Radio Reporter
...rocked northwestern New Mexico this morning. Centered in the desert, the 5.6 temblor was felt as far away south as corona and Roswell.
Season 2 · Episode 25
Anasazi
Character-labelled dialogue prepared from the official DVD subtitle track.
Production code2X25Original airdate · May 19, 1995
299 dialogue entries
Scene 01
NAVAJO RESERVATION
[ dog barking ]
[ rumbling ]
[ man on radio ]
Native American
Where are you going?
Eric
Riding. I'll be back in a few hours.
Albert
Eric. Leave the snakes alone today. They'll be angry... And afraid.
[ speaking Navajo language ]
Eric
I found something. You better come see.
Woman
Robert, come home right now. Let's go.
Eric
What do you think it is?
Native American
I don't know.
[ speaking Navajo language ]
Eric
What did he say?
Native American
He said, "it should be returned. They will be coming."
[ screen bleeps ]
Scene 02
DOVER DE
[ beeping ]
Scene 03
UNITED NATIONS BUILDING
[ computer keys clacking ]
The Thinker
You bitch! Beautiful!
[ man shouts ]
[ speaking italian ]
[ speaking japanese ]
[ speaking german ]
[ ringing ]
German Official
Yes? Good.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
Gentlemen, that was the phone call I never wanted to get.
Scene 04
WASHINGTON, DC
Police Officer
Check the bedrooms! Clear. Clear!
[ knocking ]
[ knocking continues ]
Fox Mulder
What are you doing here?
Byers
Can we talk inside?
Fox Mulder
I'm not feeling well. I didn't sleep last night. I'm really not in the mood for the three stooges.
Frohike
I don't think we've been followed.
Fox Mulder
Well, who would follow you?
Byers
The multinational black ops unit. Code name: garnet.
Langly
Trained killers, school of the america's alumni.
Fox Mulder
You boys been defacing library books again?
Frohike
They don't want us. They want him. "kenneth soona"?
Langly
We think that's his real name.
Byers
You've heard us refer to him as "the Thinker."
Fox Mulder
What did he do?
Byers
Hacked into the defense department computer system.
Fox Mulder
Why?
Byers
The Thinker's an anarchist and a snoop. Whatever he got into has made him a very wanted man. Customs and immigration are on full alert. Every port of egress is closed.
Fox Mulder
What are you coming to me for?
Byers
In his last communique, the Thinker named a meeting place... And a three-hour time window. He asked specifically for you.
Langly
The only problem is he may already be dead.
[ gunshot ]
[ woman sobbing ]
Fox Mulder
What happened?
Woman
She just shot her husband. Married for 30 years. Like she went crazy.
Cop
Everybody go back to your apartments. We'll handle this.
Police Officer
Excuse me, sir. Calm down.
Frohike
Weirdness.
Scene 05
US BOTANIC GARDEN
The Thinker
I don't want you to know my real name. I don't think it's that important that you know.
Fox Mulder
Sounds like a line I used in a bar once.
The Thinker
I'm sorry about the wait, but I kind of got this ninja party shading my butt.
Fox Mulder
Why? What have you got?
The Thinker
If I'm correct, I got the original defense department's UFO intelligence files. Everything from the 1940s and up.
Fox Mulder
Everything?
The Thinker
Everything-- Roswell, mj-12 and beyond.
Fox Mulder
You've read them?
The Thinker
Not entirely. I downloaded all I could and then I split. I knew that these guys were gonna be after me.
Fox Mulder
What makes you think they know who you are?
The Thinker
I didn't take any precautions. I mean, [ scoffs ] I didn't even expect to get inside.
Fox Mulder
They've always denied that these files even existed. What do you want from me?
The Thinker
I want the truth, and I want you to promise that those rat bastards answer to the people.
Scene 06
FBI HEADQUARTERS
Dana Scully
Mulder, Skinner's looking for you.
Fox Mulder
Come in and lock the door.
Dana Scully
Why? What's going on?
Fox Mulder
Are you familiar with the ten commandments, Scully?
Dana Scully
You want me to recite them?
Fox Mulder
Just number four-- the one about obeying the sabbath. The part where god made heaven and earth but didn't bother to tell about his side projects.
Dana Scully
What are you talking about?
Fox Mulder
The biggest lie of all.
[ computer keys clacking ]
[ beeping ]
Dana Scully
What is this?
