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Season 4 · Episode 8

Tunguska

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

Production code4X09Original airdate · November 24, 1996

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Scene 01

SENATE SELECT SUBCOMMITTEE

[ gavel banging ]

Hearing Clerk

Will the witness please rise and take the oath.

Dana Scully

I, Dana katherine Scully, swear to tell the truth, the whole truth... And nothing but the truth, so help me god. I would like to read from a prepared statement.

Senator Sorenson

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 there are powerful men in the government who do not. "men who have no respect for the law and who flout it with impunity.

Chairman Romine

Uh, ms. Scully--

Dana Scully

"I have come to the conclusion... That it is no longer possible--"

Chairman Romine

Agent Scully-- 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

Agent Scully, 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 decline to answer that question, sir.

Chairman Romine

Ms. Scully-- you cannot refuse to answer.

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're an agent of the FBI

Dana Scully

Well, 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 you are investigating.

Senator Sorenson

Either you tell us what you know about agent Mulder's whereabouts, or you will be held in contempt of Congress.

[ Sorenson ]

Senator Sorenson

Agent Scully?

Scene 02

HONOLULU AIRPORT

First Customs Agent

Have a nice day. There you go, sir. Here, I'll get that.

[ door lock buzzes ] [ woman on p.a. Indistinct ]

First Customs Agent

All right. Thank you.

[ chattering ]

Courier

Oh, I hate this!

First Customs Agent

Where are you coming from?

First Courier

Japan.

First Customs Agent

Did you travel anywhere else?

First Courier

The republic of Georgia.

First Customs Agent

The purpose of your trip?

First Courier

Government business.

First Customs Agent

Okay. I'm going to ask you to see the customs official through those doors.

First Courier

What for? I'm travelling on a united states diplomatic visa.

First Customs Agent

A random check. Please proceed through the doors.

First Courier

I've got a connecting flight.

First Customs Agent

Right through those doors, sir.

Second Customs Agent

Right over here, sir.

First Courier

I don't know what this is about. I have diplomatic papers. I can't be treated like this.

Second Customs Agent

Is that your only luggage, sir?

First Courier

Yes.

Second Customs Agent

Can you open it for me?

First Courier

No.

Second Customs Agent

Sir, I'm not offering it as a choice. Open the briefcase, or we'll open it.

First Courier

I don't have the combination.

Second Customs Agent

Vince? I need a strip and full body cavity search of this man.

Scene 03

First Courier

There's gonna be hell to pay for this treatment.

Second Customs Agent

Sir, would you mind telling me... Exactly what kind of diplomatic work you do, sir? And what material you're transporting in these?

First Courier

That is-- those are filled with biohazardous materials.

Second Customs Agent

Then where's the paperwork? And why aren't the containers marked?

First Courier

Don't open those. Whatever you do, that material cannot be exposed-- listen to me!

[ indistinct ]

First Courier

Open this door! Somebody open this door! Somebody! Somebody open this door! Somebody let me outta here!

Second Customs Agent

What the hell is this?

First Courier

Somebody! Oh, my god! The door! Please let me out of here!

[ screaming ]

First Courier

Oh, my god! Open the door! Somebody let me out of here! Let me out now! Get me out of here! Let me out!

[ equipment beeping ]

Scene 04

FLUSHING, QUEENS

Fox Mulder

We can't go in too soon. Be patient. It'll happen.

Dana Scully

What makes you so sure?

Fox Mulder

I've received a series of receipts over the past weeks for detonation cord, for racing and diesel fuel, and for 80 bags of ammonium nitrate... Purchased in cash in three different states under three different signatures.

Dana Scully

What makes you sure that it's here? That it's tonight?

Fox Mulder

Last night I got two new receipts: one to rent storage space at this address... And one to rent a 2-ton truck yesterday, both purchased with the same signature. We could be looking at the next oklahoma city.

Dana Scully

Who do you think is leaking them? And why would they leak them to you?

Swat Guy

We've got traffic. They're leaving.

Fox Mulder

Hold.

FBI Tactical Team

Go! Back it up! Get down! Drop your weapons! Federal agents! We're armed! Everybody down! Down on the ground! Back it up! Drop your weapons and get down on the ground! Let's go! Gas! Fire! Get down! Everybody get down! Open fire!

[ tires screeching ]

[ gunshot ]

Fox Mulder

Cover the driver's side. Federal agent! I'm armed! Exit the vehicle now!

Dana Scully

The driver's dead.

