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Season 6 · Episode 2
Drive
Character-labelled dialogue prepared from the official DVD subtitle track.
Production code6ABX02Original airdate · November 15, 1998
282 dialogue entries
Scene 01
Scene 01
News Anchor
Ninety Miles and counting. That's how far officers of the Nevada highway patrol... Have pursued the blue car on your screen... In a wild chase right through the heart of elko... At speeds approaching 100 Miles an hour. Live on the scene in carlin is Chuck pickering in the Fox 11 news chopper. Chuck, what can you tell us?
Chopper Reporter
[ pickering over radio ] benjamin, we're heading west following route 766, where it feeds off the I-80. Now, just under an hour ago, troopers attempted to pull over the blue car, which we understand is stolen. That occurred on the 80 east of wells. Now, since then, this driver has stopped for nothing and nobody.
News Anchor
Any word yet on who the driver is?
Chopper Reporter
Not at this time. What we do think, though, and what we've passed on to the highway patrol, is that from our vantage point, we see another person in that car. See? Right there. A hand. It-it just moved. See in the back seat? Now, we could possibly have a hostage situation here. And obviously, the sooner they bring this vehicle to a stop--
[ sobbing ] [ sirens wailing ]
[ high-pitched frequency ]
[ groaning ]
Patrolman
Unit 6, ready at milepost 13.
Patrolman 2
Coming your way, 6.
[ tires screeching ]
Chopper Reporter
[ pickering ] well, that did the trick. The, uh, automobile seems to be coming to a stop.
News Anchor
Chuck, what did they just use there?
Chopper Reporter
It looked to be a special tire-puncturing chain. And now, the officers are approaching the car. One of them has opened the door, and he has hold of the suspect. He's pulling him out. He-he doesn't seem to have a weapon.
News Anchor
Well, he may not be armed, but from our vantage point, it looks like he doesn't wanna get out of that car.
Patrick Crump
Vicky! Vicky! Vicky!
Vicky Crump
Please get it out of my head. Please.
Patrick Crump
Let me go! Let me go! Vicky! Vicky! No!
News Anchor
The hostage appears to be okay. The highway patrol has her now, but Chuck, it looks like that driver is still fighting.
Chopper Reporter
[ pickering ] yes, he's definitely putting up a bit of a fight. He seems to be a man with a few choice words on the subject, as you can see. They're trying to restrain him. I tell you what. We're gonna move back and try to get a wider angle. See, there's the woman. What the heck? She's--
Patrick Crump
Vicky! Vicky!
[ groaning ]
Chopper Reporter
There, see? She's banging her head against the window. What the hell just happened?
Studio Director
Hey! Cut!
Scene 02
BUHL, IDAHO
Farmer
Yeah?
Dana Scully
Uh, virgil nokes? I'm agent Scully. This is agent Mulder. We're with the FBI
Farmer
Jehovah's witness?
Dana Scully
No, sir. Federal bureau of investigation.
Fox Mulder
But we do have a free copy of the watchtower for you, if you'd like.
Dana Scully
Uh, sir, this is just a routine check, but, uh, we understand that you recently placed an order for 5,000 pounds... Of ammonium nitrate fertilizer.
Farmer
Oh, you people. Come on in. Sugar beets.
Dana Scully
Excuse me?
Farmer
I grow sugar beets. I figure I got better things to do with my fertilizer... Than go around blowin' government buildings sky high.
Dana Scully
Yeah, well, as we said, sir, this is just routine.
Fox Mulder
So routine it numbs the mind.
Farmer
I've got my ag card and my papers around here somewhere.
Reporter
... Strange death on a Nevada highway.
Farmer
Help me look for 'em, will ya?
Reporter
As we reported earlier, a wild police pursuit ended in tragedy this morning... With the death of a 36-year-old female hostage. This was the scene west of elko, Nevada one hour ago,
Fox Mulder
As the hostage died mysteriously while in custody. Scully, take a look at this.
Reporter
We once again want to warn our viewers, this footage is extremely graphic.
Chopper Reporter
[ pickering ] now, the hostage is still inside the car. It appears as though she's banging her head against the window.
News Anchor
At this time, highway patrol officials... Are refusing to identify the woman or to speculate on how she died, though they do stress it was not the result of a gunshot. A preliminary coroner's report isn't expected for a day or more. Meanwhile, residents of northern Nevada--
Fox Mulder
Thank you, captain. That's no problem. We'd be happy to help. Mm-hmm. See you soon.
