Repairman
Ow! Damn! A bee just stung me, eh? Well, now, don't you all take the cake? Does your mom ever mix you up?
Season 4 · Episode 1
Herrenvolk
Character-labelled dialogue prepared from the official DVD subtitle track.
Production code4X01Original airdate · October 4, 1996
240 dialogue entries
Scene 01
CANADA
[ insect buzzes ]
[ buzzing ]
Scene 02
BOND MILL ROAD · RURAL MARYLAND
[ groaning ]
[ screaming ]
[ groaning continues ]
Jeremiah Smith
I've come to you at great risk. I mean you no harm.
Dana Scully
He knows about your sister.
Fox Mulder
How do I know you're for real?
Jeremiah Smith
I can explain everything.
Fox Mulder
First I want you to come somewhere with me. I want you to come with me to see my mother.
[ vehicle approaching ]
Fox Mulder
Stay out of his way. He doesn't want to hurt you. You can't use your gun!
Dana Scully
Stop right there, sir!
[ clattering ]
Fox Mulder
Come on.
Dana Scully
Mulder!
Fox Mulder
Scully, get the car! This way.
[ engine starts ]
[ horn honking continuously ]
Fox Mulder
[ honking continues ] damn.
[ honking continues ]
Fox Mulder
This way.
[ thudding ]
[ grunts ]
[ groans ]
Fox Mulder
Hey! Jeremiah! Jeremiah, stop! What are you doing?
Jeremiah Smith
There'll be more right behind him.
Fox Mulder
You can't leave here!
Jeremiah Smith
They'll kill me!
Fox Mulder
I need your help! My mother is dying!
Dana Scully
Mulder! Mulder! Mulder? Mulder!
Alien Bounty Hunter
Where are they going?
Dana Scully
I don't know.
Alien Bounty Hunter
I need to know.
Dana Scully
Please. I don't know.
[ coughing ]
Jeremiah Smith
They'll know where to find us. They'll be waiting for us.
Fox Mulder
Who?
Jeremiah Smith
Your government men. They'll be waiting at the hospital with your mother.
Fox Mulder
What can they do? We're working in the light. They can't stop us without exposure, without consequence.
Jeremiah Smith
You have to understand something. I must perish. Whatever the consequences to that end, they are incalculable to the preservation of the larger plan.
Fox Mulder
The larger plan? You mean colonization?
Jeremiah Smith
Hegemony, mr. Mulder. A new origin of species.
Fox Mulder
I don't understand.
Jeremiah Smith
I can show you.
Fox Mulder
My mother is dying. I need to take you to see her right now.
Jeremiah Smith
And if they are waiting for us, if they're willing to kill me... And face the consequences of their actions, to stand before your ineffectual justice system, I will be dead. I won't be able to save your mother. The work will go on. The plan will continue to be executed. Or you can stop it.
Fox Mulder
How can I stop it?
Jeremiah Smith
I can take you to a place, show you the work in progress where you can see--
Fox Mulder
No! There's no time.
Jeremiah Smith
Where you can see your sister.
Scene 03
PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND · 4:55 AM
[ beeping ]
Elder
He isn't coming.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
I told you.
Elder
Then where is he?
Cigarette-Smoking Man
I don't know.
[ door opens ]
Cigarette-Smoking Man
Certainly he anticipated we'd be here waiting.
Elder
Unless we had a security leak.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
Who?
Elder
I've come in receipt of some pictures... Of your visit to mrs. Mulder's summerhouse. Were you aware you were being photographed?
Cigarette-Smoking Man
By whom?
Elder
I believe that can be determined by a simple planting of information... To see where that information flows.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
What information?
Elder
That mrs. Mulder's life is in danger. That, left unprotected, she may come to an unnatural end.
[ phone ringing ]
Dana Scully
[ beeps ] Scully.
Fox Mulder
Scully, it's me. Where are you?
Dana Scully
I'm right where you left me. I'm sitting here in my car.
Fox Mulder
Why?
Dana Scully
Because you wouldn't answer your phone, and I didn't know what else to do.
Fox Mulder
Are you okay?
Dana Scully
Yes, I'm fine.
Fox Mulder
Listen. There's going to be people looking for me. They're going to think they can get to me through you.
Dana Scully
Mulder--
Fox Mulder
Hold on. Just listen for a second. I need you to do something for me. I had to steal a car from an airport in alberta. There's going to be a record of me going through canadian customs. I need you to cover my tracks. I also need you to know I'm okay. I'm fine, okay?
Dana Scully
Mulder, he's coming after you.
Fox Mulder
Who?
Dana Scully
The man you left for dead. He's alive.
[ vehicle approaching ]
[ engine knocking ]
Jeremiah Smith
That's it for the gas.
