Narrator
Previously on The X-Files...
Season 10 · Episode 6
My Struggle II
Character-labelled dialogue prepared from the official Blu-ray subtitle track.
Production code1AYW06Original airdate · February 22, 2016
387 dialogue entries
Scene 01
Previously · Recap
Fox Mulder
The countdown has begun. Alien technology being used against us by a venal conspiracy of men against humanity.
Tad O'Malley
It's all part of a conspiracy dating back to the UFO crash at Roswell in 1947.
Dana Scully
How can we help you, Mr. O'Malley?
Tad O'Malley
I'm rattling some pretty big cages in the intelligence community, but I'm prepared to blow open maybe the most evil conspiracy the world has ever known.
Old Man
I didn't know how my work would be used.
Dana Scully
They removed your unborn fetuses?
Sveta
They do everything through here.
Tad O'Malley
Even with the DNA. Tell them about your DNA, Sveta.
Sveta
I have alien DNA. For sure.
Fox Mulder
They police us and spy on Us, tell us that makes uS Safer? We've never been in more danger.
Walter Skinner
Then do something about it, Mulder.
Sveta
What are they trying to do?
Fox Mulder
That's the missing piece.
Tad O'Malley
Testing yourself for alien DNA?
Dana Scully
And I sequenced my own genome because of my history and because we have a child together.
Fox Mulder
Scully, are you saying you have alien DNA?
Dana Scully
I'm saying someone has to stop these sons of bitches.
Sveta
Oh, no! (SOBBING) No!
(EXPLODING)
Scene 02
Prologue · Scully's Files
Dana Scully
My name is Dana Katherine Scully. I am a special agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, a career I chose after medical school, which promised a chance to further my aim as a scientist and as a seeker of justice in a science-based world. Soon after joining the FBI, I was asked to review the work of a fellow agent, Fox Mulder, and to debunk the X-Files, cases involving what my superiors regarded as science fiction and a waste of resources. I quickly came to understand Mulder’s work on the paranormal wasn't such as I'd been led to believe, that the X-Files were worthy of Mulder's investigations and of mine, that a world existed on the far fringes of accepted science, a world where a scientist would have her strongly held beliefs tested and retested. I would also come to fear that the institution I'd joined and invested with my trust was subject to the influence of dark forces outside the Bureau and sometimes within, forces threatened by Mulder's work and increasingly by mine. Shortly after sensing these threats, I was abducted from my home by unknown assailants and returned without a Clear understanding why. But intervening incidents have led me to believe that during my short disappearance, I was subjected to tests, tests resulting in a life-threatening disease, its cure as mysterious as the illness itself, tests which I now Suspect are part of a larger conspiracy, a conspiracy of men hiding science for almost 60 years, secrets kept from the American people by a self-interested cabal intent on the consolidation of power both at home and on a perilously global scale. But questions remain unanswered about their motives and their final objectives, when and where these men (MARCHING) might play out their dark plans, and the significance of a recent test result of my personal genetic makeup turning up DNA anomalies that I can only classify as alien.
(THEME MUSIC PLAYING)
Scene 03
Mulder's House
Dana Scully
Sorry I'm late. The parking garage is locked down for some reason. You here, Mulder?
Tad O'Malley
(ON VIDEO) Six weeks ago, we went off the air due to threats from outside forces bent on controlling content deemed dangerous to their cause. Today, we're back, with facts threatening these forces yet again. The discovery of something that's so shocking, you'll want to sit down and prepare yourself for the truth. What may seem like science fiction but is science fact, (HEART POUNDING) the legitimate and verifiable discovery of alien DNA that's in virtually every American citizen. (PHONE RINGING) I know what you're thinking right now...
Dana Scully
Agent Mulder's phone.
Tad O'Malley
Who's this? Dana?
Dana Scully
Yes. Who's this?
Tad O'Malley
It's Tad O'Malley.
Dana Scully
I was just watching your show.
Tad O'Malley
You need to get over here.
Dana Scully
Where exactly is "here"? What happened here?
Tad O'Malley
(SIGHS) I don't know what happened.
