Jason Nichols
You know what he's capable of. Please. Mcfarland's gonna turn this into a witch-hunt. Who do you think he's gonna burn at the stake?
Season 4 · Episode 19
Synchrony
Character-labelled dialogue prepared from the official DVD subtitle track.
Production code4X19Original airdate · April 6, 1997
405 dialogue entries
Scene 01
Opening scene
[ breathing heavily ]
Lucas Menand
Well, you should've thought of that before you published the results.
Jason Nichols
No, you should've come to me before you went to mcfarland.
Lucas Menand
I did, Jason, more than once. But you--
Jason Nichols
That's bull!
Lucas Menand
You didn't want to hear anything I had to say. You never did.
Jason Nichols
So you deliberately went behind my back.
Lucas Menand
I did exactly-- what?
Older Jason Nichols
Please. I need to talk to you.
Jason Nichols
Excuse us please.
Older Jason Nichols
That street is dangerous.
Lucas Menand
Right. Thank you. We'll be fine. Look. I'm not gonna lie about this.
Jason Nichols
I'm not asking you to lie.
Lucas Menand
What are you asking me to do?
Older Jason Nichols
I've traveled a long way.
Lucas Menand
What? You want some money? Is that it? Here's a dollar. It's all I have.
Older Jason Nichols
No. No. Listen to me.
Jason Nichols
Hey! Hey! Hey!
Older Jason Nichols
I'm trying to save your life.
Jason Nichols
Hey, take it easy!
Lucas Menand
Let go!
Security Cop
What's the problem here?
Lucas Menand
This old guy is harassing me!
Jason Nichols
No, he's just a little bit agitated.
Older Jason Nichols
No, he's going to die... At exactly 11:46. The bus! The b--
Security Cop
We're all gonna die, pop. Come on. Let's go sleep it off.
Older Jason Nichols
No! J-Jason!
Security Cop
You'll feel better in the morning.
Older Jason Nichols
Don't let him cross the street!
Security Cop
All right.
Older Jason Nichols
His papers. He won't see the bus! At 11:46!
Security Cop
All right. In the car.
Older Jason Nichols
Stop him! No! Jason!
Jason Nichols
How did he know my name?
Lucas Menand
How the hell should I know?
[ car engine starting ]
Older Jason Nichols
Stop him! Stop him! You've got to stop him! You don't have much time! He's going to die! Stop him now! Stop him now!
Jason Nichols
Lucas! Wait! Look, man, give me a chance!
Lucas Menand
We have got nothing left to talk about.
[ engine accelerating ]
Jason Nichols
Lucas!
Lucas Menand
Damn it!
Jason Nichols
Lucas! Lucas! Lucas! No!
Bus Driver
What'd you do to him? You pushed him. You pushed him right in front of me. You killed him! What the hell did you do?
Scene 02
MULDER'S OFFICE
Fox Mulder
His name was Lucas Menand, a postdoctoral fellow at m.I.t. He's a bright and promising researcher. A life dedicated to science cut short by an unfortunate bus accident.
Dana Scully
"cause of death was massive head trauma, pronounced on site." but according to the bus driver it was no accident?
Fox Mulder
He claims that Menand was pushed... By a suspect identified as Jason Nichols, an associate professor of biology as well as Menand's academic advisor.
Dana Scully
Says here in the police report they'd been seen arguing earlier that evening, but Jason Nichols has refused to tell police about what.
Fox Mulder
Hmm. Sounds like a motive, doesn't it?
Dana Scully
Between that and the bus driver's statement, why am I looking at this?
Fox Mulder
Would you like to hear his alibi?
Jason Nichols
If I wanted to kill him, do you think this is how I'd do it?
Interrogator
Then what were you doing, mr. Nichols?
Jason Nichols
Trying to save him!
Interrogator
From getting hit by the bus.
