Cameron McPeck
Almost home now, Jason. What do we say?
Season 7 · Episode 15
En Ami
Character-labelled dialogue prepared from the official DVD subtitle track.
Production code7ABX15Original airdate · March 19, 2000
229 dialogue entries
Scene 01
Opening scene
[ thunder rumbling ]
Irene Mcpeck And Jason Mcpeck
Sticks And stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me.
Cameron McPeck
Keep your chin up, son. We'll get through this just fine.
[ yelling, shouting ]
Reporter
Jason, have you got a comment? How do you feel, Jason?
Deputies
Back up! Back up, there!
[ yelling, shouting continue ]
Deputy
Okay, folks, come on out. You're safe now. Just step out And stay in front of me. We'll get you in your house.
Cameron McPeck
Come on, son.
Deputy
Just stay in front of me.
[ thunder rumbling ]
Irene McPeck
There you go, sweetheart. If you need anything during the night, if you don't feel well, you just ring that bell, okay?
Jason McPeck
Okay, mom.
Irene McPeck
Good night, Jason.
Cameron McPeck
I know you're afraid. Maybe you think those people outside are right-- that we should take you to the hospital And let the doctors treat you. We could do that. And they might take away your cancer And your body might feel better, but not your soul. It's god himself who gave you this illness, Jason, for reasons that are his. If you're to be well in body And spirit, it's god who must come to deliver you.
[ wind howling ]
[ rumbling ]
Scene 03
Scene 03
Fox Mulder
Good morning. Here's a story to warm the cockles of your heart, Scully. "an 11-year-old boy diagnosed with lymphatic cancer cured with a miracle."
Dana Scully
Jason Mcpeck. Goochland, virginia.
Unidentified speaker
Oh.
Dana Scully
Yeah, his parents refused treatment on religious grounds. His faith forbids medical aid, And so Jason's cure was delivered by angels. Well, spontaneous remission, Mulder, isn't completely unheard of. So-called "miracle" recoveries attributable... To no clear cause or reason.
Fox Mulder
It's not the miracle I'm suspicious of. It's the messenger. That came as an anonymous e-mail to me... From the defense advance research projects agency.
Dana Scully
Darpa?
Fox Mulder
Someone at darpa. How'd you hear about it?
[ clears throat ]
Fox Mulder
You subscribe to the goochland guardian?
Dana Scully
No.
Fox Mulder
So this just appeared miraculously on your doorstep this morning?
Dana Scully
As far as I can tell, I was the only one to whom it was delivered.
Fox Mulder
Someone wants us on this case.
Dana Scully
It's not a case, Mulder.
Fox Mulder
Yeah, not yet. I'm gonna go back over to darpa. You see what else you can find out about that boy. I just gotta know whether it was roma downey or della reese.
[ laughing, shouting ]
Scene 04
GOOCHLAND, VIRGINIA
Irene McPeck
Yes?
Dana Scully
Hi. I'm Dana Scully with the federal bureau of investigation. Are you mrs. Mcpeck?
Irene McPeck
What can we do for you?
Dana Scully
I'm here about your son.
Cameron McPeck
Are we under investigation?
Dana Scully
Uh, no. I-I was just hoping to better understand what happened to him. May I ask, is he okay?
Irene McPeck
Jason, you've got somebody to see you. Tell her how you're feeling.
Jason McPeck
I feel good. Just a little out of breath.
Cameron McPeck
You're looking at god's work. Jason's life owes to his grace And exalts his name in the highest. Praise the lord.
Irene McPeck
Praise the lord.
Jason McPeck
Praise the lord.
Dana Scully
And you say that you saw angels?
Jason McPeck
Yes.
Dana Scully
May I ask what they looked like?
Jason McPeck
They looked like men. They came from the sky in a ball of light.
Dana Scully
And what did they say?
Jason McPeck
They said not to be afraid. Then one of them pinched me kind of hard. And then I was better right away.
Dana Scully
He pinched you? Where?
Jason McPeck
Right here.
Dana Scully
What the hell are you doing?