Fox Mulder

I counted two men. Get out of the truck! Get out of the truck! Let me see your hands. Hands in the air! You son of a bitch. [ grunts, groans ]

Dana Scully

Mulder!

Alex Krycek

I handed you this bust!

Fox Mulder

Oh, come on, Krycek!

Alex Krycek

Who do you think sent you those receipts?

[ chattering, shouting ]

Alex Krycek

Most of the detonation cord was stolen from a construction site and... Some of the explosives were taken from a military base. Security's just so lax. It's a joke. Most everything else was over the counter. Two thousand kilos of boom-boom.

Dana Scully

How'd you get involved with these men?

Alex Krycek

They found me in north dakota. They liberated me on a salvage hunt. When you go underground, you gotta learn to live with the rats.

Fox Mulder

I'm sure you had no trouble adapting.

Alex Krycek

These men are pathetic revolutionaries... Who'll kill innocent americans in the name of bonehead ideologies.

Fox Mulder

You're full of crap, Krycek. You're an scum-sucker whose moral dipstick's two drops short of dry.

Alex Krycek

I love this country.

Dana Scully

What do you want, Krycek?

Alex Krycek

Same thing you do. To find the man who tried to kill me. The same man who's responsible for your father's death-- your sister's.

Dana Scully

You want this man brought to justice?

Alex Krycek

You-- you can't bring these men to justice. They're protected. The laws of this country... Protect these men under the name of national security. They know no law.

Fox Mulder

Then why don't you put a bullet in his head like you did that man out there?

Alex Krycek

These men, they fear one thing: exposure. You expose him... Expose his crimes... You destroy the destroyer's ability to destroy.

Fox Mulder

The only thing that will destroy this man is the truth.

Alex Krycek

The truth. The truth. There's no truth! These men make it up as they go along. They're the engineers of the future. They-- they are the real revolutionaries.

[ chuckles ]

Alex Krycek

I can get them for you too.

Fox Mulder

We can't help you, Krycek.

Alex Krycek

Mulder-- this is just one bomb I'm sitting on here. You didn't ask me how many more I know about.

Scene 05

DULLES INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT

Airport Announcer

Your attention, please. Due to adverse weather conditions... Transcon flight 78 from buenos aires has been delayed. Please check the on-screen monitors located throughout the terminal... For a new arrival time.

Dana Scully

What flight is he on?

Alex Krycek

It was an international charter that originated in russia. A turkish airline.

Fox Mulder

There it is-- air lacayo. Got in at 6:45. That's 15 minutes ago. Come on, let's go.

Dana Scully

He still has to go through customs.

Alex Krycek

No. He'll be carrying a diplomatic pouch. That's him.

Dana Scully

Sir? Federal agents. Don't be alarmed. We just need to speak with you. Stop right there! Sir! Mulder! Mulder, look.

Scene 06

Dana Scully

Is this some kind of joke?

Alex Krycek

What?

Fox Mulder

Show him.

Alex Krycek

What is it?

Fox Mulder

Expose it for him, Scully. What did you get for Halloween, Charlie brown?

Scene 07

CRYSTAL CITY, VI

[ knocking ]

Walter Skinner

Who is it?

Fox Mulder

I need to speak with you, sir.

[ sighs ]

Walter Skinner

What do you want?

Fox Mulder

I need your authorization to provide a safe house.

Walter Skinner

A safe house for whom?

Fox Mulder

This man has information about extreme right militia... That could save the lives of innocent americans.

Walter Skinner

He'll be safe here. [ groans ] relatively safe. We're not even yet, boy. That's a start. Give me the keys. Come on!

Alex Krycek

You can't leave me out here! I'm gonna freeze to death!

Walter Skinner

Just think warm thoughts.

Scene 08

NASA-GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER

Sacks

I know I asked you earlier. You have absolutely no idea where this came from?

Dana Scully

Not its origin, no.

Fox Mulder

But you have an idea, don't you?

Sacks

This rock contains what are called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons... Fitting the approximate description of those in fragments of meteorite... Found recently in the ice fields of antarctica.

Dana Scully

Are you saying--

Sacks

That what you're looking at is quite possibly from mars. Over four billion years old.

Fox Mulder

Is it valuable?

Sacks

Beyond adding evidence to the debate... Over fossilized remains of alien bacteria, it's relatively worthless.

Dana Scully

Does this rock contain those fossilized remains, dr. Sacks?

Sacks

Well, I won't know that until I'm able to take a core sample. Which I very much hope you'll allow me to do.

Fox Mulder

I think we'd all like to know what's in that rock.

Walter Skinner

See you next week. Thanks.

