Richie Szalay
Bogey at 12:00. Whoo! Gotcha. I have engagement of unidentified flying object on fanning ranch road westbound moving like a bat out of hell. 90-degree, low altitude, max-g redirect. Absolutely impossible. Uh... I'm... Oh, you idiot.
Season 8 · Episode 14
This Is Not Happening
Character-labelled dialogue prepared from the official DVD subtitle track.
Production code8ABX14Original airdate · February 25, 2001
245 dialogue entries
Scene 01
Opening scene
[ rumbling ]
[ advancing film ]
Richie Szalay
Oh, this is not happening. This is not happening! Shoot! Hey! Hey! I come in peace. This is not happening.
[ door opening ]
Scene 02
Scene 02
Dana Scully
Hi.
John Doggett
Hi.
Dana Scully
You said on the phone you'd received something urgent.
John Doggett
You're right, I did. And I think it's really important you got right down here, agent Scully. Thanks.
Dana Scully
You going to tell me what it is?
John Doggett
I passed it on to a.d. Skinner. I'd like for him to tell you.
Walter Skinner
Here they are.
Skinner’s Assistant
Do you need me to ask agent Scully about her travel plans?
Walter Skinner
No. She'll be flying with us.
[ door opening ]
Dana Scully
What? What is it?
Walter Skinner
Let's go into my office.
Dana Scully
All right, what's going on here?
Walter Skinner
A report came in last night from montana. About a UFO encounter.
Dana Scully
What kind of encounter?
Walter Skinner
A young man chased a bright object flying low across the sky. Tracked it all the way to a big field where the UFO disappeared but where he claimed he saw an alien.
Dana Scully
Assistant director I've got drawers full of reports that begin just like that. Are you going to tell me what's so important about this case?
Walter Skinner
Young man's named richie szalay. UFO nut from Bellefleur, Oregon. You and agent Mulder met him out there last spring.
Dana Scully
Are you trying to tell me this has something to do with Mulder?
John Doggett
He's trying to tell you that it might.
Walter Skinner
Richie szalay didn't find an alien last night. He found a woman. A woman whose name you will remember-- teresa hoese.
Dana Scully
Teresa hoese was the young mother who was abducted the night before agent Mulder was.
Walter Skinner
And who was returned last night.
Dana Scully
Returned?
Walter Skinner
Hanging onto life by a thread.
Scene 03
ST. JEAN HOSPITAL
Dr. Desai
Who, who is mr. Skinner?
Walter Skinner
I'm Skinner. You dr. Desai?
Dr. Desai
I was told you were coming. That you flew out here all the way here from Washington, D.C.
Walter Skinner
Yeah, we're here to see teresa hoese.
Dr. Desai
I know. I just wish someone would tell me these things because this woman is in no condition...
Dana Scully
What is her condition?
Dr. Desai
She's circling the drain. 12 years, I have never seen anything near this level of mistreatment.
John Doggett
Doctor, it's important we see the victim and talk to her if we can about what happened.
Dr. Desai
Just promise me, whoever did this you guys will do everything in your power to catch them. By rights, this young woman shouldn't even be alive. The medics said she asked for her baby last night but she hasn't said a word otherwise. I suspect it's all she's holding on to. What's upsetting is... It's almost like someone was experimenting on her.
Walter Skinner
What exactly did they do to her?
Dr. Desai
Inside her cheeks there's tissue damage in a linear pattern. Her chest was cut into and organ tissue in her abdomen's scooped away. In the x rays I see damage to the soft palate.
Dana Scully
In the x rays, did you see, um... Anything else? Foreign objects.
Dr. Desai
I'm not sure what you mean.
Dana Scully
Little pieces of metal. Implants.
Dr. Desai
No, I didn't.
[ door opening ]
Uniformed Cop
There was an agent Doggett requesting a police report.
John Doggett
You're welcome to stay here and discuss foreign objects but... Looks like we got a suspect.