Cigarette-Smoking Man
God's work. What else?
Dana Scully
Get out of my car.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
I'd hoped for more accommodation toward the man... Who saved that young boy's life, And yours.
Dana Scully
You got your light. Now get out.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
You're not at all curious... About the chip that's been put in that boy's neck? You, a medical doctor, who has the same technology in your body, who's witnessed this wondrous miracle firsthand? I've taken considerable trouble to prove my intentions. The newspaper at your door, the e-mail to Mulder, the elaborate demonstration of curing this boy's cancer. You see, I'm dying myself. A dying man who wants to make right-- to share his secrets... And to bequeath this cure to millions of others, just like that boy.
Dana Scully
So you wanna give it to us?
Cigarette-Smoking Man
To you, agent Scully. I've tired of Mulder's muleheadedness. His foolish ideas of overthrowing the system.
Dana Scully
You think I'm fooled by this?
Cigarette-Smoking Man
I made you my offer. Agent Mulder hears a breath of this, rest assure I'll rescind it. Take it to my grave.
[ line ringing ]
Scene 05
FBI HEADQUARTERS
Dana Scully
[ woman, indistinct ] yes, I need a trace on a D.C. Area Phone number. I need an address.
Voice On Phone
Thank you.
Scene 06
Scene 06
Guard
May I help you?
Dana Scully
I'm sorry. I made a mistake.
[ lock clicks ]
Guard
May I see some identification?
Dana Scully
Look, is this necessary? I just walked through the wrong door.
Guard
Your identification, please.
Dana Scully
Look--
Guard
Third floor.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
Agent Scully. Please, sit. I'm glad you came.
Dana Scully
You obviously knew that I would.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
Well, I know you're a doctor And a woman of compassion.
Dana Scully
Please.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
In the end... A man finally looks at the sum of his life... To see what he'll leave behind. Most of what I worked to build is in ruins. And now that the darkness descends, I find I have no real legacy.
Dana Scully
What are you dying of?
Cigarette-Smoking Man
Cerebral inflammation. A consequence of brain surgery I had in the fall. The doctors give me just a few months.
Dana Scully
So you want to use me to clear the slate-- to make you a respectable person? It won't work.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
How many people in the world are dying of cancer? And here we are wasting time with the past.
Dana Scully
I'm here. Where is it? This miracle cure of yours.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
We'll need to take a trip. It will require a few days.
Dana Scully
I'll get back to you.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
I have access, agent Scully. I have these miraculous chips, but the genetic research that makes them work... Is closely guarded. There are men in this building who would kill me if they knew... What I'd offered you. They'd kill you too in the blink of an eye. I've destroyed a lot of things in my life, including the people most precious to me. All I want is a chance to do something in service to man before I go.
Scene 07
Scene 07
Machine Voice
Call received 8:01 p.m.
Dana Scully
Mulder, it's me. I wanted to let you know... That I'll be out of town for a day or two. It's a family emergency. I'll call you when I can.
[ dialing Phone ]
Dana Scully
[ Phone ringing ] this is Dana Scully. I'm not in right now. Please leave a message after the beep. [ beeps ]
Fox Mulder
Hey, Scully, it's me. Pick up if you're there. Scully, you there? All right, I just-- I got your message, And I hope everything's okay. I'll try you on your cell right now.
Scene 08
Scene 08
Dana Scully
You're going to smoke?
[ window lowering ]
Cigarette-Smoking Man
It's time I quit.
Dana Scully
Just like that?
Cigarette-Smoking Man
No sacrifice is purely altruistic. We give, expecting to receive.
Dana Scully
What exactly is it you expect to receive?
Cigarette-Smoking Man
Your trust. You question my sincerity. You think I'm heartless. Would it soften your opinion of me if I confessed that... I've always had a particular affection for you? I assure you, my intentions are honorable. I have affection for Mulder too. My affection for you is special. I held your life in my hands. Your cancer was terminal, And I had a cure. Can you imagine what that's like? To have the power to extinguish a life... Or to save it And let it flourish? Now to give you that power... So you can do the same.
