Narrator
Previously on The X-Files...
Season 10 · Episode 2
Founder's Mutation
Character-labelled dialogue prepared from the official Blu-ray subtitle track.
Production code1AYW02Original airdate · January 25, 2016
376 dialogue entries
Scene 01
Previously · Recap
Fox Mulder
My name is Fox Mulder. In the 1990s, I began investigating paranormal science cases through a unit of the FBI known as the X-Files. My partner in this pursuit was Agent Dana Scully, a medical doctor and scientist. In 2001, we had a Child together... William. ...but had to put him up for adoption to hide him from those who wished him harm. In 2002, the FBI closed the X-Files. Fourteen years later, circumstances have arisen which demand new X-Files investigations... Are you saying you have alien DNA? ...bringing Scully and I back together.
(MACHINE WHIRRING)
Scene 02
Nugenics Technology · Conference Room
Automated Voice
Good day, Dr. Sanjay.
Sanjay
Yeah. Good morning.
(METAL DETECTOR WHINING)
Rogers
Sanjay! (CHUCKLES)
Cynthia
Oh, you okay?
Rogers
Rough weekend?
Sanjay
A humdinger.
Rogers
Work or pleasure?
Sanjay
I haven't known pleasure for quite some time.
(CHUCKLES)
(HIGH-PITCHED ELECTRONIC WHINING)
Cynthia
Are you okay?
Sanjay
It's nothing.
Dr. Hill
The Founder looked at the data. He sent a message this morning. "Do over.”
Rogers
Do over?
Cynthia
That's it?
Rogers
We spent months on those trials.
Cynthia
We've tried every new source of pluripotent stem cells, including samples from amniotic fluids.
Rogers
We need more than just pronouncements from above. We need direction!
Cynthia
What about a meeting with the man?
Dr. Hill
You want the Founder to tell you how terrible your data is face-to-face?
Rogers
The guy is a recluse. No one here's even seen him for years. (HIGH-PITCHED WHINING) For all we know, he didn't even read the stuff.
Dr. Hill
I can assure you that Augustus Goldman is fully engaged. (IN SLOW MOTION) But the Founder has other interests that keep him occupied.
Cynthia
Yeah, what about that? Doesn't that creep you out, that he's referred to as "The Founder’?
(CROWS CAWING)
(GLASS CLINKING)
Scene 03
Nugenics · Secure Server Room
Voice
...Do it. Now. It's necessary. Data is the key. Don't hesitate. Go. Go now. Go! Go now...
Sanjay
(WHINING GETS LOUDER) Can't anyone hear that?
(GASPS)
Sanjay
Sorry. Excuse me.
Voice
Do it. Now. MAN 2: Data is the key.
Cynthia
(BANGING ON DOOR) Sanjay! Sanjay!
Rogers
Sanjay, come on! Open up! Open the door, Sanjay!
Cynthia
Sanjay!
Rogers
Sanjay, open the door!
Cynthia
It's not opening! Open the door! Sanjay!
Rogers
Something's wrong with the system! Open! Come on!
Cynthia
The certificate. Sanjay, open the door! Sanjay, open the door!
(HIGH-PITCHED WHINING)
(DRILL WHIRRING)
(GROANS)
(BREATHING HEAVILY)
Cynthia
Sanjay? Sanjay! Sanjay!
(THEME MUSIC PLAYING)
(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING)
Scene 04
Nugenics · Server Room, Afterwards
Fox Mulder
What do you make of this, Scully?
Dana Scully
Well, it seems that Dr. Sanjay had a psychotic break and committed suicide. Note the letter opener sticking out of his head.
Fox Mulder
Noted.
Dana Scully
All the witnesses I spoke to have consistent accounts.
Fox Mulder
I mean the room. He chose the most secured place in the building to kill himself. He was trying to access something. These are isolated servers, so the only way to get to the data is through this terminal, which is also protected.
Dana Scully
Is that why we're here?
Lindquist
You're interested in the server?
Dana Scully
What are you looking for, Mulder?