Dana Scully
We'll be happy to help what? Mulder, we're not going to Nevada.
Fox Mulder
Come on, Scully. Just one quick side trip.
Dana Scully
No. Sorry, Mulder. We have a whole new assignment.
Fox Mulder
Running down people that buy fertilizer? This is scut work. Bozo work. This is the FBI equivalent of being made... To wear an orange jumpsuit and pick up trash by the side of the highway. They mean to humiliate us.
Dana Scully
Look, Mulder, like it or not, humiliated or not, we're on domestic terrorism now. And yes, this is-- this is a punishment. But if we wanna get back to where we wanna be, we have to follow orders. We can't freelance.
Fox Mulder
You saw that news report. What did you make of that?
Dana Scully
I think that the obvious assumption is that the woman was shot, regardless of what the police say. Maybe it was a sniper.
Fox Mulder
In the words of their captain, "she just sort of popped." and what about this guy who supposedly tried to take her hostage? Her husband? Looked to me like he was trying to warn the cops before she died. Now, the sun will rise in America tomorrow, regardless of whether or not we're at yet another farm... Investigating yet another enormous pile of doo-doo. We can be in and out in a day. Nobody has to know.
[ high-pitched frequency ]
[ gasping ]
Scene 03
ELKO, NEVADA
Patrick Crump
S-s-somebody! Please! It's starting! Please!
Fox Mulder
Why can't we see him?
Captain
Well, hopefully later. He pitched quite a fit in his cell-- screamin' a bunch of nonsense that we were gonna kill him the way we killed his wife. You know, he's not a particularly stable individual.
Dana Scully
Captain, he may need medical attention.
Captain
He's getting it. Our doctor's with him now. I mean, after whatever happened to his wife-- which I'd like to stress was not our fault-- we're not gonna take any chances, you know?
Dana Scully
Patrick garland crump of montello, Nevada.
Fox Mulder
40-year-old roofer. No history of mental illness. No prior record.
Captain
He's got one now. That barracuda he jacked on the utah state line? He yanked some teenager out of the window, threw his wife in back and took off. Excuse me.
Fox Mulder
What do you think?
Dana Scully
I'm thinking while we're here, I might take a look at mr. Crump's wife.
Fox Mulder
I'm gonna stay here and see if I can see crump. Captain, where's montello?
Captain
Little town right here.
Fox Mulder
So that's where it started-- that's crump's home. Then he headed east in this direction on the 5... About ten Miles to the utah border, where he stole the car.
Captain
You got it.
Fox Mulder
But you caught up with him in wells. Where's that?
Captain
That's here.
Fox Mulder
So that means that he started off in this direction. Then all of a sudden, he turned around and he headed west to wells. Why?
Scene 04
Scene 04
Coroner
The former vicky jenkins crump. I'm hoping you can tell me what I'm looking at, 'cause this is a new one on me.
Dana Scully
There's no gunpowder residue. No carbon stippling. There seems to be no evidence of an entry wound whatsoever.
Coroner
There is none. It's all exit. But how that could be--
Dana Scully
I'm finding what look like fragments of petrous bone... Embedded in the remaining portion of the auditory canal. In fact, I seem to be looking straight through... To the osseous labyrinth, or what's left of it.
Coroner
It's almost like a little bomb went off in her ear.
Dana Scully
May I?
Coroner
Please.
Dana Scully
There seems to be some kind of tumefaction within the lateral sinus.
[ gasps ]
Paramedic
Look out. Can you give us a little room here?
Scene 05
Scene 05
Paramedic 2
No, he just went rammy on me. Accuchek is normal. We did a narcan push, but he keeps gettin' worse. I.v. Beta blocker and topical nitro.
Captain
I don't know if you're gonna get to talk to this fellow after all.
Paramedic
Five's a crowd, buddy.
[ siren wailing ]
[ monitor beeping rapidly ]
Paramedic
[ beeping slows ] whoa. Something must've worked. Heart rate's dropping.
Paramedic 2
B.p.'s headed south. I don't understand. What'd you just do?
Paramedic
Hell if I know. But I'll take it.
[ tires screeching ]
Scene 06
Scene 06
Dana Scully
[ sighs ] oh, god.
[ line ringing ]
Dana Scully
Come on, Mulder. Hey, you, out! This lab is quarantined! Go! Mulder?
Fox Mulder
Yeah?
Dana Scully
Mulder, it's me. You know how to pick 'em, I'll tell you that. Look, I have no idea what killed this woman, but I have to assume it's communicable.
Fox Mulder
Yeah?