Fox Mulder
The holy grail. The original defense department files. Hard evidence that the government... Has known about the existence of extraterrestrials for almost 50 years.
Dana Scully
Where did you get this?
Fox Mulder
Your friendly neighborhood anarchist. No. I don't believe this. This is just gibberish. Damn it! I'm so sick of this crap... And b.s. And double-talk! I can't believe this.
Dana Scully
Mulder, this may not be gibberish.
Fox Mulder
It's a joke, Scully. It's a bad joke.
Dana Scully
I think it's just encrypted and I think I recognize it. It looks like Navajo. It was used during world war ii. My father told me it was the only code the japanese couldn't break. I remember the long streams of consonants.
Fox Mulder
Can you find out?
Dana Scully
Only a handful of people can decipher it.
Fox Mulder
Then find one of 'em.
Dana Scully
Mulder. Are you okay?
Fox Mulder
Yeah. I just haven't been sleeping. Sir.
Walter Skinner
Agent Mulder, I need to speak with you.
Fox Mulder
About?
Walter Skinner
In my office.
Fox Mulder
Why? Is this another jerk-off assignment where I end up doing the government's dirty work?
Walter Skinner
It's about a rumor that you may be in receipt of some sensitive files.
Fox Mulder
I don't know anything about that.
Walter Skinner
Agent Mulder, listen. I'm talking to you. Are we finished, agent Mulder? Are we done? We're done.
Scene 07
APRIL 13
Dana Scully
You wanted to see me, sir?
Director 1
Yes, agent Scully. Please have a seat. Agent Scully. You heard about the incident here in the hallway yesterday?
Dana Scully
Yes, sir.
Director 1
Do you have any explanation as to agent Mulder's bizarre behavior?
Dana Scully
No, sir. Agent Mulder told me he was having trouble sleeping.
Director 1
Do you think agent Mulder confides in you, agent Scully?
Dana Scully
Of course. He's my partner.
Director 2
Your partner? Weren't you originally assigned to agent Mulder to debunk his work?
Dana Scully
Yes, sir. A year and a half ago. I've been writing regular reports stating the validity... Of agent Mulder's work on the x files.
Director 2
Would you lie to protect him?
Dana Scully
Am I being accused of lying?
Director 3
Agent Mulder has been notified of a disciplinary hearing. If there's something we learn at that meeting that you haven't stated here today, you could be subject to the same summary action.
Dana Scully
What action is that?
Walter Skinner
Dismissal without chance of reinstatement.
Dana Scully
Is that all, sir?
Walter Skinner
Yes, agent Scully. Thank you.
Scene 08
WEST TISBURY
[ doorbell chimes ]
Cigarette-Smoking Man
Hello, bill.
Bill Mulder
What are you doing here?
Cigarette-Smoking Man
I've come on some pressing business.
Bill Mulder
We had agreed that you would--
Cigarette-Smoking Man
That was a long time ago. There have been some unforeseen events.
Bill Mulder
No one was supposed to know.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
Who could have predicted the future, bill? That the computers you and I only dreamed of... Would someday be home appliances capable of the most technical espionage.
Bill Mulder
The files should have been destroyed.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
They should have, but they weren't. Regret is an inevitable consequence of life.
Bill Mulder
How do you know my son has them?
Cigarette-Smoking Man
The man who stole them has come forward.
Bill Mulder
Oh, god.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
As always, we maintain plausible denial. The files are only as real as their possible authentication.
Bill Mulder
My name is in those files.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
The files have been encrypted, of course. We have a certain luxury of time. We endeavored to prevent that fact from... Ever coming to light.
Bill Mulder
You wouldn't... Harm him?
Cigarette-Smoking Man
I've protected him this long, haven't I? Your son has been provident in the alliances that he's created. The last thing we need is a martyr or a crusade.
Bill Mulder
But if he should... Learn of my involvement?
Cigarette-Smoking Man
You're your own man, bill. You always have been. But I strongly encourage you in that event... To deny everything. It's good to see you again, bill. You look well.
Scene 09
Scene 09
Dana Scully
You didn't answer your door.
Fox Mulder
[ groans ] I took a pill.
Dana Scully
I couldn't find you at work. I was worried about you.
Fox Mulder
I came home. I must be running a fever. Maybe it's the threat of being burned at the stake.
[ coughs ]
Dana Scully
They called me in today.
Fox Mulder
What did you tell them?
