Woman
Auntie janet? It's time, auntie janet. He's waiting.
Season 4 · Episode 9
Terma
Character-labelled dialogue prepared from the official DVD subtitle track.
Production code4X10Original airdate · December 1, 1996
236 dialogue entries
Scene 01
HARROW CONVALESCENT HOME,
Doctor
We should hurry. We have papers to sign. Just tell me when.
Auntie Janet
Don't you cry for me, dear. I'm tired of the pain. You're my angel of mercy.
Woman
Is she gone?
Doctor
Something's wrong here.
Scene 02
Scene 02
♪♪ [ stereo: violin ]
[ knock on door ]
[ speaking russian ]
Messenger
Vassily Peskow?
Scene 03
Scene 03
Prisoner
Prisoner. Hey. Prisoner. I thought maybe you were dead.
Fox Mulder
How long have I been lying here?
Prisoner
Hours. I don't know. The first time is bad. Very bad.
Fox Mulder
They do this to you?
Prisoner
Yes. It becomes easier each time, until it kills you.
Fox Mulder
What did they do to me?
Prisoner
You have been exposed to the black cancer.
Fox Mulder
What cancer?
Prisoner
The cancer that lives in the rock.
Fox Mulder
Who are you?
Prisoner
I was a geologist. Quite well known in my field, actually, but now I am just a test subject.
Fox Mulder
You helped them find the rock?
Prisoner
I was there when they brought up the first fragments. This was before the mining, before we knew what lived in Tunguska rock.
Fox Mulder
How many men have died here?
Prisoner
Hundreds. Maybe more. The search for a cure goes slowly.
Fox Mulder
Is that what they say the tests are for, to find a cure?
Prisoner
No, no. They tell us nothing. We are left to guess or imagine the reasons for our torture. But what else could it be?
Fox Mulder
What happened to the man who was in the cell with me-- Krycek?
Prisoner
He is most likely dining with the men responsible for our torture. I heard laughter when they left your cell.
Fox Mulder
I'm not going to die.
Prisoner
No? Why not?
Fox Mulder
I have to live long enough to kill that man Krycek. Where did you get this?
Prisoner
I made it... To kill myself. It took me nearly two weeks. By then, I had lost the desire.
Fox Mulder
You'd rather suffer the torture?
Prisoner
It is wonderful, the persistence of life. That rock we found buried so deep in the earth, that anything could survive down there against all reason. No. They will have to kill me themselves.
Scene 04
NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER
Dana Scully
We haven't been able to give him anything but fluids for over 48 hours.
Agent Pendrell
Well, it doesn't help that he's in a restricted environment.
Dana Scully
Well, if he has been infected by some kind of organism, we can't risk contamination. Are you seeing anything?
Agent Pendrell
The blood in the carotid artery looks slightly thickened, possibly due to the decreased heart rate and blood pressure. Now what's this? What the hell is this?
Dana Scully
What is it?
Agent Pendrell
I don't know. It looks like it's concentrated around his pineal body. I-I think it's alive.
Dana Scully
It looks like a nest. Some kind of black vermiform organism attached to the pineal gland.
Scene 05
RICHMOND, VI
Peskow
Apple?
Woman 2
No. Thank you very much though.
[ gasps ]
Scene 06
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VI
Peskow
Oh, pardon me.
Dr. Charne-Sayre
Who are you?
Peskow
As a boy, my father had a farm, but not horses like these. My name is vassily Peskow.
Dr. Charne-Sayre
Mr. Peskow, I'm sorry, but you don't belong in here.
Peskow
I am sorry, very sorry.
Dr. Charne-Sayre
You are going to have to leave here. I'm going to call you a cab.
Peskow
But I have come here to see you, dr. Charne-sayre.
Dr. Charne-Sayre
Do I know you?
Peskow
No. I don't know how you could.
[ horses neighing ]
Scene 07
OUTSIDE SCULLY’S APARTMENT
Walter Skinner
Agent Scully.
Dana Scully
Sir, what are you--
Walter Skinner
I've been trying to contact you for hours. The better part of the day.
Dana Scully
I'm sorry, sir. My cell phone was turned off.
