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Season 7 · Episode 1

The Sixth Extinction

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

Production code7ABX03Original airdate · November 7, 1999

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Scene 01

IVORY COAST, WEST AFRICA

Dana Scully

I came in search of something I did not believe existed. I've stayed on now in spite of myself, in spite of everything I've ever held to be true. I will continue here as long as I can-- as long as you are beset by the haunting illness... Which I saw consume your beautiful mind. What is this discovery I've made? How can I reconcile what I see with what I know? I feel this was meant not for me to find, but for you to make sense of-- make the connections which can't be ignored. Connections which, for me, deny all logic and reason. What is this source of power I hold in my hand-- this rubbing? This simple impression taken from the surface of the craft? I watched this rubbing take its undeniable hold on you-- saw you succumb to its spiraling effect. Now, I must work to uncover... What your illness prevents you from finding. In the source of every illness lies its cure.

[ insects buzzing ]

[ gasps ]

Dana Scully

Who's there? Who's there?

[ breathing heavily ]

[ grunts ]

[ yelling ]

Scene 02

GEORGETOWN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL

Dr. Harriman

He's been quiet for the last 36 hours. But he doesn't sleep. There's activity in the temporal lobe... We've just never seen. It won't allow his brain to rest or shut down, manifesting in episodes of aggression. Sometimes against himself.

Walter Skinner

You can't sedate him?

Dr. Harriman

Yes. We slow him down for short periods and put him in the neuro ward. It's the only way we're able to run tests. But over time, his brain is going to just die.

[ door opens ]

Walter Skinner

Agent Mulder? Agent Mulder, can you hear me? Do you know who I am? It's Skinner. Walter Skinner. Can we get him out of here? Get him some fresh air, at least?

Dr. Harriman

Let him go! He can't breathe!

[ grunting ]

[ alarm sounding ]

Walter Skinner

Where? Let go, Mulder. I don't want to hurt you.

Orderly

Come on. Let him go.

Dr. Harriman

[ breathing heavily ] stay there, mr. Skinner.

Walter Skinner

No, it's all right. Just let me get up.

[ alarm continues ]

Dr. Harriman

[ screaming ] five milligrams of haloperidol, I.m. [ screaming continues ] I want him in five-point restraints.

Orderly

Yes, sir.

[ men shouting in native language ]

[ speaking native language ]

Scene 03

IVORY COAST, WEST AFRICA

Amina Ngebe

My god. What happened here? They said you speak english.

Dana Scully

What do you want?

Amina Ngebe

I'm sorry. You must wonder who I am. I'm Amina Ngebe. I have come to see your discovery.

Dana Scully

I asked that no one be told about it, nor that I'm here.

Amina Ngebe

Yes, well, it is still a secret, but a well-known one, I'm afraid. Dr. Merkmallen called it the "african internet." god rest him.

Dana Scully

You knew dr. Merkmallen?

Amina Ngebe

I, too, am a professor of biology at the university. But, uh, hardly one qualified to say what must have gone on here.

Dana Scully

Well, I was working late last night by lamplight, and, uh, I saw a man who vanished. And then they just swarmed.

Amina Ngebe

You must not let the men know... What happened to you last night. The vanishing man, none of it.

Dana Scully

Why?

Amina Ngebe

They are animists, believing nature is vengeful. They'll take this as a sign to leave what you have found alone. A bad omen.

Dana Scully

Caused by the ship out there?

Amina Ngebe

Mmm. Caused by god, who will be much less helpful than those men... If we are to continue this work.

[ man screaming ]

[ screaming continues ]

Dana Scully

Quick! He's gotta get to a hospital! [ yelling ] hospital! Okay!

Amina Ngebe

You see? Another warning.

[ machine beeping slowly ]

Scene 04

GEORGETOWN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL

Walter Skinner

Agent Mulder? I want to help you. I don't know what to do. I don't have much time. Can you write?

Scene 05

Dana Scully

I feel you slipping away from me with every minute I fail here. What are the elusive meanings I cannot see... That are hidden here? If I could understand it, know how it affected you, learn how to use its power to save you--

[ vehicle approaching ]

[ engine shuts off ]

Dana Scully

What is it?

[ speaking native language ]

Dana Scully

Look, I'm sorry. I don't speak your language.

Dr. Barnes

Perhaps you need an interpreter?

Dana Scully

[ gasps ] stay away from me!

Dr. Barnes

Are you gonna hack me up in front of my Driver? Word is you're under suspicion already.

Dana Scully

You're the murderer here!

Amina Ngebe

Murderer of who?

Dana Scully

Dr. Merkmallen.

Dr. Barnes

I murdered no one. But I won't be sent away from here. I know what we've got. This craft that's come ashore, its extraterrestrial origins.

