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Hurry up!
Season 3 · Episode 9
Nisei
Character-labelled dialogue prepared from the official DVD subtitle track.
Production code3X09Original airdate · November 24, 1995
288 dialogue entries
Scene 01
KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE
[ train horn blares ]
[ signal bells clanging ]
Children
Hi! Hi! Hi!
Man
All clear.
Scene 02
FBI HEADQUARTERS · WASHINGTON D.C.
[ chattering ]
[ speaking japanese ]
[ car engine starts ]
[ medical instruments rattling ]
[ man speaking japanese ]
[ japanese ]
[ japanese ]
[ sucking sound ]
[ japanese ]
[ japanese ]
[ shouting ]
Japanese Doctor
Aah!
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Fox Mulder
Come on in.
Dana Scully
What are you watching?
Fox Mulder
Something that just came in the mail.
Dana Scully
That's not your usual brand of entertainment. What is it?
Fox Mulder
According to the magazine ad I answered, it's an alien autopsy. Guaranteed authentic.
Dana Scully
You spent money for this?
Fox Mulder
29.95, plus shipping.
Dana Scully
Mulder, this is even hokier than the one they aired on the Fox network. You can't even see what they're operating on.
Fox Mulder
Yeah, but it does look authentic. I mean, the setting and the procedures. I mean, it does look as if an actual autopsy is being performed, doesn't it?
Dana Scully
Well, technically, I don't know why they would be wearing gas masks.
Fox Mulder
Maybe it's because of this green substance... They seem to be extracting from the subject. Can you identify that?
Dana Scully
Olive oil? Snake oil? I suppose you think it's alien blood.
Fox Mulder
It's widely held that aliens don't have blood, Scully.
Dana Scully
I guess that begs the question. If this is an alien autopsy--
Fox Mulder
Where's the alien? What's so intriguing to me is the striking lack of detail here.
Dana Scully
Well, what do you want for 29.95?
Fox Mulder
That autopsy you saw on TV was so fake precisely because it tried to show too much.
Dana Scully
And this is real because it doesn't?
Fox Mulder
Yes, and because of, uh-- because of this.
Dana Scully
Who's selling these tapes?
Fox Mulder
Some guy in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Claims he pulled it off the satellite dish at 2:00 in the morning.
Scene 03
ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA
[ dogs barking ]
Dana Scully
The front door's boarded up.
Fox Mulder
Back door's been busted open. But nobody let the rat out.
Dana Scully
Mulder, in here. He's still warm.
[ door opens ]
Fox Mulder
Federal agent!
[ dog barking ]
Fox Mulder
Come on down.
[ yelling ]
[ gunshot ]
Fox Mulder
I get tired of losing my gun. Okay, now face the fence. Face the fence! What's your name?
[ speaking japanese ]
Fox Mulder
Do you speak english?
[ japanese ]
Fox Mulder
Great. Give me the bag. Give me the bag. Mmm. Okay, let's go.
[ japanese ]
Fox Mulder
Let's go!
[ chattering ]
[ phones ringing, people chattering ]
Scene 04
SUBSTATION C · ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA
Dana Scully
Either they can't locate an interpreter, or the interpreter they located... I don't know which.
Fox Mulder
Did you try the FBI field office?
Dana Scully
Somehow this is a tall request in Allentown this time of night.
Fox Mulder
Oh, look at this. A beacon in the night.
Walter Skinner
Agent Mulder, Scully.
Dana Scully
This is a surprise, sir.
Fox Mulder
You don't speak japanese by any chance, do you?
Walter Skinner
I wish I could. It might save us all some embarrassment.
Dana Scully
What do you mean?
Walter Skinner
I'm up here with a federal attorney trying to sort out a little international mess. He said you made an arrest tonight.
Fox Mulder
A murder suspect, yeah.
Walter Skinner
I'm afraid you're gonna have to release him.
Fox Mulder
What are you talking about?
Walter Skinner
According to the japanese diplomatic corps, the man is a high-ranking diplomat.
Fox Mulder
This man sitting in here?
Walter Skinner
That's kazuo sakari.
Fox Mulder
I didn't get his name. I was too busy getting my ass kicked.
Dana Scully
What about the murder victim or the paperwork?
Walter Skinner
It's all gonna be handled by some other agency. What are you two doing out here anyway?
Fox Mulder
Tracking down a video piracy thing.
Walter Skinner
I suggest you keep your nose clean, and head straight back to Washington, agent Mulder. Before someone takes another swipe at it.
Dana Scully
I don't know, Mulder. It just doesn't track. What would a japanese diplomat be doing in that house... With a dead man with his head stuffed in a pillowcase?