Dana Scully
That nothing was wrong.
Fox Mulder
Well, you told them the truth then.
Dana Scully
Mulder, you opened the door for them. They're just looking for a good reason now.
Fox Mulder
Okay. I'll say I'm sorry.
Dana Scully
Mulder, these files, who knows you have them?
Fox Mulder
Why?
Dana Scully
Because I had to lie today. And I put my job in jeopardy in order to do so. If they find out about those files--
Fox Mulder
How would they find out?
Dana Scully
Maybe they already know. The question is, is it worth it? Is this cassette worth risking everything?
Fox Mulder
I'll tell you when I find out what's on it! Now, just tell me who I could talk to about breaking that code!
Dana Scully
I'm meeting with somebody in an hour. I might know something later tonight. I just need some kind of assurance... That they're not gonna let us hang ourselves with this. That I'm doing the right thing.
Fox Mulder
I'll try to find out.
Dana Scully
I need to know one more thing, Mulder? Why did you attack Skinner?
Fox Mulder
I've thought about that, Scully. I honestly can't say.
Scene 10
OFFICES OF THE NAVAJO NATION
[ door opens, closes ]
Navajo Woman
There are words I recognize, but you'll need an actual code talker to make sense of this. I know a man who might help. I can have him contact you.
Dana Scully
Yeah, thank you. Uh, could you tell me which words you do recognize?
Navajo Woman
This word-- it means "goods," "merchandise." and this one means "vaccination." they're both modern words, which is why they stand out.
Dana Scully
Thank you. You've been very helpful.
Fox Mulder
[ ringing ] Mulder.
Bill Mulder
Fox, this is your father. I need to see you right away.
Fox Mulder
Where are you?
Bill Mulder
I'm at home. How soon can you be here? Fox? It's very important.
Dana Scully
Mulder?
Scene 11
BILL MULDER'S HOUSE
[ gunshot ] [ gasps ]
[ tires skidding, car driving away ]
Bill Mulder
Fox.
Fox Mulder
Dad. What is it, dad?
Bill Mulder
Come in. It's-- it's so clear now. Simple. It was so complicated then. The-- the choices that needed to be made.
Fox Mulder
What choices, dad?
Bill Mulder
You're a smart boy, Fox. Smarter than I ever was.
Fox Mulder
About what?
Bill Mulder
Your politics are yours. You have never thrown in. The minute you do that, their doctrines become yours. And you can be held responsible.
Fox Mulder
You're talking about your work in the state department.
Bill Mulder
You're going to learn of things, Fox. You're going to hear the words. And they'll come to make sense to you.
Fox Mulder
What words?
Bill Mulder
The "merchandise." look, I, um-- I've been taking some medication.
[ chuckles ]
Bill Mulder
You'll have to excuse me for a moment.
[ gunshot ] [ gasps ]
Fox Mulder
Dad? Dad! Dad.
[ tires skidding, car driving away ]
Fox Mulder
Oh, dad.
Bill Mulder
Forgive me.
[ phone ringing ]
Dana Scully
Hello?
Fox Mulder
My father's dead, Scully.
Dana Scully
Where are you?
Fox Mulder
They shot him. And he's dead.
Dana Scully
Mulder, where are you? Just tell me where you are.
Fox Mulder
I'm on the vineyard.
Dana Scully
Who shot him, Mulder?
Fox Mulder
I don't know.
Dana Scully
Mulder, were you arguing?
Fox Mulder
I didn't do it, Scully. He was trying to tell me something.
Dana Scully
Mulder, listen to me.
Fox Mulder
You've gotta believe me, Scully.
Dana Scully
Mulder, I believe you. Just listen to me. You've got to get out of there. You have to leave immediately.
Fox Mulder
I can't leave the crime scene. It'll look like I'm running. Like I'm guilty.
Dana Scully
They're gonna suspect you anyway. You've got no ID on the shooter. Your behavior has been irrational lately. Mulder, can't you see that everything is pointing directly at you?
Fox Mulder
He was shot with somebody else's weapon.
Dana Scully
Damn it, Mulder, you're an FBI agent! You have access to weapons other than your own.
Fox Mulder
Meet me back at my apartment.
Dana Scully
No. No, you can't come home. Somebody shot through your window tonight. They almost killed me. They may be trying to kill you.
Scene 12
Scene 12
Dana Scully
Oh. Mulder. Thank god. Look at you. You're sick.
