Man
Let's go!
Season 8 · Episode 18
Vienen
Character-labelled dialogue prepared from the official DVD subtitle track.
Production code8ABX16Original airdate · April 29, 2001
324 dialogue entries
Scene 01
Opening scene
[ crewmen shouting boisterously ]
[ sportscast continues in background ]
[ muttering softly ]
Man #2
Let's go.
Man #3
All right.
[ crewmen groaning ]
[ men cheering ]
[ chuckles ]
Bo Taylor
You boys eat your vegetables or I'll do the same to you.
[ all laughing ]
Cook
Hot meat, señor.
Sportscaster
He knocked the goal-tender down. Can you believe that?
[ sportscast continues in background ]
[ radio static ]
[ garbled radio transmission ]
Engineer
Hey, amigo. ¿que paso esta noche? How's the roast beef? Uh, ¿como esta el carne? ¿bueno......o malo?
[ crewmen cheering ]
Unidentified speaker
Come on!
Bo Taylor
Where's our illustrious communications officer? Hey, ed. What gives with the-- what the hell are you doing?! That's enough!
Unidentified speaker
Ed.
Bo Taylor
Oh, man. Now you've gone and done it.
Unidentified speaker
Dejame! Dejame!
De La Cruz
No, no, no. No, no, no, no!
[ screaming ]
Scene 02
FBI HEADQUARTERS
John Doggett
Am I interrupting anything, agent Mulder?
Fox Mulder
Nothing you'd be too terribly interested in, agent Doggett.
[ drops keys on table ]
John Doggett
Agent Mulder, what are you doing down here?
Fox Mulder
I'm looking into the recent death of an oil worker.
John Doggett
Yeah, I got a heads-up on it from you a couple of days ago.
Fox Mulder
That's what I'm doing here.
John Doggett
Agent Mulder, I understand that you had more than just a proprietary interest... In these cases, but I can't help it... If you're not assigned to this unit anymore. I didn't see any reason to pursue this oil worker case.
Fox Mulder
Well, maybe you missed the fact that this victim's corpse... Washed ashore at port aransas, Texas. Massive flash burns on 90 percent of his body.
John Doggett
I read the report, agent Mulder, if you're insinuating I didn't.
Fox Mulder
Then you must also know that this man was not the only man... To disappear from the galpex- orpheus platform that night, but one of two men. The communications officer is also missing.
John Doggett
The company attributes that to an explosion on the rig-- a "blowout"-- which is what they say caused simon de la cruz's burns.
Fox Mulder
Burns the m.e. Said in his report were not inconsistent... To exposure to high levels of radiation.
John Doggett
"not inconsistent." that's not exactly what I'd call a ringing endorsement.
Fox Mulder
These files include the same kind of radiation phenomena. Tissue destroyed by exposure to--
Unidentified speaker
Black oil.
John Doggett
Five years ago you and agent Scully investigated a case of a world war ii plane... Salvaged from the bottom of the pacific ocean... Where a substance was brought to the surface... Which you describe as a highly contagious virus... Of extraterrestrial origin that has radioactive properties... And can take over a man's body and is part of an alien conspiracy...
Fox Mulder
To colonize the planet, if I'm not mistaken. And you'd love to help, but you left your light saber at home. How'd you get stuck down here, agent Doggett? Kersh catch you peeing in his corn flakes?
[ phone rings ]
John Doggett
John Doggett.
Dana Scully
The deputy director is waiting, agent Doggett.
John Doggett
Yeah, I was just on my way up.
Dana Scully
Why didn't you tell me that you were pursuing this Texas oil worker case?
John Doggett
Because I'm not.
Dana Scully
Well, there's an exec here from the oil company... Who says that he was contacted by a man in our office.
John Doggett
No, that'd be agent Mulder.
Dana Scully
What are you talking about?
John Doggett
I'm going to let him answer that.
Scene 03
Scene 03
Fox Mulder
Just like old times.
Alvin Kersh
Now it's all making sense.
Fox Mulder
Tough crowd.
