
Fox Mulder
Agent Scully has recently had her own life-altering death experience, and I don't want to bother her with this.
Agent Einstein
Oh. Oh, so you want to just keep it between us?
Fox Mulder
I would, if you don't mind.
Agent Einstein
No. No, I wouldn't mind at all. Because there will be absolutely nothing to say, except maybe to Internal Affairs, if I were to go through with this lunatic scheme of yours.
Fox Mulder
What is lunatic about it, exactly?
Agent Einstein
Let me think about that. Everything? And rest assured, Agent Mulder, when I walk out of here, I will never again darken your basement door.
Fox Mulder
So that's a maybe?
(EKG BEEPING)
Scene 10
Texas · ICU
Agent Miller
It's hard to imagine there's someone in there, when you really see him.
Dana Scully
Research bears out a surprising incidence of electro-activity even in the most severely brain-damaged. What I want to try is a rather novel but not untested protocol.
Agent Miller
I'm open to whatever.
Dana Scully
I'm certain that you are, Agent Miller.
Agent Miller
I believe so many answers lie beyond the pale of the Known world in realms of extreme possibility.
Dana Scully
I believe that you believe.
Agent Miller
So what are you proposing?
Dana Scully
Doctors recently achieved the ability to communicate with a man known as Patient 23 through magnetic imaging, MRI, by prompting his otherwise inert and unresponsive brain with questions that triggered electro-activity.
Agent Miller
What kind of questions?
Dana Scully
Mundane questions about housekeeping and tennis. But they unexpectedly lit up certain regions of his brain that translated to yes-and-no responses.
Agent Miller
That is incredible.
Dana Scully
Well, more incredibly, it can be achieved rather simply through the use of an ordinary electro-encephalogram.
Agent Miller
Why didn't someone think of that?
Dana Scully
But let me caution you. Even if we do reach this young man, it may be difficult to get the intel that you're hoping for.
Man in Suit
Who's Special Agent Miller?
Agent Miller
I'm Special Agent Miller.
Man in Suit
Gonna ask you to leave. FBI has no more jurisdiction here.
Dana Scully
Who has jurisdiction?
Man in Suit
Department of Homeland Security.
Agent Miller
I was assigned this case. Agent Scully is a medical doctor.
Dana Scully
We think we can communicate...
Man in Suit
Communicate? To say what? "You shouldn't have done it, son’?
Agent Miller
There's a chance to question him about who was behind the bombing.
Man in Suit
And you think he's gonna tell you? By any moral definition, this body here isn't a human. By my definition, this terrorist is dead.
Dana Scully
I'm sorry, but what's your business here?
Man in Suit
I suggest that you both take a little breather and call your superiors in Washington, if you have any questions.
Agent Miller
We're not leaving this room.
(WHISPERING IN ARABIC)
Agent Miller
I'm gonna ask you to leave.
Man in Suit
I'll give the orders, Agent Miller.
Agent Miller
Wrong. I'm giving the orders now. They've come here for retribution.
Man in Suit
Whoever you're calling, this goes way beyond...
Agent Miller
I'm not calling anyone.
(CAMERA CLICKING)
(PHONE RINGING)
Scene 11
Texas · Outside the ICU
Agent Einstein
Special Agent Einstein.
FBI Guard
I'm sorry, but I can't let you in there without authorization.
Agent Einstein
I've been assigned this case with my partner, Special Agent Miller.
FBI Guard
Let me see that. (CLEARS THROAT) if you're his partner, then who is Special Agent Dana Scully?
(CELL PHONE RINGING)
Agent Einstein
Agent Mulder, it's Agent Einstein. How soon can you be in Texas?
Scene 12
Texas Airport · Night
Agent Einstein
Agent Mulder.
Fox Mulder
Agent Einstein. For a second there, I thought you were gonna punk me.
Agent Einstein
(SIGHS) I had a little trouble, uh, procuring the illicit substance.
Fox Mulder
Wow. Where'd you get these?
Agent Einstein
Apparently, Texas is something of a promised land. As it turns out, one of the early research pioneers is from here.