Fox Mulder
I'm all right. I'm okay.
Dana Scully
No, come on. I want you to lie down. Come on. I want you to lie down. Take your coat off.
Fox Mulder
You've gotta find him, Scully.
Dana Scully
Right now you have to lie down.
Fox Mulder
We gotta find out who killed my father.
Dana Scully
Well, right now you need to rest, okay? Rest. It's okay. It's okay.
Scene 13
APRIL 14
Fox Mulder
Scully?
Scene 14
FBI HEADQUARTERS
FBI Agent
I'll run a comparison as soon as they send me the bullet removed from the victim.
Dana Scully
How long will it take to determine if they're a match?
FBI Agent
They're both nine-millimeter rounds. Run the specs. Compare the strike. We should know pretty much right away.
Fox Mulder
Scully. You took my gun. You think I did it, don't you?
Dana Scully
I took your gun to run it through ballistics to try and clear you.
Fox Mulder
Why didn't you ask me?
Dana Scully
You had a temperature of 102 last night. I didn't wanna wake you.
Fox Mulder
Were you afraid I was gonna shoot you too?
Dana Scully
I'm being called into Skinner's office this afternoon. They're gonna want answers, and I'd like good ones to give them.
Fox Mulder
So you can clear your conscience and your name? You've been making reports on me since the beginning. Taking your little notes!
Dana Scully
Mulder, you're sick. You're not thinking straight. I'm on your side. You know that.
Fox Mulder
Look. You have my files and you have my gun. Don't ask me for my trust.
Dana Scully
Mul--
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Scene 15
Fox Mulder
Keep it.
Taxi Driver
Thank you.
Fox Mulder
Damn.
[ screaming ]
Fox Mulder
I'm gonna kill you anyway, Krycek, so you might as well tell me the truth. Did you kill my father? Did you kill him? Answer me!
Dana Scully
Mulder! Don't shoot him. Just back away.
Fox Mulder
He killed my father, Scully!
Dana Scully
I have him, Mulder.
Fox Mulder
No, Scully!
Woman (voice-over)
Oh, my god! Somebody call the police!
Scene 16
APRIL 16
Albert
He's awake.
Dana Scully
Mulder? Mulder, it's me. Here. Drink some of that. You haven't had any water in over 36 hours. [ groans ] your shoulder's going to be fine. The round went through nice and clean.
Fox Mulder
You shot me.
Dana Scully
Yes, I did. You didn't give me much choice. You were about to kill Krycek.
Fox Mulder
Why'd you shoot me? He's the one.
Dana Scully
If he is, then his weapon is probably the same one that killed your father.
Fox Mulder
What are you talking about?
Dana Scully
If you killed Krycek with that weapon, there would have been no way to prove that you didn't kill your father. I'm sorry about your father, Mulder. I haven't been able to tell you.
Fox Mulder
How'd you know it was Krycek?
Dana Scully
I didn't. I went back to your apartment to pull the slug from the wall. But I noticed an unmarked van delivering soft water. And I found this in one of the tanks servicing your building.
Fox Mulder
What is it?
Dana Scully
It's a dialysis filter. It's a device used in the transmission of substances to solution. Considering the level of psychosis you were experiencing, it was possibly l.s.d., amphetamines... Or some kind of exotic dopeaminagonist.
Fox Mulder
Oh, my god. There was a murder in my building.
Dana Scully
Well, it wasn't an exercise in subtlety. Mulder, these men are quite possibly the same ones who killed your father... And who systematically tried to destroy you by turning everyone you could trust against you. I don't think I have to tell you why.
Fox Mulder
I'd gotten too close to the truth. Where are we?
Dana Scully
We're in farmington, New Mexico.
Fox Mulder
New Mexico?
Dana Scully
We've just driven two days across country. I had to put you out to let the side effects of the psychosis abate. This is Albert holstein. He's been translating your files.
Albert
You're lucky she's a good shot.
[ chuckles ]
Fox Mulder
Or a bad one.
Dana Scully
Albert was a Navajo code talker during world war ii. He helped encode the original government documents.
Fox Mulder
How did you find him?
Dana Scully
Through a woman in Washington. But he claims that he knew you were coming.
Albert
Last week, we had an omen.
Dana Scully
Most of these files are written in jargon. Dating back to the 1940s. Albert says that evidence of these secrets are buried... On a Navajo reservation not far from here. He says that he'll take you as soon as you're able.
