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Season 4 · Episode 11

El Mundo Gira

Character-labelled dialogue prepared from the official DVD subtitle track.

Production code4X11Original airdate · January 12, 1997
297 dialogue entries
Scene 01

MIGRANT WORKERS CAMP

[ all shouting in spanish ]

Flakita

Quiet! Quiet! Listen to me. It was a terrible thing. You are not going to believe me, even when I tell you. Some say it is a story, a fairy tale. But I saw it. I saw it with my own eyes.

[ speaking spanish ]

Soledad Buente

Maria, mi amor. Hey.

[ both speaking spanish ]

Soledad Buente

Gracias.

Maria Dorantes

No.

Eladio Buente

Si.

Maria Dorantes

No.

Truck Foreman

Let's go!

Eladio Buente

Si.

Maria Dorantes

No.

Flakita

Maria!

[ speaking spanish ]

Flakita

Mm-hmm.

[ explosion ] [ screams ]

Flakita

La cabras. Maria! Maria! Maria. Maria! Madre de dios.

Scene 02

Scene 02

Dana Scully

Mulder, this happened how long ago?

Fox Mulder

Tres dias. Muy increible, ¿ no?

Dana Scully

Only the smell. You brought me out here under the pretense of investigating an unexplained death. Can you tell me why we're standing out here in a field looking at a dead goat?

Fox Mulder

According to eyewitnesses, the death we're investigating was preceded by a fortean event: a highly unusual or infrequent meteorological phenomenon, also known as a transient.

Dana Scully

A transient?

Fox Mulder

Yeah. Witnesses described a bright flash about 30 degrees off the horizon. Then a hot, yellow rain fell from a cloudless sky. Fortean researchers call these liquid falls. Black and red rains are common, but there have also been reported cases of blue, purple and green rains.

Dana Scully

Purple rain?

Fox Mulder

Yeah. Great album. Deeply flawed movie, though.

Dana Scully

Mulder, this transient, as you call it, this bright flash in the sky, I assume you think it has some connection to--

Fox Mulder

Fortean events have been linked to alien encounters. Cattle mutilations. The kind of exsanguinated animal carcass you were looking at.

Dana Scully

The victim, Maria Dorantes-- did she die in a similar fashion?

Fox Mulder

I would assume so.

Dana Scully

You assume? Nobody's examined the body?

Fox Mulder

Nobody cares, Scully. The victim and many witnesses are illegal immigrants, migrant farm workers. I thought it might be important to talk to them before they migrated. No, no. No la migra. No la migra.

Dana Scully

No la migra. No la migra.

Fox Mulder

No la migra.

Dana Scully

We're FBI. No la migra.

Fox Mulder

It's all right. We don't want to take anybody away. Relax. No, it's okay. Tranquila.

Flakita

What do you want?

Fox Mulder

We want to know what happened to Maria Dorantes. Does anybody know what happened to Maria Dorantes? Did anybody see anything?

Flakita

El chupacabra. That's what happened to Maria Dorantes.

Dana Scully

El chupacabra?

Fox Mulder

Yeah, it's a mexican folktale. El chupacabra, the goat sucker. It's a small, gray creature... With a big head and a small body and big, black bulging eyes.

Flakita

Si, si, si. Light, then rain. Then el chupacabra, it comes and eats away Maria's eyes and face.

Fox Mulder

Did you see the chupacabra?

Flakita

No, but everyone here knows that this is the truth.

Soledad Buente

This woman's a liar. There is no chupacabra. Chupacabra's nothing but a story told to children. I know the killer of Maria Dorantes.

Dana Scully

Who would that be, sir?

Soledad Buente

It's my brother. Eladio Buente. He killed Maria because she loved only me.

Fox Mulder

Uh, how do you explain the yellow rain then, the dead goat over the hill?

Soledad Buente

It is a trick... For fools who believe in fool superstitions.

Dana Scully

Thank you, mr. Buente. You've been very helpful. Maria, Maria. I've just met a Girl named Maria.

Fox Mulder

Doesn't make a whole lot of sense, Scully.

Dana Scully

Makes perfect sense. Admit it, you fell for it. Your fortean event turned out to be nothing more than the oldest story in the world. Two Men, one woman, trouble.

Fox Mulder

I admit there's a strong suspicion of motive and intent. But the amount of detail, the description of that chupacabra.

Dana Scully

Mulder, what we've walked into here is a mexican soap opera, and one for the local cops.