Dana Scully
What are you doing here and where is Agent Mulder?
Tad O'Malley
I don't know where he Is.
Dana Scully
You found it like this?
Tad O'Malley
Door was open, unlocked. We had arranged an informal meeting.
Dana Scully
A meeting about what?
Tad O'Malley
About new facts surfacing.
Dana Scully
I saw your report, Mr. O'Malley, and your dangerous allegations.
Tad O'Malley
Dangerous allegations, yes, but not irresponsible ones.
Dana Scully
Alien DNA lurking in every American citizen.
Tad O'Malley
I had my own DNA tested.
Dana Scully
And what did you find?
Tad O'Malley
We found anomalous DNA.
Dana Scully
90% of everyone's genome is anomalous DNA, Mr. O'Malley.
Tad O'Malley
I have a doctor who says this is different. And he's not a quack.
Dana Scully
I'd like to be the judge of that.
Tad O'Malley
You found alien DNA yourself. You found it in Sveta six weeks ago, just like we all said you would.
Dana Scully
And this has got Mulder excited.
Tad O'Malley
It should get anyone excited. Who are you calling?
Dana Scully
Well, first I'm calling the police.
Scene 04
FBI Headquarters · The X-Files Office
Walter Skinner
Still no word from him?
Dana Scully
And he's not picking up either.
Agent Einstein
You'd think he would've left a note, maybe a voice message.
Dana Scully
I'm afraid he fears my judgment.
Agent Einstein
Fears your judgment on what?
Dana Scully
On whether he's Crazy or not.
Walter Skinner
Then you do know something.
Dana Scully
This man, Tad O'Malley, has been making claims.
Walter Skinner
Claims about what?
Dana Scully
That you and everyone you know has a piece of DNA in your genome put there without your knowing it.
Agent Einstein
(SCOFFS) Put there by whom?
Dana Scully
Well, that's the question of the day.
Agent Einstein
This is an Internet lunatic. You're not saying you believe him?
Walter Skinner
Just hold on, Agent Einstein. You're talking to a scientist.
Agent Einstein
Er, forgive me, Assistant Director. It may sound insensitive, but the suggestion is pure science fiction. (LAUGHS)
Dana Scully
What I'm saying, Agent Einstein, is that the facts, as I understand them, cannot be discounted out of hand.
Agent Einstein
No one has the right or the ability to tamper with your DNA.
Dana Scully
Unless we gave them that ability. Thank you for doing this, Agent Einstein. You didn't have to, considering.
Agent Einstein
My prejudices are only against pseudoscience. If I can help to clear up this nonsense and find Agent Mulder, I'm only happy to.
Accosting Man
Can you help me?
Scene 05
Our Lady of Sorrows · Hallway
Dana Scully
Do you need to sit down, sir?
Accosting Man
I don't know. I'm not sure.
Dana Scully
Not sure of what?
Accosting Man
What's happening to me.
Dana Scully
Nurse, we need some help here.
Accosting Man
Dr. Scully?
Dana Scully
I think this man needs help.
Nurse Sandeep
As do so many people today.
Agent Einstein
His left arm, lateral deltoid.
Dana Scully
Sir, can I see your arm, please?
Accosting Man
I don't know how it got there.
Dana Scully
Okay, you need to get this man out of here, get him to see a doc immediately. Can you do that, sandeep?
Nurse Sandeep
Yes, certainly. Right away. Can I direct them In any way?
Dana Scully
Just find out who he is and what he's been exposed to.
(CELL PHONE VIBRATES)
(ENGINE REVVING)
Scene 06
Scully's Car
Agent Einstein
(SIGHS) I'm not sure what this is going to prove.
Dana Scully
Well, it may prove nothing or it may be negative. I don't want to alarm you, Agent Einstein, but about six weeks ago, I took my own blood, and in sequencing my genome, I discovered an anomaly.
Agent Einstein
What constitutes an anomaly?
Dana Scully
An aberration In my sequence.
Agent Einstein
Something unexplainable and, by definition, alien. You can rest assured I don't have alien DNA, Agent Scully, if that's what you're looking for.
