Ship Officer (recap)
It's going to crash.
Season 2 · Episode 17
End Game
Character-labelled dialogue prepared from the official DVD subtitle track.
Production code2X17Original airdate · February 17, 1995
310 dialogue entries
Scene 00
Previously on The X-Files · Colony
Dana Scully (recap)
These men are cloned?
Gregor Clone (recap)
Unless you protect us, we are already dead.
Fox Mulder (recap)
Who was mom talking to?
Bill Mulder (recap)
Your sister.
Samantha Mulder (recap)
I'm in danger, Fox.
[ phone ringing ]
Dana Scully (recap)
Scully.
Fox Mulder (phone, recap)
It's me. Where are you? Scully? Are you there? Scully?
Scene 01
BEAUFORT SEA · 67 MILES NORTH OF DEADHORSE, ALASKA · USS ALLEGIANCE ·
Officer #1
Sir.
Officer #2
Captain.
Officer #1
Aye, sir.
Captain
What have you got?
Radar Officer
I'm not sure. We picked up some paint approximately two minutes ago.
Captain
Looks like the damn thing's just hanging there.
Radar Officer
Yes, sir. It's 200 meters below the ice. Looks to be about 80 meters across. And it's noisy.
Captain
Noisy? How?
Radar Officer
It's emitting radio signals across the spectrum. But it's just random noise. We can't detect any pattern.
Captain
Get me pacific command on the satellite uplink. Yes, admiral. I don't know what we've found, but it appears to be some kind of craft. [ admiral indistinct ] yes, sir, that's correct.
[ continues indistinct ]
Captain
We're on a cartography mission. My crew isn't prepared to--
[ continues indistinct ]
Captain
Yes, sir. Understood, sir. Set a course, heading 0-4-7.
Radar Officer
Toward the object, sir?
Captain
Weapons room. Aye, sir. Lock torpedoes on target. Prepare to fire on command.
Radar Officer
Shouldn't we attempt to identify this object first?
Captain
We have our orders.
Radar Officer
But, sir--
[ loud buzzing ]
[ confused chattering ]
Captain
The reactor's gone down.
Crew Member
Nothing here.
Captain
Engine room!
Radar Officer
That won't work. We've only got battery power.
Captain
I'm going down there. Prepare to surface at once!
Radar Officer
Surface into what? We're under 32 feet of glacial ice.
Scene 02
VACATION VILLAGE MOTORLODGE · GERMANTOWN, MARYLAND
Fox Mulder
Scully? Are you there? Scully, what's going on?
Dana Scully
No, sorry.
Alien Bounty Hunter (as Mulder)
Who was that?
Dana Scully
It's a wrong number.
[ clears throat ]
Dana Scully
Where have you been? I've been trying to get ahold of you.
Alien Bounty Hunter (as Mulder)
I was trying to reach you. I went by your house, but you weren't there. I got here as quickly as I could.
Dana Scully
Why didn't you call when you got my message?
Alien Bounty Hunter (as Mulder)
I, I did call. I couldn't get through.
Dana Scully
Put your hands against the wall.
Alien Bounty Hunter (as Mulder)
What are you doing?
Dana Scully
I said put your hands against the wall!
Alien Bounty Hunter (as Mulder)
What's wrong?
Dana Scully
Do it!
Alien Bounty Hunter (as Mulder)
Scully, it's me.
Dana Scully
I don't know who you are.
Alien Bounty Hunter (as Mulder)
I'm gonna take my left hand, reach into my pocket and get my ID, okay? Don't shoot me. Got shot once. I didn't much care for it.
Dana Scully
Keep your hands up.
Alien Bounty Hunter (as Mulder)
Where is he? [ groaning ] that was him on the phone, wasn't it? Tell me where he is.
Dana Scully
I don't know what you're talking about.
[ shouts ]
[ light switch clicks ]
Samantha Mulder
He's been here. Your partner is alive.
Fox Mulder
How do you know?
Samantha Mulder
He took her to get me.