Alvin Kersh
Mr. Ortega, this is special agent Fox Mulder... The person you spoke to on the phone, I believe. Mr. Ortega is vice president of operations... For galpex petroleum out of galveston, Texas.
Fox Mulder
I believe we did speak, yeah.
Alvin Kersh
There's also confusion about who spoke to certain... Government officials who seem to think... The FBI is running an investigation into the accident.
Fox Mulder
That would've been me as well, sir, and that was in the best interests of the FBI and mr. Ortega, I believe.
Alvin Kersh
Mr. Ortega would beg to differ. As would I.
Ortega
You've complicated an already sensitive situation, agent Mulder. Galpex petroleum has discovered what we think may be... A massive new oil province beneath the gulf of mexico-- one that would give a huge advantage... Financially and politically to whoever gets to drill it.
Dana Scully
Who else are we talking about?
Ortega
U.s. Territorial waters cover the northern half of the gulf. Our wells are on our side... But the field may spread well to the south. The government of mexico could claim it's theirs.
Fox Mulder
This incident has nothing to do with that whatsoever. It's about the unexplained death of simon de la cruz.
Ortega
Simon de la cruz was a mexican national... Killed in a u.s. Business enterprise. They'd like nothing better than to use his death... To get us to abandon the orpheus rig... So they can be the first to drill the province.
Alvin Kersh
Leaving me no choice now but to conduct a criminal investigation... Quickly and quietly to take away any legal position... That would affect american interests.
Fox Mulder
A criminal investigation is not going to clear up anything.
Alvin Kersh
You've done more than enough, agent Mulder, thank you.
Fox Mulder
I don't think you know exactly what you're dealing with here, sir.
Alvin Kersh
No, I think I do, agent.
Fox Mulder
This is an X-File.
Alvin Kersh
And I'm sending someone from the X-Files to investigate.
Fox Mulder
You're talking about an oil rig that's 150 Miles out at sea. You can't send a pregnant woman.
Alvin Kersh
I'm not sending agent Scully.
Yuri Volkoff
Yuri volkoff, your new communications specialist.
Scene 04
GULF OF MEXICO
Sachs
You bring your new gear?
Yuri Volkoff
Yes, it's in there.
John Doggett
John Doggett, special agent.
Sachs
Who?
John Doggett
From the bureau.
Sachs
FBI, you say?
John Doggett
Yeah. Someone told you I was coming, I hope.
Sachs
No, just the new comm equipment.
John Doggett
You got radio problems? No one told you about me coming?
Sachs
We still got ship-to-shore. But when they gave us the message, it said just one agent was coming.
John Doggett
Right. I'm the one agent.
Sachs
Well, then, who's the guy that got here this morning? The one in talking with our crew chief right now?
Scene 05
Scene 05
John Doggett
Agent Mulder. Can I have a word with you?
Fox Mulder
Will you give me a minute? I'm just getting filled in on the details of this investigation. Why don't you pull up a seat and introduce yourself... And mr. Taylor won't have to repeat himself.
Bo Taylor
Bo taylor. I was on deck watch the night this thing went down.
John Doggett
Go on, mr. Taylor.
Bo Taylor
Men can go off the deep end out here. It's like a cabin fever of sorts. They're hundreds of Miles away from their family and their friends... Six weeks at a stretch. Some of them might just as well be doing hard time.
John Doggett
So how's that figure with the victim, simon de la cruz?
Bo Taylor
Well, mestizos are usually the most reliable men I know... On the drill floor. But simon just lost his nut, I guess. It's the only good explanation.
John Doggett
Simon de la cruz's body was found with flash burns. What's that got to do with him going off the deep end?
Bo Taylor
Well, hell, he tried to blow the whole damn rig. I mean, it was sabotage pure and simple. He knocked the cock off a gas valve and he must've sparked it, because it went faster than a friday paycheck.
John Doggett
What about the second victim?
Fox Mulder
Communications chief, wasn't
Bo Taylor
He? Probably never knew what hit him.