Fox Mulder
So this is the real deal, huh?
Agent Einstein
I can't speak to the dosage, and I certainly wouldn't take both. Not till you've experienced the one.
Fox Mulder
May I ask, Agent Einstein, what changed your mind on this whole deal here?
Agent Einstein
I got here to find that Agent Scully was here in Texas working with Agent Miller.
Fox Mulder
I sense some professional animus.
Agent Einstein
Nothing professional about It.
Fox Mulder
But you think this misguided.
Agent Einstein
My loss is your gain, Agent Mulder. I'll deal with Agent Miller about this later. In the meantime, we must conduct this business with a certain delicacy where the consumption of any potentially dangerous and psychotropic hallucinogen must be undertaken outside of a laboratory.
Fox Mulder
You mean hide it like a couple of drug addicts.
Agent Einstein
While this may seem foolhardy, I am anticipating results, that you will actually be communicating with the terrorist, somehow. Now, what he may say to you, or you to him, I have no clue.
Fox Mulder
How do you say “howdy, pardner”’ in Arabic?
Scene 13
Texas · ICU
Dana Scully
Thank you.
Agent Brem
You Agent Einstein?
Dana Scully
No, I'm Agent Dana Scully.
Agent Brem
Agent Miller?
Agent Miller
Yes. Is there a problem?
Agent Brem
I'm Special Agent Brem, here to inform you that this hospital is under terror threat. I've got a cordon of agents near the building as a precaution against an attack, but I need to clear this wing until we can bring in the bomb squad.
Agent Miller
You know where the threat came from?
Agent Brem
Mmm. An anonymous caller, but a very clear guess, there's a large and unassimilated Muslim community in the area, with one shared wish.
Dana Scully
One shared wish to what?
Agent Brem
To wipe you and America off the map. To honor their hero, Osama bin Laden, whose picture we find all too frequently on their refrigerators.
Dana Scully
Not all Muslims are extremists, certainly.
Agent Brem
Feel free to stay here and take your chances, if you don't believe me. There are other people who want to see this young man dead. I'm not one of them, Agent Miller. Last thing I want is for this killer to die and go to paradise or to his 72 virgins in the sky. (SCOFFS)
Agent Miller
Sounds like torture to me.
Dana Scully
This boy can hear everything you're saying, and we're trying to win his trust and talk to him.
Agent Miller
Keep the killer alive.
Agent Brem
You do your job, we'll do ours. Time to evacuate. Everybody out!
(EKG BEEPING)
(EKG BEEPING RAPIDLY)
(EKG FLATLINING)
(CLICKS)
(EKG BEEPING)
Scene 14
Texas · ICU, Agent Einstein
Nurse
There's been a bomb threat. They're asking us to leave.
Agent Einstein
We have special authorization.
Nurse
That's what everyone says. No.
Agent Einstein
We'll just need the room for a few minutes, to do research.
Nurse
Yeah, that's what everyone says. You know, I've never seen a patient receive so much attention. Especially one who's so unworthy of it.
Agent Einstein
Well, this is a special case.
Nurse
Just like all those immigrant groups coming over here, taking all our jobs, clogging up the health care system and our schools, and they don't even speak English.
Agent Einstein
We're not gonna fix that right now, so...
Nurse
A church group brought 200 Arab refugees to our town, and now they're saying that they want to bring some more.
Agent Einstein
Maybe we need to come back. Or maybe we can talk outside.
Nurse
It's all part of a government program paid for by my tax dollars, which means that I come to work every day, and I pay for these people...
(CLEARS THROAT)
Nurse
So I did some research, and I found out that this is all part of a plot by the United Nations to get these people into the U.S., so that they can form terrorist cells.
Agent Einstein
That sounds very suspicious.
Nurse
Mmm. Yeah. You turn your back on these people, you're taking a chance.
Agent Einstein
No. No, we don't want to turn our backs.
Nurse
One more thing, you say you're here doing research?
Agent Einstein
Yes. We'll just be a few more minutes in the room, and then we'll be evacuating, as well.
Nurse
Yeah. Well, your partner already left.