Walter Skinner
You owe me some answers, agent Scully, answers I don't have to the questions I'm being asked about this missing diplomatic pouch. The pouch presumably being carried by the man who was pushed off my balcony... And whose connection to the felon I harbored in my house against all good sense, I'm going to have to explain to avoid perjuring myself before a senate subcommittee tomorrow, which, I might remind you, is a serious crime in itself, is it not, agent Scully?
Dana Scully
Yes, sir. Sir, if I might explain, the contents of that pouch, it contained some kind of a biohazardous organism... That is luckily being contained in a contamination laboratory at NASA goddard, which is where I've been all day, trying to determine its exact nature.
Walter Skinner
That pouch you intercepted, do you know what its intended destination was?
Dana Scully
No, sir, I don't.
Walter Skinner
Well, I do, agent Scully, because I bent some rules this morning when I couldn't find you, to find out who was to receive it.
Dana Scully
Who was it?
Walter Skinner
Dr. Bonita charne-sayre. Are you familiar with that name?
Dana Scully
Yes, sir, I am. She's a well-known physician, a virologist who's looked in on presidents. She's also an authority on variola viruses.
Walter Skinner
Variola?
Dana Scully
Smallpox. She's been a vocal proponent... Of eliminating the last remaining stores of the smallpox virus, destroying the only remaining vials in facilities... Here in atlanta and in the former soviet union.
Walter Skinner
Well, she was killed tonight.
Dana Scully
Killed?
Walter Skinner
A horse stepped on her throat in a riding accident in virginia.
Scene 08
Scene 08
[ door unlocking ]
[ men shouting ]
[ footsteps approaching ]
[ man speaking russian ]
Fox Mulder
Where we going?
[ speaking russian ]
Scene 09
Scene 09
Prisoner
Prisoner, is that your friend? You have but one chance.
[ man speaking russian ]
[ man yelling ]
[ yelling ]
Scene 10
WELL-MANICURED MAN’S FARM.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
That's a nasty habit. It's bad for the health.
Well-Manicured Man
Health is the least of my concerns at the moment.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
Yes. According to reports, your... Personal physician suffered a serious riding accident here on your property.
Well-Manicured Man
Dr. Charne-sayre was murdered.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
By whom?
Well-Manicured Man
If I knew, do you think I'd be standing here talking to you?
Cigarette-Smoking Man
So... You need me now. A man of my capabilities, is that it?
Well-Manicured Man
This was a professional hit. Really?
Cigarette-Smoking Man
And you out here all alone and so vulnerable. Were you sleeping with her? Surely you wouldn't be so foolish as to put the project at risk... For the sake of your personal pleasures.
Well-Manicured Man
Find her killer.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
Call off this congressional investigation.
Well-Manicured Man
I can't. But senator Sorenson is an honorable man. They are all honorable, these honorable men.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
I heard Mulder was captured in Tunguska. I hear now he's escaped. Wake the russian bear, and it may find we've stolen its honey.
Scene 11
TUNGUSKA
[ horses neighing ]
Scene 12
Scene 12
[ men speaking russian ]
[ groaning, panting ]
[ running footsteps ]
[ speaking russian ]
Alex Krycek
No. I'm sorry.
Scene 14
SENATE SUBCOMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE AND TERRORISM
Dana Scully
I, Dana katherine Scully, swear to tell the truth, the whole truth...
[ gavel pounds ]
Dana Scully
And nothing but the truth, so help me, god. I would like to read from a prepared statement.
Chairman Romine
You may do so.
Dana Scully
"I left behind a career in medicine... "to become an FBI agent four years ago... "because I believed in this country, "because I wanted to uphold its laws, "to punish the guilty and to protect the innocent. "I still believe in this country, "but I believe that there are powerful men in this government who do not. "men who have no respect for the law and who flout it with impunity.
Chairman Romine
Uh, miss Scully--
Dana Scully
"I have come to the conclusion...
Chairman Romine
Agent Scully--
Dana Scully
That it is no longer possible--"
Chairman Romine
This is not a soapbox, ms. Scully. Your statement will be entered into the record.
