Engineer #2
Gauthier? Gauthier. Gauthier! Gauthier!
Season 3 · Episode 15
Piper Maru
Character-labelled dialogue prepared from the official DVD subtitle track.
Production code3X15Original airdate · February 9, 1996
291 dialogue entries
Scene 01
PACIFIC OCEAN
[ speaking french ]
[ banging on metal ]
[ banging on metal ]
[ muffled shouting ]
FBI Employee
Hold the elevator. Hold it! Hold it!
Scene 02
FBI HEADQUARTERS
Walter Skinner
Agent Scully, can I see you for a few minutes? Kimberly, would you excuse us please?
Kimberly
Certainly, sir.
Walter Skinner
A memo came across my desk last night. I debated whether or not... To call you at home but I decided to--
Dana Scully
And it concerns me?
Walter Skinner
Yes, and your sister. It's been five months and there have been no new leads or evidence... In her murder investigation by the D.C. Police team or the bureau. I've been told the case is to be made inactive until further notice.
Dana Scully
I see.
Walter Skinner
I don't think there's anything to be read into this. I think it's a case of manpower and workload. I want you to know, though, that I am going to appeal this decision, and I am gonna go back over all the evidence again myself... To make sure that nothing has been overlooked.
Dana Scully
You know, it's strange. Men can blow up buildings and they can be nowhere near the crime scene, but we can piece together the evidence and convict them beyond a doubt. Our labs here can recreate, out of the most microscopic detail, the motivation and circumstance to almost any murder, right down to a killer's attitude towards his mother and that he was a bed wetter. But in a case of a woman, my sister, who was gunned down in cold blood in a well-lit apartment building... By a shooter who left the weapon at the crime scene, we can't even put together enough to keep anybody interested.
Walter Skinner
I don't think this has anything to do with interest.
Dana Scully
If I may say so, sir, it has everything to do with interest. Just not yours... And not mine.
Scene 03
Scene 03
[ knock on door ]
Fox Mulder
Yeah?
Dana Scully
Sorry I'm late.
Fox Mulder
Anything up?
Dana Scully
No, it's nothing. What did you want to talk to me about?
Fox Mulder
Something interesting came into my attention last night. A french salvage ship, the Piper Maru, limped into port in san diego yesterday, all the way from the north pacific.
Dana Scully
Why is that of interest?
Fox Mulder
Using the national weather service satellite system, I was able to track its course. This was its original position.
Dana Scully
At longitude 171 east, latitude 42 north.
Fox Mulder
Yeah, that's where the boat we know as the talapus... Pulled up what you believe was a russian sub, and what I believe was the remains of a UFO.
Dana Scully
Oh, Mulder--
Fox Mulder
Look, Scully, I don't know what it is, but something is still down there... And now the french are looking for it too.
Dana Scully
So what?
Fox Mulder
So why all the attention paid to this site? What information are they acting on?
Dana Scully
Why don't you just ask them?
Fox Mulder
I would, but the entire crew is being treated for radiation burns.
Dana Scully
From exposure to what?
Fox Mulder
The french government is keeping that information classified.
Dana Scully
Could it have anything to do with their resumption of nuclear tests?
Fox Mulder
I checked. It's thousands of Miles away from any test site.
[ giggles ]
Fox Mulder
What?
Dana Scully
I'm just constantly amazed by you. I-- you're working down here in the basement, sifting through files and transmissions... That any other agent would just throw away in the garbage.
Fox Mulder
Well, that's why I'm in the basement, Scully.
Dana Scully
You're in the basement because they're afraid of you, of your relentlessness, and because they know that they could drop you in the middle of the desert... And tell you the truth is out there, and you'd ask them for a shovel.
Fox Mulder
Is that what you think of me?
Dana Scully
Well, maybe not a shovel. Maybe a backhoe.
Fox Mulder
That's good, because there's some garbage in san diego... I want you to help me dig through.
Scene 04
SAN DIEGO NAVAL HOSPITAL, CA
Fox Mulder
Dr. Seizer?