Dana Scully
Have you sequenced your genome?
Agent Einstein
No. But has anyone?
Dana Scully
My point precisely.
Agent Einstein
And why were you even looking?
Dana Scully
You know little of my history, Agent Einstein. And while we share a faith in science, I have come to the understanding that the science that we were taught takes us but a distance towards the truth.
Agent Einstein
Yeah, but tampering with our DNA?
Dana Scully
I was given a smallpox vaccine as a child, as I'm sure you were as well. It was standard practice in America at the time. If you are suggesting that there is more in that shot than a vaccine... It's actually not that far-fetched and within the realm of accepted science. Something entering the germ line, something that would be passed down hereditarily.
Agent Einstein
That would be an unprecedented violation of the public trust.
Dana Scully
And now you know a bit more of the history I was referring to.
Agent Einstein
For the purpose of what?
Dana Scully
I don't know, Agent Einstein. And I don't know if any of this is true. But what I do know is that the possibility exists, and that is reason enough to run these tests.
Scene 07
Our Lady of Sorrows · Agent Miller
Agent Miller
Hey. Been looking for you. A.D. Skinner asked me to come down, help find Agent Mulder.
Dana Scully
We know nothing, Agent Miller, nothing more than this morning.
Agent Miller
There's talk on the Internet. What kind of talk? People are freaking out about reports on The Tad O'Malley Show.
Scene 08
The Tad O'Malley Show
Tad O'Malley
Now, I know this Is hard for people at home to comprehend. SO what are we looking at, Dr. Rubell, the scale and scope?
Dr. Rubell
A scale we've never dreamed. A scope that quickly becomes global.
Tad O'Malley
A massive contagion, then?
Dr. Rubell
Not one contagion, but a variety of contagions. If the flu doesn't kill you, then something else will.
Tad O'Malley
You're describing it as a fast-moving AIDS without the HIV.
Dr. Rubell
Our immune systems decimated by the same tampering to all our genomes.
Tad O'Malley
(ON VIDEO) Who will be first hit?
Dr. Rubell
The people we most depend on, the police, health care workers. Then people in metropolitan areas.
Scene 09
Our Lady of Sorrows
Agent Einstein
Suddenly Tad O'Malley is the singular voice of authority?
Agent Miller
Is this at all plausible?
Dana Scully
It's all too plausible, and I think it's already happening. What have you found out, Sandeep?
Nurse Sandeep
They're running tests now.
Dana Scully
About the man, who is he?
Nurse Sandeep
He's quite incoherent. I think they've determined he's military.
Dana Scully
That man will die unless he's given doses of intravenous doxycycline.
Nurse Sandeep
What do you suspect, Dr. Scully?
Dana Scully
Those lesions are from anthrax.
Agent Miller
Uh, someone's been exposed to anthrax?
Dana Scully
Willingly so, In this case.
Agent Miller
You better explain this to me.
Agent Einstein
To me as well, Agent Scully, because this is cause for alarm.
Dana Scully
Soldiers deploying to Iraq are given anthrax vaccines to protect them in the event of biological warfare. But with compromised immune systems, it's the vaccines that are attacking their systems.
Agent Miller
Meaning we're infecting them?
Dana Scully
Thinking that we're protecting them.
Agent Einstein
We don't know that that's true.
Dana Scully
Left arm is the site of the injection. That's where we saw the lesions, Agent Einstein.
Agent Einstein
That's purely speculative.
Dana Scully
Anthrax. Why else would there be an outbreak?
Agent Einstein
There were outbreaks in 2001.
Dana Scully
You don't understand. Anthrax is the canary in the coal mine. It's a harbinger of infections to come, measles, mumps, rubella, the flu. We're all going to be exposed.
Agent Miller
This is happening now?
Dana Scully
You are witnessing what may be the advent of a global contagion.
Agent Einstein
You can't just say these things when this is an isolated case.
Dana Scully
Would you like to wait and see?
Agent Einstein
Wouldn't you like to first wait and see my test results, Agent Scully?