Dana Scully
With all due respect, mr. Chairman, I would like to finish.
Chairman Romine
This is not why we are here today.
Dana Scully
Then why are we here, sir?
Senator Sorenson
Do you or do you not know the whereabouts of agent Mulder? Are you or are you not aware of agent Mulder's present location?
Dana Scully
I respectfully refuse to answer that question, sir, because--
Chairman Romine
Agent Scully, you cannot refuse to answer that question.
Dana Scully
Because I believe answering that question could endanger agent Mulder's life.
Chairman Romine
You don't seem to understand. Your response is not optional. You are an agent of the FBI.
Dana Scully
Then if I may please finish my statement. "that it is no longer possible for me to carry out my duties as an FBI agent."
Senator Sorenson
Are you tendering your resignation, agent Scully? Is that what you're trying to say?
Dana Scully
No, sir. What I am saying... Is that there is a culture of lawlessness... That has prevented me from doing my job, that the real target of this committee's investigation... Should be the men who are beyond prosecution and punishment, the men whose secret policies are behind the crimes that you are investigating.
Senator Sorenson
You have a legal obligation to answer the questions posed to you. Now, either you tell us what you know about agent Mulder's whereabouts, or you'll be held in contempt of Congress.
Scene 17
Scene 17
[ buzzing ]
[ speaking russian ]
[ speaking russian ]
Fox Mulder
No russian.
Wife
American?
Fox Mulder
Tell your husband I'm sorry about his truck.
Wife
The test?
Fox Mulder
Yeah.
Wife
they kill everybody for the test. -
Fox Mulder
Why don't they kill you?
Wife
My husband makes deliveries. They spare our lives. But now, no truck. He is afraid.
Fox Mulder
Well, I have to go now.
Wife
No. No.
Fox Mulder
They'll come looking for me. They'll come looking for you.
Wife
there are other ways. -
Fox Mulder
I don't know what you're talking about.
Wife
Grisha! No arm. No test.
Fox Mulder
You don't understand these tests. This smallpox scar on your arm is some kind of identification. You have to help me escape. I'll help you escape. You have to help me get to st. Petersburg.
[ heavy footsteps ]
[ door opens ]
Scene 19
Scene 19
[ man speaking russian ]
[ screaming ]
Walter Skinner
You holding up?
Dana Scully
I've got plenty to read.
Walter Skinner
I can understand you protecting agent Mulder, but--
Dana Scully
It is not just agent Mulder that I am protecting, sir.
Walter Skinner
Then what are you doing?
Dana Scully
We were called before this committee... To answer questions about a murder, about an intercepted diplomatic pouch, a pouch that was to be delivered to a prominent doctor, a woman who is now dead, as is the man who was delivering the said pouch, the contents of which have infected an exobiologist... With a paralyzing toxin, yet what are we stuck on here? The whereabouts of agent Mulder.
Walter Skinner
You mean it's the wrong question.
Dana Scully
Several of the men on this committee are lawyers. It is my experience that lawyers ask the wrong question... Only when they don't want the right answer.
Walter Skinner
Unless agent Mulder has already found the answers they're looking for.
Dana Scully
Or someone wants to make sure that he doesn't find them.
Walter Skinner
These are congressmen we're talking about, agent Scully.
Dana Scully
I know that, sir, and it is my natural inclination to believe... That they are acting in the best interest of the truth, but I am not inclined to follow my own judgment in this case.
Walter Skinner
So you're going to follow agent Mulder's, is that it?
Scene 21
WELL-MANICURED MAN’S FARM.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
His name is vassily Peskow. He was a kgb line-x stringer working out of moscow center.
Well-Manicured Man
But how could this be? How could the russians know we were working on our own inoculation? Six of us knew!
Cigarette-Smoking Man
Dr. Charne-sayre?
Well-Manicured Man
She was trusted. Absolutely.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
Then I don't know.
Well-Manicured Man
Find this man! Find him!
Cigarette-Smoking Man
If my intelligence sources are right, I think there's someone who might save us the trouble.
Scene 22
INTERIOR. SENATE SUB-COMMITTEE.