Fox Mulder
How much further from here?
Jeremiah Smith
About 20 Miles. Maybe half that on foot over those hills.
Fox Mulder
Let's go.
Scene 04
FBI HEADQUARTERS · WASHINGTON, D.C.
[ door opens ]
Dana Scully
Sir?
Walter Skinner
Agent Scully.
Dana Scully
I heard you were looking for me.
Walter Skinner
There's been some concern about you and agent Mulder.
Dana Scully
We're fine, sir. We've been searching for this man, Jeremiah Smith.
Walter Skinner
Did you find him?
Dana Scully
No.
Walter Skinner
I received a memo from you that there's more confusion about this man. That the social security administration has five men with this name... Working in branch offices around the country... With identical photo ID's. We ran a check on these men. All five have not reported to work in three days. Would you or agent Mulder like to let me in on what it is your suspicions are?
Dana Scully
I'm afraid we haven't exactly formulated any clear suspicions, sir.
Walter Skinner
Well, we have, agent Scully.
Dana Scully
Sir?
Scene 05
SCI-CRIME LAB · FBI HEADQUARTERS · WASHINGTON, D.C.
Agent Pendrell
We were able to download the hard drive data... From each of the five missing men's social security workstations. In each case, we found an enormous amount of files and data that cannot be identified, do not correspond with any kind of accounting or document collection... Done as normal departmental business. The data was all locked in password files.
Dana Scully
How much of it is there?
Agent Pendrell
Enough to fill seven ten-gigabyte hard drives. Roughly a billion entries.
Walter Skinner
It appears to be some kind of personal record keeping or accounting.
Dana Scully
Could it be some kind of cryptogram?
Agent Pendrell
If it is, I can't crack it.
Dana Scully
I'd like to get a copy of a portion of this. I might be able to figure it out.
Agent Pendrell
Seriously?
Dana Scully
Maybe. There's somebody I want to run it by.
Walter Skinner
Agent Mulder?
Dana Scully
No. I think, sir, this is more along my field of expertise.
Scene 06
CANADA
Fox Mulder
What happened to this man?
Jeremiah Smith
I wouldn't touch the body, mr. Mulder.
Fox Mulder
There's a work order here. It's for yesterday. He's only been here a little more than 24 hours. You know what killed him, don't you?
Jeremiah Smith
It's not much further. You're looking at the future, mr. Mulder.
Fox Mulder
What is it?
Jeremiah Smith
A flowering shrub. But its specific epithet can't be found on any of your taxonomic charts.
Fox Mulder
Being grown for what?
Jeremiah Smith
Pollen.
Fox Mulder
What is this? What's going on here?
Jeremiah Smith
What did I tell you?
Fox Mulder
That looks just like my sister. But that's not possible. She's no older than the day she was taken. Samantha? Samantha? Samantha? Samantha? Samantha? Samantha, it's me. It's me, Fox, your brother. Do you remember me? What's wrong with her?
Jeremiah Smith
She has no language.
Fox Mulder
What do you mean?
Jeremiah Smith
She's a drone, mr. Mulder, a worker.
Fox Mulder
What are you talking about?
Jeremiah Smith
There's more you should see so that you might understand.
[ door closes ]
Fox Mulder
How'd they get here?
Jeremiah Smith
They're stationed here. They're part of an agrarian workforce.
Fox Mulder
Who takes care of them?
Jeremiah Smith
They take care of themselves. Parenting is unnecessary, a needless division of energy.
[ door opens ]
Fox Mulder
They're clones.
Jeremiah Smith
Serial ovotypes. Have you seen enough? We can't stay around here much longer. I'll go see if I can find some gas.
Scene 07
MULDER'S APARTMENT · WASHINGTON, D.C.
[ footsteps ] [ knocking ]
[ knocking continues ]
X
Open the door, agent Scully.
Dana Scully
How did you know I was here?
X
I've been trying to reach agent Mulder. I watched you enter the building. Where is he?
Dana Scully
I don't know.
X
I have information for him, a matter that would concern him greatly.
Dana Scully
Concern him how?
X
Concerning his mother.
Dana Scully
has something happened to her? -
X
No. No, not yet.
Dana Scully
Is she in danger?
X
I prefer to speak with agent Mulder directly. Let me just say she is unprotected.
Dana Scully
From whom? From whom?
X
If you want to involve yourself, agent Scully, you might do well to give this information to your partner.
Dana Scully
Not until you give me some information first. These are data entries taken from social security records.
X
You're going in the wrong direction.
Dana Scully
All beginning with the letters "s.e.p." you know what these are. Confirm or deny.
X
Smallpox eradication program.
Dana Scully
Smallpox.
X
Don't unlock doors you're not prepared to go through.