Dana Scully
I don't think I need to see your test results.
(AMBULANCE SIREN BLARING)
(CELL PHONE VIBRATING)
Dana Scully
Mulder. Pick up, please.
(ENGINE STARTING)
Scene 10
The X-Files Office · O'Malley's Broadcast
Tad O'Malley
We're now getting reports on law enforcement dealing with soldiers and military personnel indicating symptoms of exposure to anthrax, a rolling first wave of contagion set in motion by our revelations of a far-reaching conspiracy of men. It's exact... Spartanburg.
(INDISTINCT CHATTERING)
Scene 11
Our Lady of Sorrows · Treatment Room
Dana Scully
This is just the beginning.
Agent Einstein
You keep saying that, ruling out all other possibilities, the possibility that they were given a faulty vaccine.
Dana Scully
The Department of Defense was recently faulted for giving soldiers live vaccines. That wouldn't cause this.
Agent Einstein
What do we do here as doctors? We ponder all possible scenarios.
Dana Scully
We don't have time to ponder, Agent Einstein.
Agent Einstein
Well, I think you're wrong.
Dana Scully
I hope that I'm wrong. I hope that there's an explanation for this, all of it, for Mulder's disappearance, for everything. But right now, we are in deep trouble.
Agent Einstein
Consider what you're saying.
Dana Scully
Pathogens are virtually everywhere. Every cough, every sneeze, every cuton the finger deadly.
Agent Einstein
That's not what I'm seeing here, Agent Scully. I am seeing one class of people infected.
Dana Scully
You're right. You're right.
Agent Einstein
You say they're tampering with our DNA, that they're able to shut down our immune systems by the addition of something to our DNA?
Dana Scully
Yes, but I don't know how exactly.
Agent Einstein
Or how it's being triggered.
Dana Scully
I don't know that either.
Agent Einstein
Or why it's happening now.
Dana Scully
No. It makes no sense.
Agent Einstein
Think about It. Shutting down the immune system is a complex biological process. It would require something being taken away from the genome, not something added to it.
Scene 12
Our Lady of Sorrows · The Call
(CELL PHONE RINGING)
Dana Scully
Hello?
Monica Reyes
Agent Scully? Dana?
Dana Scully
Yes. Who is this?
Monica Reyes
I can explain what's happening.
Dana Scully
I'm sorry. Who is this?
Monica Reyes
Someone who was there for you.
Dana Scully
There for me when?
Monica Reyes
When you also needed help.
(THUNDER RUMBLING)
Scene 13
Washington · Monica Reyes
Monica Reyes
Agent Scully.
Dana Scully
Agent Reyes.
Monica Reyes
Monica. (SIGHS) I wish this were under better circumstances, but I wish a lot of things were different here today.
Dana Scully
You have something to tell me.
Monica Reyes
Something you need to know.
Dana Scully
I looked you up when I went back to the FBI. They said you'd been gone for a decade, that you left in a hurry.
Monica Reyes
I made certain choices. You might not approve or understand, but they made sense to me at the time.
Scene 14
Reyes's Story · The Hospital
Monica Reyes
Special Agent Monica Reyes.
Man in Suit
Agent Reyes, someone would like to speak with you.
Monica Reyes
Do not be alarmed by his appearance.
Man in Suit
He's expected to make a full recovery.
Scene 15
Washington · Monica Reyes
Monica Reyes
He'd been near death, so badly burned they were having to reconstruct his entire face.
Dana Scully
Why would he summon you?
Monica Reyes
He had an offer to make.
Scene 16
Reyes's Story · The Smoking Man
Cigarette-Smoking Man
Agent Reyes, please come in. I think you know who I am.
Monica Reyes
I thought that you were dead.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
They haven't killed me yet, as hard as they may try. Is it hard to look at me?
Monica Reyes
Considering what I know about you, the things you've done, the people you've done them to...
Cigarette-Smoking Man
I'm not an evil man, Monica.
Monica Reyes
And you're a liar, as well.
Scene 17
Washington · Monica Reyes
Dana Scully
What did he want, Monica?
