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Season 9 · Episode 1

Nothing Important Happened Today

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

Production code9ABX01Original airdate · November 11, 2001

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Scene 01

BALTIMORE, MARYLAND

Shannon McMahon

Vodka rocks, please.

Carl Wormus

Hi, how are you?

Shannon McMahon

Thirsty.

Carl Wormus

Uh, straight up, and no ice this time. I tell this guy about the ice, and then he pours me a scotch rocks.

Shannon McMahon

"about the ice"?

Carl Wormus

The water, actually, in the ice. I'm kind of an expert on it.

Shannon McMahon

Well, what's wrong with it?

Carl Wormus

No big secret. It's been in the news. A government additive. Something they call chloramine.

Shannon McMahon

Yeah, they said it's good for us. It's like fluoride or something.

Carl Wormus

Well, that's what they say. Look, um I didn't sit down here to scare you. On the contrary.

Shannon McMahon

Would you like to get some air?

Carl Wormus

A long way to go for a drink, huh? Do you like living out here? How much farther?

Shannon McMahon

Just over the bridge.

[ alarm blaring ]

[ engine revs ]

Carl Wormus

What the hell you doing?

[ tires screeching ]

Carl Wormus

Let go! You're going to kill us!

[ whoosh ]

Scene 02

Chris Carter

Last season on the X-Files.

Knowle Rohrer

There was a rumored program out of the cold war. A plan to create a super soldier.

John Doggett

I didn't want to believe it. Said agent Scully's a part of their program too.

Alex Krycek

Your baby was a miracle.

Dana Scully

My baby is normal.

Alex Krycek

She may never make it out of this building.

Walter Skinner

Get him off!

Dana Scully

This is my baby! Please don't let them take it!

Monica Reyes

You got to push, Dana.

John Doggett

This office is under investigation for a late-night meeting between you and an intelligence operative named Knowle Rohrer.

Alvin Kersh

You investigate what I tell you.

John Doggett

And you put me on the X-Files.

Fox Mulder

I think what we feared were the possibilities. The truth we both know.

[ baby crying ]

Dana Scully

It's okay.

Unidentified speaker

It's okay.

Scene 03

WASHINGTON, D.C.

Dana Scully

It's going to be okay.

[ alarm clock buzzing ]

[ groans ]

[ phone ringing ]

Scene 04

Monica Reyes

Hello?

Man On Phone

Monica, it's me. Did I wake you?

Monica Reyes

Brad? Um, n-no. No, I'm awake.

Brad Follmer

You're in town.

Monica Reyes

Yeah, I-I came in on short notice.

Brad Follmer

Listen, if you're coming to the hoover building can you stop by my office on your way in?

Monica Reyes

Yeah. Sure. I can do that.

Brad Follmer

Good. Looking forward to it.

[ whistling ]

Woman Over Tv

And now a story

Unidentified speaker

That may have long-term effects here in Washington. Metro police are investigating the bizarre death

Tv Announcer

Of a government employee last night.

Scene 05

Tv Announcer

The body of 38-year-old carl wormus a deputy administrator for the environmental protection agency was pulled from the potomac by rescue divers this morning. It appears wormus drove his car through a barricade and off a drawbridge into the river. A police spokesperson says it appears he was alone in the car...

Brad Follmer

Monica?

Monica Reyes

Hi.

Brad Follmer

What are you doing?

Monica Reyes

I was leaving you a note. Your assistant was out, and I didn't want to knock. I was going to call you... Hi, brad.

Brad Follmer

Come on in.

[ door closes ]

Brad Follmer

What?

Monica Reyes

We're at work.

Brad Follmer

You used to ask me to close the door at work back in new york.

Monica Reyes

Is that all you called me here for assistant director?

Brad Follmer

I probably shouldn't tell you how hot you look, either 'cause you do. How long has it been? T-two years?

Monica Reyes

Yeah. Yeah. We should catch up, brad, really. I've got to get downstairs.

Brad Follmer

I have got something for you. Forgive me, but, uh... It didn't take a whole lot of digging to figure out why you're here in D.C., Monica.

Monica Reyes

What are those?

Brad Follmer

Something you're going to see, but I wanted to show you first. They were taken from the security cameras in the FBI parking garage. One of them shows you arriving in a cab meeting John Doggett.

Monica Reyes

Yeah, I'm working with him. He called me up here on a case.

