Carpool Man
Hurry up! Next time maybe take a leak before we leave work, okay, dipwads?
Season 6 · Episode 1
The Beginning
Character-labelled dialogue prepared from the official DVD subtitle track.
Production code6ABX01Original airdate · November 8, 1998
256 dialogue entries
Scene 01
Scene 01
Carpool passenger
You read sign language, guy?
Carpool Man
Is that your I.q. Or the number of dipwads your mother had?
Scene 02
PHOENIX ARIZONA
Carpool Man
Not you, too, sandy? Sorry, man. You got to hold it till you get home.
[ labored breathing, shuddering ]
Carpool Man
See you tomorrow, sandy.
[ gasping ]
[ horn honking ]
[ knocking ]
Scene 03
7:04 AM
Carpool Man
Hey, sandy. Chop, chop. Hey, sandman? Hey, hot dog. Come on. Carpe diem.
[ gasping ]
[ snarling ]
[ screams ]
[ scraping ]
[ snarling ]
[ screaming ]
Scene 04
Scene 04
Fox Mulder
Using a process that restores moisture to the documents, and by a reassembling of fragments, I should be able to recover... A large percentage of the case material that was destroyed in my office fire... Several months ago. And while this process will be tedious and ongoing, what I've already recovered will allow agent Scully and I... To begin work on the X-Files immediately.
Assistant Director Maslin
Agent Mulder-- agent Mulder, I'm reading here a very pie-in-the-sky report... About global domination plans by vicious, long-clawed spacelings? Is there going to be data to back this vague, omnibus account?
Fox Mulder
Yes.
Assistant Director 1
I see your renowned arrogance has been left quite intact. You're asking us to accept this report... Of a spaceship buried under polar ice... And your death-defying escape from it?
Fox Mulder
The ice had become superheated by the ship... As it rose beneath us, causing the ice to collapse.
Assistant Director 1
This story is unintelligible and encourages unintelligible analysis.
Fox Mulder
I was hoping you'd look more closely at the reports... Of my and agent Scully's medical conditions.
Assistant Director 2
These spacelings, agent Mulder-- they weren't something I saw in men in black?
Fox Mulder
I didn't see men in black.
Assistant Director 2
Well, it's a damn good movie.
Fox Mulder
As much as this sounds like science fiction, we can and will... Prove the validity of our report.
Assistant Director Maslin
And so the plot-- I'm just trying to get this straight-- the plot is for these spacelings to take over the planet... Aided by a group of men here on earth?
Fox Mulder
A shadow conspiracy within our own government.
Assistant Director Maslin
Who are growing corn in the middle of the desert, which features... Pollen which was genetically altered... To hold a virus which will be taken away by bees... Whose sting transmits the virus, causing the growth... Of an extraterrestrial biological entity inside the human host?
Fox Mulder
Which we will prove now that the X-Files have been reopened.
Assistant Director 1
Your presumption is greater than the case you make for that eventuality.
Fox Mulder
I'm not sure I understand.
Assistant Director 1
You're here to justify your reassignment on the X-Files... With little more than a rattletrap account of high adventure in the antarctic.
Assistant Director 2
Not to mention some very questionable travel expenses.
Assistant Director Maslin
Let us remind you that the FBI is not a school for science, nor for the grinding of personal axes. Hopefully, you will be able to present us with some material evidence... To support a continued investigation.
Fox Mulder
Agent Scully, who was assigned to the X-Files... As a scientist, was stung by one of these bees and was infected with this virus. She is here today with hard and incontrovertible evidence, scientific proof that the virus she was infected with... Is, in fact, extraterrestrial. Next time I'll wear a clown suit and do balloon tricks.
Dana Scully
I was hoping it wouldn't come up.
Fox Mulder
The only reason I was in there... Is because you assured me there was a scientific basis for what we saw.
Dana Scully
Let me remind you once again, what I saw was very little.
Fox Mulder
That excuse is not gonna work this time. You were there, and you were infected with that virus.
Dana Scully
Yes, there is a scientific basis for what happened to me. I was exposed to a virus. But as it turns out, Mulder, that virus... Is not what you thought. I can't identify it. I have run three separate tests. But I can tell you without a doubt that virus's d.n.a. And proteins... Are very much of this world.
Fox Mulder
I saw what that virus did. I saw it generate a new being, an alien being inside a human body.
Dana Scully
It attacks and destroys human cells, but that is all it does. It creates nothing. Look, I don't like telling you this, and I know that you don't want to hear it. Not that you can't question me in what I saw, but what you can't question is the science.
