Young Man
It's freezing out there.
Season 8 · Episode 19
Alone
Character-labelled dialogue prepared from the official DVD subtitle track.
Production code8ABX19Original airdate · May 6, 2001
264 dialogue entries
Scene 01
Opening scene
[ monitor beeping soft, slow tones ]
Older Man
You weren't gone long. Did you do what I asked?
Young Man
Yes.
Older Man
It's important, gary. Promise me you did it.
Young Man
You're sick, dad. You should be in a hospital not stuck out here in the middle of nowhere. You don't owe this guy stites anything.
Older Man
It's not about owing.
Young Man
I freeze my butt off checking and rechecking the locks every night. For what?
Older Man
You don't need to know.
Young Man
Yeah, that's for sure. I'm going to fix some dinner.
[ door closes ]
[ monitor beeping soft, slow tones ]
[ windows flapping ]
[ beeping speeds up ]
[ fast, rhythmic beeps ]
[ groans softly ]
[ groaning weakly ]
[ monitor beeping faster ]
[ rapid beeping ]
Older Man
Oh, lord...
Unidentified speaker
Gary, you didn't...
[ microwave beeps ]
Unidentified speaker
Oh, whew.
[ steady tone ]
Young Man
Oh, god. Dad?
[ steady tone ]
[ tone stops ]
[ soft rattling ]
Scene 02
Scene 02
John Doggett
Agent Scully.
Unidentified speaker
Mmm.
John Doggett
Can I take your coat?
Dana Scully
I'm not staying, agent Doggett. My doctor told me to take my maternity leave. In fact, she insisted on it.
John Doggett
That's not bad, agent Scully. You could use some time for yourself. What is it?
Dana Scully
It's a medallion commemorating the apollo 11 space flight. I'd like to give this to you, agent Doggett.
John Doggett
Thanks. Because...?
Dana Scully
Agent Mulder gave it to me a few years back. It symbolizes teamwork... Partnership. It means no one gets there alone. And after this past year and... Everything that we've been through, I just... I wouldn't be here without you.
John Doggett
Agent Scully. This pregnancy leave... It's just a "leave," right? I mean... You are coming back eventually?
[ footsteps approaching ]
John Doggett
You're not gone five minutes, agent Scully and already I'm starting to feel like a stranger in my own off--
Leyla Harrison
I'm sorry?
John Doggett
Can I help you?
Leyla Harrison
I'm here to help you, actually. I'm leyla harrison. I've been looking forward to meeting you.
John Doggett
Uh-huh.
Leyla Harrison
I've got a case here, an X-File, I think. At least the local pd can't explain it. A murder last night in upstate new york. I booked us on a flight to buffalo niagara. Here's the crime report.
John Doggett
I'm sorry, ms. Harrison... Who are you?
Leyla Harrison
Oh, gosh. They didn't tell you? This is... So embarrassing. Uh, I'm... I'm your new partner.
Scene 03
ELLICOT, NEW YORK
Leyla Harrison
I asked that the body be sent to D.C. It was found in the woods about 50 yards beyond the house. Maybe we should begin there.
John Doggett
Let's begin inside the house.
Leyla Harrison
Okay, then. The deceased is arlen sacks, aged 72 caretaker for the estate on which this house is situated. There were no signs of physical trauma but local pd suspect homicide due to the dumping of the body. Mr. Sacks was confined to a wheelchair the last few months cared for since then by his son, gary who's their chief suspect.
John Doggett
Why?
Leyla Harrison
Um... Oh, because he's missing, too.
John Doggett
If he killed this man without leaving a mark that would suggest premeditation an attempt to disguise the murder. But that doesn't fit with dumping the body in the woods or fleeing the scene both of which indicate panic, haste.
Leyla Harrison
That is great. What was that last part again, about the premeditation? What is that? Slime?
John Doggett
There's a small streak of it on the floor over there, too.
Leyla Harrison
So, it's not someone; it's something. God, this really is an X-File, isn't it?
John Doggett
Congratulations.
Scene 04
Scene 04
Leyla Harrison
I gave the slime to the buffalo pd. I told them we wanted to see the results right away.
John Doggett
How much field experience you have, agent harrison?