Monica Reyes
To make a deal with me, one that left me very little choice.
Dana Scully
You changed your whole life.
Monica Reyes
You have to understand why.
Scene 18
Reyes's Story · The Smoking Man
Cigarette-Smoking Man
How badly I want a cigarette.
Monica Reyes
Well, I can't help you with that.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
But you can help me, Monica. And for that, I'd spare your life.
Monica Reyes
It's a federal crime to threaten an FBI agent, sir. You're hardly in a position to threaten anyone.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
You see a man lying here, a seemingly weak man, but I'm the most powerful man in the world.
Dana Scully
You must have a sense of what's happening, heard the reports. How did he threaten you, Monica?
Monica Reyes
With the ultimate weapon, the ability to depopulate the planet, to kill everyone but the chosen.
Dana Scully
By tampering with their DNA?
Monica Reyes
Science acquired in the ‘50s, given to them by an alien race. Alien DNA mixed with our DNA. It's not quite so simple.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
That's excellent.
Monica Reyes
Just be quick. We don't have a lot of time.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
Merci.
Scene 19
Reyes's Story · The Smoking Man's House
Cigarette-Smoking Man
Ahh. Thank you, Monica.
Monica Reyes
You're slowly killing yourself while you hold the world hostage.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
The world will go on. Just in my image instead of God's.
Monica Reyes
You think you can play God?
Cigarette-Smoking Man
Oh. Not God, certainly. They won't know what hit them. That their fates were sealed since birth. They were simply puppets.
Monica Reyes
You will die a lonely old man.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
Oh. I don't think so, Monica. Now that I have you to light my smokes.
Scene 20
Washington · Monica Reyes
Dana Scully
Why did you call me, Monica? To tell me what a coward you are?
Monica Reyes
To tell you you're protected.
Dana Scully
What are you talking about?
Monica Reyes
Your abduction. The tests. Your DNA, Dana. You're safe. You're one of the chosen elite.
Dana Scully
They tampered with my DNA.
Monica Reyes
We are both protected, Dana. That's what he was offering me.
Dana Scully
But what about everybody else?
Monica Reyes
Everyone else is happening. It's been in motion since 2012.
Dana Scully
Well, then we have to stop it.
Monica Reyes
The science is complicated.
Dana Scully
And Mulder... Where's Mulder?
Monica Reyes
He loves Mulder. He sent a man to him to offer Mulder a deal.
Scene 21
Mulder's House · The Fight
(GROANS)
(BOTH GRUNTING)
(GAGS)
Fox Mulder
Who sent you?
Scene 22
The Smoking Man's House
Fox Mulder
You sent for me. I'm here.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
This is So unnecessary, Fox.
Fox Mulder
I don't come when you call.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
I've controlled you since before you knew I existed.
Fox Mulder
So who's in control now?
Cigarette-Smoking Man
The world crumbling around us.
Fox Mulder
You set this in motion. Now you're gonna put a stop to it.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
It's far too late for that, Fox. Too late for your heroics or mine.
Fox Mulder
I don't believe you.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
You don't want to believe. You may not believe this, but I really want to save your life.
Fox Mulder
I don't make deals with you.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
SO you can see Scully again.
Fox Mulder
You harm her in any way...
(GROANS)
Cigarette-Smoking Man
(LAUGHS) Every man has his weakness. Mine was always just cigarettes.
Fox Mulder
You think it's power, what you're doing, but it’s not. It's sickness.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
It's sickness not doing it.
Fox Mulder
Spoken like a true psychopath.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
I didn't set out to destroy the world, Mulder. People did.
Fox Mulder
You can't justify your actions.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
We have just had the hottest year on record on planet Earth. I didn't do that. I'm not responsible for the 40% loss of bird life or the decimation of the megafauna.
Fox Mulder
So just murder all the people?
Cigarette-Smoking Man
Aliens predicted all this. They saw it happening to themselves.
Fox Mulder
And you kept it a secret.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
Look at world history, Fox. Neither you nor I could save mankind from self-extermination.