Scene 05
NEW YORK CITY
Cigarette-Smoking Man
There was some sloppiness in phoenix where they found the body. The local p.d. Got involved. These were taken at the scene by a crime reporter.
First Elder
These were run in the press?
Cigarette-Smoking Man
I trumped up a story about a crazy indian on the loose. Never underestimate the public's willingness to blame the red man for... Anything they can't explain.
Second Elder
How did this happen?
Cigarette-Smoking Man
He was one of ours. He must've accidentally injected himself while he was working on the virus. It took just 12 hours for the creature to gestate.
First Elder
This thing's alive?
Cigarette-Smoking Man
Yes. It's killed a man.
First Elder
It's out there somewhere?
Cigarette-Smoking Man
As far as I know.
Second Elder
God almighty. We can't have this thing running loose.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
I'm managing the situation.
First Elder
You can manage all you want. Someone's got to find this thing.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
Someone has to kill it. The response must be equal to the threat.
First Elder
Can you dispose of this problem?
Cigarette-Smoking Man
Yes.
Scene 06
Scene 06
Walter Skinner
You're wasting your time.
Fox Mulder
You need evidence to justify our reassignment. I've just got to bring it back from the ashes.
Walter Skinner
Nothing you might restore is gonna help you. It's over and done. Your reassignment on the X-Files has been denied.
Fox Mulder
How can it be? We're the only reason the X-Files were reopened in the first place. There's no other reason to reopen them.
Walter Skinner
I'm not arguing with you.
Fox Mulder
Then who is?
Walter Skinner
When will you accept... That no amount of pressure or reason will bring to heel a conspiracy... Whose members walk these halls with absolute impunity?
Fox Mulder
Was there a vote?
Walter Skinner
Unanimous against.
Fox Mulder
Excuse me.
Walter Skinner
I'm no help to you outside the majority.
Fox Mulder
Inside or out, I don't see that there's a damn thing you can do for me.
Walter Skinner
You can break their backs with proof about this virus, proof that what you say it does is true.
Fox Mulder
I don't have that proof just yet.
Walter Skinner
Maybe I can give it to you. There's a file folder. It's on the desk in your old office.
Jeffrey Spender
Is that something for me... Agent Mulder?
Fox Mulder
Yeah, if you're doing my filing.
Jeffrey Spender
Your filing?
Fox Mulder
What are you doing in my office, agent Spender?
Jeffrey Spender
I think there's been a miscommunication. I think someone failed to inform you.
Fox Mulder
If you're about to tell me that you were sent down here to work on the X-Files, I think the failure is simple judgment. I don't care what patronage got you this job. I put my life in here. I'm not gonna let some brownnose just slide in and take it all away from me.
Jeffrey Spender
I don't believe in your work, in the paranormal mumbo jumbo, so don't presume I'm the one taking your place.
Fox Mulder
No? Who is?
Diana Fowley
Fox.
Fox Mulder
Diana. Back on your feet. Guess that's the only way you could stab me in the back.
Scene 07
Scene 07
Cigarette-Smoking Man
I need the patient bandaged and dressed. We'll be taking a trip.
Doctor
You want him what?
Cigarette-Smoking Man
I'm sure I don't need to repeat myself. Please get the boy ready.
Doctor
But doing that now could kill him.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
Let me put it to you simply. It's him or it's us.
Scene 08
PHOENIX, ARIZONA
Dana Scully
I just want to remind you that by not informing local p.d.... We are in technical violation of state laws... Prohibiting contamination of a crime scene. Why do I bother?
Fox Mulder
Scully, come here and take a look at this. Ever seen anything like this?
Dana Scully
-what are they? -
Fox Mulder
According to the investigator's notes in the file, they're from an attack by a native American man on a scientist.
Dana Scully
With what kind of weapon?
Fox Mulder
It says in the file he used his bare hands.
Dana Scully
His bare hands? Mulder, this is hardwood.
Fox Mulder
Uh-huh.
Dana Scully
This kind of gouging didn't happen with anybody's bare hands-- not without the use of some kind of an implement. What is that?
Fox Mulder
Ah. Somebody broke a nail.
Dana Scully
Is it animal?
Fox Mulder
It ain't rupaul. The body of the other victim was found here on the sofa, his viscera torn from his torso. But the m.e.'s report says that the times of death were hours apart, which means that this victim was dead hours before the second attack.
Dana Scully
So the attacker never left.
Fox Mulder
There wasn't an attack. I think it was celebrating its birthday. The first victim must've gotten infected with the virus somehow. Right here on the sofa was where the creature was born.
Dana Scully
Mulder--
Fox Mulder
That would account for the violence done to the man's torso. The virus producing an extraterrestrial biological entity... That ripped away his chest as it birthed itself right here. Look.