Jason Nichols
I told you! There was a man, some old guy, who said it would happen. He warned Lucas about the bus. He knew the exact time and place. He tried telling us. He knew my name.
Dana Scully
That's his alibi? That some old man warned him his colleague was gonna die?
Fox Mulder
Well, he goes on to tell a pretty convincing narrative... And to give a rather detailed description of the old man.
Dana Scully
What was he wearing? A long black robe and carrying a scythe?
Fox Mulder
Well, not when campus security picked him up.
Dana Scully
He was arrested?
Fox Mulder
Minutes before the accident, according to Jason Nichols. Packed into a security vehicle, tryin' to warn Nichols even as he was being hauled away.
Dana Scully
Has anybody talked to him?
Fox Mulder
No.
Dana Scully
Has anybody talked to the campus security officer?
Fox Mulder
Can't. He's dead.
Dana Scully
Why not? Of what?
Scene 03
Scene 03
Autopsy Doctor
I haven't been able to make a definitive determination as to cause or time of death. There's been some internal disagreement over how to proceed.
Dana Scully
You mean with the autopsy?
Autopsy Doctor
Yes. But mostly whether to cut or to saw. You see why we didn't put him in refrigeration.
Fox Mulder
Have you ever seen a body in such an advanced hypothermic state?
Dana Scully
Hypothermic? Mulder, this man's an icicle. Did you see this? His ear? It looks like something's been inserted in it.
Autopsy Doctor
Something has. I took his temperature. I don't know if the reading was accurate, but the thermometer said his body temp was 15 degrees fahrenheit.
Fox Mulder
Where was he found?
Autopsy Doctor
On campus inside his patrol car. Parked just off adams with one wheel on the curb. Police also found an empty gin bottle under the driver's seat. Apparently he had a history. He'd been cited for drinking on duty. You'd assume he passed out and froze to death... Except the low temperature for last night was 28.
Dana Scully
And now his body temperature is eight degrees.
Fox Mulder
You mean, he's actually getting colder.
Autopsy Doctor
Like I said, we're a little betwixt in-between on how to go forward here. We'd be happy to take your lead on it.
Dana Scully
I think we're gonna need some time ourselves.
Fox Mulder
So, what's your medical opinion, Scully?
Dana Scully
My best guess would be that he's been exposed to some kind of chemical refrigerant... Like liquid nitrogen, possible even ingested it.
Fox Mulder
Well, you see what happens when you drink and drive?
Dana Scully
I don't know what else to say, Mulder, except that what this doesn't do... Is add any credence whatsoever to the suspect's alibi that the old man was on the scene.
Fox Mulder
Maybe we should ask Jason Nichols if he can explain this.
Dana Scully
What if he can't?
Fox Mulder
We'll just hope that he keeps until thanksgiving.
Lisa Ianelli
... Eight years of work. This is serious, Jason.
Scene 04
Scene 04
Lisa Ianelli
This couldn't be more serious. They're talking about charging you with second-degree murder. I'll call you as soon as I speak to the lawyer.
Jason Nichols
Are you from the FBI?
Fox Mulder
Yeah. Special agent Mulder. Is that your girlfriend?
Jason Nichols
Yeah.
Fox Mulder
Thanks for seeing me. I know your attorney advised you against it. I appreciate it.
Jason Nichols
I just want to talk to somebody who's going to listen to me. Somebody who's going to tell me they can find that old man.
Fox Mulder
There are people out there lookin' for him.
Jason Nichols
Who? The campus police?
Fox Mulder
I'm sure you know that the man who allegedly detained the man you describe is now dead.
Jason Nichols
So, are they going to try and blame me for that one too?
Fox Mulder
Well, not unless, uh, you're capable of killing a man by flash-freezing him.
Jason Nichols
What?
Fox Mulder
The security officer who's now in the morgue... Has a body temperature a little south of frosty the snowman.
Jason Nichols
You think that's funny?
Fox Mulder
Do I think what's funny?