Dana Scully
What's that supposed to mean?
X
Leave it alone. Protect the mother.
Scene 08
PLANTATION · CANADA
[ door opens, closes ]
Jeremiah Smith
What are you doing?
Fox Mulder
She's coming with us.
Jeremiah Smith
You can't do this. She's not your sister.
Fox Mulder
Then who is she?
Jeremiah Smith
You have a chance here to understand something so much greater, to comprehend it, to expose it.
Fox Mulder
Then explain it to me. Explain it to me now!
[ tires screeching ]
[ insects buzzing ]
Fox Mulder
Bees.
Jeremiah Smith
It's an apiary.
Fox Mulder
Are bees what killed that man we found?
Jeremiah Smith
Yes.
Fox Mulder
It's probably not a good idea to hide in there.
Jeremiah Smith
You have no immunity to them.
Fox Mulder
But you do? Somebody lead me. I can't see anything. Is that the only way out?
Jeremiah Smith
I think we've walked into our own trap.
Fox Mulder
[ groans ] come on!
Scene 09
FBI HEADQUARTERS · WASHINGTON, D.C.
[ grunting ]
[ screams ]
[ screams ]
[ growls ]
[ chattering ]
Dana Scully
You busy, agent Pendrell?
Agent Pendrell
No, I was just, uh--
Dana Scully
Good, because I think I've made some headway on this data. Can you call up the files?
Agent Pendrell
Yeah. I've got to tell you I've gotten nowhere.
Dana Scully
"s.e.p." smallpox eradication program.
Agent Pendrell
Smallpox? How'd you figure that?
Dana Scully
I got lucky, but the key is in this first string of letters.
Agent Pendrell
Twenty-letter strings, 30 different variations.
Dana Scully
You say a 20-letter code to any scientist, and they immediately think... Protein amino acid sequence code, which is what this turned out to be.
Agent Pendrell
Protein sequence code for what?
Dana Scully
The cowpox virus, the virus used to inoculate humans against smallpox.
Agent Pendrell
Okay, right. So these guys were keeping records of smallpox inoculations. Why?
Dana Scully
I haven't worked that out yet. But the big question is this second alphanumeric string-- 15 digits.
Agent Pendrell
Yeah. I checked. Each one is different. An infinite number of variations.
Dana Scully
An inventory.
Agent Pendrell
Of what?
Dana Scully
Of us.
Scene 10
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR WALTER SKINNER'S OFFICE · FBI HEADQUARTERS · WASHINGTON, D.C.
Second Senior Agent
With all due respect, agent Scully, it looks like something from the hubble telescope.
Dana Scully
Actually, it's an image created by what's called a confocal microscope. You're looking at a three-dimensional picture of the location of a protein. In this case, cowpox structural protein number six. It's one of the inoculants used in the smallpox vaccine.
Senior FBI Agent
Where'd it come from?
Dana Scully
From me. I had a biopsy taken from the smallpox vaccination scar on my upper arm. Through a process called immunohistochemical staining... And through the addition of an antibody for the cowpox virus six, I was able to get this picture of the location of a protein-- a single, nonrandom protein pattern.
Walter Skinner
I'm not a scientist, and I don't know that many people in this room--
Dana Scully
What I'm saying is that I think this protein is a tag, some kind of genetic marker that was applied to me... When I was inoculated against smallpox as a child.
Senior FBI Agent
Why you?
Dana Scully
Not just me, all of us, quite possibly anybody who's been inoculated over the past 50 years.
Second Senior Agent
Agent Scully, frankly this sounds like... Something we might have expected from agent Mulder.
Dana Scully
I had my doubts, and I'm still not certain. But I performed the same procedure on agent Pendrell. The location of the protein from his biopsy should be identical to mine, but it's slightly different, which might correspond to the alphanumeric entries... Collected by the men at the, uh, social security administration.
Walter Skinner
So what you're saying is we're being cataloged, tagged and inventoried? By who?
Dana Scully
I don't know. But it would have to be a government agency.
Senior FBI Agent
And to what purpose?
Dana Scully
I don't know that either. I think the only man who might be able to give us that information is Jeremiah Smith.
[ sighs ]
Walter Skinner
Agent Scully, can I see you outside for a moment? Alone. Do you realize what you're promoting in there? You're rounding these people up in the middle of a workday to imply that there's some--
Dana Scully
I am a scientist, sir. What I'm promoting in there is reductive evidence. It's the reason I was assigned to the x files in the first place, is it not? To put agent Mulder's work to the test of science?
[ phone rings ]
Dana Scully
Excuse me.
Fox Mulder
[ phone beeps ] Scully. Where are you right now?
Dana Scully
I'm in Skinner's office. Where are you?