Scene 15
Mulder's Trip · The Honky-Tonk
("SOMETHIN' BAD" PLAYING)
(WOMEN CHEERING)
("ACHY BREAKY HEART" PLAYING)
("HONKY TONK BADONKADONK" PLAYING)
(MUSIC STOPS ABRUPTLY)
Scene 16
Mulder's Trip · The Dark Place
Agent Einstein
Is this what you wanted, Agent Mulder? Your woo woo paranormal? (WHIPS) Come on, Say it. Woo woo. Say it! Woo woo. Say it! (SHOUTS) Woo woo!
(INDISTINCT CHANTING)
(WHIP CRACKS)
(MISERY IS THE RIVER OF THE WORLD PLAYING)
Cigarette-Smoking Man
You want the truth, Agent Mulder? You've come to the right place.
(WHIP CRACKS)
(THUNDER BREAKS)
("MISERY IS THE RIVER OF THE WORLD" PLAYING)
(SPEAKING ARABIC)
(CHANTING IN ARABIC)
Scene 17
Texas · ICU
Dana Scully
Can you hear my voice? We don't even know his name.
(SPEAKS ARABIC)
Agent Miller
I was with the Bureau in Iraq.
Dana Scully
Keep talking, Agent Miller.
(SPEAKS ARABIC)
Agent Miller
The needles are moving.
Dana Scully
It could be a false positive. Aberrant neurological activity, not a response in and of itself.
Agent Miller
How do we know the difference?
Dana Scully
Well, we need to set up a baseline, set up questions that serve as yes-no answers. It will be painstaking and difficult.
Agent Miller
I'm just certain he hears us.
Scene 18
Hospital · Mulder Wakes
Walter Skinner
Agent Mulder? Agent Mulder?
Fox Mulder
Where's your hat?
Walter Skinner
Rodeo's over, cowboy. We're hanging up your spurs for good.
Fox Mulder
What are you talking about?
Walter Skinner
What am I talking about?
Fox Mulder
Dude, I was on fire.
Walter Skinner
Dude, you were an embarrassment, to me and to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Fox Mulder
Agent Einstein? Agent Einstein, tell him.
Agent Einstein
Tell him what, Agent Mulder?
Fox Mulder
What we were doing was under your medical supervision, all on the up and up.
Agent Einstein
It was until it wasn't.
Fox Mulder
Well, it's not like it was volitional.
Walter Skinner
What was It, Agent Mulder?
Fox Mulder
It was the magic mushrooms. Maybe I took too much.
Agent Einstein
Maybe you didn't take enough.
Fox Mulder
What's that supposed to mean?
Walter Skinner
Agent Einstein informed me that you requested that she administer an illicit substance to you in your rather reckless attempt to talk to an alleged mass murderer.
Fox Mulder
Yeah, and administer them she did.
Agent Einstein
These are what I gave you, Agent Mulder.
Fox Mulder
Yeah, that stuff, that's potent.
Agent Einstein
This stuff is purchasable at any corner drugstore.
Fox Mulder
Maybe in Texas it is.
Agent Einstein
These are niacin capsules, Agent Mulder. What I gave you is a placebo.
Fox Mulder
No way. No way. That's impossible. I was under the influence of something powerful.
Agent Einstein
Yes. The power of suggestion.
Fox Mulder
No, you were there. And The Lone Gunmen. The Badonkadonk.
Walter Skinner
Yeah, I was in Washington, Agent Mulder.
Agent Einstein
This is what I'm saying! I think he's Still tripping. Well, the placebo effect has been known to have a lasting psychological outcome.
Fox Mulder
I talked to the terrorist.
Walter Skinner
You talked to the terrorist?
Fox Mulder
Yes. He whispered In my ear.
Agent Einstein
Well, what did he say, Agent Mulder?
Fox Mulder
I can't tell you what he said. It was In Arabic.
Agent Einstein
Well, I'm gonna get you a wheelchair so we can get you home, partner, all right?
Fox Mulder
Well, you were there, too. And you were 50 shades of bad.