John Doggett
What's the communications chief doing on the drilling floor?
Bo Taylor
A man can die out here, sir, just going for a walk. Probably what happened when it blew. Nobody even knew he was gone... Till the shift change.
Fox Mulder
Well, I guess that's it-- in a nutshell. Thank you, mr. Taylor.
John Doggett
Agent Mulder.
Scene 06
Scene 06
John Doggett
Agent Mulder! Don't walk away when I'm talking to you. Like it or not, I've been assigned this case. One call to the deputy director and you're canned for insubordination.
Fox Mulder
How're you going to call when the radio's broken?
John Doggett
Hey, don't push me, agent Mulder.
Fox Mulder
You won't do it.
John Doggett
You think?
Fox Mulder
We're both in the same boat, agent Doggett... We're just paddling in different directions.
John Doggett
No, we're not going in different directions here. We're going in one direction: my direction.
Fox Mulder
I don't think Kersh expects you to come back empty-handed on this one. And since you've already told me what you think about this case in so many words, I don't see you coming back with anything... That's going to protect anybody's business interests, let alone your own ass.
John Doggett
Wow, you really got me pegged. Anything that doesn't fit in my narrow field of vision... Might as well not exist, is that right, agent Mulder? So why is this man taylor lying? You do know he's lying?
Fox Mulder
I think he knows the truth about what happened. And he may not be the only one.
John Doggett
I never would've believed it, these stories about you.
Fox Mulder
Really? What stories are those?
John Doggett
That you could find a conspiracy at a church picnic.
Fox Mulder
What church?
Unidentified speaker
Agent Scully?
Scene 07
Scene 07
Dana Scully
Close the door and lock it.
Walter Skinner
You said you wanted to see me right away.
Dana Scully
I didn't know who to talk to, and I haven't been able to reach agent Mulder.
Walter Skinner
About what?
Dana Scully
About what I found in my autopsy of the oil rig accident victim simon de la cruz.
Walter Skinner
Agent Scully, this man's body was supposed to be... Transported back to mexico completely intact.
Dana Scully
I found it by accident in the third ventricle of his brain.
Walter Skinner
Agent Scully--
Dana Scully
No, it's okay, it's all right.
Walter Skinner
What do you mean? I was under the impression this stuff... Could literally jump into a man's body.
Dana Scully
No, it can, and I've seen that happen, but that's the thing. I mean, this man was clearly infected by the alien virus. It entered his system and it was massing in the pineal gland. But it's dead.
Walter Skinner
What killed it?
Dana Scully
Well, intuitively, you would say the same thing that killed him: exposure to high levels of radiation. But it makes no sense because the virus itself has radioactive properties.
Walter Skinner
Somebody needs to tell agent Doggett that. He needs to have an idea of what he's dealing with.
Dana Scully
No, you need to tell deputy director Kersh that he has to order... A controlled evacuation of that rig, right now.
Walter Skinner
Don't ask me to go to Kersh with this evidence... Telling him to order an evacuation for something you can't even explain.
Dana Scully
If the virus is loose, agent Doggett's life is in danger.
Walter Skinner
We don't know that for sure. There are nearly two dozen men on that rig and not one other case. Why?
[ high-pitched static ]
Scene 08
Scene 08
Bo Taylor
Hey, yuri. Heard you had some problems with the radio.
Yuri Volkoff
New gear's all on-line, working fine. Only there's some sort of high-frequency interference... That I have no idea how to get rid of. Hear that? That's a signal that's coming in and filtering in... Across a large range of channels. You know, I don't think I have any choice but to power down and restart.
Bo Taylor
No. You can't do that.
Yuri Volkoff
I hate to argue with you.
Scene 09
Scene 09
Marine Operator
This is the marine operator for galpex-orpheus. Come in, orpheus. Galpex-orpheus, I have a priority transmission. Repeat, this is a priority transmission.
Yuri Volkoff
This is orpheus, go ahead.