Jason Nichols
Coming in here and trying to screw with my head!
Fox Mulder
Does this have something to do with you and Lucas Menand?
Jason Nichols
Look, he's the one that had been threatening me, okay?
Fox Mulder
He threatened your life?
Jason Nichols
My reputation.
Fox Mulder
How'd he do that?
Jason Nichols
By saying he would go public on his claim that I falsified data on my research paper.
Fox Mulder
Had you?
Jason Nichols
No. My theory was sound. If my interpretation of certain data was a little lax, it's because I've been under pressure to produce results. My NSA grant is up for renewal. And Lucas knew how damaging his allegations would be!
Fox Mulder
Was Lucas Menand up for the same grant? What research would this grant have funded?
Jason Nichols
Cryobiology. I study the effects of freezing temperatures on biological systems.
[ exhales ]
[ cellular phone rings ]
Fox Mulder
Excuse me. Mulder.
Dana Scully
Has Nichols said anything?
Fox Mulder
No. I'm right in the middle of it.
Dana Scully
I think we may be filing a second murder charge against him.
Fox Mulder
Security officer?
Dana Scully
I found Nichols' right thumb print on his uniform. And forensics also matched his with the prints they lifted off the interior of the patrol car. I think the old man in this story is gonna be Jason Nichols... Serving 25-to-life in a federal prison.
[ phone ringing ]
Dr. Yonechi
Yes. Yes.
Desk Clerk
I understand. Thank you.
Scene 05
Scene 05
Desk Clerk
I'm sorry, sir. There's nothing more we can do.
Dr. Yonechi
My name is Yonechi.
Desk Clerk
Yes, sir, you've told me. But I'm not finding a reservation under that name.
Dr. Yonechi
But this is where I am supposed to stay.
Desk Clerk
I'm sorry, sir. I don't know what else to tell you.
Older Jason Nichols
Dr. Yonechi?
Dr. Yonechi
Yes?
Older Jason Nichols
Uh, there's been a misunderstanding. I-I'm afraid my assistant made a reservation at the wrong hotel, so I came here myself to make sure you, uh, you got a room. It's a good room with a view of the river.
Dr. Yonechi
You are not, uh, dr. Nichols.
Older Jason Nichols
He apologizes. He was not able to be here to meet you himself... So he asked me to come in his place.
Dr. Yonechi
Excuse me, but who are you?
Older Jason Nichols
A great admirer of your work.
Bellman
Here we go, sir.
Dr. Yonechi
Thank you.
Bellman
After you, sir.
Older Jason Nichols
No. Go ahead.
Bellman
If you need anything, just give us a call. Here you are, sir. Have a good evening, sir.
Dr. Yonechi
Are you sick?
Older Jason Nichols
No, no. I'm-- I'm fine. Thank you.
Dr. Yonechi
May I get you some, uh, water?
Older Jason Nichols
If it's no trouble.
Dr. Yonechi
Please. Come in.
Older Jason Nichols
The, uh, mix-up with the reservation, it was actually my fault.
Dr. Yonechi
Your fault?
Older Jason Nichols
But I owe you so much.
Dr. Yonechi
For what?
Older Jason Nichols
Your contribution to my work. Vitrification. You were the one who solved the problem.
Dr. Yonechi
Me? Mmm. No. Not yet. No one has solved vitrification.
Older Jason Nichols
Oh, yes, yonni. You found a way to substitute water with a sugar-- trehalose. Your paper. It changed everything. I am sorry, yonni, but this is the only way.
[ yelling ]
[ chattering ]
[ door closing ]
Scene 06
HOTEL ROOM
Fox Mulder
I just spoke with the bellman who brought up the luggage.
Dana Scully
What did he say?
Fox Mulder
The iceman cometh. Dr. Yonechi was accompanied by a man in his seventies. It's a description confirmed by the desk clerk. They're working with a composite artist on a sketch right now.