Dana Scully
Another body has been found just outside of montello. Same apparent cause of death. Some kind of massive aneurysm or rupture.
Fox Mulder
Uh-huh.
Dana Scully
And Mulder, I've called the c.D.C. They're on their way, but patrick crump may be infected. So you need to quarantine his cell and make sure... That anybody who's had any close contact with him whatsoever... Has been quarantined as well, and that means you, Mulder. You're to have no contact with him whatsoever. [ sighs ] Mulder?
Fox Mulder
Well, that's gonna be a little tough, Scully.
Patrick Crump
Drive.
[ cell phone ringing ]
Scene 07
Scene 07
Dana Scully
Where are they?
Captain
Route 789, heading west. We're keeping 'em in visual, plus we're in phone contact, not to mention the strings we've pulled with stations... To keep this thing off local TV.
Dana Scully
Where are they going?
Captain
Crump won't say. Wherever it is, though, he ain't gettin' there. We'll see to that. We'll shut him down east of tuscarora. Roadblock? Nice, clean, remote space we can own.
Dana Scully
All right. I want the c.D.C. On site. I want the officers making the arrest to be wearing... Level two or better anti-contamination suits. I want the car decontaminated. I want agent Mulder and crump decontaminated, and I want them quarantined separately.
Captain
You got it.
[ inaudible ]
Captain
Crump says that if we don't pull back our escort, he's gonna shoot your partner.
Scene 08
Scene 08
Patrick Crump
Just leave me the hell alone! Now!
Fox Mulder
How about if, uh, we just pull over and let me out too, huh? I must be cramping your style.
Patrick Crump
Just shut up. It's you people. It figures.
Fox Mulder
What figures?
Patrick Crump
Shut up.
[ cell phone ringing ]
Fox Mulder
Hey! No! No! That is... So stupid, crump. That is so stupid. Shut up!
Patrick Crump
You shut up and drive. You understand? What are you doing?
Fox Mulder
What? What am I doing?
Patrick Crump
What the hell are you doing?
Fox Mulder
I'm composing a sonnet. What does it look like I'm doing? I'm slowing down for a light.
Patrick Crump
Go! Go!
[ horns honking ]
Fox Mulder
Crump? Is this what happened to your wife? This same thing? If you stop moving, you die? I think I saw this movie. Why didn't you tell anybody? Why didn't you tell the police?
Patrick Crump
Oh, geez.
Fox Mulder
Look, I don't know how well you recall the last 30 seconds, but your life is in my hands regardless of whether or not you hold that gun.
Patrick Crump
It's right here, boy.
Fox Mulder
Just tell me everything you know. That may be the only way I can help you.
Patrick Crump
You people put me here!
Fox Mulder
Shut up! I'm guessing we got two or three Miles before the roadblock.
Patrick Crump
What roadblock? I got rid of the cops.
Fox Mulder
Check your window.
Patrick Crump
Man, if we get stopped--
Police radio
Please be advised pursuit now headed west on 80. Fourteen, come in. Fourteen, be advised vehicle's heading your way.
Chopper Pilot
Subject's turning off 789... About a mile east of your position and is heading north on a fire road. Looks like he's gonna miss you.
Decon Man
Say what?
Dana Scully
What's the report, captain?
Captain
They lost 'em. They were last seen on a forestry service road. Trees were too thick. Our helicopter lost sight of 'em.
Dana Scully
Well, how did crump know to avoid the roadblock?
Captain
That's the question. I was hoping your agent Mulder would manage to steer him toward it, but--
Dana Scully
Well, maybe agent Mulder steered him away from it.
Captain
Why would he do that?
Dana Scully
Maybe he knew something that we don't.
Doctor
Agent Scully, I've got the cell cultures from the second victim.
Dana Scully
Anything?
Doctor
So far, I'm seeing no evidence of infection in either victim.
Coroner
So then, we're in the clear?
Dana Scully
No. No, not necessarily. I mean, something killed these people. [ cell phone ringing ] I'm sorry. Excuse me. Scully. Agent Scully,
Kersh’s Assistant
Please hold for assistant director Kersh.
Alvin Kersh
Agent Scully.
Dana Scully
Yes, sir.
Alvin Kersh
How's southern Idaho? Agent Scully? Southern Idaho? Think carefully.
Dana Scully
Sir, I am not currently in the state of Idaho.
Alvin Kersh
No, you're not.
Dana Scully
In the course of prosecuting our assignment in Idaho, agent Mulder and I came across a situation in Nevada... Which we both strongly felt needed our immediate attention.