Scene 04
Scene 04
Tv Documentary
U.s. Pilots patrolling german airspace...
John Doggett
Richie szalay?
Richie Szalay
Yeah?
Tv Documentary
...describing highly maneuverable balls of light which they referred to as "foo fighters..."
[ knocking ]
[ turns sound down ]
John Doggett
Richie?
Richie Szalay
Yeah.
John Doggett
John Doggett. I'm an FBI agent. This is agent Scully assistant director Skinner, our boss. You mind if we come in?
Richie Szalay
Dude, you're, you're already in. But, I, I know you. Do I know you?
Dana Scully
You do... Richie. From Oregon. We met late last spring, you remember?
Walter Skinner
Richie, if you live in Oregon... What are you doing in montana?
Richie Szalay
My buddy, gary, right? He was abducted. Right before your partner. I, I came looking for him.
John Doggett
So, you just came out here on a lark?
Richie Szalay
No. I was following the news.
John Doggett
The news?
Richie Szalay
All, all that's in the last two weeks. Yeah, I go on these internet chat rooms to talk about sightings and junk. After Oregon there wasn't a whole lot but then all of a sudden in montana... I, I never... I, I never thought I'd find mrs. Hoese like that. Not in a million years.
John Doggett
Richie, when you found that woman's body you said you saw somebody with her. You told the police it was an alien. You know what a moulage casting is, richie? It's what the cops take when they find shoe prints. They do these plaster castings and the ones they got from the field that night were from 9½ nikes. You ever hear of an alien in nikes?
Richie Szalay
Doesn't mean it wasn't.
John Doggett
Did it ever occur to you that it wasn't an alien but a man?
Richie Szalay
Then what about his spaceship?
Dana Scully
Agent Doggett? What was that in there?
John Doggett
That was pressing a witness to get to the truth.
Dana Scully
You refuse to believe that anything other than a man could have done this. Could have done what we saw to that woman in the hospital.
John Doggett
It's not worth arguing about. The point here is to find Mulder.
Dana Scully
And for months, we have been looking for a break which is what we've got here.
John Doggett
What we've got is hope. But let's be honest, agent Scully about what no one wants to say. Bad as you want to find Mulder, you're afraid to find him, too.
[ gasps ]
[ knocking ]
Scene 05
Scene 05
Dana Scully
What if he's dead? I'm sorry. I just had a bad dream.
Walter Skinner
Let me get some clothes on.
Dana Scully
I once had a talk with Mulder about starlight. How it's billions of years old. Stars that are now long dead whose light is still traveling through time. It won't die, that light. Maybe that's the only thing that never does. He said that's where souls reside. I hope he's right.
Walter Skinner
If you're trying to prepare yourself I want you to stop. Nothing says that we're going to stumble over him in some field. Nothing says he won't be fine.
Scene 06
ST. JEANS HOSPITAL
Night Nurse
May I help you, sir?
Dr. Desai
Yes, I want to have a patient transferred. Teresa hoese.
Night Nurse
To be transferred?
Dr. Desai
To another facility. I'd like to get her ready as soon as we can.
Night Nurse
Okay.
[ ringing ]
Scene 07
Scene 07
Dana Scully
Yeah? Hold on. Who took her? Well, has anybody talked to the doctor and asked him why? Or where? Well, where's agent Doggett now?
Scene 08
Scene 08
Dana Scully
Did you find her?
John Doggett
No.
Dana Scully
No? I don't understand. You called us all the way out here.
John Doggett
To get another point of view.
Dana Scully
Another point of view? We have a patient missing, agent Doggett.
John Doggett
You should just hear her out.
Dana Scully
Hear who out?
John Doggett
Her name's monica Reyes. I worked a case with her once.
Walter Skinner
She's FBI?
John Doggett
Yeah. She's got some expertise I thought we might take advantage of.
Dana Scully
Expertise in what?
John Doggett
She's got her master's in religious studies. Her specialization is ritualistic crime.
Dana Scully
Ritualistic crime? Are we working the same case here?