Dana Scully

You don't even believe in that.

Dr. Barnes

Nor do you, but here we are.

Dana Scully

I'm here only to help my partner.

Dr. Barnes

Then let me help you... To read it. I've spent my life looking for what's out there. The answer to what theologians have pondered for millennia. The key to everything-- to life itself. I've already been threatened... By men in Washington about what I know. How long would your secret keep if you were to send me away?

[ shouting in native language ]

Dana Scully

What is it?

Amina Ngebe

It is a sea of blood.

[ chattering, indistinct ]

Man

Yeah.

Scene 06

G STREET

Walter Skinner

Michael Kritschgau?

Michael Kritschgau

It's 6:00 in the morning.

Walter Skinner

I don't know if you remember me. My name's Skinner. I'm here to talk to you about Fox Mulder.

Michael Kritschgau

Yeah, I'm listening.

Walter Skinner

He's in a serious condition, mr. Kritschgau. He asked to talk to you.

Michael Kritschgau

I got nothin' to say to the man. You know, I had a job... With a government pension coming. And two years ago, Fox Mulder asked me to do him a favor. Blow the whistle on uncle sam's UFO propaganda mill. [ scoffs ] and all it got me was this swanky address.

Walter Skinner

Look, he doesn't have much time.

Michael Kritschgau

Hey, I'm not a doctor. What is it you think I can do for him?

Walter Skinner

All I know is that he asked for you.

[ beeping slowly ]

Michael Kritschgau

Can he even recognize me?

Walter Skinner

To be honest, I don't know. Agent Mulder?

[ sustained beep ]

Walter Skinner

His brain is on constant redline. They've got him on haloperidol just to keep him on the monitors.

Michael Kritschgau

Haloperidol?

Walter Skinner

He becomes violently agitated. He just won't speak or sleep, even when he's medicated. There's activity in part of his brain they've never seen before.

Michael Kritschgau

Was his--

[ sustained beep ]

Walter Skinner

Was his what?

Michael Kritschgau

I started to ask you a question about his prior mental state, but he anticipated it. Second time. Agent Mulder?

[ sustained beep ]

Walter Skinner

He claimed to be hearing voices.

Michael Kritschgau

I might know why agent Mulder asked for me. Doesn't mean I can do anything for him.

Walter Skinner

What just happened?

Michael Kritschgau

I think he responded to a question that... I didn't ask.

Walter Skinner

I don't know how long we can keep him out of that unit. We could be held responsible.

Michael Kritschgau

You asked me to come down here. You better be prepared to accept the responsibility, mr. Skinner.

Walter Skinner

You're going to inject him?

Michael Kritschgau

No. You are. With a thousand milligrams of phenytoin.

Walter Skinner

I'm not injecting him with anything-- not now and not till after I've talked to his doctor.

Michael Kritschgau

He's being given the wrong treatment.

Walter Skinner

You're not a doctor.

Michael Kritschgau

No, but I've seen his condition. Who do you want to trust?

Walter Skinner

Seen it where?

Michael Kritschgau

In a study. There's something like e.s.p. Called "remote viewing."

Walter Skinner

Whose study?

Michael Kritschgau

The company's. The c.I.a., mr. Skinner. Extreme subjects would go into arrest, their minds working harder than their bodies could sustain. They became, in effect, all brain. Phenytoin was the only thing that could slow the electrical impulses to a normal rate.

Walter Skinner

Agent Mulder knew about this. That's why he asked for you.

Fox Mulder

They're coming.

Scene 07

Diana Fowley

Who last saw him?

ICU nurse

I'm looking here.

Diana Fowley

I come here and find a patient missing, and nobody knew?

ICU nurse

Well, I just came on. Sorry. Uh, Fox Mulder, right? He's restrained, it says. And he's not in his bed?

Diana Fowley

No. How many times can I say it?

ICU nurse

He's right here.

Diana Fowley

He wasn't here when I came in.

Walter Skinner

No, we just found him down the hall. I just got him back into bed.

ICU nurse

Who are you?

Walter Skinner

I'm his boss, and hers.

ICU nurse

Well, I don't know... How he could've gotten up by himself or pulled all this stuff out.

Walter Skinner

Well, I hope someone's calling a doctor and making a report on this.

ICU nurse

He has got to remain in this bed.

Walter Skinner

I'll stay with him. Agent Fowley, why don't you see if you can help her. That's an order, agent Fowley.

Fox Mulder

She knows.

Walter Skinner

You can read her mind?

Fox Mulder

Yeah. We gotta act fast.

Walter Skinner

The doctor's on his way.

Fox Mulder

No doctors. Get me Scully.

Walter Skinner

I don't know where she is.