Dana Scully
Given the scenario you just described, the rate of gestation would've been less than a day. It would've been about 12 hours, in fact. Forgive the scientific argument for a moment, but you're saying this was done by something newborn?
Fox Mulder
That's exactly what I'm saying.
Gibson Praise
It was here, but it's gone now.
Driver
I should take a look.
Gibson Praise
It's not here. Why don't you believe me when you're so afraid of me?
Cigarette-Smoking Man
I'm not afraid of you.
Gibson Praise
You think I can destroy you... For what I know, because of what I am. You're thinking you could've destroyed me too. And if I don't find this creature, you will.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
He'll find it.
Fox Mulder
I don't see there's any argument here. You admit yourself that the crime report is a lie.
Dana Scully
Mulder, that doesn't mean that I can just accept your theory.
Fox Mulder
What does it take? For this thing to come up and bite you on the ass? I saw these creatures. I saw them burst to life. You would've seen 'em, too, but you were infected with that virus. You were passed out over my shoulder.
Dana Scully
I know what you did. I know what happened to me. But without ignoring the science, I can't-- listen, Mulder. You told me my science kept you honest. That it made you question your assumptions. That by it, I'd made you a whole person. If I change now... It wouldn't be right... Or honest.
Fox Mulder
I'm talking about extraterrestrial life... Alive on this planet in our lifetime-- forces that dwarf and precede all human history. I'm sorry, Scully, but this time your science is wrong.
Music
♪ gray skies are gonna clear up ♪ ♪ put on a happy face ♪
Engineer #1
♪ brush off the clouds and cheer up ♪ wake up, homer.
Homer
♪ put on a happy face ♪ I was awake.
♪♪ [ continues, indistinct ]
Scene 09
ROLLING HILLS NUCLEAR POWER PLANT
Homer
I was just thinking.
Engineer #1
Yeah, that'd be a first. You're ten minutes late on your systems check.
Homer
If there was a problem, we would've heard about it. Like Arizona's gonna go without air conditioning for ten minutes.
Music
♪ pick out a pleasant outlook ♪ ♪ stick out that noble chin ♪ ♪ wipe off that full-of-doubt look ♪
Engineer #1
♪ slap on a happy grin ♪ hey, homer. Got something here in the bleed cooling system.
Music
♪ and spread sunshine all over the place ♪♪
Engineer #1
See that? Five degrees off. Might be-- might be in the core reactor.
Homer
No, no, no. It's got to be a monitoring glitch.
Engineer #1
Phone could start ringing any minute. You might want to check it out.
Homer
All right.
Music
♪ brush off the clouds and cheer up ♪ ♪ put on a happy face ♪
♪♪ [ scatting ]
Music
♪ put on a happy face ♪ ♪ start spreading sunshine all over the place ♪ ♪ and put on ♪♪
[ squishing, dripping ]
[ slapping ]
[ creature squeals ]
[ screaming ]
[ crowd chatter ]
Man
Check every inch of that reactor.
Jeffrey Spender
I want this place sealed off.
Guard
Yes.
Scene 10
Scene 10
Jeffrey Spender
Authorized officers and personnel only. This is a closed area.
Fox Mulder
What happened here, Spender?
Jeffrey Spender
You'll have to leave.
Dana Scully
We received a call that a man was killed here.
Jeffrey Spender
A call from whom? Assistant director Skinner?
Fox Mulder
Let us through.
Jeffrey Spender
You are unauthorized to be here. You've ignored your superiors and come here without cause or permission. I'm gonna get you censured for this and demand a review of a.d. Skinner's actions.
Fox Mulder
Diana, let us in here.
Diana Fowley
I can't. This facility has been sealed off by the n.r.c.
Fox Mulder
A man was murdered.
Diana Fowley
A workman was killed in an accident... In a reactor where there was a systems failure.
Fox Mulder
Then why are you here?
Diana Fowley
We were called because of a possible connection to two previous deaths... From a case file that was stolen from our office.
Fox Mulder
There is a connection.
Dana Scully
Let's get out of here, Mulder.
Fox Mulder
I hope you know what you're doing, Diana. I hope you know whose errands you're running.
Diana Fowley
I think I do.
Dana Scully
You weren't getting anywhere, Mulder. It was only making it worse.
Fox Mulder
It's here, Scully, and they know it.
Dana Scully
How do they know? Mulder, how do you know?
Fox Mulder
Give me the keys and get in the car.
Dana Scully
Oh, my god. Gibson. Sorry, sweetie. Gibson? Gibson? Gibson, sweetheart. Oh, god.