Fox Mulder
There's no sign of a break-in. She wouldn't let him in.
Samantha Mulder
She might not have known who he was. She might have thought it was you. He's gonna contact you. He's gonna say he wants to make a trade: your partner's life for mine.
Fox Mulder
Why does he want to kill you?
Samantha Mulder
Because I know how to kill him.
Fox Mulder
How?
Samantha Mulder
By piercing the base of his skull.
Fox Mulder
That would kill anybody.
Samantha Mulder
But this is the only way to kill him, and it must be precise. I'm fairly sure it'll work.
Fox Mulder
Fairly sure?
Samantha Mulder
He's got powers I've never seen before. If it doesn't work, you could die.
Fox Mulder
From what?
Samantha Mulder
Their blood is toxic. Human exposure to it is fatal. I know this must seem incredible to you.
Fox Mulder
No, no, no. That's just it. It doesn't seem incredible. How do we find him?
Samantha Mulder
We don't. He'll find us.
Scene 03
MULDER'S APARTMENT
Samantha Mulder
He'll call.
Fox Mulder
You're sure?
Samantha Mulder
I know what he wants.
Fox Mulder
And if he doesn't get it?
Samantha Mulder
I know this is hard for you.
Fox Mulder
No, it's not hard. It's unbelievable.
Samantha Mulder
You don't believe me.
Fox Mulder
After 22 years, why come back?
Samantha Mulder
I've explained to you.
Fox Mulder
No, you've explained only what you had to. I know nothing about these people you call your parents, or the man who wants to kill them.
Samantha Mulder
The men you've been seeking are the progeny of two original visitors. Clones who've been attempting to establish a colony here since the late 1940s.
Fox Mulder
A colony?
Samantha Mulder
Loosely. The community, by necessity, is dispersed. There are clones identical to my parents living in every part of the country.
Fox Mulder
What are they trying to accomplish?
Samantha Mulder
It's their belief that our stewardship of the planet is being forsaken, and that by default, they'll someday become the heirs.
Fox Mulder
And in the meantime?
Samantha Mulder
Through hybridization, they've been working to erase... That aspect which has forced the community to scatter: their identical natures.
Fox Mulder
All the clones worked in abortion clinics. Why?
Samantha Mulder
Access to fetal tissue. Though the biologies are incompatible, they finally found a way... To combine human DNA with alien DNA.
Fox Mulder
And this man-- why has he been sent to kill them?
Samantha Mulder
The experiments weren't sanctioned. It was considered a dilution of their species, a pollution of their race. So a bounty hunter was dispatched to destroy them and terminate the colony.
Fox Mulder
That's a good story. But I've heard a lot of good stories lately.
Samantha Mulder
I've got no reason to lie to you. I'm your sister, Fox. You have to trust me.
[ knocks at door ]
Fox Mulder
Who is it?
Walter Skinner
Skinner. Mulder?
Fox Mulder
The door's open.
Walter Skinner
What's going on here? Why are the lights out?
Fox Mulder
Orders from my ophthalmologist.
Walter Skinner
You all right?
Fox Mulder
Yeah, I'm fine.
Walter Skinner
I've been trying to reach you and agent Scully.
Fox Mulder
I haven't checked my messages.
Walter Skinner
Are you aware Scully incarcerated four men with the federal marshal's office? Those men are now missing.
Samantha Mulder
It's all right. It's not him.
Walter Skinner
What the hell is going on here?
Fox Mulder
This is my sister, Samantha Mulder.
Walter Skinner
What?
Fox Mulder
I haven't had time to explain. Agent Scully is missing.
Walter Skinner
What do you mean "missing"?
Fox Mulder
[ phone ringing ] hello.
Dana Scully
Mulder, it's me.
Fox Mulder
Scully, where are you?
Dana Scully
I don't know. I'm in a phone booth. He's got my gun. He says he's gonna kill me if you don't give him what he wants.
Fox Mulder
What does he want?
Dana Scully
A woman who's with you. He says you'll know what I'm talking about.