Alvin Kersh
I eagerly await your report. In the meantime, agents of our Las Vegas field office... Will be available to assist you in tracking down agent Mulder.
Dana Scully
Thank you, sir.
Alvin Kersh
Oh, agent Scully. I think at this point I want to see him alive even more than you do.
[ line clicks ]
Dana Scully
Can I see that for a minute? This man worked at silver state power reading meters.
Coroner
Yes.
Dana Scully
What if he read the meter at vicky crump's place?
Scene 09
Scene 09
Fox Mulder
Crump? Crump, what else can you tell me about what's happening to you?
Patrick Crump
Mr. Crump. You call me by my last name, you say "mister" in front of it.
Fox Mulder
Mister. Got you.
Patrick Crump
Not crump. Mr. Crump.
Fox Mulder
I can think of something else I'd like to call you. I could put "mister" in front of that too, if you'd like.
Patrick Crump
You know, what kind of name is Mulder anyway? What is it, like-- like jewish?
Fox Mulder
Excuse me?
Patrick Crump
Jewish. It is, right?
Fox Mulder
It's mr. Mulder to you, you peanut-pickin' bastard. Now, mr. Crump, what can you tell me about what's happening--
[ yells ]
Fox Mulder
What?
Patrick Crump
You're goin'... The wrong way.
Fox Mulder
What do you mean, this is the wrong way?
Patrick Crump
Go this way! Go this-- go this way!
Fox Mulder
I can't-- I can't go left. There's only trees there. [ yelling ] crump!
[ yelling continues ]
[ horn honking ]
[ yelling ]
Fox Mulder
Crump? It's west, huh? West. You gotta head west. It's just like you did with your wife. You took her and you headed west. It's not just motion. It has to be in one direction. Is that right? What the hell happened to you?
Scene 10
CRUMP RESIDENCE MONTELLO, NEVADA
Dana Scully
Okay, I want a thorough search... With an eye to the usual disease factors.
Doctor
You got it.
[ screaming ]
[ dog barking ]
Dana Scully
I think we're witnessing the same pathology here.
[ barking, yelping ]
Doctor
We need to get a blood sample. Yeah.
Dana Scully
Let's go.
Unidentified speaker
Hold him down! [ dog yelps ]
Doctor
Try to hold him still.
Dana Scully
Let me sedate him.
[ yelps ]
Scene 11
Scene 11
Fox Mulder
One more time. You woke up this morning. Then what?
Patrick Crump
We have been through this.
Fox Mulder
You woke up this morning, but you didn't go to work. Why?
Patrick Crump
It was raining. You don't shingle in the rain. I was up at 6:00 reading the paper.
Fox Mulder
What was your wife doing?
Patrick Crump
Cooking, man. Breakfast. She was just putting breakfast on the table when the--
Fox Mulder
You looked up.
Patrick Crump
I looked up, and I saw that she had this nosebleed she didn't even know she had.
Fox Mulder
What caused it?
Patrick Crump
What do I-- am I like quincy? How the hell should I know what caused it? It just happened. Ten, fifteen minutes later, she just... Starts getting sick. Said she got a headache that just... Keeps gettin' worse and worse. She starts... Screamin'. I didn't know what the hell to do. I just, uh-- I got her in the truck and-- taken her to the hospital. But then it seemed like the faster we went, the better she'd do. But just as soon as I try to slow down or stop--
Fox Mulder
I'm sorry about your wife.
Patrick Crump
Sure you are, you and the rest of your jew FBI
Fox Mulder
Crump--
Patrick Crump
Oh, yeah. You think I don't know, huh? You think I'm just some ignorant pud-knocker, don't you? But I get it, man! I see what this is. I am not sick, and I do not have the flu. Vicky and me were just some kind of... Government guinea pigs.
Fox Mulder
You think the government did this to you?
Patrick Crump
Oh, hell, yeah. Who else? You see it all the time on the TV. They're dropping agent orange, they're puttin' radiation in little retarded kids gonads. Oh, yeah. You sons of bitches sneakin' around my woods at night. I seen you. You think I don't know?
Fox Mulder
Well, on behalf of the international jewish conspiracy, I just need to inform you that we're... Almost out of gas.
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Scene 12
Doctor
The trailer looks clean. No readily apparent vectors.
Dana Scully
Dogs, housewives. Whatever this thing is, it doesn't discriminate.
Doctor
There are zoonotic pathogens which spread among species.
Dana Scully
Look at that.