Fox Mulder
So you plotted your endgame.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
I just changed the timetable. Everyone still dies in the end.
Fox Mulder
How's it feel now?
Cigarette-Smoking Man
What good would it do? You'll be dead yourself within a week.
Fox Mulder
What are you offering?
Cigarette-Smoking Man
A seat at the big table. It would be a shame without you.
Fox Mulder
I couldn't look at myself in the mirror. Let alone you.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
We could start the world anew, Fox. You, me, your beloved Scully.
Fox Mulder
Not a rat's chance in hell!
Cigarette-Smoking Man
You speak to me of hell? (CHUCKLES) When you look to be the one who's hell-bound. You appear a little feverish.
Fox Mulder
The plague?
Cigarette-Smoking Man
Avian flu? A nasty strain of rhinovirus? It's not too late, Fox.
Scene 23
The Tad O'Malley Show
Tad O'Malley
We have breaking news of hospitals being overrun and temporary Shelters filling up, but the reality is all too clear. It is a collapse. The mainstream media failing to cover the story, failing to see the writing on the wall, as anthrax outbreaks give way to an epidemic of flu and bacterial diseases. Now, if you see graffiti like this in your neighborhood, you can suspect your DNA is being targeted by a release of aluminum into the atmosphere through chemtrails, a systematic spreading of a substance that triggers a genetic response. Cases in New York, California, across the country, while right here in Washington, immunity to common germs is breaking down and flooding our city hospitals.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
Scene 24
Our Lady of Sorrows · Hallway
Nurse Sandeep
Dr. Scully, we are overwhelmed here. We don't know what to do.
Dana Scully
Yes, I can see that. I'm trying to figure it out.
Nurse Sandeep
Are we all just gonna get sick?
Dana Scully
I don't know, sandeep. But right now, I need to find Agent Einstein.
Agent Einstein
Yes, I'm gonna call them next.
Dana Scully
Agent Einstein, I was afraid you left the hospital.
Agent Einstein
No, I'd be afraid to leave. It's gone from bad to worse out there. There's nothing to be done for those people, not yet anyway. Center for Disease Control confirms massive contagions. They're at a loss to contain them. I'm gonna call the W.H.O. Next.
Dana Scully
I need your help, right here.
Scene 25
Our Lady of Sorrows · Scrub Room
Agent Einstein
What can we possibly do?
Dana Scully
We need to act quickly.
Agent Einstein
You were right about that.
Dana Scully
Well, I was wrong about the science. I was wrong about what's causing It. Dead wrong, in fact.
Agent Einstein
But it's clearly a widespread failure of our immune systems.
Dana Scully
Through gene tampering.
Agent Einstein
What you're calling alien DNA.
Dana Scully
That's where I was mistaken. Alien DNA is what I have. And alien DNA Is all that can Save US.
Agent Einstein
But why is everyone sick?
Dana Scully
What they have, what you have, what I have to presume the entire population has is something entirely different. It's in the germ line already. It's IN sperm, it's IN eggs. It's a virus within a virus that was put there through the smallpox vaccine. It's what these men are calling the Spartan Virus.
Agent Einstein
Where are you getting this?
Dana Scully
From a trusted friend who says that it's not too late to change it.
Agent Einstein
Tell me what I've got to do.
Dana Scully
I'm gonna take a swab.
Agent Einstein
But what are we looking to do?
Dana Scully
To amplify my DNA. Using alien DNA to defeat the Spartan Virus by creating a vaccine against it. You're gonna do a PCR, using primers from my sequence.
Agent Einstein
Okay, that shouldn't take long.
Dana Scully
Good, because we don't have long.
Scene 26
The Smoking Man's House
Cigarette-Smoking Man
This is no time for pride, Fox.
Fox Mulder
I don't... I don't want your help.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
The ultimate irony. The defeat of the big-brained beasts by the tiniest unthinking microbes. All thanks to the Spartan Virus.
Fox Mulder
Musings of a madman.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
You don't give up, do you?
Fox Mulder
You'll be sorry when I'm gone.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
I'll miss you dearly. You've made my life truly worth living.