Leyla Harrison
Um, actually, this is my first time in the field.
John Doggett
Let me guess-- deputy director Kersh handed you this job filling in for agent Scully.
Leyla Harrison
Yes. Yes, he did.
John Doggett
I don't know how to tell you this, agent harrison but you're being used. Deputy director Kersh is no friend to the X-Files.
Leyla Harrison
I don't think you understand something, agent Doggett. I begged for this assignment.
John Doggett
You begged for it.
Leyla Harrison
I was in accounting. I processed agents Mulder and Scully's travel expenses.
John Doggett
Then you are qualified.
Leyla Harrison
Maybe I'm not but I know the X-Files, agent Doggett, inside and out. Other people don't even want to admit these questions exist but you face them every day. I am just so excited to be a part of this. Aren't you? Mr. Sack's body was found here but they found no footprints leading to it. Oh, my god. There's more of it.
John Doggett
Looks like it.
Leyla Harrison
You know what that could be? It could be bile.
John Doggett
Bile?
Leyla Harrison
From a liver-eating mutant. Mulder and Scully chased one into an escalator once. It died, but, but there was...
John Doggett
This is not a liver-eating mutant, agent harrison.
Leyla Harrison
It could be an alien who shed its skin. According to agent Mulder's case reports they leave behind a mucous-like residue when they, uh... You don't think it's that either. I'll take a sample of this. Have it sent to the lab for comparison.
John Doggett
That's good thinking, agent harrison.
[ rumbling ]
[ knocking ]
Scene 05
Scene 05
Fox Mulder
Hey. Ready to roll?
Dana Scully
Yeah. I'll just get my keys.
Fox Mulder
Hey. Don't forget this. Relax the back. Breathe in, breathe out.
[ forceful panting ]
Dana Scully
How do you know all these things, Mulder?
Fox Mulder
I'm unemployed. I got a lot of time on my hands. Oprah. I watch a lot of oprah.
Dana Scully
Thank you for doing this with me.
Fox Mulder
What's the matter?
Dana Scully
I don't know. I, uh... Maybe it's hormones or... This is just... I'm just feeling so strange about all this.
Fox Mulder
This having a baby, this?
Dana Scully
No... No. Leaving work, I guess. I mean, I... I walked out of that office today feeling like a deserter.
Fox Mulder
You've paid your dues there, Scully. More than paid them. You're concerned about agent Doggett.
Dana Scully
You know the entire time that I was down there I had someone to watch my back.
Fox Mulder
I'm betting that agent Doggett can take care of himself. He's a big boy. You've got to worry about the little boy or little girl. Boy? Or girl?
Scene 06
Scene 06
Leyla Harrison
Whoa.
John Doggett
Agent harrison, what are you doing here?
Leyla Harrison
I followed the tr--
John Doggett
It's here.
Leyla Harrison
It? What "it"?
John Doggett
You're armed, right?
Leyla Harrison
What do you want me to do?
John Doggett
I want you to go outside and I want you to stand by the front door. Whatever it is, I'm going to try and flush it out. Agent harrison. Take the safety off.
[ soft rattling ]
[ gunshots ]
John Doggett
Harrison. Agent harrison!
[ creaking ]
[ telephone ringing ]
Scene 07
Scene 07
Walter Skinner
Skinner.
Dana Scully
Is it true?
Walter Skinner
Agent Scully.
Dana Scully
I can't reach agent Doggett and someone told me he's gone missing.
Walter Skinner
He was investigating a murder. He hasn't reported back.
Dana Scully
Why wasn't I told?
Walter Skinner
Agent Scully, don't worry.
Dana Scully
I'm heading into the bureau right now.
Walter Skinner
No, you're not.
Dana Scully
Sir, are you ordering me not to go looking for agent Doggett?
Walter Skinner
I've got every available law- enforcement officer out here. You're on maternity leave now. Just trust that we're doing everything that we know to do.
Dana Scully
I know that you are... But what if it's not enough?
Scene 09
Scene 09
Assistant
I'll just take this to the lab.
Dana Scully
Thank you.
Fox Mulder
Seems like old times. You in scrubs, slicing and dicing.
Dana Scully
What are you doing here, Mulder?