Doctor
The crumps have a neighbor.
[ knocking ]
Dana Scully
Hello? Hello? Doctor? Hello? Hello?
[ man on TV, indistinct ]
[ screaming ]
Dana Scully
Oh, no, it-- it's okay, ma'am. It's okay.
Elderly Woman
Who are you?
Dana Scully
It's all right. I'm sorry.
[ mumbling incoherently ]
Dana Scully
[ mumbling continues ] it's okay. It's okay.
Scene 13
Scene 13
Fox Mulder
Hey, crump, we got about one more mile. I'll make it fast. You ready? Here goes nothing. Turn on the pump! Number four! Three!
[ groaning ]
Fox Mulder
Number three! Turn it on!
Attendant
You gotta pay before you pump, buddy.
[ engine starts ]
Owner Of The Car
Hey, damn it, that's my car! Where in the hell do you think you're goin'?
Unidentified speaker
Damn it! Stop!
[ muttering ]
Medical attendant
We're gonna take care of you. Watch your step, now.
Unidentified speaker
We just have to examine you.
Scene 14
Scene 14
Dana Scully
One deaf woman survives unscathed, while everything else around her dies. Why?
Doctor
Wait. What are you doin'?
Dana Scully
The pathology of this thing-- it affects the inner ear. And this area right here is ground zero. What if what we're looking for is some kind of a sound?
Doctor
Seriously?
[ cell phone ringing ]
[ ringing continues ]
Dana Scully
Excuse me. Scully.
Captain
It's van gelder. Agent, I don't know what the hell your partner's thinking, but not only is he actively evading my officers, now he's stolen a car.
Dana Scully
Come again?
Captain
You heard right. He left behind a crazy note addressed to you. You there?
Dana Scully
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Read it to me.
Captain
"crump sick. Will die if stopped, same as wife. Must head west to keep alive. No roadblocks." exclamation point. This make any sense to you?
Dana Scully
Take him at his word. Let him through.
Captain
Let him through? Look, no offense, agent Scully, but how about you run that by your superiors? 'cause frankly, I think they'll say different.
Dana Scully
I'll take that under advisement.
[ van gelder continues, indistinct ]
[ static, line breaking up ]
Scene 15
Scene 15
Patrick Crump
Faster.
Fox Mulder
I'm doin' 70.
Patrick Crump
Man, you gotta go faster. It's getting worse. Yeah, yeah, that's good. Okay. Hey, uh, the jew stuff? No offense. I mean, uh, a man can't help who he's born to.
Fox Mulder
That was an apology, right? Gee, I don't know if I can see to drive. My eyes are tearing up so bad.
Patrick Crump
Whatever, man. Why are you doing this?
Fox Mulder
Why am I doing what?
Patrick Crump
This.
Fox Mulder
It's not in your best interest to make me question that right now.
Patrick Crump
How do I know you ain't doing exactly what they want you to? Hmm? Driving me all around creation, experimentin' on me. How do I know it ain't that?
Fox Mulder
I guess you don't.
Patrick Crump
I ain't saying you are. I'm just saying that's no way to treat a man, take away his dignity like that. It ain't right. Better just to kill him. That's all I'm saying.
Fox Mulder
Hey, you gotta stay alive if you wanna stick it to the government. If you die, you let them off the hook. Am I right? Huh?
Patrick Crump
You're right. You're damn straight.
Fox Mulder
We'll figure this out.
Patrick Crump
You'd better figure quick. We're runnin' out of west.
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Scene 16
Dana Scully
Lieutenant breil? My name is Dana Scully. I called in regards to the electrical equipment... The navy is maintaining in the town of montello.
Lieutenant Breil
Right. Listen, I don't know if there's been some miscommunication... Between you and your washington office, but, uh--
Dana Scully
My washington office?
Lieutenant Breil
Yeah. I was under the impression that I'd explained this to the f.c.c.'s satisfaction.
Dana Scully
Oh. I'm-I'm... So sorry to make you run through it again, uh, for my official report to the, uh, to the f.c.c.
Lieutenant Breil
Okay. At 6:17 yesterday morning... During a test of our ground conduction radio system, a situation arose in which our equipment experienced a brief power surge. That's what interrupted television reception in the four-state area. However, steps have already been taken to ensure this won't happen again.
Dana Scully
The ground conduction radio-- that-that would be project seafarer?
Lieutenant Breil
The specifics of what we do here are classified, ma'am.
Dana Scully
Sure, sure. Um... Would you happen to know what effect such a surge might have... On, uh, on an organism? Say, um, say a human being? Theoretically speaking.