Dana Scully
Sounds like Jason Nichols has an accomplice.
Fox Mulder
Sounds like that.
Dana Scully
More than that, Mulder. It makes sense. Science is a high-stakes game. Jason Nichols is trying to eliminate his competitors. He's succeeding.
Fox Mulder
Yeah, but what if he's being set up?
Dana Scully
He's a cryobiologist. He freezes things for a living. How many people can do that?
Fox Mulder
Just about anybody who's up for that grant money could.
Dana Scully
Right. I want to show you something. This is what's called a nuclear magnetic resonance spectra. Dr. Yonechi had a spot of blood on the heel of his hand. A pin prick. Something that might have been caused by a small gauge hypodermic needle. Now I found the same thing on the security officer. This is the analysis.
Fox Mulder
What is it?
Dana Scully
Well, no one at the lab would even hazard a guess. But we think it's some kind of unidentifiable chemical compound.
Fox Mulder
A lethal injection?
Dana Scully
You'll have to ask Jason Nichols.
Fox Mulder
No. There's somebody I want to talk to first.
Scene 07
Scene 07
Fox Mulder
Lisa Ianelli? [ gasps ] sorry. I didn't mean to startle you.
Lisa Ianelli
No, I was... Working. Sometimes you just get lost in it.
Fox Mulder
Yeah. You may remember me from this afternoon. I spoke with Jason.
Lisa Ianelli
From the FBI
Dana Scully
I'm agent Scully. May I show you something?
Lisa Ianelli
Mm-hmm. Where did you get this?
Dana Scully
You recognize it? Lisa, you can tell us now, or we can subpoena your testimony in court. Either way, we'll find out what you know about it.
Lisa Ianelli
It's a kind of catalyst.
Dana Scully
A catalyst for what?
Lisa Ianelli
A self-sustaining endothermic reaction. It's a rapid freezing agent. Something Jason's been engineering for years. See, when a cell freezes, its moisture forms into ice crystals, which literally grind up the cell from the inside out. But extreme rapid freezing causes a smoother, glass-like structure to form, so the cell can survive being thawed, at least according to Jason's theory.
Dana Scully
This compound, has Jason actually tested it yet?
Lisa Ianelli
He hasn't tested it yet because it doesn't exist, except in the computer. So far the work's been limited to generating virtual chemicals... Like this. In fact, what we're looking at here is a version of the catalyst you brought me.
Dana Scully
Is it possible that he could have synthesized the compound without you knowing about it?
Lisa Ianelli
Not even remotely. Technology to engineer something like that is still five, ten years away.
Fox Mulder
Not anymore, apparently.
Lisa Ianelli
What are you talking about?
Dana Scully
Traces of the compound were detected in a man who was found dead last night. Frozen solid.
Lisa Ianelli
Then there must be some kind of mistake.
Dana Scully
And a, uh, dr. Yonechi was also found frozen to death.
Lisa Ianelli
What?
Fox Mulder
In his heated hotel room.
Lisa Ianelli
When was this?
Dana Scully
Just over two hours ago. Why is that relevant?
Lisa Ianelli
Because he may not be dead. What's his temp?
Doctor
His core temperature's up to 97.
Lisa Ianelli
Okay. Let's take him out.
Doctor
And then what?
Lisa Ianelli
We've got to try to resuscitate him. Let's go.
Doctor
All right. On my count. One. Two. Three.
Dana Scully
This isn't gonna work.
Fox Mulder
Why not?
Dana Scully
His body temperature was eight degrees. The lowest reported body temperature ever survived by a human being was 70.
Fox Mulder
Well, if he's already dead, then he's got nothin' to lose.
Doctor
Okay. We're hooked up here. [ electronic buzzing ] all right, dr. Ianelli, we're gonna start with 300 joules and an amp of epi.
Medical Technician
Entracardial epi ready.
[ indistinct ]
Technician 1
Charging.
Doctor
Clear?