Fox Mulder
Actually I-I wandered away from my tour. A better question is, what are you doing here?
Dana Scully
I found something that may prove helpful in locating agent Doggett. This is arlen sacks the murder victim Doggett was investigating. This old man was not murdered, Mulder. He died of heart failure, evidently after he was blinded by a chemical substance of some kind. The orbits have... Residual traces of a slimy substance... Known as hydrolytic enzymes.
Fox Mulder
Venom. Produced by reptiles.
Dana Scully
How'd you know that?
Fox Mulder
Before agent Doggett and his partner went missing, they sent in samples to be analyzed. Hydrolytic enzymes-- Skinner told me.
Dana Scully
I, uh, also found some bacteria in the venom which I'm going to do a culture on.
Fox Mulder
Let somebody else do it. There are other concerns right now.
Dana Scully
I know, but this is an X-File, Mulder and you are out of the bureau, and now if I go home where is Skinner going to find someone qualified to look into this?
Fox Mulder
I know where he could find somebody.
[ clattering ]
[ raspy crunching ]
[ chittering sound ]
[ gate opens ]
Scene 10
Scene 10
Leyla Harrison
Agent Doggett?
John Doggett
I'm right here. Are you all right?
Leyla Harrison
It sprayed my eyes with something. My vision's all blurry.
John Doggett
Makes two of us.
Leyla Harrison
Three, actually. I think it's gary sacks, the son of the murder victim.
John Doggett
How'd you get down here?
Leyla Harrison
I think it dragged me down here. I'm not sure. So what do we do now?
John Doggett
I don't know.
Leyla Harrison
Mulder and Scully investigated a case once in florida. It involved subterranean men who took people underground.
John Doggett
This is not a man. I fell through some kind of trap. I'm guessing somebody put that there to provide live meals for this thing.
Leyla Harrison
You're not saying that includes us?
John Doggett
I don't intend to wait around and find out. These tunnels were built by bootleggers back in prohibition. There's got to be one that leads back to the house.
Leyla Harrison
Something up there, I think. Some kind of light.
John Doggett
I can't tell how high up that is.
Scene 11
Scene 11
Walter Skinner
Mulder, you're not supposed to be out here.
Fox Mulder
I'm not out here. What happened to the search?
Walter Skinner
Police in west seneca found Doggett's car parked at a convenience store about a half hour from here.
Fox Mulder
How'd it get there?
Walter Skinner
I don't know, but we're redirecting our search. Where are you going?
Fox Mulder
I think I'll take a walk in the woods.
Walter Skinner
We've already had 40 people looking around out there, Mulder.
Fox Mulder
What the hell? I'm out of a job already, right?
[ grunting ]
[ grunting ]
[ grunting ]
[ metallic clinking ]
Scene 12
Scene 12
Man
Thought all you people left.
Fox Mulder
You are?
Man
Herman stites. I own this property.
Fox Mulder
You're just the man I wanted to speak to, mr. Stites. Have you seen anything unusual around here?
Herman Stites
Unusual? How?
Fox Mulder
Dangerous animals... Reptiles.
Herman Stites
I'm confused. I thought the police were looking for a man. Arlen's son, gary.
Fox Mulder
That is what they're looking for.
Leyla Harrison
Agent Doggett?
John Doggett
I'm all right.
Fox Mulder
I don't think gary sacks committed this murder, mr. Stites. I think he may be a victim himself.
Herman Stites
I didn't catch your name, agent.
Fox Mulder
Kersh, alvin Kersh.
Herman Stites
I'm a scientist, mr. Kersh.
Fox Mulder
What kind of a scientist are you?
Herman Stites
A biologist so I know something about animals. They don't generally carry men off into the woods like poor mr. Sacks.
Fox Mulder
I don't think this was an animal. I think it was a man using some kind of reptile venom to blind them first.
Herman Stites
That would be quite a trick.
Fox Mulder
You'd really have to know what you were doing. You'd have to be, say, a scientist.
Herman Stites
Are you accusing me of something, mr. Kersh?
Fox Mulder
No. I'm just thinking out loud, mr. Stites.
[ grunting ]
John Doggett
I need a hand.
Leyla Harrison
Agent Doggett, what happened?