Fox Mulder
Obviously not strengthening international relations.
Dana Scully
Well, what do you want to do now? Drop it?
Fox Mulder
I paid my 29.95, Scully. I think I'm entitled to a few more answers, don't you think?
Dana Scully
What are you doing?
Fox Mulder
I just remembered a piece of evidence from the crime scene that I forgot to turn in.
[ police siren ]
Dana Scully
What are those?
Fox Mulder
They look like satellite photos. What would he be doing with these?
Dana Scully
What would he be doing with a list of mutual UFO network members... In the greater Allentown area with the name betsy Hagopian circled?
Fox Mulder
Maybe he was gonna fit her for a pillowcase too. Why don't you stick around. Get a motel room and check it out in the morning.
Dana Scully
What are you gonna do?
Fox Mulder
I'm gonna go back to D.C. Like a good boy, like Skinner told me to do, show these to a few friends of ours.
Scene 05
THE LONE GUNMEN'S OFFICE · WASHINGTON, D.C.
Langly
The name of the boat is the talapus. Just gotta love them german optics.
Fox Mulder
So you're saying that's from a german satellite.
Byers
No, the optics are german. The technology is probably ours. But the satellite is most likely japanese.
Frohike
Launched from south america.
Fox Mulder
Gotta love that global economy, huh?
Langly
Where'd you get this, Mulder?
Fox Mulder
Japanese diplomat.
Frohike
I'm surprised. The japanese are very secretive about their espionage capabilities, and extremely careful with their intelligence data.
Fox Mulder
What exactly are they spying on there?
Byers
The talapus was a salvage ship out of san diego. They spent months looking for a japanese sub that went down in world war ii. It was rumored to be carrying a load of gold bullion.
Fox Mulder
Did they find it?
Langly
Not according to all the reports. But looking at this photo here, the ship never returned to san diego.
Fox Mulder
Why do you say that?
Byers
In the rest of these satellite photos, they track the ship through the panama canal... All the way to newport news, virginia.
Fox Mulder
The naval shipyard.
Frohike
But why would they go there?
Fox Mulder
Maybe what they found wasn't a japanese sub.
Driver
Good evening, mr. Sakari.
Scene 06
BETSY HAGOPIAN'S HOUSE · ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA
[ gagging ]
[ engine starts ]
[ clears throat ]
Dana Scully
Hi. Betsy Hagopian?
Lottie Holloway
No, I'm sorry. Betsy's not here right now.
Dana Scully
Is there some way that I can get in touch with her? I'm sorry. Um, my name is Dana Scully.
Lottie Holloway
I know you.
Dana Scully
No. I think you must be mistaken.
Lottie Holloway
We saw you. Penny? Penny, come here.
Dana Scully
I'm-I'm afraid I'm not who you think I am.
Penny Northern
Oh, my god. She's one.
Dana Scully
One what?
Lottie Holloway
One of us.
Dana Scully
There must be some kind of mistake. I-I work for the FBI and I'm here conducting a murder investigation.
Lottie Holloway
A murder?
Penny Northern
Cathy, I'm here at betsy's. Can you call the group and get everyone over here right away?
Dana Scully
A man named steven zinnzser was murdered about two Miles from here.
Lottie Holloway
Penny, do you hear that?
Penny Northern
Steve zinnzser was murdered?
Dana Scully
Did you know him?
Lottie Holloway
He was a member of our chapter.
Dana Scully
But you understand I'm-I'm not a member. I'm an FBI agent.
Lottie Holloway
That's what you said.
Dana Scully
But at the door, you said that I was one of you.
Lottie Holloway
Did you have an unexplained event in your life last year? Were you missing for a period of time that can't be accounted for?
Dana Scully
Why did you ask me that?
Penny Northern
I think you better sit down, miss Scully. I think there's some people you're gonna wanna meet.
Scene 07
U.S. COAST GUARD HEADQUARTERS · NEWPORT NEWS, VIRGINIA
Coast Guard Officer
Talapus?
Fox Mulder
It's a salvage ship registered in san diego. According to the harbormaster, you went out to meet the boat... When customs wouldn't allow it into port.
Coast Guard Officer
Oh, yeah. That's right. But it wasn't customs preventing her landing. It was the d.e.a.
Fox Mulder
The d.e.a.? Why? What was the problem?
Coast Guard Officer
They were searching for contraband, if I remember correctly. Boat came through panama. There was some concern that her crew might have picked up a shipment.
Fox Mulder
Did they find anything?