Scene 09
Scene 09
Landlord
She said it was a family matter. Dropped off the key, asked me to water the plants. No biggie. A great girl. Independent as they come, you know? She's a great girl.
Fox Mulder
Yeah, yeah.
Landlord
Tenants like having an FBI agent in the building. Gives them a sense of security.
Fox Mulder
Do you know how many people have died in there?
Landlord
We don't talk about that.
Fox Mulder
You said she was carrying a suitcase. Did you notice anything else? Anything abnormal?
Landlord
No, no. Actually, it wasn't her carrying the suitcase. It was her driver.
Fox Mulder
Her driver?
Landlord
Yeah, an older guy. Tall. I've seen him here before. Smokes like a chimney. Hey, don't you want--
Scene 10
Scene 10
Cigarette-Smoking Man
You've been at the wheel too long. Would you like me to drive?
Dana Scully
I might if you let me know where we're going.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
Knowing that, you'd feel comfortable? You'd trust me? How long did it take Mulder to win your trust?
Dana Scully
I've always trusted Mulder.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
You're not being honest with yourself. Think back. There was a time when you feared for your future, for your career, when you were first partnered with this man. I told you, I've studied you for years. And if you would permit me, I'd like to make an observation. You're drawn to powerful men, but you fear their power. You keep your guard up-- a wall around your heart. How else do you explain that fearless devotion... To a man obsessed And a life alone? You'd die for Mulder, but you won't allow yourself to love him.
Dana Scully
Wow. I'm learning a whole other side to you. You're not just a coldblooded killer. You're a pop psychologist as well.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
I've been a destroyer all my life. Before I die, I'd like to prove that I'm capable of something more. Turn here, on the left.
Dana Scully
Where are we going?
Cigarette-Smoking Man
To show you what I'm capable of. Her name's Marjorie Butters. She's got quite a green thumb. Plays a mean game of scrabble, if you're interested.
Dana Scully
And what's her relationship to you?
Cigarette-Smoking Man
Well, how should I put it? You could say that I'm her angel. Marjorie's 118 years old. Marjorie!
Marjorie Butters
Hey!
Cigarette-Smoking Man
Oh! I thought I'd surprise you.
Marjorie Butters
I look an absolute wreck. I've been trying to get in some bulbs before spring.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
Marjorie, this is Dana Scully. She's a very good friend of mine.
Dana Scully
Nice to meet you.
Marjorie Butters
My pleasure. Well, come inside. I baked some fresh bread this morning. And there are tomatoes from the garden.
Unidentified speaker
I'll put the kettle on.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
To have this power-- to visit this woman And see her joy-- it must be why you became a doctor.
Scene 11
Scene 11
Walter Skinner
I'll expect your call. Thanks. She requisitioned a fleet sedan when she left the bureau yesterday. I don't know why, And there have been no fuel charges.
Fox Mulder
Her mother doesn't know anything about a family emergency.
Walter Skinner
Look, I know you're worried about the company that she's in. But from what you've told me, it's not like she's sneaking out. And the truth is, she's gone to a lot of trouble to allay your fears.
Fox Mulder
I know she can take care of herself. It's just not like her to lie to me.
[ Phone ringing ]
Walter Skinner
That's my private line. Skinner.
Dana Scully
Sir?
Walter Skinner
Agent Scully, where are you?
Dana Scully
I'm on the road. I'm sorry to call you on this line.
Walter Skinner
It's all right. It's just we've been worried about you.
Dana Scully
Everything's okay. I just wanted you to express that to Mulder.
Walter Skinner
He's standing right here. Why don't you do that yourself.
Dana Scully
No, sir, that's all right. Can you tell him that I'll call him later? Just tell him that I'm fine.
Walter Skinner
She said she's fine.
Fox Mulder
She's in trouble.
Scene 12
Scene 12
Dana Scully
I'm going to the restroom. Mulder, I'm trusting you'll be able to make sense of what's on this tape. I had no other way of contacting you. Please try And understand that I weighed the risks. I couldn't divulge these plans without risking them, And I promise you that I weighed everything. Our current location is northbound on the upstate expressway. We're driving my FBI fleet sedan. I promise I will get these tapes to you as fast as I can.