Scene 09

Cigarette-Smoking Man

I didn't realize you lived in this neighborhood.

Walter Skinner

I just moved in.

Cigarette-Smoking Man

I'd guess you live in a upper floor?

Walter Skinner

What do you want from me?

Cigarette-Smoking Man

Mulder and Scully intercepted a diplomatic pouch... Here in Washington last night. I'm afraid it's created a problem in foreign policy circles. Quite a problem, actually.

Walter Skinner

I don't know anything about any diplomatic pouch.

Cigarette-Smoking Man

No? Nothing about the matter?

Walter Skinner

No, I don't.

Cigarette-Smoking Man

Well, I find that hard to believe, as their supervisory agent. As a friend, I should advise you, mr. Skinner... That withholding information on matters of national security... Is punishable under this country's laws of treason and sedition.

Walter Skinner

Thank you. I'll consider myself advised, as a friend.

Cigarette-Smoking Man

I need that pouch, mr. Skinner. And I need to know who gave them the order to intercept it.

Walter Skinner

I'll get back to you.

Cigarette-Smoking Man

Wars have broken out over far less, mr. Skinner. Far, far less.

Scene 10

FBI HEADQUARTERS

[ lock rattling ]

[ grunting ]

[ yells ]

[ knocking ]

Fox Mulder

Uh-huh. Thank you.

Dana Scully

Got something?

Fox Mulder

Big dead end at the state department. The u.s. Customs officials detained another courier... On a similar visa in honolulu two nights ago. He was coming from russian Georgia, carrying some kind of toxic soil sample.

Dana Scully

Toxic?

Fox Mulder

Yes, which leads me to believe... That what's in this rock we intercepted are answers... Beyond the existence of extraterrestrial life, even beyond the conspiracy to cover up that existence.

Dana Scully

Mulder, that rock contains fossils of what is believed to be alien bacteria, and even that is under intense debate.

Fox Mulder

Why all this effort to get it onto u.s. Soil? I think what alex Krycek has given us is a pivotal piece to a larger plot.

Dana Scully

What he's given us, Mulder, is a rock. Alex Krycek is a liar and a murderer.

Fox Mulder

Who wants to expose the same men we do and will go to any lengths to succeed.

Dana Scully

What I'm worried about is you, Mulder. How far you'll go. And how far I can follow you.

Scene 12

[ whimpering, screaming ]

Walter Skinner

Yeah? Mulder, where are you?

Fox Mulder

I'm with Scully, on our way out to NASA goddard.

Walter Skinner

I suggest you turn around and head home. I don't know how I'm gonna explain myself to the police.

Fox Mulder

Explain yourself about what?

Walter Skinner

The police are at my place with a dead body. They wanna talk to everyone in the building.

Fox Mulder

Pull over here.

Dana Scully

What are you doing?

Fox Mulder

I'm gonna take a cab. I want you to find out about that rock. Call me as soon as you do.

Scene 13

Detective

Shouldn't be too much longer.

Walter Skinner

No, I wasn't home.

Detective

And you live on what floor?

Walter Skinner

Seventeenth. Walter Skinner. I'm an assistant director with the FBI

Detective

Oh. My apologies. I got some bad information from my lieutenant... That there's a man hanging from your balcony.

[ yells ]

Fox Mulder

We're gonna walk out of here like nothing happened. [ groans ] if anybody speaks to us, you say nothing.

Alex Krycek

I got no problem. You put me up here, man. I'm looking forward to see how you get me out.

Fox Mulder

Stupid-ass haircut!

Alex Krycek

I got news for you, Mulder. When they find out who's dead on the ground down there, there's gonna be no question whose apartment he was pulled out of.

Fox Mulder

Who is he?

Alex Krycek

Same guy with the pouch.

Fox Mulder

Let's go.

Alex Krycek

I say follow the pouch.

[ phone ringing ]

Fox Mulder

Yeah.

Dana Scully

Mulder, it's me. Listen to me. Whatever's in that rock, it appears to be lethal.

Fox Mulder

What is it?

Dana Scully

Dr. Sacks, he's-- I don't know, Mulder. I've never seen this before. I don't know if he's dead or alive.

Fox Mulder

You'd better find out. I want you to get me an address in New York. Go through the bureau to get that.

Scene 14

UPPER WEST SIDE

Marita Covarrubias

Who is it?

Fox Mulder

Fox Mulder.

Marita Covarrubias

What are you doing here?

Fox Mulder

I need your help.

Marita Covarrubias

How did you know where I live?