Senator Sorenson
Mr. Chairman, may I? Carry on. Miss Scully, you've had a good long time to think about the question... That was asked in our last session. I want to give you the opportunity to answer that question here today... So I can help our good chairman here... To get on with this proceeding.
Dana Scully
I can't answer that question, sir.
Senator Sorenson
I'm going to ask you again. Where is special agent Mulder and why is he not here?
Dana Scully
I'd be happy to answer your questions about the man carrying the diplomatic pouch. And my opinion about its connection to the death of dr. Bonita charne-sayre.
Senator Sorenson
Miss Scully, you'll get your chance with all of that--
Dana Scully
Or about the biotoxin within that pouch.
Senator Sorenson
Answer the question!
Fox Mulder
What is the question?
[ audience murmuring ]
[ gavel pounding ]
Chairman Romine
All right, let's come to order. Agent Scully, do continue.
Dana Scully
Yes, sir, if I may, I would like to finish making my point.
Chairman Romine
What is your point, miss Scully?
Dana Scully
That the death of dr. Charne-sayre, given her field of expertise, strongly suggests that she knew something about the toxin, about its origins, and that knowledge may be directly linked... To the murder of the man in assistant director Skinner's apartment building.
Senator Sorenson
Miss Scully?
Dana Scully
Yes, sir. Um, assistant director Skinner has just informed me... That there has been an accident directly related--
Senator Sorenson
An accident?
Dana Scully
A doctor infected with the toxin has died under suspicious circumstances... Involving a theft of evidence... Of the contents of the diplomatic pouch.
Chairman Romine
Well, we've gotten off to a real fine start here. I'm going to recess now until this new matter can be explained... So we might then begin moving in a forward direction.
Dana Scully
Mulder.
Fox Mulder
I get to put my arms around you. Both of them.
Dana Scully
When did you get back here?
Fox Mulder
It's been a long, strange trip.
Walter Skinner
Some other time. I think there's been enough strangeness here to sort through.
Dana Scully
Mulder, I've made several connections about this toxin, about what it might be.
Fox Mulder
So have I.
Dana Scully
Sir, I need your permission... To book two airfares to Boca Raton, Florida. It shouldn't take more than 12, 15 hours. But in the event that it does, I need you to stall the committee tomorrow... For the purpose of--
Walter Skinner
If you explain it to me, agent Scully, I'm going to have to explain it to them. I suggest you do everything in your power to make it back for tomorrow's session... Or I can't help you.
Fox Mulder
Boca Raton?
Dana Scully
Dr. Bonita charne-sayre... Is a board member and chief physician... For a chain of elder-care convalescent hospitals around the country. Guess what one of her patients died of in Boca Raton.
Scene 24
Scene 24
Nurse
Yes, what is it?
Dana Scully
Agents Mulder and Scully. We need your permission to speak with you or any of your patients.
Nurse
What about?
Fox Mulder
May we come in, ma'am?
Nurse
Yes.
Dana Scully
When was the last time these patients were checked?
Nurse
An hour ago, at bed check.
Dana Scully
This man's dead.
Nurse
What?
Fox Mulder
Scully, these people are test subjects. I think they've been poisoned.
Dana Scully
Who gave these patients their meds tonight?
Nurse
I did.
Dana Scully
Okay, I need you to call 911. Tell them you've got an emergency quarantine of a biohazardous material. I need you to show us all of the entrances of the hospital. We've got to seal this building immediately.
Scene 25
FEDERAL CORRECTIONAL FACILITY, NEW YORK CITY
Dana Scully
I still don't understand what it is you hope to learn here.
Fox Mulder
Everything that's happened, every death we've seen... Can be traced back to one man.
Dana Scully
But according to you, that man is in russia or possibly even dead.
Fox Mulder
Well, he isn't working alone. Terry edward mayhew? Can we talk with you? Have a little off the record chat?
Mayhew
About?
Fox Mulder
Alex Krycek.
Mayhew
Who?
Fox Mulder
The man who set you up. You and the members of your militia.
Mayhew
Name wasn't Krycek. It was arntzen or something like that.