John Doggett
Agent Reyes. Assistant director Skinner, agent Scully... Monica Reyes.
Monica Reyes
Hi. Beautiful country out here. I know it's not very FBI of me, but I'm really trying to quit. So, agent Doggett's been taking me through the case. Interesting.
Dana Scully
Interesting?
Monica Reyes
What do you think happened?
Dana Scully
Isn't that what you're here to tell us?
Monica Reyes
Oh, I have my own thoughts. It's just, what we think happened and what actually happened aren't always the same thing but not altogether insignificant, either.
Dana Scully
I'm sorry, this feels like therapy.
Monica Reyes
What happened being different from what we want to have happened.
Dana Scully
What who wants to have happened?
Monica Reyes
Well, I'm told this case involves you.
Dana Scully
It may involve someone close to me. Can we stick to the facts, please?
Monica Reyes
Well, it's pretty clear that the woman who was found out here did not inflict her own injuries. That she was dropped here by someone and whoever it was cared about her enough not to kill her.
Dana Scully
Did you happen to know the peculiar nature of her injuries?
Monica Reyes
Yes. They were peculiar, but not altogether different from your typical cult ritualistic abuse.
Walter Skinner
Agent Reyes, we're dealing with abductions here... Not by any cult.
Monica Reyes
Okay. Good. I mean, if it's not.
Dana Scully
But you think that it is.
Monica Reyes
Well, I go on what I know, of course but I try to stay, you know, open.
Dana Scully
So, what do you think happened?
Monica Reyes
Well, I'm told that agent Mulder and the other people who were taken were true believers. People 100% convinced in the abduction phenomenon.
Walter Skinner
If this is about these people staging their own abductions...
Monica Reyes
No, it's about people coming together. Like minds as a group.
Dana Scully
So you're basically saying that agent Mulder has joined some sort of UFO cult.
Monica Reyes
Call it a group.
Walter Skinner
For what?
Monica Reyes
Well, we've all heard the news stories about transport to a mother ship the idea of a giant mother wheel. The whole heaven's gate thing.
Dana Scully
I see.
John Doggett
It'd make sense. The leader of the cult leaves this woman out here to die. Learning she's still alive he comes back to kidnap her again for fear of exposure. It'd make sense, too that if we find this guy, maybe we find Mulder.
Dana Scully
Are you asking me to believe this?
Monica Reyes
No. That's not what I said. I don't think he left her to die. I don't think she's dead.
Dana Scully
Based on what?
Monica Reyes
Nothing, really. It's just a feeling.
John Doggett
What are you walking away for? It makes some kind of sense.
Dana Scully
I'm glad you agree with her, agent Doggett because I'm not even sure that she agrees with you. Nor has she made any sense for me of how the doctor who removed teresa hoese from the hospital last night seems, by all accounts to have been in two places at once.
John Doggett
I know where you're going with this, agent Scully but if you're going to tell me this is another alien bounty hunter this is where we part company.
Dana Scully
Enjoy your new company.
Scene 09
Scene 09
Absalom
How is she?
Jeremiah Smith
We were almost too late.
Scene 10
Scene 10
Monica Reyes
Oh, hi.
Dana Scully
I thought you'd be out combing the hills with agent Doggett.
Monica Reyes
I'm on my way out to see him. I just wanted to see film on this woman's injuries-- teresa hoese.
Dana Scully
Is there something you're looking for, agent Reyes in particular?
Monica Reyes
Implants, or signs of them.
Dana Scully
Implants? I don't understand.
Monica Reyes
Metallic implants placed in the body oftentimes in the nasal cavity. Sometimes made of bone or cartilage making detection a little more difficult.
Dana Scully
Yeah, I'm well aware of how they work.
Monica Reyes
You said you didn't understand.
Dana Scully
I don't understand your interest in what is commonly considered evidence of alien abduction as a disbeliever in that phenomena.
Monica Reyes
I'm not a disbeliever.