Scene 11
CAMELBACK VIEW MOTEL
Gibson Praise
Frankenstein? Really?
Dana Scully
No. No, you've been worked on by some good doctors. They did a fine job with your stitches.
Gibson Praise
You think they were butchers.
Fox Mulder
They were butchers.
Dana Scully
They should've changed your bandages, Gibson. He's got some swelling and some infection. And you've got a fever. Why did they do this to you?
Gibson Praise
'cause I can read people's minds.
Fox Mulder
How'd you get in our car?
Gibson Praise
When they weren't looking, I snuck away. It's easy when you know what they're thinking.
Fox Mulder
Why are you here?
Gibson Praise
They were using me, 'cause I can communicate with it.
Dana Scully
Communicate with what?
Gibson Praise
You already know. You just don't want to believe it.
Fox Mulder
The kid could find this thing.
Dana Scully
Mulder, this kid belongs in a hospital.
Fox Mulder
We could get his fever down.
Dana Scully
You just can't take him on some snipe hunt. He's in no condition. He belongs in a bed under constant medical care. Listen to me. What I'm saying is in your best interest, okay? We have to take every precaution, make every effort... To ensure that nothing happens to this boy. Because whatever he is, whatever gives him the ability to do what he does, he's your scientific evidence, just like we said. He could be the key to everything in the X-Files.
Fox Mulder
We don't have the X-Files.
Dana Scully
No. But what if he could corroborate everything that you're saying? This boy could be our last best chance.
Diana Fowley
Agent Mulder. Fox, I'm going to get out of the car. I'm alone, all right?
Fox Mulder
What are you doing here?
Diana Fowley
I couldn't say anything to you earlier. I was given this assignment, Fox, okay? They offered it to me. I took the chance...
Fox Mulder
I'm listening.
Diana Fowley
To make sure someone served your interests, someone who believes in the work. Hey, you and I found the X-Files together. Don't forget that.
Fox Mulder
Who sent you?
Diana Fowley
I'm here on my own.
Fox Mulder
Why? To convince me of your noble intentions?
Diana Fowley
Listen to me. That thing is somewhere inside the number four reactor building. We can let them find it and destroy it, or go find it ourselves. You need proof, Fox. You're so close. Why can't you see that?
Dana Scully
Mulder, what's going on?
Fox Mulder
You take Gibson.
Dana Scully
Where are you going?
Fox Mulder
To find this thing.
Scene 12
Scene 12
Diana Fowley
Agent Spender and I got a call. We were on a plane within an hour in constant contact.
Fox Mulder
With who?
Diana Fowley
The nuclear regulatory people. N.r.c. Was first on the scene. They found the victim. But by the time we got there, it'd been removed. We never saw the body.
Fox Mulder
Who removed it?
Diana Fowley
I don't know. Couldn't get a straight answer. Then the n.r.c. Sealed off the number four reactor... Due to a problem with the heat transfer systems. I believe that was legitimate.
Fox Mulder
Maybe that's why it's there. It wants heat. It needs heat. This thing gestated abnormally fast. What if heat activates it? It could spur on the virus and the rapid development of the entity. -but it's still seeking heat. Why? -
Diana Fowley
What if it's still developing? You're not under the impression what we're looking for makes sense in any conventional way?
Fox Mulder
No.
Scene 13
PHOENIX SAMARITAN MEDICAL CENTER
Dana Scully
You're gonna be fine, Gibson. You're gonna be okay.
Orderly
Let's get a bed ready.
Gibson Praise
You're gonna run more tests.
Dana Scully
We're gonna get you well.
Gibson Praise
You say that, but you're gonna run more tests, just like the other doctors.
Dana Scully
We have to run some more tests, Gibson.
Gibson Praise
You want to make me well, but you're just thinking about yourself and what you can learn from me.
Dana Scully
You're a very special boy, Gibson. You know that yourself.
Gibson Praise
I'm a very special lab rat.
Scene 14
11:42 PM
Diana Fowley
According to what little we could gather... The victim's body was found near here.
Fox Mulder
It's hot in here.
Diana Fowley
We're right above the core reactor. This is part of the heat transfer cooling system. Looks organic.
Fox Mulder
Maybe somebody's got the flu.
Diana Fowley
Aah! What? What is it?
Fox Mulder
There's something in there.
Unidentified speaker
Aah! [ cell phone ringing ] aah!
Fox Mulder
Yeah.
Dana Scully
Mulder, I found something you're not gonna believe.
Fox Mulder
Ditto.
Dana Scully
We did blood tests on Gibson, and there's evidence of the virus in his system.