Dr. Seizer
Yes.
Fox Mulder
Special agent Mulder. This is agent Scully.
Dr. Seizer
You're here about these french sailors with the radiation exposure?
Fox Mulder
How are they doing?
Dr. Seizer
Not real good. It's been difficult to determine a proper course of treatment, because there's an air of secrecy around what happened. The source of their exposure is still undetermined.
Dana Scully
These symptoms, would you characterize them as acute or somatic? I'm a medical doctor.
Dr. Seizer
They're somatic, although I don't think we've seen the worst of it. The effects are degrading rapidly, spontaneous internal bleeding... In the mouths and intestinal tracts, blood in the urine. All these men are suffering severe delirium, the pre-advanced stages of coma.
Dana Scully
What kind of exposure are we talking about here?
Dr. Seizer
Two hundred, maybe four hundred roentgens, with a high rate of absorption.
Dana Scully
That's verging on the levels the victims of hiroshima suffered.
Dr. Seizer
Whatever these men came in contact with, it was manmade. Levels like this just don't appear in nature.
Dana Scully
Did you get the chance to talk to any of them?
Dr. Seizer
No, they were in pretty bad shape by the time they got to me, except for one man, and this was strange, because he was the only one who seemed to be completely unaffected. I held him for the first day, but I detected none of the symptoms of the others. His leukocytes and erythrocytes were high. Actually, he was in very good health.
Fox Mulder
How could that be? With that level of radiation, how could one man not be exposed?
Dr. Seizer
Doesn't make any sense. But it's lucky for these men because he was the one who piloted the boat in. And none of these men could've done that in their condition.
Fox Mulder
Would it be possible for us to talk to him?
Dr. Seizer
You could if he were still here, but he discharged himself this morning. He's a frenchman, has a san francisco address, his name is Gauthier.
Scene 06
US NAVAL STATION
[ phone ringing ]
[ ringing continues ]
[ ship horn blows ]
Military Personnel
Watch that perimeter! Okay, let's wrap it up and get in the truck.
A Man'S Voice
I'm getting no answer at this man Gauthier's home number.
Fox Mulder
Try the I.n.s. Or the french consulate, see what you can pull on him.
Military Personnel
Right there!
Fox Mulder
Yes, could I have the number for the french consulate please? Agents Mulder and Scully, FBI
Man
I'm wayne morgan. I'm with the navy's investigative services unit.
Fox Mulder
Have you turned anything up?
Wayne Morgan
No, nothing, but I'm not exactly sure what I'm supposed to be looking for.
Fox Mulder
The crew of this ship is being treated for radiation.
Wayne Morgan
Yeah, we got all that. We had a hazmat team poring over the boat. Didn't find a trace.
Dana Scully
Nothing?
Wayne Morgan
We have divers in the water going over the hull, put probes down the bilge. Couldn't detect the slightest level.
Fox Mulder
So it's okay for us to go on board?
Wayne Morgan
Sure. Probably get more radiation off your cell phone.
Wayne Morgan
Generator's back up. That better?
Dana Scully
Yeah. Thanks. Is this the way you found this room?
Wayne Morgan
Nothing's been touched, not since she's been tied up here anyway. It's a mess, huh?
Fox Mulder
Feels like home.
Dana Scully
Feels like somebody was looking for something. Any idea what?
Fox Mulder
No. I'm looking for the v.c.r.
Dana Scully
What for?
Fox Mulder
The dive suit has a video camera.
Wayne Morgan
What the hell is that?
Fox Mulder
Looks like the fuselage of a plane.
Dana Scully
It's a north american p-51 mustang.
Wayne Morgan
Yeah, it sure is.
Fox Mulder
I just got very turned on.
Dana Scully
It's the shape of the canopy. I used to watch my father and brothers put together... World war ii model planes as a kid.
Fox Mulder
Would it have been carrying anything radioactive?
Dana Scully
No. It was just a fighter.
Fox Mulder
Then what was it those men were exposed to?