Brad Follmer

I heard, believe me. This whole thing about a chase and a crash and a fire... And now Doggett's internal investigation of deputy director Kersh. It's big news.

Monica Reyes

What's so important to show me? What's on the other tape?

[ elevator bell dings ]

[ door closes ]

Scene 06

Alvin Kersh

How's your investigation going, John? Have you turned up any incriminating evidence on me yet?

John Doggett

It's only monday morning, sir. It's nothing personal, deputy director. I hope you know that.

Alvin Kersh

No, John. I think we've pretty much always seen eye-to-eye.

[ door opens ]

Alvin Kersh

I'm sure if you can't find anything on me, John, nobody can.

Scene 07

Monica Reyes

Hi. How you doing? That good.

John Doggett

I didn't ask to be put down in the X-Files. Deputy director Kersh put me down here. I'm just doing my job. What did he think? That I'd be thankful? That I'd do anything less?

Monica Reyes

It's not going to be easy, John.

John Doggett

Hell, no, it isn't. We're going after a deputy director. One man removed from the head of the FBI.

Monica Reyes

No, I mean, it may be impossible.

John Doggett

What's this?

Monica Reyes

A security tape, two nights ago, from the FBI garage. You're not on it.

John Doggett

What are you talking about? No. This is the wrong damn tape.

Monica Reyes

I've been backwards and forwards on it. There's nothing there.

John Doggett

We were chased. A.d. Skinner and I were attacked and chased. This man Knowle Rohrer drove his car into the garage wall. It blew up in a ball of flames.

Monica Reyes

Not on this tape.

John Doggett

Where'd you get this?

Monica Reyes

From someone who wanted to give me a heads up.

John Doggett

They can't just make this all go away. There's evidence down in that parking garage. There were victims.

Monica Reyes

I went down to that garage, John. Whatever happened, they've had 48 hours now to clean it up.

John Doggett

There were witnesses.

Monica Reyes

Witnesses who are going to stand up to this tape?

[ door shuts ]

[ pounding ]

Scene 08

John Doggett

Mulder! Mulder, are you here?

Scene 09

GREATER MARYLAND WATER

Operator’s Voice On Phone

Naval telecommunications command.

Roland McFarland

Yeah, I need to make a shore to ship call to the s.s. Valor victor...

Operator’s Voice On Phone

Sir? Sir?

[ knocking ]

Scene 10

Dana Scully

What? What's the matter?

John Doggett

What's the matter?! I've been trying to call you.

Dana Scully

Yeah, but... The phone's off the hook because of the baby.

John Doggett

Well, I got panicked you weren't going to be here. That you left, too.

Dana Scully

Come in.

John Doggett

I went looking for Mulder. I went to his apartment.

Dana Scully

I know.

John Doggett

Where did he go? Dana... Where did he go?

Dana Scully

He's gone. He's just gone.

Scene 12

Walter Skinner

I don't know where Mulder is. I don't know that I'd tell you if I did.

[ door opens ]

Monica Reyes

I checked with movers, airlines, car rental agencies. No Mulder.

John Doggett

Somebody get to him? That it? Doesn't seem possible, does it? Okay, so where does that leave us? It's just me and you. Our word against Kersh and the FBI.

Monica Reyes

You better sit down, John. It's more complicated than that.

John Doggett

What's more complicated?

Monica Reyes

This investigation.

John Doggett

What about it?

Walter Skinner

I want to ask you to drop it.

John Doggett

No. Not from you. Not from you. Not-not after what we've been through. I mean, we barely escaped with our lives.

Walter Skinner

That's something worth thinking about.

John Doggett

I'm sorry, you're not that reasonable. What, did they get to you, too?

Walter Skinner

No one got to me, John. They didn't have to. That's the point.

John Doggett

You're afraid of them.

Walter Skinner

I'm not afraid of them.

John Doggett

Well, you're afraid of something. What? The real tape showing up, them calling you a killer for you having to shoot alex Krycek?

Walter Skinner

No, I'll stand by my actions, agent Doggett but I won't stand by yours if you're going to continue to push and push until you get somebody killed. You want to know what I fear? I fear for Mulder and Scully. I fear for the life of that child if you don't stop pushing, John.

John Doggett

You don't think I fear for those things, same as you?

Walter Skinner

If you did, you'd let it go.

John Doggett

So what I'm hearing is... If I don't drop it, I'm alone on this.