Attendant
Oh! Excuse me.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
Lifesaver? You may as well get comfortable. We've got a good drive ahead.
[ knocking on door ]
Scene 14
Scene 14
Fox Mulder
It's the masters of disguise.
Richard Langly
Can we laugh it up in your apartment?
Melvin Frohike
We got heat on our tail.
John Fitzgerald Byers
We did what you asked, pulled up what we could on Scully.
Richard Langly
We started with her credit cards to see if she purchased any airline tickets.
Melvin Frohike
And ended up hacking into some defense department node.
Richard Langly
Where they demanded that we immediately identify ourselves... Or face prosecution for espionage or crimes against the government.
Fox Mulder
What does this have to do with finding Scully?
John Fitzgerald Byers
When we went into her computer, we found a series of deleted transmissions.
Melvin Frohike
E-mail that had been erased from her sub-directories, but not her hard drive. A series of communications.
Richard Langly
From someone named Cobra.
Fox Mulder
Who the hell is Cobra? Scully would have told me about him.
Richard Langly
Well, looks like she's gone to great lengths to keep this from you.
Fox Mulder
I don't believe that. She knows that I'd find her no matter what.
John Fitzgerald Byers
Mulder, we can't find her. There's nowhere to start looking.
Fox Mulder
Yeah, I don't believe that either. Give me that.
Scene 15
Scene 15
Cigarette-Smoking Man
How do you take your coffee?
Dana Scully
Unadulterated, thank you. You drugged me.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
I did nothing of the sort.
Dana Scully
How the hell did I get out of my clothes And into bed?
Cigarette-Smoking Man
I carried you. You'd been up for over 30 hours. You were delirious. I only wanted to make you comfortable.
Dana Scully
Where are we?
Cigarette-Smoking Man
Milford, pennsylvania.
Dana Scully
Well, that wasn't part of the deal. I don't know what you're up to.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
The keys are in the ignition. You're free to go, of course. The choice is still yours.
Scene 16
Scene 16
Fox Mulder
Sir, I need your attention.
Walter Skinner
Is my assistant--
Fox Mulder
No. She's away from her desk. I wouldn't just bust in here, but as I said, it's a breaking situation.
Walter Skinner
What the hell's going on?
Fox Mulder
That's my question exactly. I believe you've all met.
Richard Langly
Is this place secure?
Walter Skinner
Is it secure?
Melvin Frohike
Don't get testy, g-man.
Fox Mulder
Are you aware of a federal fugitive code-named Cobra? For the past six months, Cobra's been e-mailing Scully... From the department of defense where he works on a shadow project... For advanced research.
John Fitzgerald Byers
A shadow project is right.
Richard Langly
Where this dude works, even the shadows have shadows.
Walter Skinner
Is that what I'm looking at here?
Fox Mulder
No. What they're pulling up is Scully's correspondence back to Cobra.
Walter Skinner
She has a relationship?
Fox Mulder
No. Somebody posing as Scully... Who hacked into her computer And has been capturing all her e-mail, passing themselves off as Scully in order to win Cobra's trust. The last five exchanges hinted a meeting... Where they're gonna exchange information on the project Cobra's working on.
Walter Skinner
A meeting? Where?
Melvin Frohike
Don't know. They just ended.
Walter Skinner
Who's been in her computer?
Fox Mulder
Smoking man, or someone working for him. You gotta get to him now.
Walter Skinner
You of all people should know that you just don't get to him.
Fox Mulder
If you don't get to him, it may be the last time we see Scully alive.
[ knocking on door ]
Scene 17
6:22 PM
Cigarette-Smoking Man
We'll be getting final instructions from our contact tonight. He's-- he's invited us to dinner. I took the liberty of getting you something to wear.
Dana Scully
It's, uh-- it's beautiful.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
I'm glad you like it. I look forward to tonight.