Fox Mulder
Tell him we'll negotiate.
Dana Scully
He doesn't want to negotiate. He wants to make a trade.
Fox Mulder
Let me speak to him.
Dana Scully
He wants you to be at memorial bridge in bethesda in one hour.
Fox Mulder
I need more time than that.
Dana Scully
Mulder--
Walter Skinner
Where is she? What's this about a negotiation?
Fox Mulder
We don't have time. If I ever needed your help, your trust, I need it now.
Scene 04
OLD MEMORIAL BRIDGE · BETHESDA, MARYLAND
Walter Skinner
Mulder's in position.
Fox Mulder
We need to get him out of the car, make him think we're gonna make a trade. One shot.
Samantha Mulder
To the base of the neck.
Fox Mulder
These guys can hollow out a dime at 200 yards. Samantha, do not take any unnecessary risks out there. Scully?
Alien Bounty Hunter
Bring her out.
Walter Skinner
Take your shot when you've got it.
Alien Bounty Hunter
Step close. Right up close.
Fox Mulder
You all right?
Dana Scully
Yeah.
Fox Mulder
Yeah?
Dana Scully
I'm okay.
Fox Mulder
Samantha!
Sharpshooter
I lost the shot.
Fox Mulder
There's no way out. We got both sides of the bridge covered. Let her go.
Alien Bounty Hunter
Tell me where she is.
Fox Mulder
Let her go!
[ gunshot ] [ groans ]
Fox Mulder
Samantha! Samantha!
Raft Driver
Spread it out. Clear.
Rescue Worker
There's some debris under the bridge.
Dana Scully
Mulder.
Fox Mulder
You should be in the hospital.
Dana Scully
I was discharged an hour ago, and I asked to come here. Have they found anything yet?
Fox Mulder
Nothing yet. Do you think she could've survived?
Dana Scully
Maybe, but the water's 36 degrees.
Fox Mulder
Maybe she went into hypothermic shock. I've heard about people that've lived... In water like this eight to ten hours.
Dana Scully
Why didn't you tell me it was her?
Fox Mulder
I couldn't tell you.
Dana Scully
Why not?
Fox Mulder
'cause you'd never let me go through with it.
Dana Scully
Are you sure it's your sister?
Fox Mulder
Why would you question me on that?
Dana Scully
Because back at the motel it was you, but it wasn't you.
Fox Mulder
It was her!
Dana Scully
Then who is this man--
Fox Mulder
He's an alien.
Dana Scully
Is that what you're gonna tell Skinner?
Fox Mulder
I already told Skinner. That was the easy part. Now I gotta tell my father.
Scene 05
MULDER'S APARTMENT
Bill Mulder
You didn't have me come all this way to give me good news. What is it, Fox?
Fox Mulder
Samantha's gone, dad. I lost her.
Bill Mulder
What do you mean you lost her?
Fox Mulder
There was a man. He was holding my partner hostage in exchange for Samantha.
Bill Mulder
You let this man take your sister. Isn't that what you're trying to tell me?
Fox Mulder
I can't explain it to you, but I believed I was doing the right thing, dad.
Bill Mulder
Was this your decision?
Fox Mulder
Yes. I'll tell mom.
Bill Mulder
Do you realize what losing her again is going to do to your mother? Do you?
Fox Mulder
I'm sorry, dad. I'm sorry. I'm-- I'm sorry.
Bill Mulder
Your sis-- Samantha... Left this at the house for you.
[ phone ringing ]
Scene 06
WOMEN'S HEALTH SERVICES CLINIC · ROCKVILLE, MARYLAND
Fox Mulder
Mulder.
Dana Scully
Mulder, it's me.
Fox Mulder
She left a path in case we got separated. I think she's alive.
Dana Scully
I think you should come back as soon as you can.
Fox Mulder
Why? What'd you find?
Dana Scully
It's your sister. We just pulled her body out of the river. Mulder, I'm so sorry.
Fox Mulder
Are you sure?