Fox Mulder

Local cops don't care, Scully. I don't know who does.

Dana Scully

Okay, I care, but what are we supposed to do about it?

Fox Mulder

Find out what killed Maria Dorantes. Take a look at her body.

Dana Scully

While you do what?

Fox Mulder

Try to find this man, Eladio Buente.

Scene 03

INS SERVICE PROCESSING CENTER

Fox Mulder

Agent Lozano? I'm special Agent Mulder. I'm with the FBI.

Agent Lozano

The FBI, here?

Fox Mulder

We're investigating the death of a migrant worker.

Agent Lozano

Really.

Fox Mulder

I'm looking for a man named Eladio Buente. He hasn't been seen for three days, and he's not in police custody. I thought he might be in I.n.s. Custody.

Agent Lozano

He might. Let's see. Okay, we have a jose feliciano. We have juan valdez. We have cesar chavez. We have placido domingo here. But I don't see any Eladio Buente.

Fox Mulder

So you are telling me that no one here uses their real name.

Agent Lozano

What is this man wanted for?

Fox Mulder

Possibly the murder of a woman named Maria Dorantes.

Agent Lozano

Oh, man. The chupacabra?

Fox Mulder

Yeah. You've heard of it. You don't believe it.

Agent Lozano

No, I believe these people. Hey, their lives are small. So they have to make these fantasies to keep on going, to feel alive. Because they are strangers here. They feel hated, unwanted. Whenever their passions become inflamed they resort to violence, and then they cannot turn to the law so they make up these fantastic tales. Call it anything you want, but this is an age-old story.

Fox Mulder

I've heard that.

Agent Lozano

Let me see if we can find your Eladio Buente.

Scene 04

FRESNO COUNTY MORGUE

Dana Scully

Excuse me. Excuse me.

Coroner

Can I help you?

Dana Scully

I'm Agent Dana Scully with the FBI. I'm investigating the death of a migrant worker.

Coroner

Juan or juanita?

Dana Scully

I'm sorry?

Coroner

Doe. A man or a woman?

Dana Scully

A woman named Maria Dorantes. I need to determine a cause of death... In order to close out an investigation.

Coroner

It sounds vaguely familiar, but I don't think I've been able to get to her yet.

Dana Scully

I'm a medical doctor. If you show me the body, I can examine it myself.

Coroner

It's in the fridge.

Dana Scully

I don't think he's going anywhere.

Coroner

That's her. Oh, my god.

Scene 05

Scene 05

Agent Lozano

This must be him.

Fox Mulder

Why is he segregated like this?

[ speaking spanish ]

[ speaking spanish ]

Agent Lozano

He said the other detainees were giving him a hard time, causing trouble. They don't want to go near him.

Fox Mulder

They think he's the chupacabra.

Agent Lozano

That may be. I will tell you with a tremendous degree of certainty this guy is not erik estrada. Buente!

[ speaking spanish ]

Fox Mulder

Ask him if he killed Maria Dorantes.

Eladio Buente

[ speaking spanish ] no!

[ speaking spanish ]

Fox Mulder

What’d he say?

Agent Lozano

"I didn’t do it."

Fox Mulder

Ask him what happened. [ speaking spanish ]

[ speaking spanish ]

Agent Lozano

There was a noise like thunder, but very close. Then there was lightning, very bright. It blinded me. I fell to the ground. And then I felt the hot rain fall on me. And when I finally could open my eyes and see, I saw the dead goat. And then I saw Maria-- Maria. She called my name... Once. She was lying in a puddle of yellow rain. Something had eaten at her face. And I held her in my arms, and then she died. And then I got up, and I ran screaming.

[ shouts in spanish ]

Agent Lozano

This guy is better than erik estrada.

[ people chattering in spanish ]

[ all shouting in spanish ]

Fox Mulder

What's gonna happen to him?

Agent Lozano

He'll get his 45 seconds before the judge and placed on a southbound bus.

Fox Mulder

Is there any way to delay that?

Agent Lozano

Why would you do that?

Fox Mulder

To solve an unexplained death.

Agent Lozano

I think the FBI's got better things to do. File your paperwork. By the time they process it, he'll probably be back here anyway.

INS Officer

Put him in the front. Come on. Up front. Okay, vamos. Let's go.

[ horn honking ]

Dana Scully

Did you find Eladio Buente?