Lindquist
Unhand the hard drive, sir.
Fox Mulder
This is evidence.
Lindquist
It's classified.
Dana Scully
The reason why we're investigating, rather than the local police, is because we have security clearance. To be in the room.
Lindquist
Not to look inside this. This is property of Department of Defense.
Fox Mulder
We need to conduct a few more interviews, then, before we conclude our investigation.
Lindquist
The individuals pertinent to this incident have already been interviewed by your colleague.
Fox Mulder
We'd like to talk to Augustus Goldman.
Lindquist
That's impossible. Dr. Goldman was not even on campus when this happened.
Fox Mulder
Well, if you won't let me look at the drive, then I have to talk to Goldman about what the deceased was trying to access before he died.
Lindquist
I'm not authorized to confirm that I have knowledge of the whereabouts of the Founder.
Dana Scully
Can you confirm that you have security cameras watching over the entire complex?
Fox Mulder
There's that one, and I saw a few more out there.
Lindquist
Yes.
Dana Scully
In that case, I'd like to see all of the tapes. As soon as possible.
Lindquist
All right. I'll have those sent over. But for now, remove this body so we can secure this room.
Fox Mulder
Sorry, we're not finished...
Lindquist
Oh, we are finished. We are finished.
Scene 05
Nugenics · Hallway
Dana Scully
Mulder, that's not your phone.
Fox Mulder
You know me, Scully. I'm old-school.
Dana Scully
Riley v. California. The Supreme Court ruled that you needed a warrant to search a mobile phone.
Fox Mulder
That's for a suspect. Sanjay's the victim.
Dana Scully
Well, there is no victim. He killed himself.
Fox Mulder
Well, then, I'm sure he won't mind me talking to some of his friends. Here's someone he talked to every night. "Gupta."
Dana Scully
Dr. Sanjay is from western India. Gupta's a Marathi word. It means "secret."
Fox Mulder
How do you know that?
Dana Scully
I'm old-school, Mulder. Pre-Google.
(CLUB MUSIC PLAYING)
Fox Mulder
Gupta?
Scene 06
Corner Pocket Bar
Fox Mulder
Thanks for meeting me. My name is...
Gupta
No. No names, please. You're Sonny's friend?
Bar Patron
Is that guy bothering you?
Gupta
Not yet. What do you want?
Fox Mulder
I want to talk. Can we go somewhere more private?
Gupta
I don't know you well enough.
Fox Mulder
I'm safe. You can trust me.
Gupta
Come on.
Scene 07
Corner Pocket Bar · Storeroom
Fox Mulder
Oh, whoa, whoa! No.
Gupta
Well, you said you wanted to “talk.”
Fox Mulder
Yes. I don't think that means exactly what you think it means.
Gupta
Or I'm not... You guys are all alike, you know? You say you want to walk on the wild side, but when it comes down to It, you're repressed. I finally let go of all that, that self-loathing and that judgment and I'm free.
Fox Mulder
Stop tormenting yourself.
Gupta
The truth is in here.
Fox Mulder
Yeah, I've heard something like that. Hey, listen, I gotta tell you... (CLEARS THROAT) Sanjay is dead.
Scene 08
FBI Morgue
Dana Scully
Deceased is a male, 35 years old, five-foot-eight and three-quarters inches, 180 pounds.
(SIGHS)
Dana Scully
The probable cause of death is the introduction, self-propelled, of a letter opener into the cerebral cortex by way of the ear canal. Oh. I will now commence with my overall external examination.
Scene 09
Corner Pocket Bar · Storeroom
Gupta
The last couple of weeks, he was... He was distant. He was troubled. I thought it was me, you know? We hadn't gotten together for a while. I mean, he'd call me every night, but nothing physical.
Fox Mulder
Did he talk to you about his problems? About work?
Gupta
Yeah. Yeah, he said he was upset about his kids. He said they were dying.
Fox Mulder
His kids? He was single.
Gupta
I didn't push it. I just tried to make him feel better.
Fox Mulder
Well, I saw where he lived. There was nothing there. He lived an antiseptic life.