Scene 19
Hospital · Hallway
Fox Mulder
You know this IS ridiculous.
Agent Einstein
We don't want you dancing away.
Fox Mulder
(STAMMERS) So I did dance?
Agent Einstein
According to a whole bunch of very frightened, middle-aged Texans.
Fox Mulder
(SIGHS) You're just covering your ass.
Agent Einstein
Well, either way. I'll be looking at disciplinary action over my own dismal failure of authority. Thanks to you, I'll probably be banished to my own basement office, consigned to a life of ridicule and ignominy...
Fox Mulder
Stop! Stop.
(WOMAN SHOUTING)
Noora
I'm begging you!
Fox Mulder
Hey. I know this woman. It's okay. Maybe you haven't failed. Agent Scully. Miller. This is Noora.
Scene 20
ICU · Noora
Fox Mulder
She's come here today to talk to her son, Shiraz.
Dana Scully
Mulder, where did you find her?
Agent Einstein
Please don't ask him that.
(GASPS)
Dana Scully
It's okay.
(PANTING)
Agent Miller
Got you.
(SOBBING)
(SPEAKS ARABIC)
Dana Scully
We believe that he can hear you.
Noora
Then my prayers are answered. Oh... My beautiful baby boy, Shiraz. You could not ever kill anyone. This is not how I raised you, to worship Allah through death. To be a man by following men. Your heart is too big for them. You see the faces of the innocent, and you lose your nerves. You cannot go through with the bomb.
Agent Miller
Noora, how do you know that?
Noora
Because my Shiraz tells me So, in my dreams and in my prayers.
Agent Miller
Who filled his head, Noora?
(SPEAKS ARABIC)
Noora
I do not know how to help you because I do not know their names.
(GROANING) (EKG BEEPING RAPIDLY)
Dana Scully
He's going into Cardiac arrest. (EKG FLATLINING) Blood pressure's dropping.
Agent Einstein
I'm gonna go get help.
Agent Miller
No, no, I think he's trying to tell us.
Dana Scully
Now we're losing him!
Noora
Shiraz, please, please.
Dana Scully
(SOFTLY) I'm so sorry.
Noora
No, Shiraz! (SOBBING)
Dana Scully
I'm sorry. Let's give her some space.
Noora
Oh, my Shiraz.
Agent Miller
He talked to us. Oh, Shiraz.
Fox Mulder
He talked to me. This is exactly how I saw It.
Agent Einstein
Agent Mulder, please...
Fox Mulder
He spoke to me.
Noora
Shiraz.
Fox Mulder
He spoke to me.
Dana Scully
What do you mean he spoke to you?
Scene 21
Hospital · Hallway
Agent Miller
Spoke to you when, Agent Mulder?
Fox Mulder
With the help of Agent Einstein.
Agent Einstein
Ugh. Agent Mulder, please stop.
Dana Scully
Mulder, when could he possibly have spoken to you?
Fox Mulder
I can explain. Or I can't explain. He spoke to me. In Arabic.
Dana Scully
In Arabic?
Fox Mulder
In words I didn't understand, yeah.
Agent Miller
What words, Agent Mulder?
(MUTTERING)
Fox Mulder
Babbel... Babeel... Babell.
(MUTTERING)
Fox Mulder
Babil? Babil al... Something.
Agent Miller
“Babil” is "Babylon," the city.
Dana Scully
Like in ancient Babylon?
Fox Mulder
Just... Babil al...
Agent Einstein
I feel like I need to explain.
Agent Miller
Just let him finish, please.
Fox Mulder
Babil al... Babil...
Dana Scully
Mulder, are you Okay?
(MUTTERING)
Fox Mulder
Funduuk. Babil, al funduuk.
Agent Miller
Babylon the hotel?
Scene 22
Babylon Hotel · The Raid
(TIRES SCREECHING)
(PUMPS SHOTGUN)
(CHANTS IN ARABIC)
(CLAMORING)
(SECRET HEART PLAYING)
("SECRET HEART" PLAYING)
Scene 23
Texas Airport
Agent Einstein
Not staying for the attaboys?