Fox Mulder

Yeah, I found him.

Dana Scully

Did he confess to the murder of Maria Dorantes?

Fox Mulder

Not exactly, no.

Scene 06

Scene 06

Dana Scully

Did he tell you what happened?

Fox Mulder

Flash of light, yellow rain. "Maria! Maria!"

Dana Scully

He didn't kill her, Mulder. I examined the body of Maria Dorantes, and I believe that her cause of death was natural, albeit strange. She seems to have succumbed to a massive fungal infection.

Fox Mulder

A fungus?

Dana Scully

Aspergillus, according to the Coroner. It's a mold that's found in dead leaves, compost, even household dust.

Fox Mulder

And it can kill?

Dana Scully

Not normally. It's very common and harmless.

Fox Mulder

You don't think that's weird?

Dana Scully

Aspergillus can be lethal... To people with immunodeficiencies... Like aids patients and transplant recipients. I found high levels of methyl bromide in her blood workup. It's a pesticide that's used for soil sterilization-- highly toxic. Now, I think that her body was so ravaged by pesticides... That a normally benign fungus may have compromised her whole immune system.

Fox Mulder

Still doesn't explain the flash of lightning and the yellow rain... And el chupacabra.

Dana Scully

Mulder, I know you don't want to hear this. I think the aliens in this story are not the villains. They're the victims. Look at that.

Scene 07

CRIME SCENE

[ people shouting in spanish ]

Dana Scully

Mulder.

Fox Mulder

Be right there.

Dana Scully

All right.

[ chatter, indistinct ]

Fox Mulder

What does it look like?

Dana Scully

This man died of systemic shock brought on by what appears to be another fungal infection.

Fox Mulder

The same fungus that killed Maria Dorantes?

Dana Scully

No. It looks dissimilar. I don't know what this is. Its speed and its aggressiveness are frightening. The infection's covered 90% of his body, Mulder, through both layers of skin.

Fox Mulder

Did you find him?

Agent Lozano

We were able to run down most of the people who escaped. But Eladio Buente wasn't among them.

Dana Scully

No one knows where he ran?

Fox Mulder

Agent Lozano, this is my partner, Agent Scully. Hi.

Agent Lozano

They all ran the other way, away from el chupacabra, the man they say is responsible for this tragedy.

Dana Scully

Eladio Buente didn't kill this man. He didn't kill anybody.

Fox Mulder

I'm not so sure about that.

Dana Scully

This is the work of a pathogen of a highly virulent strain.

Fox Mulder

I'm not questioning that, but right now Eladio Buente is the only connection we have... To this death and the death of Maria Dorantes. Which is why I need you to spare any manpower you can to try to find him.

Agent Lozano

Manpower? We don't have the resources to go chasing after one poor illegal.

Dana Scully

Mulder, whatever you hope to learn by finding this man, we have to first make a definitive classification of the fungi from the victims. I need to isolate it, and I need to get a sample to a mycologist.

Fox Mulder

Good. You should do that while Agent Lozano and I try to find el chupacabra.

Scene 08

BARBER'S SHOP

[ speaking spanish ]

[ bell rings ]

Eladio Buente

¿ senor? Senor?

Barber

What do you want? You want to go back? ¿ estas loco? We haul mucha basura with that truck. What makes you think we haul it back? How long have you been in this country?

[ speaking spanish ]

Barber

Aqui es america, you dumb wet. Truck stop at dusk. No dinero, no ride. ¿ comprende?

Eladio Buente

Si. Dinero.

Barber

Dinero.

[ chattering ]

Scene 09

STREET CORNER

Culver

The truck's here! Construction workers. Dos.

[ indistinct ] [ speaking spanish ]

Culver

Okay, two of you. You two, get in the back. Let's go. I only need two, amigo. Dos. Hey, outta the truck. I got work to do. Hey, where are you going? [ indistinct ] you'll have to do.

Scene 10

MYCOLOGY LAB

Dr. Steen

What you're looking at, Agent Scully, is the most ubiquitous fungal spore known to mankind-- derma tuffatosis.

Dana Scully

Athlete's foot?

Dr. Steen

One of the great survivors of countless extermination efforts. Historically underrated and unfairly overshadowed by the ever-popular cockroach.

Dana Scully

Our body has natural defenses against this kind of invasion. Even in the absence of an immuno response, a fungi like this one-- or the aspergillus sample I gave you-- don't they need the right environment to multiply?