[ sighs ]

Monica Reyes

John. You're not.

[ door shuts ]

Scene 13

Brad Follmer

Hi. I hope it wasn't presumptuous of me. I ordered you a martini.

Monica Reyes

No, the presumption's all mine. Anyway, I called and asked you out, didn't I?

Brad Follmer

You, uh, actually had me confused a little this morning in my office. I had this crazy notion that, uh, you were avoiding me.

Monica Reyes

Maybe I was trying to avoid myself. And those tapes you pulled out of your desk drawer weren't exactly pamela and tommy lee, now, were they?

[ chuckles ]

Brad Follmer

And I'd heard that, uh, that you and John Doggett were tight.

Monica Reyes

You make it sound like I go home from work with post-its on my ass. It's nothing like that.

Brad Follmer

Then I don't get it. Why risk your name and your career getting caught up in this... Rabid investigation of his?

Monica Reyes

There isn't going to be an investigation. Not anymore.

Brad Follmer

I wouldn't have thought agent Doggett would be thrown off so easy. Not what I've heard about him.

Monica Reyes

Whatever you may think about him, brad he's not a fool, you know.

Brad Follmer

Now you're pissed off at me.

Monica Reyes

No, I'm pissed off because this means I'll be shipping back to the new orleans field office.

Brad Follmer

What are you talking about? The way I heard it, you're with the X-Files.

Monica Reyes

This investigation drops they're going to drop the X-Files right along with it. You know me where my interests lie. This was my dream assignment. Not to mention how excited I was to be up here in D.C.

Brad Follmer

But you just got here.

Monica Reyes

Yeah, I know.

[ knocking ]

Scene 14

John Doggett

I'm really sorry. I... Dana, I need your help.

Dana Scully

I don't how to find him.

John Doggett

It just doesn't make any sense. Mulder leaving you here all alone. Just walking out on you? Not telling you where and why?

Dana Scully

It makes sense in its own way. That's all I can tell you.

John Doggett

Then tell me why you can't trust me. Everything I did to try to protect you when you thought your baby was in danger... What changed? Why is it suddenly I'm now the enemy?

Dana Scully

Let it go, John. Drop it. Please.

John Doggett

These people tried to kill me. They tried to kill a.d. Skinner. They would have killed Mulder, too. They're still out there, Dana.

Dana Scully

Exactly right. And they are unstoppable. And they are inside the FBI.

John Doggett

You know something you're not telling me. Mulder knows something. How long can you hide from it? Knowle Rohrer-- this old military buddy of mine he told me your pregnancy was a result of a government cloning experiment to try and create what he called a "super soldier."

Dana Scully

I don't want to hear this. Look, there is nothing to any of this.

John Doggett

Knowle Rohrer-- my buddy-- was one of the men that tried to kill us in the FBI garage.

Dana Scully

My baby... My son... Is fine.

John Doggett

I hope to god that's true. I just don't want to pretend.

Dana Scully

I'm going to ask you to leave. I'm going to ask you to leave and not come back here.

[ door shuts ]

Scene 15

Operator’s Voice

Directory assistance, may I help you?

John Doggett

Let's try, uh, Maryland or virginia.

Operator’s Voice

What listing, please?

John Doggett

The number for a ryan bracker. B-r-a-c-k-e-r. Yeah, hi, I was given this number for a roger erickson formerly of the u.s. Marine corps.

Unidentified speaker

Yeah, speaking.

John Doggett

Roger? Hey, it's John Doggett, bravo company.

Voice On Phone

Hey, man, how you doing?

John Doggett

I'm good. It's good to hear you. Listen, you remember Knowle Rohrer?

Unidentified speaker

Yeah, sure I remember him.

John Doggett

What's the story with him? Didn't he get involved in something when we got back stateside-- special ops?

Unidentified speaker

I have no idea, man. I never heard from Knowle after we got back. Hey, we should get together, catch up.

John Doggett

Yeah, let's, um, let's catch a beer sometime.

Shannon McMahon (voice)

This is shannon. Leave a message and I'll return it as soon as I can.

John Doggett

Yeah, hi, this is John Doggett. I'm trying to reach a shannon mcmahon who was with bravo company, usmc. If this is she, could you please contact me through the FBI in Washington, D.C., as soon as possible?

[ elevator bell dings ]

Scene 16

Dana Scully

Sleepy time, sweet William. I'll see you in a couple hours.