Gupta
He lived two lives. In two separate places.
Fox Mulder
(CELL PHONE VIBRATING) Excuse me. Yeah.
Dana Scully
Mulder, you gotta see this.
Scene 10
FBI Morgue
Dana Scully
I had to break his fingers to pry them open. But he wrote that on the palm of his hand before he died.
Fox Mulder
“Founder's Mutation.”
Dana Scully
The Founder is what they called Dr. Goldman at Nugenics. Is that why you wanted to talk to him?
Fox Mulder
I don't think that's the mutation Sanjay was referring to. Did you find anything else on the autopsy?
Dana Scully
Well, there were no abnormalities in Dr. Sanjay's brain. The opener destroyed the acoustic nerve and then went into the cerebral cortex.
Fox Mulder
It's weird, because the opener goes in at 90 degrees and then it veers off at 60 degrees up into his brain, like he was hunting for something.
Dana Scully
Yeah. It ended up in the auditory cortex. You know, he blurted something out at the meeting, before his suicide. He said, "Can't anyone hear that?" Mmm. But nobody else could hear a thing.
Fox Mulder
Well, ultimately, hearing is just nerve impulses interpreted by the brain. What if those same impulses could be generated without actual vibrations striking the ear drum?
Dana Scully
Hmm. Anyway, if he left a note on his hand, maybe he left other clues.
Fox Mulder
But where?
Dana Scully
We've checked out every square inch of his apartment.
Fox Mulder
Well, he leased a place that only Gupta knew about. I think we should go to where he actually lived.
Scene 11
Scully's Car
Dana Scully
It's hard to imagine, in 2016, that Sanjay had to keep his lifestyle preferences a secret.
Fox Mulder
Being gay wasn't his only secret.
(TIRES SCREECH)
Dana Scully
Mulder? I found something.
Scene 12
Dr. Sanjay's Loft
Fox Mulder
His kids.
Dana Scully
Yeah.
Fox Mulder
Sanjay was afraid they were dying.
Dana Scully
These kids, they look so young. None of them look older than 10.
Fox Mulder
Look at the backgrounds.
Dana Scully
It's a clinical setting. It looks like it might be a hospital.
(CAR DOORS CLOSING)
Dana Scully
The police are coming up. We must have triggered a silent alarm.
Fox Mulder
All right, look around, he's bound to have kept some information on them somewhere.
(HIGH-PITCHED WHINING) (GROANS)
Dana Scully
Mulder? Mulder, are you okay? They're coming. Mulder.
Officer
Police officer! Lady, put your hands where I can see ‘em!
Dana Scully
FBI.
Voice
Find her. Help me. Find her. Find her. Find her. Find her.
Scene 13
FBI Headquarters · Skinner's Office
Walter Skinner
Do you have anything to add to this, Agent Scully?
Dana Scully
If you look at the files that we found in Dr. Sanjay's apartment...
Walter Skinner
No, I can't look at those.
Dana Scully
They're right over there.
Murphy
These files are classified. They're the property of the Department of Defense.
Fox Mulder
Well, I've had a look at them. Those files are the medical records of children with grave genetic abnormalities. How those children relate to Dr. Sanjay's suicide is the object of our investigation.
Walter Skinner
Well, considering the fact that you just lost access to those files, your investigation is closed. I'll submit the report on the suicide to the proper authorities. We're done here.
Murphy
(CLEARS THROAT) Let me remind you, Agents Mulder and Scully, dissemination of any classified material, either internally or publically, will be dealt with harshly.
Fox Mulder
I'm familiar with Edward Snowden.
Dana Scully
I assume you made copies.
Fox Mulder
I managed some top sheets before the DOD took over. I think those children are failed experiments.
Walter Skinner
SO you suspect the Department of Defense is experimenting with genetic modification on humans? What do you think?
Dana Scully
I think there are many troubling details to this case, and if Agent Mulder has nothing more to add...
Fox Mulder
I don't.
Dana Scully
...then I think we need time to prove his theory.