Fox Mulder
I'm still in canada, but I'm catching a plane soon. I need you to meet me on the other end.
Dana Scully
Just tell me where.
Fox Mulder
At the hospital where my mother is.
Dana Scully
Mulder, I don't--
Fox Mulder
Her life depends upon me and my party getting there safely.
Dana Scully
Who?
Fox Mulder
Jeremiah Smith and someone else. I'm gonna need some protection.
Dana Scully
Believe me, you're going to have it.
Fox Mulder
What do you mean?
Dana Scully
There's a lot of people who want to talk to Jeremiah Smith.
Fox Mulder
They'll get their chance.
[ tires screeching ]
Fox Mulder
We'll be there.
[ phone clicks ]
Fox Mulder
[ groans ] please. You can't kill him. He can't die.
Alien Bounty Hunter
He must.
Fox Mulder
That girl is my sister.
Alien Bounty Hunter
He shows you pieces, but tells you nothing of the whole, because he's inconsequential, a traitor to the project.
Fox Mulder
Kill me. Let them go.
Alien Bounty Hunter
You'd trade your life for his?
Fox Mulder
For my mother's.
Alien Bounty Hunter
Everything dies.
[ groaning ]
[ girl crying ]
Scene 11
PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND
Security Officer
He's in touch with the perimeter. I'm sorry, sir. For security reasons--
Walter Skinner
Five hours we're out here swinging in the wind, agent Scully.
Dana Scully
Something's wrong. Something happened.
Walter Skinner
You don't have any way of getting a hold of him?
Nurse
This is beginning to seriously compromise our ability to treat patients.
Dana Scully
Just a moment, sir. Oh, my god! Mulder?
Fox Mulder
I can't. There's nothing--
Dana Scully
Mulder, you're fr-- no. You're freezing. He's in shock-- you're in shock, Mulder.
Walter Skinner
What happened?
[ beeping ]
Fox Mulder
She'll never know. [ whispers ] she'll never know.
Scene 13
PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND
[ rustling ]
[ footsteps ]
[ knocking ]
[ button clicks ]
[ elevator bell dings ]
[ groans ]
[ groans ]
[ footsteps ]
[ coughs ]
[ beeping ]
Fox Mulder
We could have saved her, Scully.
Dana Scully
As long as she's lying here, you can't give up on her. I don't care what the doctors say.
Fox Mulder
I had one chance, and I let it slip away.
Dana Scully
You don't know that. You can't blame yourself for what you could only hope.
Fox Mulder
He took me to a place with green fields, and I saw my sister. She was just a little girl. I've seen too many things not to believe.
Dana Scully
I've seen things, too, but there are answers to be found now. We have hope that there's a place to start. That's what I believe.
Fox Mulder
You put such faith in your science, Scully, but... The things I've seen, science provides no place to start.
Dana Scully
Nothing happens in contradiction to nature, only in contradiction to what we know of it. And that's a place to start. That's where the hope is.
Fox Mulder
I feel I came so close.
Dana Scully
I feel it too. I know it.
Fox Mulder
How?
Dana Scully
I was warned... By a man we both know, who I believe knows the truth, who can lead us to a place to start.
Scene 14
UNITED NATIONS BUILDING · NEW YORK CITY · ONE MONTH LATER
Marita Covarrubias
Mr. Mulder? My name is marita Covarrubias. I am the assistant to the special representative.
Fox Mulder
Was he able to review the material I sent him?
Marita Covarrubias
Yes.
Fox Mulder
And will he see me?
Marita Covarrubias
I'm afraid he's been called into something important. Can I ask who sent you here, mr. Mulder?
Fox Mulder
A friend. I've been inquiring with each of the special representatives... All month about the farmland in canada. I've been trying to get some reasons, and all I've gotten are dead ends.
Marita Covarrubias
I can tell you that farm has been abandoned. The crops you described were left to die. But they have been identified as ginseng. No evidence of beehives or bee husbandry was found. I know it's not the answer you wanted. No. I, uh-- can I ask why this is so important to you?
Fox Mulder
I have suffered-- I've suffered some very personal losses recently and-- I was-- I was hoping... That, um--
Marita Covarrubias
Not everything dies, mr. Mulder.
[ beeping ]
Scene 15
PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND
Alien Bounty Hunter
I need to know the reasons why this should be.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
So that the work may continue, so that the project may proceed unabated... By removing an unnecessary obstacle.
Alien Bounty Hunter
What obstacle?
Cigarette-Smoking Man
Agent Mulder, actually. If his mother were to die, he would--
Alien Bounty Hunter
He what?
Cigarette-Smoking Man
You see, the fiercest enemy is the man who has nothing left to lose. And you know how important agent Mulder is to the equation.
[ lock clicks ]
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