Agent Miller
I didn't really do anything. Huh.
Agent Einstein
Nothing but take down a terror cell ready to kill untold numbers.
Agent Miller
That was all Agent Mulder.
Agent Einstein
That's not how I understand it. I'm told you kept that boy alive, that you kept him safe from harm.
Agent Miller
I translated a few words. It was all you and Agent Mulder.
Agent Einstein
(CHUCKLES) Remarkably, I did nothing. And, remarkably, it worked. Although I'm at a loss in explaining it.
Agent Miller
Maybe some things are unexplainable, Agent Einstein.
Agent Einstein
Hmm. The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious, the source of all true art and science.
Agent Miller
That's beautiful, Einstein.
Agent Einstein
Yes, Einstein. That's who said it, Miller. The real mystery here is your behavior, bringing Agent Scully down here without bothering to consult me. Remarkably, I did nothing.
Agent Miller
It was you who abandoned me, Agent Einstein, for the crazy train.
Agent Einstein
An. Never again, Agent Miller. Although something is clearer to me now, as a result of the experience.
Agent Miller
The value of an open mind?
Agent Einstein
The nature of reality. I'm now convinced that words and ideas do have weight, the weight to move people to do the most psychotic things.
Agent Miller
Giving someone magic mushrooms?
Agent Einstein
I was talking about Agent Mulder.
Agent Miller
Right.
("HO HEY" PLAYING)
Scene 24
Mulder's House
Dana Scully
Talk to me, Mulder. Oh.
Fox Mulder
Where to begin?
Dana Scully
Why didn't you tell me about your little scheme?
Fox Mulder
You were on your own mission. And you would've never bought that.
Dana Scully
Absolutely right. I have to applaud her, though, on her clever trick with the placebo.
Fox Mulder
Yeah. Yeah. How did that work?
Dana Scully
Wonders never cease with you.
Fox Mulder
I saw things, though, Scully. Powerful things. I saw deep and unconditional love.
Dana Scully
I saw things, too. I witnessed unqualified hate that appears to have no end.
Fox Mulder
Yeah. But how to reconcile the two? The extremes of our nature.
Dana Scully
That's the question. Maybe the question of our times.
Fox Mulder
Walk with me, Scully. This whole thing has got me thinking.
Scene 25
Mulder's House · The Walk
Fox Mulder
Thinking about God.
Dana Scully
You, Mulder, thinking about God?
Fox Mulder
The angry God of the Bible. The Tower of Babel and Babylon, scattering people violently, so as never to speak a common language. Punishing man for his hubris. Well, that lesson didn't stick. But the anger sure remains. That's the same angry God as in the Koran, ordering death to the infidels.
Dana Scully
What exactly is this God saying?
Fox Mulder
“Worship me and my great anger’?
Dana Scully
Well, that's a good question, Mulder.
Fox Mulder
One for the ages. Well, think about the immense power in those prophecies, the power in those words to convince young men to put on suicide vests today and murder for their angry God.
Dana Scully
What are you getting at?
Fox Mulder
Those boys, they just swallow the pill. It's the power of suggestion.
Dana Scully
Is this received wisdom from your magical mystery tour?
Fox Mulder
Yes. Courtesy of the shrooms, something else, something to trump all hatred. Mother Love.
Dana Scully
Whoa.
Fox Mulder
Now, I refuse to believe that mothers are having babies just to be martyrs. I want to believe that mothers have a greater purpose for all of us.
Dana Scully
I agree. A child is not a tool to spread hatred.
Fox Mulder
But where does the hatred end, though?
Dana Scully
Maybe it ends where it began, by finding a common language again. Maybe that's God's will.
Fox Mulder
How can we really know? He's absent from the stage.
Dana Scully
Well... Maybe it's beyond words.
Fox Mulder
Maybe we should do like the prophets and open our hearts and truly listen.
(CHUCKLES)
(INDISTINCT INSTRUMENT BLARING)
Dana Scully
What? What? Did you hear that?
("HO HEY" PLAYING)
(THEME MUSIC PLAYING)
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