Dr. Steen

Yes, unless they have help.

Dana Scully

What's this?

Dr. Steen

It's an enzyme I isolated from both your specimens. That's about all I can tell ya. It's unlike any enzyme I've ever seen.

Dana Scully

So it's not the fungi but the enzyme that kills.

Dr. Steen

Acting as a catalyst, as an accelerant. Let me show you. This is pecunia graminus, black stem rust. It's been the cause of a fairly containable crop blight here in the valley.

Dana Scully

Oh, my god.

Dr. Steen

I must say, if this were to get out into the environment, derma tuffatosis might give the cockroach a run for its money. Hmm?

Scene 11

STREET CORNER

[ Men speaking spanish ]

Agent Lozano

He was here, all right. They say he got into a truck of a foreman named Culver.

Fox Mulder

Story's out.

Agent Lozano

Oh, yeah. I told you, these people love their stories. It's the one thing that keeps them from going mad... When they're out there standing on the street corner all day waiting for work.

Fox Mulder

So they really don't think he's the chupacabra?

Agent Lozano

No, they're certain of it.

Fox Mulder

Did you tell them about the fungal infection?

Agent Lozano

Yeah, they wouldn't listen. They are only interested in what will become of Eladio Buente.

Fox Mulder

What will become of him?

Agent Lozano

When his brother finds him--

Fox Mulder

He'll kill him.

Agent Lozano

Yes, probably. A man cannot live with vengeance in his heart.

Fox Mulder

So we gotta find him first.

Agent Lozano

My mother used to say that blood should be left to cleanse itself. God curses the man who stands between two brothers.

Fox Mulder

Well, in this case, he'll curse the man who doesn't.

Scene 12

CONSTRUCTION SITE

Eladio Buente

¿ senor? ¿ senor?

[ speaking spanish ]

Eladio Buente

Senor Culver?

[ speaking spanish ]

Soledad Buente

Eladio Buente. Eladio?

[ squeaks ]

Soledad Buente

Eladio Buente.

Scene 13

MEADOWVIEW ESTATES

[ tires squealing ]

[ shouting in spanish ]

Eladio Buente

Gabrielle! Gabrielle!

Gabrielle Buente

Eladio!

Scene 14

MYCOLOGY LAB

Dana Scully

Mulder, it's me.

Fox Mulder

Hey, Scully, where are you?

Dana Scully

The state university bio department. Mulder, listen to me. I think you're right. I think Eladio Buente is responsible for those deaths.

Fox Mulder

Responsible how?

Dana Scully

By spreading an enzyme produced by what appears to be a new strain of conidial fungi.

Fox Mulder

How's he spreading it?

Dana Scully

My guess is by touch.

Fox Mulder

Now, I saw this man, Scully. He was unaffected.

Dana Scully

He could be just a carrier then, a kind of typhoid mary.

Fox Mulder

You're saying it's a new strain?

Dana Scully

Yes. It is extremely important that you not come into direct contact with this fungus. You must not inhale it. You must not touch it.

Fox Mulder

Lozano, careful, man. Scully, I've been thinking. I know that's dangerous, but just bear with me. These fortean transients-- what the woman described-- they could have been caused by an object falling at a high rate of speed... Creating a sonic boom and a flash of light astronomers call a bolide.

Dana Scully

A bolide?

Fox Mulder

Created by a meteorite... Or a piece of extra-planetarium material, of which 2,000 tons falls to the earth every day. This yellow rain-- space debris could have fallen in a nearby lake, superheating the water and sending it skyward, which would mean this is alien.

Dana Scully

I think this is beside the point right now.

Fox Mulder

Oh, and the fungus--

Dana Scully

Let me work on the fungus. What you need to do is to find the man who may be spreading it.

Fox Mulder

Okay.

Agent Lozano

So you got your own stories too, huh? Hey, it's el barbero.

Barber

Hey, Lozano, I hear you're lookin' for the chupacabra. For a modest fee, I can tell you where he might be found.

Scene 15

TRUCK STOP

[ Eladio coughing ]

[ coughing ]

Fox Mulder

Eladio!

[ grunts ]

Fox Mulder

Stop! Don't touch him.

[ all shouting in spanish ]

Fox Mulder

Hey!

[ horn honking ]

Fox Mulder

I lost him.

Scene 16

HIGHWAY 99

[ Mulder groaning ]

Dana Scully

More goats.