Walter Skinner
The bureaucracy in the FBI has become increasingly complex and inefficient. It might take days for your incident report and order to close the investigation to make it through the proper channels.
Scene 14
FBI Headquarters · The X-Files Office
Walter Skinner
Welcome back, you two.
Fox Mulder
Surveillance footage?
Dana Scully
Yeah, from Nugenics. I've been working on syncing all the cameras to the exact time code of Dr. Sanjay's suicide. There. What happened to you at Sanjay's apartment, Mulder? I can understand why you wouldn't want to tell Skinner, but I was there, I saw you on your knees in pain.
Fox Mulder
I heard sounds. It was a high-pitched frequency, like a steel spike being driven through my head. And then it focused into two words, “Find her.”
Dana Scully
There were no sounds. I didn't hear anything.
Fox Mulder
Look at those birds.
Dana Scully
Maybe they seeded the lawn that morning.
Fox Mulder
Infrasounds, Scully. Vibrations inaudible to the human ear but known to drive the worms up through the soil to the surface, in response to them.
Dana Scully
Mulder, how are these connected? The birds, the suicide, the kids, the genetic anomalies.
Voice
What are you hiding?
Fox Mulder
Augustus Goldman is the only one who might know how it all fits together. We gotta talk to him.
Voice
What are you hiding?
Dana Scully
Sanjay heard sounds right before he committed suicide. That could be you, Mulder. This is dangerous.
Fox Mulder
Oh. When has that ever stopped us before?
Dana Scully
I might know how to get to Goldman.
Scene 15
Our Lady of Sorrows Hospital
Sister Mary
Augustus. Yes, I know him well, but he's a very private person. Some would say reclusive. Without him, we wouldn't have the resources to help these women in need. He's a true champion of the unborn. Dr. Goldman is a blessing.
Dana Scully
That's why we're here today. I've become aware of a situation that I wanted to share with you. Dr. Goldman is under investigation.
Fox Mulder
ObamaCare.
Dana Scully
We wanted to spare him the indignity of having the government Knock at his door unannounced. I was wondering if we could meet with him in private.
Sister Mary
Dana, I'm afraid Our Lady of Sorrows cannot be a conduit for the FBI to one of our biggest donors.
Dana Scully
Sister Mary, I've worked here for seven years. You know me.
Sister Mary
Yes, and I know your heart's in the right place.
Dana Scully
I wouldn't ask if it weren't important.
Sister Mary
I have a number I can call. I'll agree to relay a message.
Dana Scully
Thank you.
Fox Mulder
Ask Dr. Goldman if he'll talk to us about the Founder's Mutation.
Sister Mary
Stay here.
(KNOCK ON DOOR)
Scene 16
Our Lady of Sorrows · Common Room
Agnes
I got to get out of here.
Dana Scully
What's your name?
Agnes
Agnes. You got a car?
Dana Scully
Do you want to call someone?
Agnes
You think if I could call someone I would be asking you? Just forget It. I knew you weren't gonna help me.
Dana Scully
Agnes. Wait. I'm a doctor. You can tell me anything.
Agnes
I don't belong here. Not with these sheep. I don't care what I signed.
Dana Scully
The hospital is only concerned with the health of the mother and the baby.
Agnes
My baby.
Dana Scully
Of course, your baby.
Agnes
I changed my mind. I'm not giving it up. I don't care if he's sick.
Dana Scully
Sick?
Agnes
My baby's not right. They saw it on the ultrasound thing and I had a feeling, you know, ever since I got pregnant. But everybody here has the same story. Just don't say anything. I was just kidding around, okay? If you ever want to talk.
Sister Mary
I've spoken to Augustus. He said he'd be happy to meet you.
Dana Scully
Thank you.
Fox Mulder
Sister Mary, how are the patients chosen to be here?
Sister Mary
They're homeless, damaged in one way or another. Alcohol, drugs, no fathers in the picture. Men and their lies. No offense. Desire is the devil's pitchfork. But as long as there's a need and an innocent child, we'll provide for each and every one.