Dana Scully
I don't know, but I might know somebody I can ask.
Scene 07
GAUTHIER'S HOUSE
[ door opens ]
Kim Cook
You're home! I was so worried about you! Why didn't you call me? There were these men here from the consulate. They said there'd been an accident. Why aren't you answering me? Why aren't you answering me?
Scene 08
MIRAMAR NAVAL AIR STATION
Dana Scully
Hi. I'm here to see commander Johansen.
Military
Name, please.
Dana Scully
Special agent Dana Scully, FBI
Military
Do you have an appointment?
Dana Scully
No. Uh, he use to be a friend of my father's. I'm out here from Washington. I wanted to surprise him.
Military
Let me give you directions.
Dana Scully
I know my way. Thanks.
Scene 09
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
[ children laughing ]
[ bicycle bell ringing ]
[ girls giggling ]
Child (memory)
Five, six. Got it! Good, Dana!
[ laughing ]
Fox Mulder
Mr. Gauthier!
[ knocking ]
Fox Mulder
Mr. Gauthier, open the door. It's the FBI mr. Gauthier? Mr. Gauthier?
Gauthier
Salvage.
[ rattling ]
Fox Mulder
Mr. Gauthier? I want you to lie still. I'm with the FBI what happened? Did you fall?
Gauthier
I don't know.
Fox Mulder
How did you get here?
Gauthier
I can't remember. I was on the boat.
Fox Mulder
The Piper Maru? That's the last thing you remember?
Gauthier
Yes. I was on a dive.
Fox Mulder
Okay. Do you know where you are now?
Gauthier
I'm at home. Where's my wife?
Fox Mulder
Nobody else is home, but somebody's been here going through your papers.
Gauthier
Where's joan?
Fox Mulder
She's not here. Look, I-- you need to be careful. You've got some kind of oil all over you.
Gauthier
What's going on here?
Fox Mulder
I want you to try to remain calm, okay? I'd like to ask you a few questions about a letter, about a j. Kallenchuk salvage brokers.
Gauthier
I don't recognize that name.
Fox Mulder
Well, somebody did, and I think you know why.
Gauthier
I would like to speak to the french consul general. I have nothing more to say.
Woman
He'll be right out.
Scene 10
BASE
Old Man
Yes?
Dana Scully
Commander Johansen?
Commander Johansen
Yes.
Dana Scully
I'm Dana Scully. I used to live three doors down. My father was captain William Scully. I went to school with your son.
Commander Johansen
I'm sorry. Um-- my memory isn't quite what it used to be. Richard doesn't live here anymore.
Dana Scully
Actually, sir, I-- I came to see you. Oh. I work for the FBI now, and there's a question that I'm hoping that you can answer.
Commander Johansen
Oh, well, would you come in? Do sit down.
Dana Scully
Thank you.
Commander Johansen
Would you like something to drink?
Dana Scully
No, thanks. I know that you were an officer in the pacific theater during world war ii. I wanted to ask you about a plane that's been discovered.
Commander Johansen
Discovered?
Dana Scully
Yes. A p-51 mustang... At the bottom of the pacific ocean with the, uh, call numbers jtt0 111470.
Commander Johansen
Well, those are not the call numbers of p-51.
Dana Scully
There was an illustration on the fuselage with the words "drop dead red."
Commander Johansen
I'm sorry.
Dana Scully
Would the words "Zeus Faber" mean anything to you?
Commander Johansen
No, but as I said, sometimes my memory is not so sharp.
Dana Scully
Well, would you know anybody I might be able to talk to? Someone who might be able to give me that information?
Commander Johansen
I wish I could help you.
Dana Scully
I wish you could too. There's a number of french sailors who may die from radiation exposure. If we knew more about the plane, we might be able to understand why. Anyway, it was very good to see you again, sir. I wish I could. He's passed away.
Commander Johansen
I'm-- I'm very sorry.