Fox Mulder

Look, I know you've been compromised. I know krycek is threatening your life, blackmailing you. You don't think I can trust you. But it's not you that I need.

Walter Skinner

Then who?

Fox Mulder

Him. Kritschgau. Ask him to prove it.

Michael Kritschgau

Prove what?

Fox Mulder

What's causing this.

Michael Kritschgau

It's a brain abnormality. It's how you're able to read minds.

Fox Mulder

What's causing this is alien. It's why my doctors can't help me.

Michael Kritschgau

I don't believe in aliens, agent Mulder. I think you know that.

Fox Mulder

I do. That's why I need you.

Scene 08

Dana Scully

The work here is painstaking. A slow and tedious piecing together. It appears to be a craft-- its skin covered in the intricate symbols you and I both saw, but which I now understand are part of a complex communication. Dr. Barnes has broken some of the symbols into letters, using an ancient navaho alphabet. And though it has helped to uncover some of what's here, it has also made for greater confusion. On the top surface of the craft, I'm finding words... Describing human genetics. Efforts to read the bottom of the craft have been harder. Our workers were scared away by a phenomena I admit I can't explain. A sea of blood, a swarm of insects. But what little we've found has been staggering. Passages from the christian bible, from pagan religions, from ancient sumaria. Science and mysticism conjoined. But more than words, they are somehow imbued with power. I've ignored warnings to quit this work, remaining committed to finding answers, afraid only that our secret here won't last... And that I might be too late.

Amina Ngebe

I have something to show you. More pieces of the puzzle. I couldn't believe it. I thought I was making it up in my head, that it could not be true.

Dana Scully

What?

Amina Ngebe

What this is. What the symbols spell out is a passage from the koran. Quyama-- the day of final judgement. On a spacecraft, teachings of the ancient prophet mohammed?

Dana Scully

I found more too. Twenty-four panels. One for each human chromosome. A map of their makeup. Maybe a map... Of our entire genetic makeup. A complete human genome. I mean, it's like... It's the most beautiful, intricate work of art.

Amina Ngebe

It is the word of god.

Dr. Barnes

You're wrong. There is no god. What's out there in the water... Is only what we call "god"-- what we call "creation." the spark that ignited the fire that cooked... The old primordial soup. Made animate from inanimate. Made us.

Amina Ngebe

I believe he is mad from the sun.

Dr. Barnes

Mad? I'm perfectly sane. Because today, I understand everything. Beginning and end, alpha and omega, everything in between. It's all been written, but the word is extraterrestrial.

Dana Scully

You're sick, dr. Barnes. You need to get off your feet. Lie down.

Dr. Barnes

You think you're going to take the credit? This is my discovery.

Dana Scully

I'm only here to help my friend.

Dr. Barnes

You can't help him. You're wasting your time reading it.

Dana Scully

It has power.

Dr. Barnes

It is power. The ultimate power. Your friend just got too close. No one leaves here before me.

Scene 09

Michael Kritschgau

We developed this to test remote viewing capabilities. It works much like a card trick. You tap the monitor where the saucer image appears, when it appears, or when you think it does. Okay?

Fox Mulder

Who are you gonna call? Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now.

Michael Kritschgau

All right, agent Mulder. Fine. You're at about five percent accuracy.

Walter Skinner

I'm assuming that's low.

Michael Kritschgau

Yeah. At the c.I.a., a high degree of ability was 20 percent. Twenty-five percent was extraordinary.

Fox Mulder

But I see them in my head.

Walter Skinner

You saw his ability earlier. It was you who pointed it out.

Michael Kritschgau

Well, our tests show that some people have psychic ability, sure. I mean, e.s.p., clairvoyance, remote viewing. But it was never attributed to aliens.

Fox Mulder

You don't want to believe. You're not looking hard enough.

Walter Skinner

One more time-- faster.

Michael Kritschgau

He's ahead of the images. He's anticipating them.

[ bottles clattering ]

[ squirming noises ]

Scene 10

Dr. Barnes

They've come back! They were dead! They've come back to life! The ship-- it brought them back to life!

Dana Scully

We have to get to the police.

Amina Ngebe

That is where I am going. This is the road to abajan.

Dana Scully

Stop!

[ tires screeching ]

Dana Scully

[ panting ] that was him! That was the man I saw in the tent-- in the road.

Man on the beach

Some truths are not for you.

Amina Ngebe

Are you all right?

[ gasps ]

Dana Scully

Oh, god. What are you doing?

Amina Ngebe

You were cold. I was just feeling to see if you were still alive.

Dana Scully

What happened to you?

Amina Ngebe

To me?

Dana Scully

You slammed on the brakes. There was a man.

Amina Ngebe

That's right-- in the road.