♪♪ [ piano ]
Dana Scully
So your contact's going to join us?
Cigarette-Smoking Man
I presume so.
Dana Scully
You extol our great trust, but you still haven't told me who he is.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
He is to human genetic science... As oppenheimer And fermi were to the advent of nuclear warfare.
Dana Scully
I'm still not clear what my importance is to this exchange.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
This man-- we'll call him Cobra-- he needs assurances... That the science he's gonna hand over won't fall into the wrong hands. I've told him of you. He's expecting to meet you here. [ pouring liquid ] well... To the future. I must tell you something else. Something that's so unbelievable, so incredible, that to know it is to look at the entire world anew.
Dana Scully
What?
Cigarette-Smoking Man
What we are being given, it's not the cure for cancer. It's the holiest of grails, Dana. It's the cure for all human disease.
Dana Scully
How?
Cigarette-Smoking Man
It's from that final frontier. It's largely extraterrestrial.
Dana Scully
Then you would be cured.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
That which makes miracles... Can also make great evil. There are those who would use this power for their own purposes. To choose who will live And who will die. Theoretically, I can be cured, but... Everything I've told you about wanting to make right? I'm a lonely man, Dana. Would you excuse me? Cobra hasn't shown.
Black-Haired Man
What do you wanna do?
Cigarette-Smoking Man
Wait. What else can we do?
Black-Haired Man
What trust you've won... Scully won't stick around forever. What's wrong?
Cigarette-Smoking Man
Just do your damn job.
Scene 18
Scene 18
Cigarette-Smoking Man
Calico inlet's 15 minutes out. South end.
Dana Scully
What do I do when I get there?
Cigarette-Smoking Man
I don't know. Just wait. Be careful.
Cobra
Finally we meet. You're just as you described yourself. Certainly more so last night at dinner. I only wish we could continue to correspond, but it must end after this. I hope one day we can take some time... When I'm not a marked man. This is it-- the science I promised you.
Dana Scully
Well, wait. Where did you get this? Where did it come from, this science?
Cobra
Where did it come from?
Dana Scully
Who developed it?
Cobra
Scully?
Dana Scully
Yes, I'm Scully, but I don't believe we've spoken before or corresponded.
[ gunshot ]
[ gunshot ]
Dana Scully
They shot him. They killed him. And they shot at me.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
Did you get it?
Dana Scully
You told me that no one else knew about this!
Cigarette-Smoking Man
I wouldn't have sent you if I thought there'd be any danger. Dana.
Dana Scully
Yes, I got it.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
Forgive me. Here. Take it. This is for you.
Dana Scully
I gotta go.
Cigarette-Smoking Man
Go.
Scene 19
Scene 19
Melvin Frohike
There's nothing on this.
Richard Langly
It's empty.
John Fitzgerald Byers
Completely.
Dana Scully
No. It can't be. It can't be. It's got to be on there.
Scene 20
4:32 PM
Dana Scully
He was here! These were his offices. What the hell is this?
Fox Mulder
He used you.
Dana Scully
Mulder, he laid it all out for me. I recorded it. I mailed you the tape. This old woman, Marjorie Butters, I met her. I saw her pictures, her birth certificate.
Fox Mulder
You saw what you needed to see in order to make you believe.
Dana Scully
Well, then what about this boy? This boy with cancer? You can't deny that. That's-- that's undeniable proof.
Fox Mulder
Even if we could convince his parents to let us march him out, how long before that chip in his neck mysteriously disappears? This was the perfectly executed con, Scully. And the only thing I can't figure out is why you're still alive.
Dana Scully
Mulder, I looked into his eyes. I swear what he told me was true.
Fox Mulder
He did it all for himself-- to get the science on that disk. His sincerity was a mask, Scully. The man's motives never changed.
Dana Scully
You think he used me to save himself... At the expense of the human race?
Fox Mulder
He knows what that science is worth, how powerful it is. He'd let nothing stand in his way.
Dana Scully
You may be right. But for a moment, I saw something else in him. A longing for something more than power. Maybe for something he could never have.
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