Scene 17
Our Lady of Sorrows · Outside
Fox Mulder
It's insidious, Scully. A ward for pregnant women paid for by Augustus Goldman, the founder of a company with deep ties to the Department of Defense. This could be another phase of the project, their experiments In eugenics. Those women in there could be incubators.
Dana Scully
Mulder... I'm not a fragile little girl.
Fox Mulder
Scully... This is what you suspected all along, but were afraid to articulate.
Dana Scully
Is this what you believe happened to me 15 years ago? When I got pregnant, when I had my baby?
(SIGHS)
Dana Scully
Was I just an incubator?
Fox Mulder
You're never "just" anything to me, Scully. Do you ever think about William?
Dana Scully
Yes, of course I do, but I've... I feel like I've had to put that behind me. He'd be 15 years old now. And I've missed every single year of his life. And sometimes I hate myself that I didn't have the courage to stand by him.
Fox Mulder
You did what you did to keep him safe. His adoption is secret, his location is unknown because you had to protect him.
Dana Scully
Do you believe he was an experiment?
Fox Mulder
I don't know.
Dana Scully
What if he's out there somewhere, like one of those kids on Sanjay's wall, fighting for his life?
Fox Mulder
All we can do, Scully, is pull the thread, see what it unravels.
(SCHOOL BELL RINGING)
Scene 18
Scully's Vision · First Day of School
Dana Scully
It's the first day of school. You nervous? Your hands are sweaty.
William
Ew! That's you.
(LAUGHS)
Dana Scully
What's the most important thing to remember?
William
Sit still, listen, say "excuse me’ if you fart.
(LAUGHS)
Dana Scully
The most important thing to remember is that I love you. That's all you have to remember. Come on, let's go say hi to your teacher. Thank you.
(SCHOOL BELL RINGING)
William
Hi, Mom.
Scene 19
Scully's Vision · The Accident
William
Bye, Mom.
Dana Scully
Be home in time for dinner! Will...
William
I'm scared.
Dana Scully
You're gonna be fine. You've just broken your arm. Does it hurt anywhere else? Okay, we're gonna get you to the hospital, and take some x-rays to make sure you don't have a concussion, okay, honey?
William
Mom! Mom, please! Mom!
Scene 20
Scully's Vision · William's Room
William
What's happening to me?
Scene 21
Goldman Technology
Dr. Goldman
Founder's Mutation. Intriguing message.
Fox Mulder
It's what Sanjay wrote on his hand.
Dr. Goldman
Yes, before his unfortunate act of self-destruction. Very dramatic, but meaningless.
Dana Scully
I've read everything you published, Dr. Goldman. It seems your research deals primarily with genetic manipulation.
Dr. Goldman
Let me try to explain to you what we do here. It's no secret. We're trying to save children. I won't tell you their last names, to protect their privacy, Proteus syndrome, Crouzon syndrome, all kinds of cancerous tumors, epidermal dysplasia, Pitt-Hopkins syndrome, ichthyosis, Marfan syndrome, among others. We are a cutting-edge research facility for these unfortunate patients. There's absolutely no cost involved to be treated here. Would you like to talk to him?
Dana Scully
Sure.
Dr. Goldman
Adam? You have a visitor.
Dana Scully
Hi, Adam. My name is Dr. Scully. How long have you been here, Adam?
Adam
Forever.
Dana Scully
And where are your parents?
Adam
I don't have any.
Dr. Goldman
He was sent to us as a baby. Adam has a form of Crouzon syndrome.
Dana Scully
And why is he in a sealed room? All of the children. He has a genetic disorder. He's not contagious.
Dr. Goldman
Thank you, Adam. We are working with therapies unavailable anywhere in the world. We need to eliminate the environmental factors that could affect the outcome. I am searching for the key that was the seed to all of these terrible genetic abnormalities.
Dana Scully
Alien DNA? Is that why the Department of Defense is funding your research?
Dr. Goldman
Dr. Scully, I was told that you were the rational one.
Molly
No! Let go!