[ mobile squeaking ]

[ squeaking continues ]

[ sighs ]

[ heavy sigh ]

[ footsteps ]

Scene 17

Monica Reyes

Hello?

[ sighs ]

[ baby crying ]

[ mobile squeaking ]

[ baby crying ]

[ mobile squeaking ]

[ crying continues ]

[ crying stops ]

[ crying ]

[ mobile squeaking ]

[ phone rings ]

Scene 19

Monica Reyes

Monica Reyes.

Dana Scully

Uh, yeah, it's, uh... It's Scully.

Monica Reyes

Dana? What's wrong, are you all right?

Dana Scully

Is agent Doggett there?

Unidentified speaker

Yeah, he's right here with me.

John Doggett

Dana? Is something wrong?

Dana Scully

Yeah... Yeah, something. Um... I think I might have been wrong... Telling you to drop your investigation.

John Doggett

No, I didn't drop it. As a matter of fact, we found something. I'm not sure how it fits, but we're working on it.

Dana Scully

What is it?

John Doggett

A body.

Scene 20

FBI TRAINING ACADEMY

John Doggett

Thanks for comin'. The deceased's name is carl wormus-- deputy administrator for the environmental protection agency.

Monica Reyes

Drove through a barricade and off a bridge two nights ago.

Dana Scully

And?

John Doggett

And somebody at the FBI thought it was important enough to stick his obituary under our noses.

Dana Scully

Who?

Monica Reyes

We don't know.

Dana Scully

Well, his blood alcohol level was upwards of.15. He was drunk, he... Crashed and drowned.

John Doggett

There's got to be something more.

[ cell phone rings ]

John Doggett

John Doggett.

Walter Skinner

What the hell are you doing?

John Doggett

Excuse me?

Walter Skinner

Do you know how many people are just waiting to see you screw up? To see you make a mistake like this?

John Doggett

I didn't know I made a mistake.

Walter Skinner

This epa guy that you checked out of the county morgue in Maryland-- without any jurisdiction--

John Doggett

Oh, come on.

Walter Skinner

All your friends, John. All your former buddies at the FBI.

John Doggett

What are you talking about?

Walter Skinner

They're not your pals anymore. Not since this investigation of yours. Since you've launched an attack on one of your own. Just watch your back, John.

[ slams receiver down ]

John Doggett

Definitive answer how this guy died. What would that take?

Dana Scully

A careful autopsy.

John Doggett

How fast can you do it?

Dana Scully

That's not what I'm saying.

John Doggett

I'd understand if you don't want to do this, Dana but you're the only person we can trust.

[ doorbell rings ]

Scene 21

Melvin Frohike

Collecting for the needy and unemployed. Open the door.

John Doggett

Thanks for doing this, guys.

John Fitzgerald Byers

Yeah, like we've got anything better to be doing these days.

Melvin Frohike

Just to let you know we may need to hit you up for some coin.

John Doggett

Why? What happened to you guys?

Richard Langly

Don't ask.

John Fitzgerald Byers

We were able to hack into the department of interior's mainframe and get the epa files you wanted on this man carl wormus.

John Doggett

And?

Melvin Frohike

Hey. What are we, mind readers? That's all you asked us to do.

John Fitzgerald Byers

What exactly was it you were looking for, if we may ask?

John Doggett

I don't know, I was hoping you'd find something.

Richard Langly

Well, if he had any secrets, he took them to his grave. Nothing hinky in his files except some kind of rabid obsession with water.

John Doggett

With water?

Scene 22

Dana Scully

Water. Asphyxiation induced by the inhalation of water. There are contusions on the forehead and on the chest but the impact isn't what killed him. This man drowned. You're looking at me like you hope that there's something more but there isn't.

Monica Reyes

I'm sorry, that's not it. I'm just impressed that you can do this.

Dana Scully

This is what I do, agent Reyes.

Monica Reyes

But you're here doing it now. Something did happen, didn't it? I know what you're afraid of. That there's something wrong with your baby.

Dana Scully

We can let our fears get the better of us. We can, uh... Imagine things, make connections with things that aren't there. Like with this man.

Monica Reyes

If you ever feel the need to talk to someone, Dana, I'm here. I'd never betray a confidence.

Dana Scully

There is something.

Monica Reyes

What?

Dana Scully

Right here on the ankle.