Dana Scully
Orpheus? I've been trying to reach you for hours. This is special agent Dana Scully. I have an urgent message for an investigative agent on board... An agent john Doggett.
Yuri Volkoff
I'm ready to take that message.
Dana Scully
No, I'm sorry. I need to speak with agent Doggett directly.
Fox Mulder
I got it. I'm sorry, agent Doggett's gone fishing. Can I take a message, please?
Dana Scully
Mulder?
Fox Mulder
I was just in the neighborhood.
Dana Scully
Mulder, you can't just flout orders like this. It's not like old times. Kersh isn't going to tolerate this.
Fox Mulder
Kersh doesn't need to know.
Dana Scully
Mulder--
Fox Mulder
You need me out here, Scully. You know that better than anyone.
Dana Scully
Well, I hate to say as of this morning, I'd have to agree.
Fox Mulder
Who's flouting orders? You found something, didn't you, in that victim's body? The virus?
Dana Scully
Yes, I did, and it's dead, Mulder.
Fox Mulder
Dead? What killed it?
Dana Scully
Possibly radiation.
Fox Mulder
No, that's not possible--
Dana Scully
I know, I know, and this could be an isolated event, but that he's infected at all means that everybody out there could be at risk, and that means you and agent Doggett.
Fox Mulder
We've got to quarantine this rig.
Dana Scully
No, Mulder, you need to get off the rig. Have agent Doggett give the order. We can quarantine you and the crew when you get back here.
Fox Mulder
Scully, if these men are infected, the last place we want them... Is on shore where they can infect other people. You're sitting on the answer right there, Scully. The body-- you find the virus, you can find what knocks it out, you can find what kills it.
Dana Scully
And what if I can't?
Unidentified speaker
Well...
Fox Mulder
When he, uh, gets old enough, you tell the kid I went down swinging.
Dana Scully
Let me talk to agent Doggett.
Fox Mulder
Agent Doggett's not here right now.
John Doggett
Yes, I am. Who's on the radio? Who are you talking to? Hey!
Fox Mulder
That was agent Scully.
John Doggett
What'd she say?
Fox Mulder
She said it was lucky that I'm out here.
John Doggett
No, you're lucky I'm letting you stay. If you've got important information, I better know about it. I'm in charge out here, agent Mulder.
Fox Mulder
All right, then go ahead and take charge. Only you might not like what it means in this case. What you're going to have to do with that information you're so anxious to have.
Scene 10
Scene 10
Sachs
All right, listen up! I'll make this brief. We've been given an order to quarantine the rig.
[ startled murmuring ]
Sachs
As of 1400 hours, we're officially shut down and locked down. We're going to be stuck here a while. All flights in and out have been suspended. [ men shouting and muttering ] I know, I know. We've been asked to cooperate until the FBI is certain everything's shipshape. Now, for everybody's protection, we need to all of us cooperate fully.
Ed Dell
Oh, man!
Bo Taylor
Protection from what?
John Doggett
From a possible contagion.
Bo Taylor
Anybody here feel sick?
Crew
No!
Sachs
All right, all right, knock it off! I need everybody to check their water consumption. And we'll be cutting back to half-rations. [ men murmuring ]
Fox Mulder
I've been going over the crew manifest, mr. Saksa, and there seems to be a problem.
Sachs
Problem with what?
Fox Mulder
According to the manifest, there's supposed to be 18 men on board. I count only 17, including you.
Sachs
This is my whole crew in here.
Fox Mulder
Um, diego garza. Where's he?
John Doggett
Who?
Sachs
A deckhand. Friend of simon de la cruz, the man who tried to sabotage the rig. Well, I'll be damned.
John Doggett
What, he's not here?
Fox Mulder
Any idea where he might be?
Sachs
Well, he didn't leave the rig. Not by any means I know of.
Fox Mulder
What do you say we go find him?
Scene 11
Scene 11
Dana Scully
This man was exposed to a virus.
Ortega
And... Why do I need to see this?
Dana Scully
To understand what your crew may be infected with-- what they risk spreading on or off that rig.