John Doggett
I lost my grip with a little help from the man upstairs.
[ distant clang ]
John Doggett
Hey! Hey! Hey! I'm a federal agent!
Leyla Harrison
I don't understand. Why would he want to keep us down here?
John Doggett
You wanted to face the unknown, agent harrison. Well, you're facing it now.
Leyla Harrison
But who is he?
John Doggett
Some kind of scientist, I think. I saw some books and papers on biology in his library.
Leyla Harrison
It could be some kind of symbiotic relationship between this man and this creature. Mulder and Scully...
John Doggett
Mulder and Scully aren't here, agent harrison, we are. And wild speculation isn't going to help us find a way out.
Leyla Harrison
You think I'm pretty foolish, don't you?
John Doggett
I appreciate your enthusiasm, but you want to take leaps that aren't supported by the facts. What I want you to do is stay with that guy right there while I look for another way out. If this thing comes near you... I want you to shoot.
Leyla Harrison
Agent Doggett. He's gone.
John Doggett
What do you mean he's gone?
Leyla Harrison
I don't know. It must have taken him.
[ phone ringing ]
Scene 13
Scene 13
Fox Mulder
Mulder.
Dana Scully
Mulder, what are you doing?
Fox Mulder
I'm spitting sunflower shells on herman stites's driveway. What are you doing, Scully?
Dana Scully
I just got off the phone with Skinner who is furious. This man stites just called him saying that you've been impersonating deputy director Kersh and making baseless accusations.
Fox Mulder
What's he mad about me impersonating Kersh or me harassing stites?
Dana Scully
Mulder, the victim had reptile venom in his eyes. Are you now saying that it was a man who did this?
Fox Mulder
What are you saying it is, Scully?
Dana Scully
I know this may be hard to believe coming from me but some kind of reptile attack is the only explanation consistent with the scientific evidence.
Fox Mulder
I don't think it's a monster that we're dealing with here. I think it is a man.
Dana Scully
And why do you say that?
Fox Mulder
You regifted.
Dana Scully
I'm sorry?
Fox Mulder
My apollo medallion.
Dana Scully
You found it?
Fox Mulder
Yeah. I found it on the grass on stites's estate. Doggett must be around here somewhere.
[ door opens ]
Assistant
Agent Scully?
Dana Scully
I got to go. What am I looking at?
Assistant
As you asked we cultured the bacteria from the hydrolytic enzymes that were sprayed into the old man's eyes.
Dana Scully
Looks like they're breaking down the tissue.
Assistant
That's exactly what they're doing. The venom blinds its victim, then the bacteria excretes protease and collagenase throughout the victim's body.
Dana Scully
Digestive enzymes.
Assistant
Muscle, bone, all of it is slowly liquefied for easy digestion while the victim's skin is made hard and brittle forming a sack or shell from which the reptile can drink.
Dana Scully
So the reptile sprays its victim and then all it has to do is wait.
Assistant
There are precedents for this sort of thing in nature.
Dana Scully
Yeah, but there are no species that can do all of this. At least not yet.
Assistant
What do you mean?
Scene 14
Scene 14
John Doggett
Talk about the blind leading the blind.
Leyla Harrison
I owe you an apology, agent Doggett.
John Doggett
You're doing fine, agent harrison. Hang tough.
Leyla Harrison
You were right. I'm not qualified.
John Doggett
We're going to find a way out of here, agent harrison.
Leyla Harrison
I don't think I am.
John Doggett
Why, what is it?
Leyla Harrison
Whatever happened to sacks-- I think it's happening to me. I'm completely blind now.
[ moist, squishy noises ]
[ gunshots ]
Leyla Harrison
Oh, god, agent Doggett! I think it's gary sacks.
[ ringing ]
Scene 15
Scene 15
Fox Mulder
Mulder.
Dana Scully
You were right about herman stites, Mulder.
Fox Mulder
What'd you find?
Dana Scully
Stites is a crypto-biologist specializing in reptile genetics. Listen to this: it says here that he published a monograph last year claiming to be on the verge of creating a new species of reptile.
Fox Mulder
You don't think he succeeded, do you?