Technician 1
Clear.
Technician 2
Still no pulse.
Doctor
[ doctor ] go to 360. Clear.
Technician 1
Clear.
Technician 2
No response.
Doctor
Give him another amp of entracardial epi and atropine, one milligram. Try again at 360. Clear.
Technician 1
Clear.
[ electronic beeping ]
Doctor
He's got a rhythm.
Lisa Ianelli
Dr. Yonechi? You're in a prototype frostbite bay in cambridge, mass. You've been unconscious for almost 12 hours.
[ moaning ]
Lisa Ianelli
Dr. Yonechi? My name is lisa Ianelli. [ moaning continues ]
Dana Scully
Don't try and talk right now. We've inserted a tube to help you breathe. [ moaning, gagging ] try not to fight the machine. Let it breathe for you.
[ beeping continues ]
[ gasping, groaning ]
Lisa Ianelli
Something's wrong. [ Yonechi screaming ]
Fox Mulder
Scully, look at his temperature.
Dana Scully
Oh, my God. He's on fire. He's having febrile seizures.
Doctor
This can't be right. He's burning up. Hold him down. Hold him down!
[ all screaming ]
[ alarm ringing ]
[ screaming ]
Doctor
We were trying to resuscitate him-- [ man on p.a., indistinct ]
[ chattering ]
Medical Technician
Okay. He seemed to be all right though.
Dana Scully
Lisa, what happened? I mean, what-- what could've happened to create such a violent cellular reaction?
Lisa Ianelli
I don't know. All I can think is the compound used to freeze him must have been unstable.
Dana Scully
So raising his body temperature may have... Catalyzed an opposite reaction, heating him internally?
Lisa Ianelli
Mm-hmm. I question now if we should have removed him from the tub. I think we might have saved him.
Fox Mulder
I think the real question is how somebody could have had access... To a compound that doesn't exist.
Lisa Ianelli
I'm sorry. I need to talk to Jason. Excuse me.
[ chattering ]
[ brakes screeching ]
Pedestrian
Watch it!
Lisa Ianelli
Who are you? I said who are you? What do you want? Why are you following me?
Older Jason Nichols
Unless I'm mistaken, you're the one following me.
Lisa Ianelli
I saw you outside.
Older Jason Nichols
I'm afraid you're confusing me with someone else.
Lisa Ianelli
You're the man Jason saw, aren't you? You killed Lucas Menand and dr. Yonechi.
Older Jason Nichols
And I can kill you.
Lisa Ianelli
Let go of me!
Older Jason Nichols
I came here... To kill you.
Lisa Ianelli
Who are you?
Scene 08
PUBLIC SQUARE
Fox Mulder
You say he followed you off the bus?
Lisa Ianelli
Yes. I noticed him just before my stop.
Fox Mulder
And you were on your way to see Jason?
Lisa Ianelli
Yes. I confronted him inside the library. He followed me in there. And then he grabbed me and hurt my arm.
Dana Scully
What did he say?
Lisa Ianelli
That he could kill me. That that's why he was following me. He threatened me with some kind of medical instrument.
Dana Scully
But he just let you go? Lisa, if you're leaving anything out, if you're hedging the truth, you could be held accountable if Jason committed a crime.
Lisa Ianelli
It wasn't Jason. It was me. I falsified the data to get the grant. Jason's covering for me. He's in jail because of me.
Fox Mulder
That's what he can't tell anyone?
Dana Scully
But there are people who could've figured it out. Lucas Menand, dr. Yonechi. These people are now dead.
Lisa Ianelli
No, it's not what you think.
Dana Scully
You know who this old man is, don't you?
Lisa Ianelli
I don't. I swear to you.
Dana Scully
But Jason does. This man is doing what Jason can't; he's protecting your secret.
Lisa Ianelli
He swore to me he would never confess it to a soul.
Dana Scully
If he'd lie for you, what makes you think he wouldn't lie to you?