Dana Scully
Yeah. You know, whatever you're feeling, you can't blame yourself. No, not yet.
Fox Mulder
I'll be there as soon as I can.
Scene 07
OLD MEMORIAL BRIDGE · BETHESDA, MARYLAND
Female Agent
Agent Scully, something you need to see.
Dana Scully
What is it?
Female Agent
It's the body we pulled from the water. Something strange is happening.
[ beeping ]
Scene 08
WOMEN'S HEALTH SERVICES CLINIC · ROCKVILLE, MARYLAND
[ beeping continues ]
Fox Mulder
Federal agent. Keep your hands where I can see them, and turn around... Slowly. Who are you?
Samantha Mulder Clone #1
She's dead, isn't she?
Fox Mulder
What the hell is going on?
Samantha Mulder Clone #1
Come, please. There's not much time.
Fox Mulder
Who are you?
Samantha Mulder Clone #1
Please.
[ beeping ]
Fox Mulder
It was all a lie.
Samantha Mulder Clone #1
We needed your help. We knew you could be manipulated.
Samantha Mulder Clone #2
He'll be coming. We must hurry.
Fox Mulder
Who?
Samantha Mulder Clone #3
The man who's been sent to kill us.
Fox Mulder
He's dead.
Samantha Mulder Clone #1
How do you know?
Fox Mulder
He was shot in the back of the neck.
Samantha Mulder Clone #2
How did he die?
Fox Mulder
He fell off a bridge... With one of you.
Samantha Mulder Clone #3
Then we don't know for sure. You could've been followed. Come with me. This way, agent Mulder. The rest of us are dispensable. She was the first, the one from which we all came, the one you must save.
Fox Mulder
I'm not your savior.
Samantha Mulder Clone #4
You must help us. You have no choice.
Fox Mulder
No, I do have a choice. And my choice is to walk out of here.
Samantha Mulder Clone #4
We know where your sister is. Ask yourself how else would we know so much about her?
[ alarm ringing ]
Samantha Mulder Clone #3
He's here.
[ ringing continues ]
[ coughs ]
[ excited chattering ]
[ coughs ]
Fireman
I found one. Sir, we're gonna get you out of here.
Fox Mulder
What about the others?
Fireman
We got lucky. There are no others.
Fox Mulder
No, wait. There were women in here.
Fireman
Relax. You're the only one here.
Fox Mulder
No, you've got to keep looking.
Scene 09
FBI HEADQUARTERS · WASHINGTON, D.C.
Dana Scully
After being treated for smoke inhalation, agent Mulder was released from samaritan hospital in satisfactory condition. At his request, the abortion clinic where he was found has been searched repeatedly, but the bodies of the women he insists perished there were not found. My report on this case remains incomplete. Many aspects continue to defy explanation, including the identities of the identical men and women. Agent Mulder's claim of alien origins cannot be substantiated. The man suspected in their disappearances is still at large...
Scene 10
US MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Dana Scully
And has now been charged with the death of FBI special agent barrett Weiss, whose body has been quarantined... At the u.s. Medical research institute of infectious diseases. Weiss's cause of death involved a thickening of the blood. It is now believed he was subjected to a virulent strain of virus... Whose origin and behavior are also unexplainable. It is my hope that further analysis of this contagion... Will aid in the solution of this case. This is a retrovirus?
Dr. Gardner
Yes, but none of us have ever seen anything like it. Do you recognize it?
Dana Scully
Was the thickening of agent Weiss's blood an immunological response to the virus?
Dr. Gardner
Apparently. When the body's exposed, it triggers a massive production of red blood cells. Take a look at this. We took a second culture, and were able to control its growth.
Dana Scully
What did you do to it?
Dr. Gardner
All we did was lower the temperature by five degrees fahrenheit.
Dana Scully
So the virus is inhibited by cold.
Dr. Gardner
Knocked out by it. For some reason, this retrovirus goes dormant at cold temperatures.
Dana Scully
We pulled a body from the river that was chilled near freezing. When it started to thaw, it began to corrode.