Ortega
You understand galpex is eager to cooperate. But shutting down a producing rig... Costs in the neighborhood of $150,000 a day. And according to my oim, no one on that rig is sick. They're just hungry and tired.
Walter Skinner
You don't know that for sure.
Ortega
What symptoms would they be showing? What would we see?
Dana Scully
Unexplained behavior. Possible detection in the eyes.
Ortega
-we've seen none of that. -
Walter Skinner
You're relying on suspect data.
Ortega
I'm relying on medical reports. And unless you give me more than this, I'm calling that orpheus crew back in. Bringing them home and rotating a fresh crew onto that rig.
Dana Scully
Oh, my god.
[ door opens and closes ]
Scene 12
Scene 12
John Doggett
So what are you hoping to find, agent Mulder, honestly?
Fox Mulder
I'm hoping to find diego garza.
John Doggett
Slim chance of that, if you ask me. The crew boss said it-- a man could disappear off this platform... And no one would even notice.
Fox Mulder
Did you see that the crew manifest listed diego garza as mestizo-- of mixed mexican descent-- just like his friend who died?
John Doggett
Yeah, so what?
Fox Mulder
Well, the crew chief said these mestizo were particularly good workers. Now we've got one dead trying to sabotage the rig... And another one who's missing. One of their best workers-- you'd think somebody'd notice him missing.
John Doggett
Yeah, so, maybe he's still here. Maybe he's just waiting to finish the job that killed his friend... To protect mexican oil interests.
Fox Mulder
These men are hiding something, but that's not it.
John Doggett
You know, I quarantine a whole damn oil rig... Without any evidence to support what you're saying-- not one damn thing. But you still have yet to give me a straight answer... As to what you think is going on out here. Now, if these men are hiding something... If they're protecting something, then what the hell is it?
Fox Mulder
I don't know yet. Well,
John Doggett
When you do, let me know, 'cause I've got to get on the radio to justify this action.
Fox Mulder
Agent Doggett, I didn't come out here just to bust your ass. I'm telling you, I've seen this substance. I've seen how it can take over a man's body. This crew could be infected and not even know it. They may have no idea they're being controlled.
John Doggett
This? This is what you're saying is going to take over my body? Well, when's it going to kick in?
Fox Mulder
That's not how it works. It body jumps from man to man. And I'm not sure that it's in all oil.
John Doggett
Well, that's a relief, because only 90% of the planet is dependent on the stuff.
Fox Mulder
The man from galpex oil lied.
John Doggett
What? He's infected, too?
Fox Mulder
No, that new oil province that he wants to protect-- it's already in production. It's being pumped and drilled by this rig. That's how this crew got infected.
John Doggett
You're reaching, agent Mulder.
Fox Mulder
Billions and billions of barrels lying right underneath us, waiting to be produced. Waiting to infect that 90% of the planet you talked about.
John Doggett
These men are hiding something? That'd be something to hide.
Fox Mulder
But, agent Doggett... What if that's why this man is in hiding-- diego garza-- because he knows what they're up to and he knows what they're up to... Because he's the only one who's not infected with this alien virus?
John Doggett
All right, he knows. Then why doesn't he just come down and tell us?
[ emergency buzzer ]
Fox Mulder
It's the radio room!
John Doggett
I'll find another one.
Scene 13
Scene 13
Alvin Kersh
Agent Scully.
Dana Scully
Sir.
Alvin Kersh
You're in a hurry. To do what?
Dana Scully
To continue with my work, sir.
Alvin Kersh
I'm not privy to this... "work." I thought this body... Would've been well on its way back to mexico.
[ door opens ]
Alvin Kersh
I obviously haven't been able to rely on those... Whose job it is to keep me apprised and informed. I have to rely on phone calls. Like the call I received from martin ortega. Why doesn't somebody make me privy... To who the hell gave the order to shut down that rig?
Walter Skinner
I did.
Alvin Kersh
Well, I'm giving the order this quarantine is lifted.