Dana Scully
I have to say this place brings back memories for me. I remember all the kids used to play a game called beckons wanted... Right out there. Well... If you talk to your son, will you tell him I stopped by? Thank you.
Scene 11
3702 MEDLOCK STREET
[ knock on door ]
Woman
Who is it?
Fox Mulder
My name is Mulder. I'm with the FBI
Woman
It's open. Can I help you?
Fox Mulder
I'm looking for mr. Kallenchuk.
Woman
I'm sorry. Mr. Kallenchuk's out of town. Perhaps I could help you with something.
Fox Mulder
Maybe you can tell me where I could find him.
Woman
Sure. The far east.
Fox Mulder
Well, I've got a letter here typed on his stationary. Maybe you typed it for him.
Woman
Sorry, I don't type. What did you say your name was again?
Fox Mulder
Mulder.
Woman
Mr. Mulder, I'd be happy to relay any message you have for him, but I really have no way of contacting mr. Kallenchuk just now.
Fox Mulder
Okay, well, why don't you just have him call me as soon as he can?
Woman
Sure. The FBI
Fox Mulder
Yes. What did you say your name was?
Woman
Geraldine.
Fox Mulder
Thank you, geraldine.
[ speaking french ]
Scene 12
THE BASE
Military
Agent Scully, would you step out of the car please?
Dana Scully
Why?
Military
Just turn off the engine and step out of the car, please.
Dana Scully
What's this about?
Military
You're being detained.
Commander Johansen
Pull over there.
Dana Scully
What's going on?
Commander Johansen
I can't give your regards to my son, miss Scully. He was killed... In a training accident during the gulf war.
Dana Scully
I'm sorry. There's something else, isn't there?
Commander Johansen
We bury our dead alive, don't we?
Dana Scully
I don't know if I understand.
Commander Johansen
We hear them every day. They talk to us. They haunt us. They beg us for meaning. Conscience-- it's just the voices of the dead, trying to save us from our own damnation.
Dana Scully
You know something about that plane, don't you?
Commander Johansen
I know... Because I was sent to find it... As an officer in a submarine called the Zeus Faber.
Airline Clerk
Okay, you're all set. Flight 114. Gate 2. Have a good trip.
Fox Mulder
Thank you.
Scene 13
SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
Airline Clerk
Next in line, please.
[ cell phone ringing ]
Fox Mulder
Mulder.
Dana Scully
Mulder, it's me. Where are you.
Fox Mulder
San francisco airport. Where are you?
Dana Scully
Miramar air base. I think I just found out what those men were exposed to, what the Piper Maru was out there looking for.
Fox Mulder
What?
Dana Scully
That p-51 mustang was part of an escort for a b-29 carrying an atomic bomb, just like the one we dropped on hiroshima, only this one never reached its target.
Fox Mulder
Says who?
Dana Scully
Says one of the men originally sent to find it... On a submarine called the Zeus Faber.
Fox Mulder
That was the name we saw written on that dive chart, right?
Dana Scully
It all makes sense, Mulder. Why would they build a nuclear weapon... When they can salvage one?
Fox Mulder
Why, if they knew about it, why wait 50 years to try to recover it? And why was the only person not exposed the diver who was sent down to find it?
Dana Scully
I don't know.
Fox Mulder
Why don't you try to find out?
Dana Scully
What about you?
Fox Mulder
I gotta go to hong kong.
Dana Scully
Hong kong?
Fox Mulder
Yeah. Look, I'm gonna miss my flight, so, uh, I gotta call you back, okay?
[ door opens ]
Scene 14
WASHINGTON DC
Waitress
Hi.
Operative 1
Anything good here? Anything not on the menu?
Walter Skinner
You'll have to ask the waitress. You gentleman have a problem?
Operative 1
When something's not on the menu, mr. Skinner, there's usually a reason, wouldn't you say?
Walter Skinner
I'm sorry. I didn't come here for the conversation.
Operative 2
A hierarchy exists in the FBI, isn't that right? A man has status, like yourself, the assistant director, those under him obey his orders, right?