Dr. Gardner
Corrode?
Dana Scully
If you find out anything else, let me know as soon as possible.
Scene 11
KENNEDY CENTER · WASHINGTON, D.C.
X
You wanted to see me?
Fox Mulder
How was the opera?
X
Wonderful. I've never slept better. I don't like these hasty public meetings, Mulder.
Fox Mulder
I'm sorry. I need your help.
X
It's over. The fat lady is singing.
Fox Mulder
I need to know what you know.
X
Okay. They're all dead.
Fox Mulder
No. One of them is alive. The one who was sent to kill them. Where is he?
X
A nuclear submarine located his craft in beaufort sea five days ago. They were ordered to destroy it, but they were disabled. An attack fleet... Left port from anchorage this morning to make sure this man does not leave.
Fox Mulder
I've got to get up there.
X
You'll only win the war if you pick the right battles, agent Mulder. This is a battle you can't win.
Scene 12
MULDER'S APARTMENT
[ knocking ]
Dana Scully
Mulder, it's me. Are you there?
[ phone dial tone, dialing ]
Fox Mulder
When you get this message, I'll be too far away for you to stop me, but where I'm going, I can't allow you to follow. I won't let you jeopardize your life and career for reasons purely personal to me. You were right, Scully. You said a line has to be drawn somewhere, and I'm drawing it for you here. I'll contact you when I can.
Scene 13
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR WALTER SKINNER'S OFFICE · FBI HEADQUARTERS · WASHINGTON, D.C.
Dana Scully
Sir? I'm sorry to come unannounced, but your assistant wasn't at her desk.
Walter Skinner
What is it, Scully?
Dana Scully
May we speak off the record, sir?
Walter Skinner
About?
Dana Scully
Agent Mulder. He's gone. I don't know. I was hoping you could tell me, or help me to find out.
Walter Skinner
I spoke to Mulder day before yesterday. Said he was gonna take time off.
Dana Scully
He told me the same thing, but I don't think this matter with his sister is settled. Sir, is there any way you can reach him through unofficial channels?
Walter Skinner
I can't help you, Scully.
Dana Scully
Please!
Walter Skinner
You and I both have a greater responsibility to consider, and that is to the FBI agent Mulder's actions are in violation of his duties, oath of trust and protocol. His risked my position, your life--
Dana Scully
Agent Mulder saved my life!
Walter Skinner
If he wanted or expected you to do the same, he would've told you where he was going. Please close the door on your way out, agent Scully.
[ knocks at door ]
Scene 14
MULDER'S APARTMENT
Dana Scully
Where's Mulder?
X
Sorry. I must have the wrong apartment.
Dana Scully
Where's Mulder? I need to know, damn it!
X
I'm sorry. You've mistaken me for someone else.
Dana Scully
I'm losing time.
X
I'm sorry. I can't help you. Excuse me.
Walter Skinner
Did you tell her what she needed to know? How hard do you want to make this?
X
No harder than it has to be. I've killed men for far less.
Walter Skinner
You pull that trigger, you'll be killing two men. I want to know where Mulder is.
[ knocks at door ]
Walter Skinner
Agent Mulder took a commercial flight to tacoma, Washington. From there he caught a military plane to deadhorse, Alaska. He used his FBI credentials to charter an all-terrain vehicle. It's still a ten-mile hike across the ice. These are the coordinates of his final destination.
Dana Scully
How did you get this?
Walter Skinner
Unofficial channels.
[ door slams shut, footsteps running ]
Fox Mulder
Hey! Stop!
[ door slams ]
[ rattling ]
Fox Mulder
Who are you?
Man
Lieutenant terry wilmer.
Fox Mulder
Step out of there! Come out! What happened here?
Man
I don't know. We, uh-- we just lost power. We drifted under the ice for days. Then, um-- then we hit a--
Fox Mulder
Don't look at me! Face forward!
Man
We hit a shallow patch and punched through. Okay? That's what happened.