Dana Scully

No. He was right there, sitting right where you are in your seat.

Amina Ngebe

The men were right. This is a bad sign. A sign to give up.

[ starts engine ]

Dana Scully

Turn us around.

Amina Ngebe

Not back to the beach.

Dana Scully

No. I'm going home.

Scene 11

Walter Skinner

Agent Mulder? Agent Mulder, I don't know if you can hear me, but we're gonna try to get you out of here.

Michael Kritschgau

A.m. Nurse is on in five minutes. We gotta move.

Walter Skinner

I don't think he's in any shape.

Michael Kritschgau

I'm gonna hit him pretty hard. Maybe we can get him on his feet. What are you doing?

Walter Skinner

Look, I know what you're doing.

Michael Kritschgau

I'm trying to help him.

Walter Skinner

This isn't about him. It's about you. It's about revenge against the government... For trying to destroy your life.

Michael Kritschgau

I was destroyed to protect what Mulder knew all along. Now he's the proof. He's the X-File.

Walter Skinner

We can't just keep shooting him full of drugs. It's gone too far.

Michael Kritschgau

How far should it go? How far would Mulder go?

[ machine beeping rapidly ]

[ door swings open ]

Dr. Harriman

Hey, what's going on here?

Diana Fowley

Let me see your hands. Hands! Step away.

Walter Skinner

Agent Fowley, what the hell do you think you're doing?

Diana Fowley

What am I doing? What are you doing, sir, with this? I want you to face the wall. Do you hear me? Face the wall!

Walter Skinner

Let me explain.

Dr. Harriman

What was this man given? What was in this syringe?

Diana Fowley

Phenytoin.

Walter Skinner

Let me tell you what it does.

Dr. Harriman

How much did you give him? What dosage was this?

Walter Skinner

Let me tell you why we did it. [ machine beeping rapidly ]

[ gasping, grunting ]

Dr. Harriman

He's going into seizure! Watch his head! Mr. Mulder? Hold him. Hold him.

Dr. Barnes' Driver

Dr. Barnes? [ shouting in native language ]

Scene 12

Dr. Barnes' Driver

Dr. Barnes?

Dr. Barnes

I'm so sorry. [ screaming ]

[ machine beeping slowly ]

Scene 13

Diana Fowley

I know what's happened to you. I know what you're suffering from. I've been sitting back and watching. I know you know. I know you know about me. That my loyalties aren't just to you, but to a man you've grown to despise. You have your reasons. But as you look inside me now, you know that I have mine. Fox? Fox, I love you. I've loved you for so long. You know that too. And I won't let you die... To prove what you are-- to prove what's inside you. There's no need to prove it. It's been known for so long. Now we can be together.

[ door closes ]

Scene 14

DULLES INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT

Dana Scully

Where is he? Is he still in the hospital?

Walter Skinner

Where have you been?

Dana Scully

Is he still at georgetown memorial?

Walter Skinner

You can't get to him.

Dana Scully

Do you know where he is, or don't you?

Walter Skinner

He's in the neuro psych ward, but it's no good, agent Scully. Agent Scully!

Dana Scully

I have been on a plane for 22 hours. I have to see him.

Walter Skinner

Then I think you should know what you're gonna see, if you can even get on the ward. There's been some trouble.

Dana Scully

What kind of trouble?

Walter Skinner

I got this man Kritschgau involved.

Dana Scully

Kritschgau?

[ sighs ]

Walter Skinner

It's a long story, but it ended badly. They've got Mulder under security now around the clock. I take full responsibility.

Dana Scully

Responsibility for what?

Walter Skinner

He can't even communicate, agent Scully. They won't treat him because they don't know what's wrong with him. They said he was dying. I had to do something.

Dana Scully

He's not dying.

Walter Skinner

I'm afraid it's true.

Dana Scully

He's not dying. He is more alive than he's ever been. He's more alive than his body can withstand. And what's causing it may be extraterrestrial in origin.

Walter Skinner

I know. But there's nothing to be done about it. They're going to deny you access.

Dana Scully

Maybe as his partner, but not as his doctor.

[ door closes ]

[ rattling ]

Scene 15

Dr. Barnes

He's alive. He's come back to life. Holy mother of god! Hello?

[ gasps ]

[ multiple voices overlapping ]

Scene 16

Dana Scully

Please. I need to see him. I'm begging you, please. Thank you. Mulder, it's me. I know that you can hear me. If you can just give me some sign. I want you to know where I've been-- what I found. I think that if you know, that you could find a way to hold on. I need you to hold on. I found a key-- the key-- to every question that has ever been asked. It's a puzzle. But the pieces are there for us to put together. And I know that they can save you if you can just hold on. Mulder? Please. Hold on.

[ speaking native language ]

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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.