Dana Scully
Excuse me. I, I, uh, I'm very confused. I know what I heard and I heard you say that "what we're dealing with here is nothing more than a UFO cult."
Monica Reyes
There's the confusion. I still believe that but it doesn't mean I don't believe in the phenomena.
Dana Scully
You believe in extraterrestrials?
[ chuckles ]
Monica Reyes
Let's just say I don't not believe. As I said, I try to stay open.
Dana Scully
What is it you specialize in again? Ritualistic crime?
Monica Reyes
Right. Satanic ritual abuse. Or, I should say claims of it. We never found any hard evidence.
Dana Scully
We should talk sometime.
Monica Reyes
Not that I don't believe in it. I was something of a black sheep in the field office in new orleans because of my beliefs.
Dana Scully
And what beliefs are those?
Monica Reyes
I just have certain spiritual notions. I believe there are energies in the universe. It might sound kind of cosmic but I think I'm sensitive to them. I mean, I get these feelings.
Dana Scully
And do you have any feelings about agent Mulder?
Monica Reyes
I don't know agent Mulder. And I don't have any feelings about him. But I am feeling your fear. And fear's not going to help you find him or anyone else. Maybe you can try and stay open, too.
[ engine sputtering ]
Scene 11
Scene 11
Monica Reyes
No frickin' way.
Absalom
One, two, three, up.
Monica Reyes
Stop there! I'm a federal agent!
Scene 12
Scene 12
Dana Scully
Examination of victim gary edward cory reveals cuts and abrasions from ligature or binding devices accompanied by distal and proximal bruising radiating in a symmetrical pattern around the ankles the wrists... And the face.
Richie Szalay
Oh, my god, gary.
Dana Scully
You can go now, richie. They just need you to sign a form.
Walter Skinner
Dana...
Dana Scully
I'm okay. There's work to do here.
Monica Reyes
You're hurting for her, I know. Agent Scully.
John Doggett
I don't know how she's doing it in there. With everything she's feeling. What she's afraid of.
Monica Reyes
You know all too well.
John Doggett
Let's leave the past in the past.
Monica Reyes
It was your fear, too. Those three days we looked for your son. The fear of finding what we did. I understand. That's why you're so determined to find Mulder alive.
John Doggett
It's why I can't stand here and listen to all this mumbo jumbo about spaceships.
Monica Reyes
I saw what I saw, john. I'm not going to lie to you. But whatever it was, it led to this. It's the man I saw in the field. He goes by the name absalom. A religious zealot who escaped a shoot-out in Idaho. Where he was the nominal leader of a doomsday cult who believed aliens would take over the world at the millennium. Disgraced when they didn't, he fled and tried a more ecumenical scam: credit card fraud. I ran the plate on the pickup truck. It's registered to a farm about an hour from here.
Scene 13
Scene 13
Jeremiah Smith
Get everyone inside.
Absalom
What? What is it?
Jeremiah Smith
They're coming.
Absalom
Who? Who's coming?
Jeremiah Smith
You can't let them find him.
Male Voice
Federal agents! Nobody move!
[ yelling and screaming ]
Male Voice
Hands on your heads!
John Doggett
FBI! Please remain calm! We have a warrant to search the premises. You are surrounded by law officers who are armed, and prepared to shoot, if necessary.
Walter Skinner
Stop there! Hands on your head. Turn around so I can see you.
Male Voices
Move! Move! Go on! Move! Move! On the ground now! FBI! Don't move!
Monica Reyes
Please don't panic. You are in no danger if you stay calm and where we can see you.
Dana Scully
Teresa.
Monica Reyes
Agent Scully...
Dana Scully
You better get a.d. Skinner in to see this. And agent Doggett.
Absalom
I said I can't explain why it happens. Or how. Only where.
John Doggett
I got 46... Of your followers rounded up out there at your compound. You make me go to them for a straight answer it's only going to make it worse for you.
Absalom
How many times can I tell you?
John Doggett
Night's early. Coffee's hot.