Coast Guard Officer
We were never aboard. I think there was a question of confiscating the boat... If the crew were to be arrested.
Fox Mulder
Were they?
Coast Guard Officer
Apparently not. We were called off, and the boat put out to sea the following morning.
Fox Mulder
Well, that doesn't make any sense.
Coast Guard Officer
Excuse me?
Fox Mulder
The talapus came nonstop from panama. She would've had to stop to refuel.
Coast Guard Officer
I don't have all the details in my head.
Fox Mulder
Would you do me a favor? Would you see if there's any paperwork on this? See if there's a heading or a destination for the talapus.
Coast Guard Officer
That might take some time.
Fox Mulder
That's all right. I'm happy to wait.
Scene 08
BETSY HAGOPIAN'S HOUSE · ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA
Dana Scully
But I've never met any of you. I-I've never seen any of you before in my life.
Lottie Holloway
You may not remember. You've only had one experience.
Penny Northern
Most of us here have been taken many times.
Dana Scully
Taken? Taken where?
Lottie Holloway
The bright white place.
Diane
You remember it, don't you?
Dana Scully
I don't know.
Diane
There are men there performing tests.
Dana Scully
What men?
Lottie Holloway
They don't reveal themselves. They take our memories away. But somehow they start to seep back.
Penny Northern
Some may have come back to you, but they didn't make sense.
Lottie Holloway
Do you know about regression hypnosis?
Dana Scully
Yes, I'm--
Lottie Holloway
Have you ever considered it?
Dana Scully
I'm sorry. I don't think I'm ready to discuss this.
Diane
You're afraid to remember, aren't you? That's okay. We were all afraid at first.
Scene 09
U.S. COAST GUARD HEADQUARTERS · NEWPORT NEWS, VIRGINIA
Coast Guard Officer
Agent Mulder?
Man
Got about five more pallets here, greg.
[ air horn blasts ]
[ air horn blasts ]
[ car tires skid ]
[ air horn blasts ]
Scene 10
BETSY HAGOPIAN'S HOUSE · ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA
Lottie Holloway
I don't know. When I opened that door and saw you standing there, it was like a revelation. The image of your face was so clear to me.
Dana Scully
But why is it that I don't remember you?
Penny Northern
All you remember in the beginning is the light. And then sometimes the faces, the men that performed the tests.
Dana Scully
How do you know that you're not mistaking me for somebody else?
Diane
You have the mark, don't you?
Dana Scully
What mark?
Diane
Here, on the back of your neck.
Lottie Holloway
We all have them. It's where they put the implants.
[ jars' contents rattling ]
Dana Scully
I really have to go. I just came--
Lottie Holloway
To see betsy?
Dana Scully
Yes. To see betsy Hagopian. Why are you all at her house? Where is she?
Scene 11
DEPT. OF ONCOLOGY · ALLENTOWN MEDICAL CENTER
Dana Scully
What's wrong with her?
Lottie Holloway
Betsy's in the advanced stages of an undiagnosed cancer ailment. Her body's full of tumors that won't respond to any kind of treatment.
Dana Scully
And you think this is the result of her abduction experiences?
Penny Northern
They've been taking betsy since she was in her teens. This is what's gonna happen to all of us.
Dana Scully
What do you mean?
Lottie Holloway
I don't know if you understand this or not, Dana, but we're all gonna end up like betsy.
Penny Northern
We're all dying because of what they do to us.
Scene 13
MULDER'S APARTMENT · WASHINGTON, D.C.
[ chattering ]
[ chattering ]
[ machinery noise ]
Walter Skinner
I think they found what they were looking for.
Fox Mulder
Whoo. I don't remember giving you a key.
Walter Skinner
I came to see you. Obviously, I was late for the party.
Fox Mulder
Yeah, I guess I should really fire my maid, shouldn't I?
Walter Skinner
Put the gun down, Mulder. Somebody else might get hurt.
Fox Mulder
What are you talking about?
Walter Skinner
Kazuo sakari, the diplomat that you detained yesterday.
Fox Mulder
Our murder suspect.
Walter Skinner
He didn't make his flight last night. This morning his body was found floating face down in the c&o canal. I think we can assume he wasn't diving for pearls. The japanese government believes that he was murdered for the contents of a briefcase... That he was carrying. A piece of evidence that wasn't logged in the time of his arrest.
Fox Mulder
What do they think was in it?
Walter Skinner
I've got the state department breathing down my neck, Mulder. The japanese are set to prosecute this outside of diplomatic channels. So let's cut the crap.
Fox Mulder
Am I being accused of murder?
Walter Skinner
Where's the briefcase?