Dr. Goldman
Molly!
Molly
Let go of me! No! No! No! No!
Dr. Goldman
I'm afraid that that is all the time that I have. Sarah will show you out.
Sarah
This way, please.
Dana Scully
He didn't answer my question.
(CRASHING)
Molly
Let go of me!
Dr. Goldman
Molly! Molly!
Molly
No! No! No! No!
Dana Scully
Did you see that, Mulder?
Fox Mulder
Interesting.
(CELL PHONE BEEPS)
Dana Scully
Something's happened to Agnes.
(SIRENS WAILING)
Scene 22
Washington, D.C. · Street
Detective Gordon
We found the victim with your card in her pocket. Hit and run, car was moving pretty fast. Skid marks from back there up to the point of impact. We're checking cameras in the area. No witnesses.
Dana Scully
What about the baby?
Detective Gordon
What are you talking about?
Dana Scully
She was pregnant.
Fox Mulder
The baby's gone.
Dana Scully
Mulder. Mmm.
Scene 23
Police Morgue
Dana Scully
Agnes died from blunt force trauma. Most likely from the impact of the car. Her right ulna was broken in two places, her lungs were lacerated by broken ribs, and her skull was crushed.
Fox Mulder
What about the baby?
Dana Scully
Surgically removed. I couldn't tell if the fetus was still alive when it was taken from her womb, but they took it, Mulder. To get rid of evidence.
Fox Mulder
Agnes wanted to talk. She left the hospital.
Dana Scully
That baby was the only proof that she was part of Goldman's experiment.
Fox Mulder
What if the baby was still alive?
Dana Scully
Mulder, that car hit her so hard that an adult woman with the benefit of a mature skeletal structure wasn't able to survive the impact. It's highly unlikely that the baby would remain viable.
Fox Mulder
Unlikely for human fetuses. In 1973, the Syndicate was convened to assist in a project to colonize the world by creating alien/human hybrids.
Dana Scully
The project was ultimately unsuccessful.
Fox Mulder
I doubt they ever stopped trying.
Dana Scully
But what you're talking about Is changing the genetic makeup of a population. That's the next step in evolution.
Fox Mulder
Every new species begins with a Founder's Mutation. One child with the correct combination of DNA could be a start.
Dana Scully
There was a study published last year in Nature Communications, by Batini and Hallast, that found that Y chromosomes in the majority of European men could be traced back to just three individuals from the Bronze Age.
Fox Mulder
I did some digging around the police archives, looking for anything related to Goldman. Seventeen years ago, Jackie Goldman was remanded to St. Elizabeth's hospital as a forensics patient. She was adjudicated criminally insane.
Dana Scully
Dr. Goldman's wife?
Fox Mulder
She was convicted of murdering her baby. That body also was never found.
Scene 24
St. Elizabeth's Hospital · Jackie Goldman
Fox Mulder
Mrs. Goldman, we'd like to ask you a few questions about your husband.
Jackie Goldman
About his work?
Dana Scully
Mulder, she hasn't said anything in 10 minutes.
(CAT YOWLING)
Fox Mulder
You don't like cats?
Jackie Goldman
What do you want?
Dana Scully
Can we ask you a few questions, Jackie?
Jackie Goldman
Not about my husband. He is the one still Keeping me here.
Fox Mulder
Do you miss your daughter?
Jackie Goldman
Molly. You should see that one, that one. I love my daughter. But there was something odd about her. I felt it from the day she was born. I didn't know for sure until she was two. Where's Molly? She fell in the pool and nobody noticed. Molly was underwater for at least 10 minutes. She should've been dead. I never told anyone else this. Not only was she alive, she was breathing in the water. The other moms thought it was a miracle. But I knew what it was. My husband did something to the embryo. He used our own daughter for his research. I was nine months pregnant at the time. I was not about to let him have my son. I had to get away from that monster.
(BREATHING SHAKILY)
Scene 25
Jackie's Story · The Goldman House, 2001
Dr. Goldman
Please, don't go. I love you.