Walter Skinner
Who are you guys?
Operative 1
We work for the intelligence community.
Walter Skinner
Remind me not to move there.
Operative 1
You take your orders like those below you, mr. Skinner. A case is made inactive-- the death of an FBI agent's sister-- maybe that's because... Those above you have done the hard work of arriving at that decision.
Walter Skinner
Thanks for the enlightenment. I'm gonna go now.
Operative 1
It helps to remember these things when a man looks forward to his career, to his plans for future.
Scene 15
BASE
Commander Johansen
We all joined thinking we'd come home heroes. That's me. The rest of the men in the picture, a month later, they were all dead. The madness we planned to unleash on the japanese, we ended up setting it loose on ourselves.
Dana Scully
Radiation killed those men?
Commander Johansen
The men you say had burns on their bodies, that's how it began with us. Awful burns.
[ Johansen narrating ]
Commander Johansen
We'd found the sunken squadron... When a japanese destroyer moved into the area. [ rumbling ] but rather than attempt to return home, captain sanford ordered us to go to silent running. After three days, the burns started to appear. Baker got them first, then vorce and innocenti. No one had seen burns like these before, but a lot of us began to suspect they had something to do with the planes... That we'd been sent to recover. The men were all frightened of dying. As the x.o., I urged the captain to return to port, but against all reason and good sense, he refused to leave the area.
Man
Captain sanford? I'm not an m.d., but I know a lost cause when I see one. These men are all dying, and there's nothing that I can do to stop it.
Captain Sanford
Just do your damn job.
Man
Sir, I'm trying, but if we stay down here any longer, none of us are going home. You're the x.o. You've gotta get us to the surface.
Commander Johansen
We are under the captain's orders.
Man
He's losing his mind.
Commander Johansen
The japanese are shadowing us. That destroyer is doing wide circles above our position.
Man
You have to take control of this sub, sir. You have to make a decision.
Another Man'S Voice
We're all gonna die! All of us! We're dying! Can't you all see that? You've gotta get us out of here!
[ Johansen narrating ]
Another Man'S Voice
Our silence had been shattered by the gunshot. The only command that could save us from the japanese destroyer now... An order I knew the captain would never issue.
Captain Sanford
Johansen! Open this door!
[ banging on door ]
Captain Sanford
Open this door! Johansen!
[ Johansen narrating ]
Commander Johansen
I knew mutiny was our only chance for survival. But I also knew, by sealing that door, I was sealing the fate of the men locked behind it. By luck or the grace of god, we made it to pearl harbor.
Dana Scully
What happened to sanford and the sick crewmen?
Commander Johansen
When they opened that door, those that were not dead were dying. There were 144 men on that boat. Only seven of us survived. Whatever killed them, I was allowed to live, to raise a family, to grow old. None of us ever got an explanation why.
Scene 16
HONG KONG
Fox Mulder
This seat taken, miss Kallenchuk? Geraldine Kallenchuk, isn't it?
Geraldine Kallenchuk
Jerry, with a "j."
Fox Mulder
I noticed you flew first class. Must be good money selling classified government secrets.
Geraldine Kallenchuk
It's a bull market, hon, and I'm miss popular. Let's make a deal.
Fox Mulder
How much for the location of that p-51 mustang you sold the french government?
Geraldine Kallenchuk
Why should I tell you?
Fox Mulder
Actually, I'd rather know who sold you the secrets.
Geraldine Kallenchuk
I'm a middleman, mr. Mulder. Pardon my gender type. I take a cut. A thin slice off the top. It'd be bad business to divulge my sources.
Fox Mulder
Why'd you run off to hong kong?
Geraldine Kallenchuk
To meet with the buyer.
Fox Mulder
To sell him what?
Geraldine Kallenchuk
Pardon your gender type.
Fox Mulder
Oh, your buyer's a woman.
Geraldine Kallenchuk
Actually, you know, it's none of your damn business.
Fox Mulder
Actually, you know, it is my damn business, because whatever it is you're selling... Is killing half a dozen sailors in a California hospital, which is why I'm gonna arrest you.