Fox Mulder

Agent Lozano, how does this man keep eluding us?

Agent Lozano

These people are invisible. You look at them and you don't see them. Just workers, cheap labor to pick crops and clean houses. To most people, they're aliens in the true sense of the word.

Flakita

El chupacabra. El chupacabra.

Agent Lozano

Calm down. Calm down. Chupacabra.

Flakita

Can a man do this? Can Eladio Buente do this? Eladio, he went to his cousin Gabrielle's house asking for money.

Agent Lozano

When?

Flakita

Today. He said he killed nobody. But Soledad, he went to Gabrielle's house trying to kill Eladio.

Agent Lozano

Calm down.

[ knock at door ]

Scene 17

GABRIELLE'S APARTMENT

Gabrielle Buente

¿ quien es?

Agent Lozano

Gabrielle Buente? This is Agent Lozano, I.n.s. Open up. Where is he?

Gabrielle Buente

¿ que?

Agent Lozano

Don't give me your "que." you know who. Where is he, Eladio?

Gabrielle Buente

He is not here. I would not let Eladio Buente in here. Please, you must believe me.

Dana Scully

Maybe you should check the back.

Fox Mulder

What about his brother, Soledad?

Gabrielle Buente

No. He is not here! No one is here! I'm alone.

Fox Mulder

Have you seen either of them?

Gabrielle Buente

Si. But I'm afraid because of what they say about Eladio. About el chupacabra.

Dana Scully

There is no el chupacabra, Gabrielle. Eladio is a very sick man. If he comes here, you must not let him in. If he comes to this door, you must call the police. Understand?

Agent Lozano

There's nobody. I'm going to be watching you, chiquita. Every move. ¿ comprendes?

Gabrielle Buente

Si.

Fox Mulder

I think we should hold up a minute.

Dana Scully

For what?

Fox Mulder

Something's going on here.

Scene 18

LA RANCHERA MARKET

Store Clerk

Hey, jose, this ain't no restaurant! You know you have to pay for all that. Hey, what the hell do you think you're doing? Come back here! Hey, you're gonna have to clean that up. Hey!

Scene 19

OUTSIDE GABRIELLE'S APARTMENT BUILDING

Fox Mulder

That's our man.

Dana Scully

Eladio Buente?

Agent Lozano

No. That's his brother, Soledad.

Scene 20

OUTSIDE GROCERY STORE

Eladio Buente

[ phone ringing ] ¿ bueno?

Gabrielle Buente

Eladio?

Eladio Buente

Si, Gabrielle.

Gabrielle Buente

Eladio? Eladio!

[ speaking spanish ]

Agent Lozano

Soledad Buente. Stop! Stop!

Dana Scully

[ Scully ] drop you weapon!

Fox Mulder

Drop the gun!

[ speaking spanish ]

Dana Scully

[ Scully ] put it down! Now!

[ speaking spanish ]

Fox Mulder

Drop it! [ Lozano shouting ]

[ both speaking spanish ]

Soledad Buente

Eladio! [ screaming in spanish ]

Dana Scully

Mulder.

Fox Mulder

He's been here.

Scene 21

GABRIELLE'S APARTMENT BUILDING

Gabrielle Buente

¿ quien es?

Eladio Buente

Eladio.

Gabrielle Buente

Eladio? No.

Eladio Buente

No. [ screaming ] no!

Scene 22

GABRIELLE'S APARTMENT

Fox Mulder

Eladio? Eladio Buente?

Gabrielle Buente

He is not here. He's gone.

Dana Scully

Gone where?

Gabrielle Buente

To mexico, where he can hide his terrible face.

Fox Mulder

How's he gonna get to mexico?

Gabrielle Buente

I gave him all my money.

Dana Scully

You gave him your money?

Gabrielle Buente

Yes, because I was afraid. I was afraid el chupacabra will kill me too.

Agent Lozano

What can I say?

Fox Mulder

How are we gonna find this man?

Agent Lozano

Good luck. I'm gonna go process the brother.

Scene 23

OUTSIDE

Dana Scully

You know what she said about Eladio Buente, about his face?

Fox Mulder

I don't know what to believe. These people love their stories.

Dana Scully

Mulder, he could be anywhere right now. If he were to enter a metropolitan area with what he's carrying--

Fox Mulder

He won't.

Dana Scully

If he's going to mexico--

Fox Mulder

If this man really thinks he killed Maria Dorantes, he won't be going to mexico.