Fox Mulder
So why did you run?
Man
A man came. He, um-- he sealed most of the men below decks without any air. And then he started to execute the rest of us.
[ sobbing ]
Man
And they're all dead. I thought you were him. I didn't know if you were him.
Fox Mulder
How is it you managed to survive?
Man
I hid under the body of the chief petty officer. Okay? I, um-- I played dead.
[ rumbling ]
Man
What's this for? What, are you crazy?
Fox Mulder
No, I'm just tired. And you're not getting back your ship until I get the truth. Tell me where my sister is.
Man
I don't know what you're talking about.
Fox Mulder
Base of the neck! Tell me how I can find her... And I'll let you get back to your ship before it's destroyed.
Man
Please! You're making a really big mistake.
Alien Bounty Hunter
If I wanted to, I could have killed you many times before.
Fox Mulder
Where is she?
Alien Bounty Hunter
Is the answer to your question worth dying for? Is that what you want?
Fox Mulder
Where is she? Just tell me where she is.
Alien Bounty Hunter
She's alive. Can you die now?
Scene 15
EMERGENCY ROOM · EISENHOWER FIELD
[ screaming ]
[ groaning ]
[ rumbling sounds ]
Nurse
No change in b.p. Or pulse.
Dana Scully
I'm Dana Scully, agent Mulder's partner. What are his vitals?
Doctor
He suffering from extreme hypothermia.
Dana Scully
You've got to get him out of the tub.
Doctor
He's lost all his body heat.
Dana Scully
Listen to me. If you keep him in there, you're gonna kill him. The cold is the only thing that's keeping him alive.
Nurse
His heart stopped.
Doctor
Give me one amp of epinephrine and a cannula.
Dana Scully
You don't know what you're dealing with. Agent Mulder has been exposed to a retrovirus resulting in hyperviscosity syndrome.
Doctor
I want you out of my e.r. Right now. Nurse!
Nurse
Ma'am.
Dana Scully
His blood has thickened. That's why his heart is failing.
Doctor
His heart is failing because he's lost all his body heat.
Dana Scully
The only thing saving him is the hypometabolic state induced by the cold. If you don't do what I'm saying, you are going to kill him! Get him out of that tub now.
Man
Charged and ready.
Dana Scully
Clear.
Woman
Clear. No rhythm.
Doctor
No.
Dana Scully
Clear.
Woman
Clear.
Doctor
I'm picking up a faint pulse.
Dana Scully
I want a digoxin 0.1 milligram I.v. Hang a heparin drip at 1,000 units per hour... And get him two units of fresh frozen plasma now.
Doctor
The patient's not even--
Dana Scully
He's going to make it.
[ machine beeping ]
Dana Scully
Transfusions and an aggressive treatment with antiviral agents... Have resulted in a steady, gradual improvement in agent Mulder's condition. Blood tests have confirmed his exposure to the still unidentified retrovirus... Whose origin remains a mystery. The search team that found agent Mulder has located neither the missing submarine... Nor the man he was looking for. Several aspects of this case remain unexplained, suggesting the possibility of paranormal phenomena. But I am convinced that to accept such conclusions... Is to abandon all hope of understanding the scientific events behind them. Many of the things I have seen have challenged my faith... And my belief in an ordered universe. But this uncertainty has only strengthened my need to know, to understand, to apply reason to those things which seem to defy it. It was science that isolated the retrovirus agent Mulder was exposed to. And science that allowed us to understand its behavior. And ultimately, it was science that saved agent Mulder's life.
[ clears throat ]
Dana Scully
Hey. How you feeling?
[ hoarse voice ]
Fox Mulder
Like I got a bad case of freezer burn. How did I get here?
Dana Scully
A naval reconnaissance squad found you. They choppered you to eisenhower field. Thanks for ditching me.
Fox Mulder
I'm sorry. I couldn't let you risk your life on this.
Dana Scully
Did you find what you were looking for?
Fox Mulder
No. No. But I found something I thought I'd lost. Faith to keep looking.
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