Fox Mulder
You came into contact with him in north dakota, salvaging material from a missile silo.
Mayhew
I never been in no missile silo. I don't know nothing about that.
Dana Scully
This man Krycek, or "arntzen," as you call him, how did he come into contact with you? Off the record.
Mayhew
He came to us... With some building materials and some big ideas.
Fox Mulder
What was he looking to build?
Mayhew
Two... Devices.
Fox Mulder
Did he ever mention black cancer?
Mayhew
Oh, yeah.
Dana Scully
What did he say?
Mayhew
Developed by the soviets. Saddam used it in the gulf.
Dana Scully
You mean used as bio-warfare?
Mayhew
That's why they made those servicemen take all them pills. U.s. Government knew about the black cancer. They lied. Didn't have no cure, no inoculation. I think we'll quit right there. I got nothing more to say.
Dana Scully
Let's go, Mulder.
Fox Mulder
You said there were, uh, two devices. What happened to the other bomb?
Mayhew
I ate it.
Dana Scully
Mulder!
Fox Mulder
You want to know about anarchy? You don't tell me where that other bomb is, I'll make sure you spend your prison time... Putting a big smile on some convict's face.
Mayhew
Son of a bitch stole it, truck and all. Some storage garage.
Fox Mulder
Where?
Mayhew
Terma, north dakota.
Fox Mulder
Thank you. Scully, get on the phone and get the license numbers... For any two-ton trucks stolen in north dakota in the last six months. Then call canadian border authorities... And have them stop any vehicle fitting that description. Tell them they're looking for a bomb.
Dana Scully
What are you doing?
Fox Mulder
This has been a big setup from the beginning, almost perfectly executed. Someone used Krycek, then Krycek used us. Someone who didn't want that rock in american hands.
Dana Scully
But what's in canada?
Fox Mulder
Where would you put this rock if you didn't want it to be found?
Dana Scully
Back in the ground.
Scene 26
BORDER CROSSING, ALBERTA CANADA
Peskow
Fertilizer. Fertilizer for my hothouse tomatoes. Beautiful tomatoes, all year, eh? Thanks.
Scene 27
Scene 27
Fox Mulder
Go back to the refinery. See if you can find anybody that knows anything about that truck.
[ alarm beeping ]
Peskow
I would just as soon kill you, but please don't make me. My work is done.
[ speaking russian ]
Dana Scully
Mulder!
Scene 28
INTERIOR. SENATE SUB-COMMITTEE CHAMBERS.
[ gavel pounds ]
Chairman Romine
I'd like to get started here. Miss Scully?
Dana Scully
Yes, I'm ready here, sir.
Chairman Romine
You have evidence to present. This is what I've been told.
Dana Scully
Yes, sir. Uh-- evidence linking a number of deaths, a great number, to a biotoxin that was transported to u.s. Soil... By a courier who was also killed.
Senator Sorenson
This was the man who was pushed from the assistant director's apartment?
Dana Scully
Yes. He has not been ID'd.
Senator Sorenson
Do we have the name of the individual who pushed him?
Dana Scully
Yes, sir. Alex Krycek, who is missing and possibly deceased.
Senator Sorenson
And are you then in possession of the pouch or its contents?
Dana Scully
No, sir.
Senator Sorenson
What evidence are you then presenting us with today?
Dana Scully
Documents and interviews... In support of a wide-ranging conspiracy... To control a lethal biotoxin... That is, in fact, extraterrestrial.
Senator Sorenson
What are we talking about, little green men here?
Dana Scully
No, sir. Not at all.
Fox Mulder
Why is this so hard to believe... When the accepted discovery of life off this planet... Is on the front page of every newspaper around the world? When even the most conservative scientists and science journals... Are calling for the exploration of mars and jupiter? With every reason to believe that life and the persistence of it... Is thriving outside our own terrestrial sphere? If you cannot get past this, then I suggest that this whole committee be held in contempt... For ignoring evidence that cannot be refuted.
Senator Sorenson
This is not why we are here today.
Fox Mulder
Then why are we here today?
Chairman Romine
I will suggest that we recess here until the evidence can be properly evaluated.
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