Fox Mulder

FBI database. I'm sorry. It's a matter of extreme urgency. A diplomatic pouch left russia and arrived here in the u.s. Two men are dead. I need to know why.

Marita Covarrubias

Do you have its destination? And its routing entries?

[ hangs up phone ]

Marita Covarrubias

Thank you. Agent Mulder? The diplomatic pouch traveled an apex route... To the russian province of krasnoyarsk.

Fox Mulder

Krasnoyarsk?

Marita Covarrubias

Port of entry was the city of noril'sk.

Fox Mulder

That's just north of Tunguska.

Marita Covarrubias

Tunguska?

Fox Mulder

Yeah.

Marita Covarrubias

What are you looking for?

Fox Mulder

My cell phone. I'm gonna book myself on a flight to krasnoyarsk, russia.

Marita Covarrubias

I can help you, agent Mulder.

Fox Mulder

Find my cell phone?

Marita Covarrubias

No. With cover credentials. A diplomatic passport and visa.

Fox Mulder

Why? Why are you helping me?

Marita Covarrubias

Because I can. Because there are those of us who believe in you. Believe in your search for the truth.

Fox Mulder

How long will it take?

Marita Covarrubias

How long do you have?

Scene 15

Alex Krycek

Where have you been?

Fox Mulder

Making travel arrangements.

Alex Krycek

To go where?

Fox Mulder

Follow the pouch.

Alex Krycek

You're gonna keep me in the dark?

Fox Mulder

[ groans ] yeah.

Scene 16

Agent Pendrell

These are level-four suits-- exactly what he's wearing.

Dana Scully

Contamination is impossible unless there's a tear... Or a loss of pressurization. So whatever happened to him, it's unlikely it penetrated the suit.

Agent Pendrell

What do you think happened?

Dana Scully

We won't know until we get in there and take a closer look. Look. There's a film over everything.

Agent Pendrell

It looks like spray kicked off the saw blade when he was cutting into the rock.

Dana Scully

Oh, my god! This man's alive.

Agent Pendrell

He can't be. I mean, he's not breathing.

Dana Scully

No, I think he is. I think he's in some kind of a coma state or some kind of somatic rigor.

Agent Pendrell

From what?

Dana Scully

I don't know. I don't know, but we have to get him out of here.

Scene 17

JFK INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT

Alex Krycek

Mulder, you're not--

Fox Mulder

I'm leaving the window rolled down. If I'm not back in a week, I'll call Scully to bring you a bowl of water.

Alex Krycek

Mulder! Mulder, you're not gonna leave me here! [ continues, indistinct ]

[ jet roaring overhead ]

Alex Krycek

Son of a bitch, get back here!

Fox Mulder

What'd you say to me?

Alex Krycek

What?

[ cursing in russian ]

Fox Mulder

You called me a bad name.

[ spits ]

Fox Mulder

You speak russian, Krycek?

Alex Krycek

My parents were cold war immigrants. What's it to you?

Scene 18

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VI

Well-Manicured Man

That a boy!

[ nickers ] [ giggles ]

[ vehicle approaching ]

Well-Manicured Man

You've been putting on the Miles.

Cigarette-Smoking Man

It would help if you had a phone.

Well-Manicured Man

I come out here because there are no phones. What is it?

Cigarette-Smoking Man

Our courier is dead.

Well-Manicured Man

Yes, I heard. Pushed out a window. Can this expose us?

Cigarette-Smoking Man

No, of course not. Our necessary and plausible denial is intact.

Well-Manicured Man

Then what is your concern?

Cigarette-Smoking Man

Last night, CIA airport intell... Had a man using u.n. Credentials appear on their computers... Booked on a flight for krasnoyarsk, russia.

Well-Manicured Man

Who was it?

Cigarette-Smoking Man

We haven't be able to determine that with any certainty as yet, but it appears to be a man fitting the description of... Fox Mulder.

Well-Manicured Man

You fool. You stupid fool.

Cigarette-Smoking Man

Well, of course it can be. You know my capabilities in a crisis.

Well-Manicured Man

I don't think you realize what's at stake here, what level this must be carried to. This will take more than just a good aim!

Scene 19

Dana Scully

Sorenson wants to see us?

Walter Skinner

That's usually what a letter of summons means.

Dana Scully

But a summons for what?

Walter Skinner

I can only guess. But the fact I'm named in the invitation with you and agent Mulder... Leads me to believe I've been implicated in something more serious than I know. How much more serious, Scully?

Dana Scully

It's hard to say.