Dana Scully
We could do that, sir, but all radio contact's been cut off.
Alvin Kersh
As soon as it's reestablished... I want that rig up and running... And the entire crew choppered off... The galpex-orpheus and debriefed.
Dana Scully
Sir, I think that's a mistake.
Alvin Kersh
I think it'd be a mistake not to, agent Scully. And you're running out of mistakes-- both you and the assistant director. If I didn't know better... I'd say this was a Mulder stunt.
Scene 14
Scene 14
Sachs
This stuff was all brand-new.
Fox Mulder
What is it about this room that inspires men to violence?
Sachs
You think this fire was set?
Fox Mulder
Molotov cocktail, anyone? [ sniffs ] can I borrow your radio, mr. Saksa? Agent Doggett, you there?
Mulder’s Voice On Radio
Agent Doggett? Pick up, agent Doggett. You copy?
[ groans softly ]
Fox Mulder
Agent Doggett? Come in, agent Doggett.
Unidentified speaker
Where the hell are you?
[ speaking spanish ]
John Doggett
Yeah, my blood's red! Tranquilo. I don't speak very good spanish. Diego? Tu eres diego garza? You're going too fast. Are you saying you set the fire? What are you afraid of?
Garza
Ya vienen! ¿
John Doggett
Vienen? Vienen. "they're coming"? Who? Who's coming?
Scene 15
Scene 15
Dana Scully
I think I've got something.
Walter Skinner
What?
Dana Scully
This is an sem image pulled at random from anonymous donors. Blood-- more specifically, normal t-cell antibodies. By comparison... These are from the blood of the oil rig worker. T-cells in impossible numbers. In layman's terms, this victim was a virus-fighting machine.
Walter Skinner
How do you explain that?
Dana Scully
Well, there are isolated cultures-- northern italy for one-- where people are immune to certain diseases-- heart disease in that case-- through a genetic mutation.
Walter Skinner
So this man had what? A kind of genetic immunity to alien virus?
Dana Scully
Well, his employment records... List mr. Simon de la cruz as of mixed mexican ancestry... When, in fact, he is huecha indian. The huecha are an indigenous mexican culture... That has a rare, undiluted gene pool. Now, these genes may have an innate immunity to infection.
Walter Skinner
Okay, so he was immune to the virus. That's still not what killed him. He died from being burned.
Dana Scully
No, not burned-- irradiated, because the virus had no effect on him... And the crew members who were infected by the virus couldn't control him. So they killed him by irradiating him.
Walter Skinner
Then why not kill Mulder? Or agent Doggett? Why kill only this man?
Dana Scully
This man must've been a threat because of something he knew.
Walter Skinner
What?
Dana Scully
That I don't know.
Walter Skinner
So even if we did know... And were able to get word to them, it'd put Mulder and agent Doggett in danger, too, wouldn't it?
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John Doggett
¿su familia? ¿la fotografia? Your family? You want to get back to them? I can help you. Señor... Confia en mi.
Garza
Yo no confio en nadien.
Unidentified speaker
Great.
John Doggett
You trust no one. But if you stay here, they will find you, just like your friend. You let me go and we'll get you back home. You have my word. Mi promesa.
Bo Taylor
Where's garza? Where is he?
John Doggett
I'm going to go get agent Mulder.
Fox Mulder
Agent Doggett. There's more where that came from. You know anything about radios, agent Doggett?
John Doggett
Yeah, I know a little.
Fox Mulder
Well, see if what little you know can get that ship-to-shore working.
John Doggett
To call who?
Fox Mulder
Anybody who can get us off here before-- get to work!
[ banging continues ]
[ banging resumes ]
Scene 17
Scene 17
Fox Mulder
Agent Doggett!
John Doggett
I'm working on it!
Fox Mulder
I don't think this door can hold much longer.
[ wagner's "ride of the valkyries" playing ]
Fox Mulder
Wagner?
John Doggett
What do you want?
Fox Mulder
I take it back. It's perfect.
Unidentified speaker
Hold this. Hold it.