Dana Scully
I don't know. He dropped out of sight and never published a follow-up. But, Mulder, the bacteria inside this venom-- if stites is genetically altering reptile breeds it may explain the peculiar properties. Mulder, are you listening to me? Mulder? Mulder?
Fox Mulder
I think mr. Stites might have a lot more than that to explain.
Dana Scully
Mulder? Mulder?
Fox Mulder
Mr. Stites! Mr. Stites, open up!
Scene 16
Scene 16
Fox Mulder
Mr. Stites, open the door!
[ pounding ]
Fox Mulder
Mr. Stites! Mr. Stites!
[ pounding continues ]
Fox Mulder
Mr. Stites!
[ dialing ]
Herman Stites
What do you want?
Fox Mulder
Where is it, mr. Stites? This thing you're protecting-- this creature of yours? I don't think you meant for it to but it got out last night and attacked the caretaker and his son and then it attacked my colleagues. Now, I can have 50 men in here to comb this place within the hour. Where are they, mr. Stites?
[ gasps ]
John Doggett
It's all right.
Scene 17
Scene 17
John Doggett
It's just me. Doesn't make any damn sense. There's no exit except that door.
Leyla Harrison
Maybe it does.
[ pounding ]
Fox Mulder
Agent Doggett?
John Doggett
Right here!
Fox Mulder
It's all right, agent Doggett. We're going to get you out of here.
John Doggett
Who's that with you?
Fox Mulder
It's the man that lives here.
John Doggett
He's been protecting this thing. He's kept us down here.
Fox Mulder
Agent Doggett, I know...
Leyla Harrison
It's him. He's not protecting it. He is it.
John Doggett
Agent Mulder?
Fox Mulder
Agent Doggett, I don't have a weapon. I'm coming to get yours. No, I'm not.
John Doggett
Mulder, I can't see. Mulder, where is it?
Fox Mulder
It's right above you. It's coming this way.
John Doggett
Where, Mulder? I can't see!
Fox Mulder
Aim down. Aim at the sound of my voice.
John Doggett
No, I'll shoot you!
Fox Mulder
You're not going to shoot me.
John Doggett
I can't see!
Fox Mulder
Aim at the sound of my voice.
John Doggett
Where is it?
Fox Mulder
Aim at me! Fire when I tell you to fire.
John Doggett
No!
Fox Mulder
Fire!
[ gunfire ]
John Doggett
Agent Mulder? Agent Mulder?
Fox Mulder
I'm right here. I'm right here, agent Doggett.
Scene 18
WASHINGTON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
Dana Scully
Agent Doggett?
John Doggett
Is this it?
Dana Scully
No. No.
Fox Mulder
We just came by to visit agent harrison.
Dana Scully
How is she?
John Doggett
She's on the same antivenin treatment I got. Her eyesight's pretty much back. Doctors say she's going to be fine, physically.
Dana Scully
Skinner said she won't be returning to the X-Files.
John Doggett
That was her choice. Just going to be me for a while.
Fox Mulder
I want to return something to you that I think you deserve to keep.
John Doggett
I appreciate the gesture but if it's all the same to you there's someone else who should have it.
Leyla Harrison
No way. This means... I can't tell you what this means to me. Can I ask you something?
Fox Mulder
Sure.
Leyla Harrison
When you went to antarctica to save agent Scully from being taken by that spaceship and you ran out of gas in your snow-cat-- how did you get back?
Dana Scully
Um, well, first of all it was never actually proven that it was a spaceship.
Fox Mulder
It wasn't?
Dana Scully
No, what happened was that we fell off of something that rose out of the ice.
Fox Mulder
And what do you think that was?
Dana Scully
Well, I don't know what it was but we didn't actually see a spaceship.
Fox Mulder
I can't believe you're saying it's not a spaceship.
Dana Scully
It could have been a spaceship.
Fox Mulder
Of course it was a spaceship.
Dana Scully
We don't know that it... But you don't have a picture of it or anything.
Fox Mulder
You know it was a spaceship, you saw it.
Dana Scully
No, no, remember, I was unconscious. And when I woke up there was no spaceship. Mulder, no, no, no. And you were frozen. And remember, I hugged you
Unidentified speaker
Until you were not frozen anymore...
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