Lieutenant Breil
Theoretically speaking? Well, that's classified as well, ma'am.
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Scene 17
Fox Mulder
Crump?
Patrick Crump
Mr. Crump.
Fox Mulder
Mr. Crump.
Patrick Crump
What is it, mr. Mulder?
Dana Scully
Mulder, are you okay?
Fox Mulder
Yeah, aside from terminal cell phone withdrawal. That and I gotta pee. Where are you?
Dana Scully
I'm just about to board a justice department jet. Hopefully, I'll overshoot you.
Fox Mulder
Headed where?
Dana Scully
I don't know, Mulder. You tell me.
Fox Mulder
I'm guessing wherever the hell route 36 ends. But we can't stop, Scully, and I'm kind of at a loss as to what to do next.
Dana Scully
[ sighs ] well, I think I have a loose theory as to what caused this.
Fox Mulder
Well, lay it on me.
Dana Scully
Okay. Mulder, you know what e.l.f. Waves are? Extremely low frequency radio transmissions?
Fox Mulder
Yeah. It uses an antenna, like, 50 Miles long. The military uses it to communicate with the trident submarine. Project seafarer, project haarp.
Dana Scully
Well, seafarer has an antenna array... Stretching beneath the edge of patrick crump's property. Now, e.l.f. Fields have been shown... To produce biological effects in human tissue-- inducing electrical currents, altering chemical reactions.
Fox Mulder
Not to mention that it's a potential weapons application. It's been referred to as "electrical nerve gas," or may be behind the so-called "taos hum."
Dana Scully
What if some overload-- some-some hum from this system... Could somehow match the resonant frequency of the human skull? I mean, what if it could induce a like hum... That could somehow exert a rising pressure... On the labyrinth of the inner ear, in a sense shattering it?
Fox Mulder
But with constant movement somehow ameliorating that pressure, making it bearable. But why only westward movement?
Dana Scully
I don't know, Mulder. I don't know. I mean-- I mean, maybe it has to follow certain lines of force, electrical or magnetic.
Fox Mulder
But the big question, Scully, is what do we do about it?
Dana Scully
Well, I think I know, Mulder, but it's nothing that mr. Crump is gonna like.
Fox Mulder
We'll be there.
Patrick Crump
What?
Fox Mulder
Well, whether they did this to you intentionally or not, you were right. They did it to you.
Patrick Crump
So what do we-- what do we do?
Fox Mulder
Your one chance is that we meet my partner at the end of the highway. There, she will insert a long, large-bore needle into your inner ear, hopefully relieving the pressure. And when we get there, she's gonna have to work fast. She's only gonna have one chance. She's not gonna be able to use any anesthetic, and it will probably leave you deaf.
Patrick Crump
But I'll live, right? Well, that's what it's all about. All right, man, let's do it. Mr. Mulder, could you go a little faster, please? Just a little more is all I need.
Fox Mulder
Sure.
Patrick Crump
Just a little bit faster.
[ siren wailing ]
Scene 18
LOLETA, CALIFORNIA
Dana Scully
Get ready!
Scene 19
Scene 19
Alvin Kersh
"justice department jet. "2.6 turbine hours round trip at $1,400 an hour. "car rental. Over milage, out-of-state use penalties-- "$346. "compensation to one Walter r. Duncan... For unauthorized use of his 1968 caprice station wagon-- $500."
Fox Mulder
Why don't you bill me?
Alvin Kersh
I'll bill your partner instead. You two obviously relish the role of martyr.
Fox Mulder
Okay, so are we done here? Back to the bozo work investigating huge piles of manure?
Alvin Kersh
You can always quit.
[ sighs ]
Dana Scully
Sir, agent Mulder has been through a lot.
Alvin Kersh
And you apologize for him a lot. I've noticed that about you.
Dana Scully
I'm not apologizing for this. Because of his work, the d.o.d. Is shutting down... Their antenna array in northeastern Nevada. Our participation in this case has saved lives.
Alvin Kersh
I don't see you proving that. The department of defense... Admits no culpability whatsoever. Furthermore, they say the closing of the facility was coincidental.
Dana Scully
Right.
Alvin Kersh
Don't misunderstand me, agent. I don't care if you and your partner... Saved a school bus full of doe-eyed urchins on their way to sunday bible camp. You no longer investigate X-Files. You are done. And the sooner you and Mulder come to recognize that, the better for both of you.
Dana Scully
Big piles of manure.
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