Voice On Radio
This is the marine operator. I repeat, this is an emergency priority transmission for the galpex-orpheus.
John Doggett
Yeah, you got john Doggett on board the galpex-orpheus. Come in. This is john Doggett.
Dana Scully
Agent Doggett?
John Doggett
Agent Scully, yeah, I'm right here.
Dana Scully
Can you hear me?
John Doggett
Yes!
Dana Scully
What was that?
Fox Mulder
That's someone knocking on the door.
Dana Scully
Mulder, listen to me. I think I know why they killed this man, if not how they killed him.
John Doggett
Right now we got bigger problems. We need a chopper.
Dana Scully
We've got choppers on the way.
Fox Mulder
Tell her all the men here are infected. She's got to get the word to the choppers not to land on the platform.
John Doggett
Well, how are they supposed to get us?
Fox Mulder
Well, that issue is rapidly becoming moot!
John Doggett
Agent Scully, listen. There are three men on board here that are not infected-- me, Mulder and a man named diego garza, who may be mentally unstable. Could be why he tried to wreck this radio equipment, just like his friend, simon de la cruz. He may resist rescue because he believes there men in flying saucers are coming to get him. Agent Scully, did you get that? Agent Scully? You're breaking up, agent-- what the hell are you doing?
Fox Mulder
Destroying their ability to transmit... Just like diego and simon de la cruz.
John Doggett
What are you talking about?
Fox Mulder
I'm talking about contact.
John Doggett
Contact with who? The mothership?
Fox Mulder
Agent Doggett, listen.
John Doggett
Now, you just back off.
Fox Mulder
No, no, no. Listen.
John Doggett
Where'd they go?
Fox Mulder
I don't know, but I don't want to stick around to find out. Let's go, agent Doggett.
John Doggett
Agent Mulder. We can't leave him.
Fox Mulder
Who?
John Doggett
Diego garza.
Fox Mulder
Agent Doggett!
John Doggett
Diego? Diego? Donde estas?
Unidentified speaker
Diego.
John Doggett
Diego, get up. Come on, let's go.
Fox Mulder
Is he coming?
John Doggett
No.
[ helicopter approaching ]
Unidentified speaker
Galpex-orpheus, this is alpha-baker-x-Ray 46... Requesting permission to land.
Voice On Radio
Come in, galpex-orpheus.
Fox Mulder
Agent Doggett, I think I know why they let us go.
John Doggett
What? Agent Mulder, what are you talking about? What's going on?
Fox Mulder
They're going to blow the rig.
John Doggett
Who? Let's go. Abandon ship... What's he saying?
[ garbled p.a. Broadcast ]
Fox Mulder
I think he wants us to jump.
John Doggett
All right, wait a minute, agent Mulder. I'm in charge here. On a two count.
Fox Mulder
How about a 20 count?
John Doggett
One... Two!
[ yelling ]
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Fox Mulder
Where's the fire, agent Doggett?
John Doggett
I've been called up to see deputy director Kersh... As have agent Scully and a.d. Skinner. I think it's all hitting the fan.
Fox Mulder
You mean with galpex oil?
John Doggett
Word came down that galpex... Has lost the right to drill that entire Texas oil province.
Fox Mulder
That oil should stay right where it is. You should do everything in your power to make sure that it does.
John Doggett
Me? [ phone ringing ]
Fox Mulder
That is the deputy director calling to tell you there's no need to see you-- that the blame has been properly assigned... For what happened out on that platform. I'm out. I'm eighty-sixed, agent Doggett.
John Doggett
What do you mean? You're out of the FBI?
Fox Mulder
Kersh could barely contain his happiness when he... Stuck it to me.
John Doggett
So you're taking the fall. Not for me.
Fox Mulder
For you, for the X-Files. You're all the credibility this office has left. You have Kersh's ear and you've seen it now. Out on that platform, you saw it for yourself.
[ phone ringing ]
Fox Mulder
Answer the phone, agent Doggett. You're in charge here now.
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