Absalom
The ships come in, drop the abductees all messed up. I go and get them so I can help them.
John Doggett
Just like you helped teresa hoese when you left her for dead?
Dana Scully
Agent Doggett. You, uh... You say that these abductees are returned with severe injuries. But that doesn't fit the pattern of any alien abduction model.
Absalom
That's what I'm trying to explain. I predicted there would be an alien invasion at the millennium. I was right it turns out. 'cause that's when this all started.
Dana Scully
Sir... Given the criminal charges against you you couldn't be a less credible witness so stop trying to validate your theories and just give us the truth.
Absalom
I'm telling you the truth. I only want to help these people.
Dana Scully
So these video cameras that you have around your compound-- how do they help?
Absalom
Abductees... Live in fear of being taken again. The cameras give them a sense of security.
John Doggett
Or makes them afraid to leave.
Dana Scully
Do you have videotape of how you happened to heal teresa hoese?
Absalom
No.
Dana Scully
I asked you to give me the truth. Do you have videotape of this man?
Walter Skinner
He's hiding something.
Monica Reyes
Yeah, that's for sure.
Scene 14
Scene 14
Monica Reyes
Agent Scully? What? What is it?
Dana Scully
I saw him. I saw something.
Scene 15
Scene 15
Monica Reyes
I reviewed these tapes from the compound. There are some things here I want you all to see.
Walter Skinner
They've got a body in there.
Dana Scully
Who is it?
Monica Reyes
You can't tell from this angle.
Dana Scully
Well, then where's another angle?
Monica Reyes
This is the only angle I could find.
Dana Scully
Wait a minute. Stop it. That man. I know that man.
Monica Reyes
Good, because here he is again.
[ film advances ]
Walter Skinner
Who is he?
Dana Scully
His name is jeremiah smith. Agent Mulder knew him. He believed that he had the ability to heal people.
John Doggett
What do you mean, "heal people"?
Dana Scully
Like he did teresa hoese.
Monica Reyes
Well, whoever he is take a look at this.
John Doggett
What the hell just happened?
Monica Reyes
That's what I'd like to know.
Dana Scully
Wow. That's still jeremiah smith.
John Doggett
The hell it was. That's me, and I never even went in that building.
Dana Scully
Exactly. We have to get back out there.
Scene 16
Scene 16
Guard
Halt. Identify yourself.
Dana Scully
We're looking for someone. A man who may be one of the detainees.
Walter Skinner
We need some bodies out here to help search the woods.
Dana Scully
FBI. Where is he? Jeremiah smith. Look, I know he's here. Jeremiah smith. I need to speak with him.
[ panting ]
Dana Scully
You-- in the back. Step out. Come with me. Take a seat. Are you jeremiah smith?
Young Man
No, I...
Dana Scully
Did you heal these people?
Young Man
No.
Dana Scully
Did you heal teresa hoese? Look, I know who you are.
[ knocking ]
Monica Reyes
Agent Scully.
[ door opening ]
Monica Reyes
I'll be right outside.
Jeremiah Smith
You're going to expose me. You're putting people in danger-- abductees all over the country. I save them. I'm the only one.
Dana Scully
Where's Mulder?
Jeremiah Smith
You came crashing in here. I was trying to help him, too.
Dana Scully
Where is Mulder?
[ gasps and door opens ]
Walter Skinner
You'd better come with us.
[ gasping ]
Absalom
You must protect me.
Dana Scully
What is it?
Walter Skinner
It's Mulder.
[ person running ]
Dana Scully
Where is he?
[ rapid breathing ]
John Doggett
Agent Scully, he's over there.
Dana Scully
How bad is he? How bad is he? How bad is he hurt? No. No. No. No. He needs help.
John Doggett
It's too late.
Dana Scully
He needs help!
John Doggett
Agent Scully.
[ panting ]
[ people yelling and screaming ]
[ building shaking ]
[ glass shattering ]
Dana Scully
Jeremiah. No. This is not happening! No!
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