Fox Mulder
Scully? It doesn't make sense. Why would he threaten her if she's the one protecting his secret?
Dana Scully
Because it's not just her secret. It's Jason's secret too. And the old man is protecting Jason.
[ exhales ]
Fox Mulder
With a medical instrument?
Dana Scully
I suppose it is an unlikely choice as a murder weapon.
Fox Mulder
Well, what if it's not a murder weapon? I'm just speculating. But what if it was designed for some other purpose?
Policeman
Agent Mulder? We've been canvassing the area. Hotel manager from a couple blocks away thinks he's made your guy. It's on mckinney street. Hotel's called the lighthouse.
Fox Mulder
Tell the unit to keep watch until we get there. Make sure she gets home safe.
[ knocking ]
Fox Mulder
Federal agents, sir. Open the door.
Dana Scully
Are you sure this is the room?
Fox Mulder
The hotel manager says he's been living here for five days.
Dana Scully
I'm not sure if "living" is the word I'd use on this place. Yonechi's flight information was taken down on this pad.
Fox Mulder
Hey, look at this.
Dana Scully
When was this taken?
Fox Mulder
What's the occasion?
Dana Scully
A celebration. But of what?
Fox Mulder
Of something that never happened.
Dana Scully
What? Mulder, this is a photograph. It is a documented moment in time.
Fox Mulder
In a future that somebody's trying like hell to prevent from happening.
Dana Scully
What?
Fox Mulder
Think about it, Scully. If Lucas Menand never gets hit by that bus, his complaint gets heard before the grant committee. Jason Nichols loses his funding. He never gets to collaborate on his research with dr. Yonechi. Therefore, this photograph never gets taken because this celebration never happens.
Dana Scully
And if your sister is your aunt and your mother marries your uncle, you'd be your own grandpa.
Fox Mulder
The old man couldn't save Lucas Menand, so he had to kill dr. Yonechi.
Dana Scully
Okay. So this photo that was never taken, when was it never taken?
Fox Mulder
At least five years in the future, when they first synthesized... The freezing compound successfully. Let's take the stairs.
Dana Scully
Mulder, the compound already exists. We have physical evidence.
Fox Mulder
Only because the old man brought it back with him.
Dana Scully
Back from where?
Fox Mulder
From when may be the real question.
Dana Scully
You're seriously suggesting that this old man is back from the future?
Fox Mulder
Unless you have a better explanation for how he knew exactly... When and how Lucas Menand was gonna be killed; why Jason Nichols' fingerprints were inside that patrol car; and how he knew lisa Ianelli's secret.
Dana Scully
So what you're saying here is the old man is--
Fox Mulder
Jason Nichols. Although, common sense may rule out the possibility of time travel, the laws of quantum physics certainly do not. In case you forgot, that's from your graduate thesis. You were a lot more open-minded when you were a youngster.
Dana Scully
I know what I wrote, Mulder. I also know that the laws of physics... Would permit the theoretical possibility of time travel, but the limits of human endurance would prevent such a trip from ever happening.
Fox Mulder
There's one sure way to prove that theoretical possibility.
Dana Scully
How?
Fox Mulder
Show this photo to lisa Ianelli and ask her if it was ever taken.
[ exhales ]
[ groaning ]
[ breathing heavily ]
Lisa Ianelli
Jason? I don't understand. How is this possible?
Older Jason Nichols
Because you made it possible. It was you.
Lisa Ianelli
How? I need to know.
Older Jason Nichols
Thirty years ago, ten years from now, you'll be at a conference in zurich. You'll meet a man named mcguane who's just discovered... The first evidence of tachyons-- subatomic particles that can travel faster than the speed of light... And go back in time, but only for a few seconds... And only at a temperature of absolute zero. But from that and from your correspondence with mcguane, you'll have an idea, a revelation.
Lisa Ianelli
What revelation?