Fox Mulder
Agent Scully has it. She has it in the trunk of a rental car.
Walter Skinner
And where is she?
Fox Mulder
I don't know. I haven't spoken to her since I left her in Allentown.
Walter Skinner
Then you better find her, because whatever you stepped in on this case... Is being tracked into my office, and I don't like the smell.
Fox Mulder
Mind if I tidy up in here a bit first?
Walter Skinner
This is bigger than me, you or the FBI, agent Mulder. I hope you've got other names in your phone book, because I'm taking myself off the hook on this one. You're on your own.
Scene 14
OFFICE OF SENATOR RICHARD MATHESON · WASHINGTON, D.C.
Richard Matheson
Hello, Fox.
Fox Mulder
Thank you for seeing me on such short notice.
Richard Matheson
I understand you're in a difficult position. Don't look so stunned. I'm on the intelligence committee. Secrets are the only real currency we deal in.
Fox Mulder
Then you already know what I'm up against.
Richard Matheson
Perhaps better than you do. Which, I assume, is why you've come here.
Fox Mulder
I need your advice on how to proceed.
Richard Matheson
Return the satellite photos.
Fox Mulder
I'd be implicating myself.
Richard Matheson
A good chess player knows which pieces to sacrifice, and when.
Fox Mulder
But I can't afford to become entangled in a murder investigation. Not now.
Richard Matheson
Why?
Fox Mulder
Because of what I've seen. Because it would give them time to bury it all where I might not find it again.
Richard Matheson
Do you trust me, Fox? Then let me earn your trust with the truth.
Fox Mulder
I'm listening.
Richard Matheson
Several weeks ago in Knoxville, Tennessee, four japanese nationals were murdered. All prominent doctors apparently engaged in a highly classified project.
Fox Mulder
What kind of project? The autopsy of an extraterrestrial life-form. Was that part of it?
Richard Matheson
I can't tell you. Some secrets do remain secret, Fox, even to me. I was only just now given the names of the murdered scientists. Their credentials, however, are a matter of public record. Past deeds which may illuminate present treacheries. Your time is limited. Before you become, as you say, entangled in this... Past the point of being about to... Fully understand or expose it.
Fox Mulder
What am I onto here?
Richard Matheson
Monsters begetting monsters.
Scene 15
X-FILES OFFICE · FBI HEADQUARTERS · WASHINGTON D.C.
[ knocking at door ]
Fox Mulder
Scully.
Dana Scully
Why is the door locked?
Fox Mulder
I have something to show you.
Dana Scully
Do you have any idea where I've been?
Fox Mulder
Allentown?
Dana Scully
I went to go see those MUFON members to find out about that woman, betsy Hagopian.
Fox Mulder
What'd you find?
Dana Scully
I found out that she's dying, along with a lot of other women who claim to be dying too. All of them who say that they had these implanted in them.
Fox Mulder
But you're fine, aren't you, Scully?
Dana Scully
Am I? I don't know, Mulder. Th-they said that they know me. That they've seen me before. It was freaky. They know things about me, about my disappearance.
Fox Mulder
Well, that is disturbing. But I don't think you should freak out until we find out what this thing is.
[ phone ringing ]
Fox Mulder
Mulder. I got a fax coming.
Dana Scully
What is this?
Fox Mulder
That's a group of japanese medical officers taken during world war ii.
Dana Scully
I've seen this man before.
Fox Mulder
No, I don't think so. Not unless you were in japan in the last 50 years.
Dana Scully
No, I've seen him before.
Fox Mulder
His name is dr. Takeo Ishimaru. He's been dead since 1965. He was the commander of an elite section of the japanese medical corps known as 731, a unit now known to have experimented on human subjects. They performed vivisections without anesthesia, tested frostbite tolerance levels on infants, exposed innocent prisoners of war to diseases, the plague. Like their nazi counterparts, they were never brought to justice.
Dana Scully
What are you doing with these?
Fox Mulder
Four of the doctors you see were on that videotape I showed you performing that autopsy.
Dana Scully
Yeah, but they were in full surgical dress. You couldn't tell one from the other.
Fox Mulder
Somebody could, because those same four men were murdered yesterday. Found here right on u.s. Soil. [ beeping ]
Dana Scully
Murdered for what?
Fox Mulder
That's what I'd like to know.
Dana Scully
Or murdered by whom?
Fox Mulder
Possibly our government.
Dana Scully
Our government? For what possible reason?
Fox Mulder
For continuing their work, the work the nazis were doing. Trying to create an alien/human hybrid.
Dana Scully
That is still a fantasy.