Geraldine Kallenchuk
Arrest me? With what? Your chopsticks? This is hong kong, mr. Mulder. They don't allow handguns here. They took yours away at the airport. Hey! Hey, you can't do that!
Fox Mulder
I just did it. Now let's make a deal.
Geraldine Kallenchuk
You're violating my civil rights.
Fox Mulder
You gave up your civil rights when you committed treason.
Geraldine Kallenchuk
You can't force me to do anything.
Fox Mulder
Open it. Pardon my gender type, but after you. Where are the lights?
Man'S Voice
Right here.
Fox Mulder
Krycek. I thought guns were against the law here.
Alex Krycek
Yeah, well, you know what they say. When guns are outlawed--
Fox Mulder
Why don't you take that gun and shoot yourself in your head like you shot my father?
Geraldine Kallenchuk
Great. High noon in hong kong.
Alex Krycek
Why don't you just shut up!
Geraldine Kallenchuk
No! My god!
[ banging on door ]
Fox Mulder
No way to treat your business partner, especially since she seems to be moving those secrets you're selling so well.
[ gunshots ]
Alex Krycek
Looks like she's your partner now.
[ key clinks on floor ]
Fox Mulder
Damn!
Scene 17
BACK IN DC, THE SAME RESTAURANT
[ men speaking french ]
[ screaming ]
Walter Skinner
Is the coffee hot?
Waitress
Yeah.
Walter Skinner
How's the blue plate?
Waitress
Looks good.
Walter Skinner
I'll have one medium rare, please. You got a pay phone that's out of order. Nobody complains? I'm complaining.
Waitress
I'm sorry, sir. I'm sure it's been called in.
Man
You're sure? Meanwhile, I'm going to miss the phone call. That's gonna cost me time and money. Who's gonna call that in?
Waitress
I'm sorry, sir. I don't know what else to say.
Man
Say you're gonna pay me... The $1.75 the phone ate.
Waitress
You'll have to deal with the phone company, sir.
Luis Cardinal
You deal with them.
Man
I want my money.
Walter Skinner
Is there a problem here?
Man
Yeah, there is a big problem! [ gunshot ]
[ screaming ]
Man
Chupa dura, amigo.
Waitress
Oh! I'll call 911!
[ phone ringing ]
Scene 18
SCULLY'S APT.
Dana Scully
Scully.
Kim Cook
Agent Scully, this is kim cook from the director's office.
Dana Scully
Yes.
Kim Cook
We've just got some bad news. A.d. Skinner's just been shot.
Dana Scully
When?
Kim Cook
About an hour ago. He's been taken to northeast georgetown.
Dana Scully
I'm on my way.
Scene 19
HONG KONG AIRPORT
Fox Mulder
That's for your partner. This is for me. And this is for my father!
Alex Krycek
No! I didn't kill your father.
Fox Mulder
Now you tell me.
Alex Krycek
It wasn't me.
Fox Mulder
Oh, yeah? Then who was it?
Alex Krycek
I don't know.
Fox Mulder
Either way, Krycek, you're a liar.
Alex Krycek
Come on. Finish it, Mulder. Come on! Finish it!
Fox Mulder
Do it! I want that digital tape.
Alex Krycek
I don't have it.
Fox Mulder
Like hell you don't. That tape contains the secrets you were selling as well as everything else... Our government knows about the existence of extraterrestrial life.
Alex Krycek
How could I sell anything? The tape was encrypted.
Fox Mulder
Obviously, you found a way.
Alex Krycek
I don't have it, but... I'll give it to you if you let me go.
Fox Mulder
Where is it?
Alex Krycek
D.C. In a locker. No. If you let me go, I'll tell you.
Fox Mulder
You put that tape in my hands, and we'll talk about it. Why don't you go to the bathroom and clean yourself off? If you're not out of there in there minutes, I'm coming in there to kill you. Feel better?
Alex Krycek
Like a new man.
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