Fox Mulder
I'm on the king's throne. Feels soft.
(PANTING)
Cigarette-Smoking Man
Just like the king. And yet, I once cheated death.
(LAUGHS)
Fox Mulder
I wish Scully was here, see what a monster you've become.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
I'm all she'll have left.
Scene 27
Our Lady of Sorrows · Lab
Dana Scully
We'll have to move quickly to extract more of my DNA.
Agent Einstein
First, we'll have to see if it's there.
Dana Scully
It will be there.
Agent Einstein
It'll be on a band next to the marker.
Dana Scully
Thank you. I don't believe this. I don't believe this.
Agent Einstein
There's nothing. There's no alien DNA.
Dana Scully
I saw it when I sequenced my genome. It was near the centromere on chromosome 17. It was there.
Scene 28
Our Lady of Sorrows · Sandeep
Nurse Sandeep
Excuse me, Dr. Scully. The doctors are all getting sick. If there is anything you can do. We are getting our first reports of deaths. Soldiers from anthrax and the elderly,
Scene 29
The Tad O'Malley Show
Tad O'Malley
All succumbing to infections because of immune systems that have been depleted or disappeared. Launched by someone bent on a biological attack on America. New reports that microwave radiation is also being used as a trigger. And reports this may also be global in scope. Reports in from Europe. Our advice is to stay indoors. My crew here is suffering. But we will attempt to stay on as long as there is still hope of a turnaround.
(PEOPLE COUGHING)
(GROANING)
(ELECTRICITY CRACKLING)
Scene 30
Our Lady of Sorrows · Triage
Dana Scully
As if we're not already in the dark.
Agent Einstein
We have to figure this out. What's wrong with the science?
Dana Scully
Okay. The Spartan Virus removes the adenosine deaminase gene from your DNA.
Agent Einstein
Remove the ADA gene, and your immune system will simply vanish. Yeah, but I'm not getting sick.
Dana Scully
It's only a matter of time. Without alien DNA, you don't stand a chance against the Spartan Virus.
Agent Einstein
Okay. So how does it work? How does the virus remove the ADA gene?
Dana Scully
A process called CRISPR-Cas...
Agent Einstein
CRISPR-Cas9. RNA and a protein cutting genes at exact locations.
Dana Scully
Exactly. But in this instance used as a weapon.
Agent Einstein
SO how does your alien DNA protect you from this weapon?
Dana Scully
I don't know. The alien DNA must code for something that targets the Cas9 protein. It must somehow deactivate the weapon.
Agent Einstein
But we should have seen it in the gel. Why didn't we see it?
Dana Scully
They must have known that someone would...
Agent Einstein
Would try to find it.
Dana Scully
That someone would attempt to find a cure.
Agent Einstein
But your DNA is different.
Dana Scully
Yes. What are you thinking, Agent Einstein?
Agent Einstein
That this was our mistake.
Dana Scully
What was?
Agent Einstein
Our sample was too small.
Scene 31
The Smoking Man's House · Agent Miller
Agent Miller
Agent Mulder. Agent Mulder. Agent Mulder. Agent... I'm getting you out of here.
(COUGHING)
Fox Mulder
Save yourself, Agent Miller.
Agent Miller
No, I'm not just gonna let you die. Come on.
Fox Mulder
There's nothing you can do.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
There's nothing anyone can do for him. Nothing to be done for anyone.
Agent Miller
Maybe nothing here, but we're not staying here. We're leaving. And no one iS gonna stop us.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
You think you'll get far? You have no idea how well we planned.
Agent Miller
Come on. Let's go.
Scene 32
Our Lady of Sorrows · O.R.
Agent Einstein
We need to do the PCR using a larger extract of your cells.
Dana Scully
Because my DNA is different. Because I have extra nucleotides.
Agent Einstein
And we'll get an amplification. And this time, I'm sure we'll see it.
(PANTING)
Dana Scully
You're not feeling well.
Agent Einstein
I'm just a little feverish.