Fox Mulder
What about you?
Dana Scully
I'm afraid you're on your own with this. I didn't show up for a meeting with Skinner day before yesterday. I don't know what the repercussions will be.
Fox Mulder
You've taken a big risk.
Dana Scully
I was certain they would have killed you, Mulder.
Fox Mulder
Thank you. Thank you for taking care of me.
Dana Scully
There's something else. My name is in those files. It appears in the latest entries with duane barry's.
Fox Mulder
In what context?
Dana Scully
It's not clear. But it has something to do with a test. I want you to find out, Mulder. I need you to.
Scene 17
NAVAJO NATION
Fox Mulder
You said you knew I was coming.
Albert
In the desert things find a way to survive. Secrets are like this too. They push their way up through the sands of deception... So men can know them. Here. This is my house.
Fox Mulder
But why me?
Albert
You are prepared to accept the truth, aren't you? To sacrifice yourself to it?
Fox Mulder
I don't understand.
Albert
There was a tribe of indians who lived here more than 600 years ago. Their name was Anasazi. It means "the ancient aliens." no evidence of their fate exists. Historians say they disappeared without a trace. They say that because they will not sacrifice themselves to the truth.
Fox Mulder
And what is the truth?
Albert
Nothing disappears without a trace.
Fox Mulder
You think they were abducted?
Albert
By visitors who come here still.
Fox Mulder
What's buried out there?
Albert
Lies. You will see for yourself.
[ dirt bike starts ]
Eric
It's through those rocks. It's down there.
[ phone ringing ]
Fox Mulder
Mulder.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
You're a hard man to reach.
Fox Mulder
Not hard enough apparently.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
Where are you?
Fox Mulder
I'm at the betty ford center. Where are you?
Cigarette-Smoking Man
I need to talk to you, mr. Mulder, in person. There are things to explain.
Fox Mulder
I'll save the government the plane fare. I just need to know which government that is.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
Your father may have told you things, mr. Mulder. I should warn you against... Taking those things at face value.
Fox Mulder
Which things are those?
Cigarette-Smoking Man
He was never an opponent of the project. In fact, he authorized it. That's what he couldn't live with.
Fox Mulder
No, he couldn't live with it because you had him killed.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
We weren't involved in that.
Fox Mulder
Listen to me, you black-lunged son of a bitch. I'm going to expose you and your project. Your time is over.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
Expose anything and you only expose your father.
[ phone beeps off ]
[ helicopter blades whirring ]
Black Ops Soldier
Sir, we got a coordinate on him. We're ready to go.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
Let's go.
Helicopter Crew
Okay, take her up.
Eric
Over here.
Fox Mulder
This is a boxcar.
Eric
Refrigeration car.
[ ringing ]
Dana Scully
Scully.
Fox Mulder
Yeah, it's me.
Dana Scully
Where are you?
Fox Mulder
Nowhere I ever expected.
Dana Scully
What do you mean?
Fox Mulder
I'm in a boxcar buried inside a quarry. There are bodies everywhere.
Dana Scully
Bodies?
Fox Mulder
Stacked floor to ceiling.
Dana Scully
What happened to them?
Fox Mulder
I don't know.
Dana Scully
Mulder, in these files, I found references to... Experiments that were conducted here in the u.s.... By axis power scientists who were given amnesty after the war.
Fox Mulder
What kind of experiments?
Dana Scully
Some kind of tests on humans. But they're referred to as "merchandise."
Fox Mulder
But these aren't humans, Scully. From the look of it, I'd say they were alien.
Dana Scully
Are you sure?
Fox Mulder
I'm pretty damn sure. Wait a second. This one, it has a smallpox vaccination scar.
Dana Scully
Mulder.
Fox Mulder
Oh, my god, Scully. What have they done?
Dana Scully
Mulder? Mulder, what happened?
Black Ops Soldier
Move out! Get away from there! You go back! Cover us.
Black Ops Soldier
We're goin' in. Clear!
Black Ops Soldier
Go!
Cigarette-Smoking Man
What's your name, boy?
Black Ops Soldier
He's not here.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
Where's Mulder? He's here.
Black Ops Soldier
No, sir. If he was, he's vanished without a trace.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
Nothing vanishes without a trace. Burn it!
Black Ops Soldier
Clear out! Move it, move it, move it!
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