Fox Mulder
The same virus you were exposed to?
Dana Scully
I'm almost positive.
Fox Mulder
What does that mean?
Dana Scully
I don't know, but I think we're onto something. We're onto something huge. A link.
Fox Mulder
I'll call that bet and raise you.
Dana Scully
What?
Fox Mulder
Never mind. Just take care of Gibson.
Scene 15
Scene 15
Dana Scully
There was a little boy in that room, and he's gone. Does anybody know what happened to that little boy? His name is Gibson Praise. He was just in that room. God! Does anybody know what the hell is going on?
Phoenix Doctor
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Let's just calm down.
Dana Scully
That little boy that I brought in is missing.
Phoenix Doctor
He can't be missing. He should still be in his bed.
Dana Scully
He's not here!
Scene 16
Scene 16
Gibson Praise
It's here.
Driver
Where?
Gibson Praise
Somewhere.
Fox Mulder
Open the door, you son of a bitch! Open the door, damn it! Open it! Open the door, you--
Diana Fowley
Fox! I'm gonna go see if there's some other way in.
Fox Mulder
Open it! Open this door!
[ heavy breathing ]
Gibson Praise
I told you it was here.
[ squealing ]
[ screams ]
Fox Mulder
Gibson! Gibson! Gibson! Gibson!
[ alarm blaring ]
[ man yells, indistinct ]
Guard
There he is!
Fox Mulder
Gibson! Gibson! Gibson! Gibson!
Scene 17
Scene 17
Assistant Director Maslin
As I said, and as I am forced to reiterate, agent Mulder, the FBI is not here for vendettas... Or for the grinding of personal axes. This holds not just for you but for everyone at the bureau. You force us to put a point on this, to make some hard changes. You and agent Scully will cease all material association with the X-Files. Refusal to do so will end in immediate dismissal. A probationary period will be set. You will now report to assistant director Kersh.
Scene 18
Scene 18
Jeffrey Spender
You're not supposed to come here. It's what was agreed to. It's the deal you made.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
I had to congratulate you. Commend how you handled things. How you handled Mulder.
Jeffrey Spender
I did what I was asked.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
You did well, son. He's on very thin ice now, you know.
Jeffrey Spender
Mulder will be back. As long as he lives, he won't give up.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
There are solutions, of course. Simple but extreme solutions. I've used these methods. They have their place. But not here.
Jeffrey Spender
You've killed men.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
You can kill a man, but you can't kill what he stands for. Not unless you first break his spirit. That's a beautiful thing to see.
[ door opens ]
Scene 19
Scene 19
Fox Mulder
It'd help if you shut the door. It'd make it harder for them to see... That I'm totally disregarding everything I was told.
Dana Scully
Everything we were told, Mulder.
Fox Mulder
They can't take away the X-Files, Scully. They tried.
Dana Scully
You know, agent Fowley's report to o.p.r. Painted the facts in an interesting way. I hope you haven't been betrayed.
Fox Mulder
Agent Fowley's report was a means to an end. Trying to protect the work. Protect the X-Files.
Dana Scully
Mulder, agent Fowley's report states that the man you saw attacked... Was bludgeoned by an unknown subject. She makes no mention of a little boy who, as it happens, is nowhere to be found. It would seem that her report protects everything but you.
Fox Mulder
Agent Fowley took me to that Plant at great risk to herself, where I saw something that you refuse to believe in-- saw it again, Scully. And though it may not say it in her report, Diana saw it too. And no matter what you think, she's certainly not gonna go around saying... That just because science can't prove it, it isn't true.
Dana Scully
I don't doubt what you saw, Mulder. I don't doubt you. I'm willing to believe, but not in a lie, and not in the opposite of what I can prove. It comes down to a matter of trust. I guess it always has.
Fox Mulder
You're asking me to make a choice?
Dana Scully
I'm asking you to trust my judgment. To trust me.
Fox Mulder
I can't accept that, not if it refutes what I know to be true.
Dana Scully
Mulder, these are test results, d.n.a. From the claw nail we found, matching exactly the d.n.a. From the virus you believe is extraterrestrial.
Fox Mulder
That's the connection.
Dana Scully
Which matches exactly d.n.a. That was found in Gibson Praise.
Fox Mulder
I don't understand. You're saying Gibson Praise is infected with the virus?
Dana Scully
No. It's a part of his d.n.a. In fact, it's a part of all of our d.n.a. It's called a genetic remnant. It's inactive junk d.n.a., except in Gibson, it's turned on.
Fox Mulder
If that were true, that would mean that Gibson is in some part extraterrestrial.
Dana Scully
It would mean that all of us are.
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