Scene 33
The Smoking Man's House · Outside
Fox Mulder
I'm not gonna make it.
Agent Miller
Well, I'm not giving up.
Fox Mulder
Save yourself, Miller. He's got the cure. Ask him for it.
Agent Miller
Why didn't you ask him?
Fox Mulder
‘Cause that's exactly what he wants.
Agent Miller
Who the hell are you anyway?
Cigarette-Smoking Man
Before he dies, tell him good-bye for me.
Scene 34
Our Lady of Sorrows · Lab
Dana Scully
There it is. Huh. There it is. That's alien DNA we're looking at.
Agent Einstein
You'll have to centrifuge it. Think I need to lie down.
Dana Scully
We're gonna cure you, Agent Einstein. We're gonna have a cure here within a few hours. Don't give up on me.
(CELL PHONE RINGING)
Dana Scully
Agent Miller, where are you?
Scene 35
Agent Miller's Car
Agent Miller
Driving north with Mulder.
Dana Scully
And what's his condition?
Agent Miller
He's not doing SO well.
Dana Scully
And what's your condition, Agent Miller?
Agent Miller
Yeah, we could use a couple doctors.
Dana Scully
Help is on its way, I promise.
Agent Miller
Okay, we're gonna keep driving, but there's been a run on gasoline. We may just run out of road here.
Dana Scully
Keep your phone charged. I'll come and find you wherever you are.
Scene 36
Our Lady of Sorrows · O.R.
Dana Scully
It's okay, stay right there. Stay right there.
Agent Einstein
You're gonna need my help.
Dana Scully
Yes, I am, Agent Einstein. I'm gonna need your help getting these IVs Into all the other doctors here. They'll be able to make more of this and help the suffering. If this actually works... It's not gonna fail.
Agent Einstein
...then I'll have alien DNA.
Dana Scully
We should all hope to have it. It's the only hope we have.
Scene 37
O'Malley's Last Broadcast
Tad O'Malley
Reports are hard to come by now. Lines of communication are being cut, as systems and infrastructure are falling and failing with no one to man or operate them. It would now appear we go out with a whimper, a frightful, deafening silence.
(HORNS HONKING)
(SIRENS BLARING)
(PEOPLE CLAMORING)
(GASPS)
Scene 38
Washington, D.C. · Street
Dana Scully
Stop it! Stop it, please! Please, everybody, get to the hospital! Get to the hospital! Help is on its way, I promise. Just get to the hospital. I've just gotten a text from a doctor, saying now there is a ray of light. A vaccine that could be a miracle. Don't give up.
(TIRES SCREECHING)
(HORN BLARING)
(PEOPLE SHOUTING)
(HORNS BLARING)
(PEOPLE CLAMORING)
Dana Scully
All I see are cars.
Scene 39
Scully's Car
Dana Scully
I don't know how I'm gonna find you.
Agent Miller
(SIGHS) I'm gonna get out of the car, Stand in the road, all right?
(GROANS)
Agent Miller
I'm gonna get out, too. I'm getting out.
Dana Scully
I'm moving in your direction.
Agent Miller
Yeah, I think I see you. Just...
Dana Scully
Just keep walking straight.
Agent Miller
Okay.
Dana Scully
Where is he?
Scene 40
The Bridge
Dana Scully
Mulder. I'm here.
Agent Miller
He saved your life.
Fox Mulder
Old Smokey. I suppose I should thank him.
Dana Scully
We're gonna save your life.
Fox Mulder
Agent Miller is also in trouble.
(COUGHS)
Dana Scully
I'll take care of Agent Miller. But right now, we're gonna get an IV into you, okay?
Fox Mulder
Okay.
Dana Scully
He's worse off than I thought.
Agent Miller
Can you do anything for him?
Dana Scully
What I can do might not help. He needs stem cells in him right now.
Agent Miller
Stem cells from who?
Dana Scully
We have a child together. That child will be protected by his inheritance and my alien DNA.
Agent Miller
Then we have to get to him.
Dana Scully
I don't know where he Is.
(WHIRRING)
(THEME MUSIC PLAYING)
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