Walter Skinner

More serious than harboring a known felon? [ sighs ] what about agent Mulder? What does he know?

Dana Scully

Agent Mulder is endeavoring to get his own answers, sir.

Walter Skinner

Where?

[ speaking in russian ]

Scene 20

TUNGUSKA, SIBERIAN FOREST

Alex Krycek

He says it's five kilometers through those woods.

Fox Mulder

Let's go.

Alex Krycek

You're really going to keep me in the dark, aren't you?

[ spits ]

Alex Krycek

What are we doing here, Mulder?

Fox Mulder

June 30, 1908. Tunguska tribesmen and russian fur traders... Look into the southeastern siberian sky... And see a fireball streaking to earth. When it hit the atmosphere, it created cataclysmic explosions... That are considered to be the largest single cosmic event... In the history of civilization-- two thousand times the force of the bomb that was dropped on hiroshima.

Alex Krycek

What was it?

Fox Mulder

It's been speculated that it was a piece of a comet... Or an asteroid or even a piece of antimatter. The power of the blast leveled trees in a radial pattern for 2,000 kilometers. No real definitive evidence has ever been found... To provide a satisfying explanation for what it was. I think somebody found that evidence, and the explanation is something that nobody ever dreamed of.

Alex Krycek

What are they doing?

Fox Mulder

Looks like some kind of mining camp. Oh-- I don't think they're miners. [ men shouting, hoofbeats ] run!

Scene 21

[ whip cracks ]

[ whispering, indistinct ]

[ man whispering in russian ]

[ coughs ]

[ groans ] [ whispering continues ]

[ whispering continues ]

Fox Mulder

I don't speak russian.

Prisoner

Then no one has told you.

Fox Mulder

Told me what?

Prisoner

That you were brought here to die, to wish you were dead.

Fox Mulder

I wasn't brought here. I came here looking for something.

Prisoner

The only thing you will find here is death and suffering.

Fox Mulder

What is this place?

Prisoner

This place? A gulag-- a place where the guilty rule the innocent.

[ keys rattling, door clanging ]

[ speaking in russian ]

Alex Krycek

We gotta get out of here. They're gonna torture us.

Fox Mulder

How do you know?

Alex Krycek

They were questioning me, trying to get me to confess.

Fox Mulder

To what?

Alex Krycek

To being a spy.

Fox Mulder

What'd you tell them?

Alex Krycek

That we were stupid americans lost in the woods. Mulder, you're gonna need me in here. Don't touch me again.

Scene 22

SENATE EXECUTIVE OFFICE BUILDING

Senator Sorenson

Ah. Agent Scully, mr. Skinner. Thank you for coming.

Walter Skinner

It's difficult to decline an invitation from a member of Congress, senator.

Senator Sorenson

Please, have a seat. Are you familiar with the penalties for... Obstruction of justice?

Dana Scully

Is that a rhetorical question, sir?

Senator Sorenson

You know why you've been called here today?

Walter Skinner

We have an idea.

Senator Sorenson

We've been looking into the death of this man outside your apartment, mr. Skinner, and it's raised some troubling questions.

Walter Skinner

Such as?

Senator Sorenson

Such as what this man was doing on your balcony before he fell to his death. It was your balcony, wasn't it, mr. Skinner? Perjury is a very serious offense, particularly for an FBI agent.

Dana Scully

We intend to file a complete report on this matter... Once we fully understand what it is that we're investigating.

Senator Sorenson

And... Agent... Mulder. Can you explain to me why he declined my invitation to be here today?

Dana Scully

Agent Mulder is in the field, sir, seeking answers to the questions you are asking.

Senator Sorenson

And where is he seeking these answers? Agent Scully?

[ shouting in russian ]

[ speaking russian ]

Scene 23

Guard

What did you say?

Alex Krycek

That I want to see his supervisor. Das vedanya.

Prisoner

That man is not your friend. He speaks differently to the guards-- formal language-- as if to an equal. You are deceived.

Fox Mulder

Who are you?

Prisoner

A prisoner, like you. But I have committed no crime.

Fox Mulder

Then why are you here?

Prisoner

To do the work, like the others. Like them... I will die in an experiment... When there is no longer any use for me.

Fox Mulder

What kind of experiment?

[ pounding, clattering ]

[ russian ]

Fox Mulder

Nooo! What are you-- ohh!

[ groans ]

[ speaking russian ]

[ valve squeaking, liquid flowing ]

[ screaming ]

[ screaming continues ]

[ gasps ]

[ screaming continues ]

[ screaming subsides ]

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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.