Older Jason Nichols
One so remarkable... It would change the course of history.
Lisa Ianelli
Then why did you-- you said you came back to kill me.
Older Jason Nichols
But I couldn't do it.
Lisa Ianelli
You're cold. Jason?
Older Jason Nichols
Yes.
[ gasps ]
[ moaning, whimpering ]
Scene 09
POLICE STATION
Clerk
Sign here.
Fox Mulder
Jason?
Jason Nichols
What are you doing here?
Fox Mulder
I've arranged for your bail.
Jason Nichols
I assumed it was lisa.
Fox Mulder
No. That's why I'm here. Something's happened to her.
Jason Nichols
What are you talking about?
Fox Mulder
I think it's something you should see for yourself. She's at the medical research facility.
Jason Nichols
Was it the old man?
Fox Mulder
Yes.
Jason Nichols
Why haven't you found him yet? Who the hell is he?
Fox Mulder
Look, Jason, I-- I don't expect you to get your mind around this right now.
Jason Nichols
What?
Fox Mulder
The man we're looking for, the old man, he's you.
[ car horn honking ]
Fox Mulder
That photo is indicative of a pattern. You may be his next target. It puts a whole new spin on being your own worst enemy.
Jason Nichols
Except that I've never met dr. Yonechi and neither has lisa. So this must have been altered somehow.
Fox Mulder
Not according to the photo specialist that I had examine it. As far as she could tell, it's the real mccoy.
Jason Nichols
Then maybe you should get a second opinion... Because I'm not buying your story.
Fox Mulder
Jason, it's your story.
Jason Nichols
It's science fiction.
Fox Mulder
So is your rapid freezing agent, until two days ago. So, why don't you just consider the evidence as a scientist. How could the old man come to possess a compound that you admit doesn't exist?
Jason Nichols
Whoever he is, why would he be trying to prevent my compound from being developed?
Fox Mulder
I'm not sure of that yet.
Jason Nichols
But you have a theory.
Fox Mulder
I think it has something to do with the practical application of your compound, though I don't know what that is yet.
Jason Nichols
Involving time travel?
Fox Mulder
Physicists like stephen hawking have hypothesized the existence of worm holes and time loops, actual portals through which matter can travel backward through time. Although phenomena like extreme heat and gravity... Would render the trip lethal for any organism.
Jason Nichols
So, you're saying the properties of my compound will make it possible?
Fox Mulder
Eventually, yes. That's what I'm saying.
Jason Nichols
But why stop time travel?
Fox Mulder
That's what I'm hoping the old man can tell us.
Jason Nichols
Agent Mulder, if any of this is true, then what happened to lisa... Is really my fault.
Scene 10
BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FACILITY
Jason Nichols
We're going up to the cryo lab. Mm-hmm.
Security Guard
Hey, wait a sec. Are you dr. Jason Nichols?
Jason Nichols
That's right.
Security Guard
Then, something's wrong.
[ computer keys clicking ]
Security Guard
It says you're already in the building.
Fox Mulder
Listen to me, Jason. I need you to get to Scully and tell her that he's here. She's in the frostbite bay with lisa. Can you do that? All right.
Doctor
Clear.
Nurse 1
Clear.
[ electronic buzzing ]
Doctor
Let's give her another amp of epinephrine and we'll go again at 360.
Nurse 1
Charging.
Nurse 2
Epi given.
Doctor
Clear.
Nurse 3
Everybody clear.
[ electronic beeping ]
Doctor
[ doctor ] increase the DMSO. We have a rhythm. Now what?
Nurse 1
Pulse.
Dana Scully
Get her back in the tub. Now.
Doctor
All right. Let's disconnect and get her back in.
Nurse 3
Here we go.
Doctor
Let's go.
[ beeping continues ]
Nurse 1
All right. Here we are.
Doctor
Easy.
Dana Scully
How high's the reading now?
Nurse 1
106. 107.