Dana Scully

Then where is he going?

Fox Mulder

The same place Lozano and Eladio's brother are going. He's gone to face his brother.

Dana Scully

I don't understand.

Fox Mulder

"god curses a man who stands between two brothers." get on your cell phone and have a haz-mat team assembled.

Scene 24

MIGRANT CAMP

Agent Lozano

Eladio Buente, come on out! Be a man and face your brother.

Flakita

Madre de dios. Eladio, no!

[ speaking spanish ]

[ gunshot ]

[ whispering in spanish ]

Flakita

He believed in el chupacabra. They came from the sky. More chupacabras... Coming to save Eladio. I slammed the door and prayed... That they would not come to kill me too.

Village Girl

What will happen to Soledad?

Flakita

He was taken up by a chupacabra. He will suffer for his treachery. He's made to suck the blood... Of only the sick and dying goats... When the chupacabra comes to feed.

Village Girl 2

That's not what gabriella said.

Flakita

What does gabriella know? I was there. I saw it with my own eyes.

Village Girl

Gabriella said that she lied to la FBI... So that her cousin, Eladio, might live. But la migra Lozano knew that Soledad could not live with vengeance in his heart.

[ yells in spanish ] [ gunshot ]

Agent Lozano

Turn around and face the man whose love you killed!

Soledad Buente

You killed Maria... Because she wouldn't love you. Because her heart belongs to only one man. Don't make me shoot you in the back, Eladio. Turn! See my tears! Turn around like a man!

Eladio Buente

No.

Gabrielle Buente

"shoot. Shoot!" la migra shouted. But Soledad began to cry. "no. No!" cried Soledad. "I cannot shoot my brother. He is my brother. My flesh, my blood."

Agent Lozano

Shoot him! He's el chupacabra!

Gabrielle Buente

Shouted la migra.

Agent Lozano

You cannot let him go!

Gabrielle Buente

"he is a goat sucker, and he must be killed!" Soledad, he could not kill Eladio... Because he knew I would never forgive him.

[ speaking spanish ]

Soledad Buente

No! No!

Gabrielle Buente

La migra Lozano... Tried to pull th la migra Lozano fell dead. Pero no. La migra Lozano... Brought Soledad to kill Eladio... So that he would not be cursed. So god... Cursed Soledad for his treachery... And turned him into... El chupacabra like his brother. No. Together they run... To mexico.

Walter Skinner

El chupacabra?

Scene 25

SKINNER'S OFFICE

Dana Scully

Yes, sir.

Walter Skinner

Frankly, I'm confused by this story.

Fox Mulder

I don't blame you.

Dana Scully

We can't exactly explain it ourselves, sir.

Fox Mulder

At any rate, we arrived just after the haz-mat team. They established a perimeter then secured the area. An eyewitness was found, but her testimony was questionable.

Dana Scully

The haz-mat team were able to contain the fungal infection within the camp. No other casualties were reported. We found no other traces of the accelerating enzyme.

Fox Mulder

Except on the body of Agent Lozano. We found him dead at the scene with a bullet wound to the chest.

Dana Scully

And with the fungal infection already starting to eat away at him.

Walter Skinner

What happened to the brothers?

Dana Scully

They were nowhere to be found. Lozano's revolver turned up ten Miles away... Near the car of a man known locally as el barbero.

Fox Mulder

Apparently, the brothers paid this man for a ride to mexico, but they didn't get very far.

Walter Skinner

So these Men are still at large carrying a highly contagious fungus... That can kill a man in his tracks?

Dana Scully

It's not a fungus, sir. Actually, it's an enzyme... To which the brothers had an abnormal tolerance. And which came from what I believe to be an anti-enzyme gene.

Walter Skinner

This enzyme came from where?

Fox Mulder

Outer space, sir.

Walter Skinner

[ sighs ] so this is the story you're asking me to report? You would think with the resources we have, we'd be able to find these Men. I'm not hearing a good explanation why this hasn't happened.

Dana Scully

Well, sir, they, um-- they have a way of... Being almost invisible.

Scene 26

NIGHT

Fox Mulder

The truth is, nobody cares.

About this transcript

The dialogue comes from the official DVD subtitle track supplied by Boggsfiles. Speaker and scene attribution was cross-checked against character-labelled reference material. Subtitle wording is preserved while capitalization and spacing are standardized for easier reading.