Fox Mulder
Scully, after all you've seen-- after all you've told me you've seen-- the tunnel filled with medical files, the beings moving past you, the implant in your neck, why do you refuse to believe?
Dana Scully
Believing's the easy part, Mulder. I just need more than you. I need proof.
Fox Mulder
You think that believing is easy? [ beeping ] well, we have proof. I identified what those five photos were tracking. A ship that pulled a UFO off the bottom of the pacific ocean, a UFO that's in a warehouse right now being guarded by u.s. Military personnel. A UFO that was probably carrying that e.b.e. We saw on that autopsy tape.
Dana Scully
What am I looking at?
Fox Mulder
Part of our government's secret railroad. Train cars used to carry test subjects, used to conduct that autopsy we saw being performed.
Dana Scully
Where did you get this?
Fox Mulder
From someone like you who wants proof. Who's also willing to believe.
Scene 16
FBI HEADQUARTERS · WASHINGTON, D.C.
Agent Pendrell
Hmm. Amazing.
Dana Scully
Do you know what it is?
Agent Pendrell
Looks like some kind of microprocessor.
Dana Scully
So you're saying that this is manmade.
Agent Pendrell
What else would it be? I mean, it's definitely state of the art.
[ beeping ]
Agent Pendrell
The microlithography is extremely complex. I've never seen anything even close to this density.
Dana Scully
Any way of finding out who manufactures it?
Agent Pendrell
Uh, there are a few companies out in san jose, a couple in boston. It could be any one of them.
Dana Scully
What are these chips used for?
Agent Pendrell
Video games, brake systems. They're finding new apps every day. I read about one being designed to help the disabled operate computers using brain waves.
Dana Scully
How?
Agent Pendrell
Through direct electrochemical interface with the cerebral cortex. Pretty incredible, huh?
Dana Scully
Yeah.
[ speaking japanese ]
Scene 18
X-FILES OFFICE · FBI HEADQUARTERS · WASHINGTON D.C.
[ japanese ]
[ radio: japanese ]
[ japanese ]
[ japanese ]
[ speaking japanese ]
[ phone ringing ]
Dana Scully
Scully.
Fox Mulder
Scully, it's me.
Dana Scully
Where are you?
Fox Mulder
The train yard in quinnimont, West Virginia. A group of japanese men just put someone in one of those boxcars we saw in the satellite photos.
Dana Scully
I thought you said that it was our government's railroad.
Fox Mulder
Something serious is going down here, Scully.
Dana Scully
What do you mean?
Fox Mulder
The thing they put in the train, it was alive.
Dana Scully
Mulder--
Fox Mulder
I gotta get on that train. It's hooking up with a canadian passenger train outside cincinnati.
Dana Scully
Mulder, I was right about dr. Ishimaru. He isn't dead. In fact, he's on your videotape.
Fox Mulder
That's where you know him from then.
Dana Scully
No, that's not where I know him from at all.
[ chattering ]
[ chattering ]
[ voice from p.a. System: indistinct ]
Scene 19
EDWARDS TERMINAL · QUEENSGATE, OHIO
Announcer
Your attention, please. All passengers on canadian northwest express to Vancouver, prepare for boarding on track four. Please prepare for boarding on track four.
[ tires squeal ]
Fox Mulder
Express train to Vancouver, what track is it on?
Train Station Clerk
It just left.
Fox Mulder
When did it leave?
Train Station Clerk
You just missed it. It just pulled out of the station.
Fox Mulder
Thanks.
Scene 20
MULDER'S APARTMENT COMPLEX
X
Agent Scully.
Dana Scully
What are you doing here?
X
Have you spoken to agent Mulder?
Dana Scully
No. Why?
X
He's in danger.
Dana Scully
How do you know?
X
He's tracking a train. You can't let him get on it.
Dana Scully
I don't know what you're talking about.
X
You've got to get word to him.
Dana Scully
Why should I trust you? You've lied to us before.
X
You're wasting time. Do you understand?
[ tires squeal ]
Scene 21
OVERPASS
[ phone ringing ]
Fox Mulder
[ ringing ] Mulder.
Dana Scully
Mulder, don't get on the train. -
Fox Mulder
Why not?
Dana Scully
Because they know where you are and they know what you're doing.
Fox Mulder
Who told you that?
Dana Scully
Look, Mulder. It's just too dangerous.
Fox Mulder
Who told you, Scully? Scully, it's coming.
Dana Scully
Let it go.
Fox Mulder
I can't.
Dana Scully
Mulder, don't get on the train! Mulder? Mulder, don't! Mul-- [ static ]
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