Jackie Goldman
I want my daughter, Augustus.
Dr. Goldman
She is safe, so are you, right here with me.
Jackie Goldman
What did you do to her?
Dr. Goldman
Jackie! Jackie!
Jackie Goldman
No! He took Molly away. He hid her from me. So I got in the car and I drove. I just drove, no idea where to go. I knew there was no chance they would leave me alone. I had another baby in my belly. "They"? The government. Augustus worked for them. I couldn't trust anyone. Especially the police. I was so scared. I was going too fast. And there was an animal in the middle of the road. I panicked and I crashed.
(GROANING)
(WHIMPERING)
Scene 26
Jackie's Story · Rural Road
Jackie Goldman
I thought I was gonna die.
(GASPING)
Jackie Goldman
But that’s when I heard the sound.
(HIGH-PITCHED WHINING) (SCREAMING)
Jackie Goldman
It was so loud and piercing, it hurt. It was in my head. He was talking to me in the only way that he knew how. And I knew what I had to do.
Scene 27
St. Elizabeth's · Jackie Goldman
Jackie Goldman
They said I killed my baby. I didn't. I let him out.
Dana Scully
Do you know what happened to your son?
Jackie Goldman
Passed out from loss of blood. Woke up in a hospital. I never saw my boy again. I think about him every day.
Dana Scully
A mother never forgets.
Scene 28
St. Elizabeth's · Hallway
Dana Scully
All my training, everything that I know about psychology tells me that she's delusional, but, Mulder, there's something about her that I trust.
Fox Mulder
She heard a tone in her head, a screech, that's what happened to me.
Dana Scully
Are you saying that you think the baby that communicated with her communicated with you?
Fox Mulder
Wouldn't be a baby anymore. Excuse me. You don't work for the hospital, do you? You're a subcontractor?
Janitor
Yeah. A-1 Janitorial. We're all over the city.
Fox Mulder
Thank you. Thanks.
Scene 29
FBI Headquarters · The X-Files Office
Fox Mulder
A-1 Janitorial also services Nugenics. You'll recognize the uniform. He's cleaning the office directly above the Secured Servers vault. He's no more than 15 feet away from Dr. Sanjay at the time of his death.
Dana Scully
Action, reaction.
(CELL PHONE BEEPS)
Fox Mulder
I made a request for the name of the janitor on duty. Turns out he also worked at St. Elizabeth's last month. High school dropout Kyle Gilligan.
Dana Scully
We got him.
Scene 30
The Gilligan Farm
Dana Scully
I'm Special Agent Scully. This is Special Agent Mulder. We'd like to speak with Kyle Gilligan.
Rebecca Gilligan
I'm his mother. Is he around?
Fox Mulder
We'd like to ask him a few questions about an incident at work.
Rebecca Gilligan
The suicide?
Fox Mulder
You heard about that.
Rebecca Gilligan
There's not a thing that goes on in my son's life that I don't know.
Dana Scully
Well, we'd still like to speak with him.
Rebecca Gilligan
He's got nothing to say.
Dana Scully
Why don't you let us decide that?
Rebecca Gilligan
I don't like to expose my son to stressful situations. It's not good for him. He doesn't understand it. He's simple.
Dana Scully
And he's a minor.
Rebecca Gilligan
And I won't allow it.
Fox Mulder
You didn't give birth to Kyle.
Dana Scully
Mulder...
Rebecca Gilligan
What did you say?
Fox Mulder
After the accident, where'd you find him?
Rebecca Gilligan
Get the hell off my porch.
Fox Mulder
Your son is unique, have you ever wondered why?
Rebecca Gilligan
Get out!
Dana Scully
Mulder, she's making it pretty clear.
(BIRDS FLUTTERING) (CROWS CAWING)
Rebecca Gilligan
(SOFTLY) Bad things happen when the birds gather.
(HIGH-PITCHED WHINING) (GROANING)
Dana Scully
Mulder? Mulder! Mulder! Where is he?
(SCREAMING)
Dana Scully
Where is he?
Rebecca Gilligan
Please, God, help!