[ computer keys clicking ]
Research Assistant
Is there a problem?
Fox Mulder
Has anybody been through here in the last hour?
Research Assistant
Well, there was a maintenance guy who fixed the fan, but other than that, it's just been me.
Fox Mulder
No, I'm lookin' for an older man, a man in his mid-seventies maybe?
Research Assistant
I haven't seen anybody like that. Why? Does this have something to do with dr. Nichols?
Fox Mulder
Do you work with him?
Research Assistant
I'm one of his research assistants.
Fox Mulder
You have access to his files?
Research Assistant
Yeah.
Fox Mulder
I'd like to pull up some information about his rapid freezing compound.
[ cellular phone rings ]
Fox Mulder
Mulder.
Dana Scully
We've resuscitated her, Mulder. Her body temperature's still high, but it seems to have stabilized.
Fox Mulder
Well, did Jason help?
Dana Scully
He's not here.
Fox Mulder
All right. He should've been there five minutes ago, Scully.
Dana Scully
Where are you?
Research Assistant
Oh, this is crazy.
Dana Scully
Mulder?
Fox Mulder
Uh, let me get back to you, Scully. What?
Research Assistant
It's dr. Nichols' files. They're totally whacked.
Fox Mulder
What do you mean "whacked"?
Research Assistant
His data. It's gone. It's like somebody's completely erased it from the mainframe.
Jason Nichols
I knew I'd find you here. I figured this is where I'd go to stop myself.
Older Jason Nichols
I don't have much time. Please. Let me finish.
Jason Nichols
Let you finish destroying my work?
Older Jason Nichols
It's my work too.
Jason Nichols
I want her back.
Older Jason Nichols
I know.
Jason Nichols
Then tell me how to go back so I can save her. Please.
Older Jason Nichols
I don't expect you to understand.
Jason Nichols
Understand what?
Older Jason Nichols
What she created, what you-- we helped to create. A world without history, without hope, where anyone can know everything that will ever happen. I've seen that world.
Jason Nichols
Tell me how to go back.
Older Jason Nichols
I can't.
Jason Nichols
You will! Tell me!
Older Jason Nichols
No! Jason! Try to understand!
Fox Mulder
Jason!
Jason Nichols
Tell me how to go back so I can save her!
Fox Mulder
Jason! She's alive! Lisa's alive! Don't hurt him! If you hurt him, we'll never know the truth! Open the door.
Jason Nichols
She's okay.
Older Jason Nichols
It's better that we never were.
Jason Nichols
No!
[ screaming ]
Dana Scully
Lisa? It's Dana Scully. Can you hear me? You're going to be fine. We knew to keep you submerged in order to maintain your body temperature. After what happened to dr. Yonechi, your theory about the compound's instability, well, you proved it yourself.
Lisa Ianelli
[ whispering ] he said-- he said he was Jason.
Dana Scully
The old man? Look, there's been some incongruous evidence... I've had difficulty explaining myself.
Lisa Ianelli
It was him... Agent Scully. He was Jason.
Dana Scully
Lisa, Jason's dead. There was a fire in the mainframe room. I'm sorry. I'll see you at the hospital.
[ ambulance engine starting ]
Dana Scully
Did they find the second corpse?
Fox Mulder
No. And I'm not holding out much hope that they will either.
Dana Scully
We should put out an a.p.b. On the old man.
Fox Mulder
We won't find him. I know what I saw, Scully, and I know what I believe happened.
Dana Scully
Even if it can never be proven?
Fox Mulder
Never? Never is a very long time. You said that yourself. Although multidimensionality suggests infinite outcomes... And an infinite number of universes, each universe can produce only one outcome.
Dana Scully
I was 23 when I wrote that.
Fox Mulder
Yeah, but I take that to mean that you were suggesting that the future can't be altered, which means that the elder Jason Nichols' attempts to stop his own research will fail, and that eventually his compound and time travel will be discovered.
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