Dana Scully
Whatever you're doing, stop right there.
(INHALES)
Rebecca Gilligan
Don't take him! Don't! Please don't take him! He didn't know what he was doing! He was just trying to protect me!
Dana Scully
Is that true, Kyle?
Scene 31
Scully's Car
Fox Mulder
That you don't know what you're doing? Why did you kill Dr. Sanjay?
Kyle
I didn't want him to die.
Fox Mulder
You made him kill himself.
Kyle
No! I would never. He was helping me.
Fox Mulder
You got inside his head. You got inside my head. You can make people hear things. Like you just did, like you did to me in Sanjay's apartment. But you can't control it.
Kyle
I just want to find my sister.
Dana Scully
Molly?
Fox Mulder
At the hospital, where you worked. You heard Jackie's story.
Kyle
She told me that he has her. And Jackie is my real mother, okay? I have to find my sister.
Fox Mulder
Kyle, nobody knows where she is.
Dana Scully
I know who knows.
Fox Mulder
Hmm.
Scene 32
Goldman Technology · Examination Room
Dr. Goldman
Would you mind if I took some blood?
Kyle
Where's Molly?
Dr. Goldman
How do you know that name?
Kyle
My mother told me to find her.
Dr. Goldman
And what would you do once you found her?
Kyle
I don't know.
Dr. Goldman
I'm gonna let you meet Molly.
Scene 33
Goldman Technology · Molly's Room
Kyle
Molly?
(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
Girl
What's your name?
Kyle
Kyle. No. You're not my sister.
Girl
No!
Dana Scully
Kyle?
Kyle
Molly? You're Molly.
Scene 34
Goldman Technology · Hallway
Molly
I didn't know I had a brother.
Kyle
I can hear you. Are you ready?
Molly
Kyle!
(GLASS SHATTERING)
(ELECTRICITY CRACKLING)
Dr. Goldman
Molly!
Molly
No! No! Daddy, just let me go!
Dr. Goldman
Get the hell away from her!
(HIGH-PITCHED WHINING)
(GROANING)
Molly
Kyle!
(GRUNTING)
Fox Mulder
Scully!
(GRUNTING)
(DR. GOLDMAN SCREAMING)
Scene 35
Goldman Technology · Outside
DOD Agent
Skinner, Keep your people behind the red tape.
Walter Skinner
Department of Defense has control of the facility. It's now Classified as top secret. We no longer have jurisdiction here.
Dana Scully
Have they found Molly or Kyle?
Walter Skinner
You were the last one to see them, Agent Mulder.
Fox Mulder
I blacked out after Goldman's eyes popped out of the sockets. Believe me, you can't unsee that.
Walter Skinner
Well, they're gone. There's no trace of them anywhere.
Dana Scully
Kyle's blood.
Fox Mulder
A trace.
(MONKEY SHRIEKING)
Scene 36
Mulder's Vision · 2001: A Space Odyssey
William
Monkeys.
Fox Mulder
Yeah, that's... Well, that's early man, William. That's the monolith.
William
What's a "monolith"?
Fox Mulder
Some people think it represents our first contact with aliens. Other people think it represents the beginning of human knowledge. I think one day you'll probably have your own ideas about it.
William
Dad.
Fox Mulder
Mmm.
Scene 37
Mulder's Vision · The Rocket
William
My fin broke.
Fox Mulder
Space is hard. "All great and honorable actions “Are undertaken with great difficulty. “We choose to go to the moon "In this decade and do other things, “Not because they're easy...
Fox Mulder and William
"But because they are hard."
Fox Mulder
(CHUCKLES) That's right. Come on, let's light this candle. We'll do yours first.
William
Okay.
Fox Mulder
There you go. You ready?
William
Yep.
Fox Mulder
Five, four, three, two, one.
William
Ignition. I'm gonna go up there someday. Dad!
Fox Mulder
William!
Scene 38
Mulder's Vision · William's Room
William
Dad!
Fox Mulder
No!
(THEME MUSIC PLAYING)
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