Monica Reyes

Are those... Fingerprints?

Dana Scully

Yeah, that's what they look like.

Monica Reyes

From someone holding him down?

Dana Scully

I don't know how or who.

Scene 23

Brad Follmer

I don't know if you're aware of where agent Scully is. She's at quantico. Called in by John Doggett to autopsy a body he's got no authority to touch. If I may be blunt, sir Doggett's put his tit in the wringer.

Alvin Kersh

Maybe. So what?

Brad Follmer

A lot of us think that he's lost all judgment. And one man's actions should not affect the entire FBI. We feel he should be called out for this.

Alvin Kersh

Punished.

Brad Follmer

Yes, sir.

Alvin Kersh

Thank you, assistant director. It's a difficult situation to be in. I appreciate you doing this.

Brad Follmer

It was the right thing to do.

Alvin Kersh

Let me know how it goes.

Brad Follmer

Me? Oh, no, I-I can't, sir. There-there's a conflict. I-I can't do this myself.

Alvin Kersh

I can't very well do it. How would it look? I'm under investigation by agent Doggett. You have no personal ax to grind.

[ doorbell rings ]

Scene 24

Margaret Scully

Hello, can I help you?

Shannon McMahon

Hi, I'm looking for Dana Scully.

Margaret Scully

I'm sorry. She's not here right now. Can I tell her who's calling?

Shannon McMahon

We work together. Do you know where I can find her?

Margaret Scully

No. Um... Would you like to leave a message?

[ doorknob squeaking ]

Shannon McMahon

I'll leave her a note if you wouldn't mind opening the door.

Margaret Scully

Why don't you just leave your name and I'll have Dana call you.

[ sighs ]

Scene 25

Dana Scully

You need to get this body into refrigeration if you're going to preserve him as evidence. Whatever he's evidence of.

Monica Reyes

Whatever it is, I can't reach John to even tell him about it.

Dana Scully

Monica, I don't know what to say but good luck. I've got to go. I've got to get home. Third floor, they have a cooler for the teaching cadavers. You might temporarily put him up there.

Monica Reyes

Behind us. Just keep walking.

Dana Scully

Who is she?

Monica Reyes

I've never seen her before this morning. Now I've seen her twice.

[ elevator bell dings ]

Unidentified speaker

Excuse us.

Brad Follmer

Where's agent Doggett?

Monica Reyes

What are you doing, brad?

Brad Follmer

What am I doing? I'm doing my best to cover your ass.

Monica Reyes

What are you talking about?

Brad Follmer

This, this. I'm talking about these.

Monica Reyes

Let go of me.

Dana Scully

What's going on here?

Brad Follmer

Okay, where'd he go?

Monica Reyes

Who? Where'd who go?

Brad Follmer

Where did Doggett take the body?

Monica Reyes

You're not making any sense, brad. Agent Doggett didn't take any body anywhere. What, you're looking at me like you don't believe me. Ask agent Scully.

Dana Scully

I'm going to go now. I've got a child at home.

Brad Follmer

Body or no body, you were here doing an autopsy. Doggett was here... Without authorization.

Monica Reyes

Without authorization?

Brad Follmer

He's out of control, you know, Monica. Forget the X-Files. He'll take you down with him.

Monica Reyes

This was you, wasn't it? You floated that obituary to me to set agent Doggett up. Using me?

Brad Follmer

What obituary? I don't know what you're talking about. You came to me for help, remember? I'm only trying to help you help yourself.

Monica Reyes

I know exactly what you're doing, brad. Don't forget to piss on all the corners before you leave.

Brad Follmer

I didn't float any obituary. What is she talking about?

[ doorbell ringing ]

Scene 26

Melvin Frohike

Son of a-- yeah? Oh. Hello.

Monica Reyes

Considering the recent violence attempted on agent Doggett you might want to know who's at the door before you actually open it.

Melvin Frohike

Next time I'll get a chair.

John Fitzgerald Byers

Agent Doggett's gone.

Monica Reyes

What do you mean gone?

Richard Langly

He and assistant director Skinner split for Maryland together.

Melvin Frohike

Show her what we found before she makes any nasty remarks.

John Fitzgerald Byers

It took some real hacking but carl wormus, the man from the environmental protection agency who drowned in his car? He'd been receiving encrypted e-mail data from a water reclamation plant in Maryland. From a worker there named roland mcfarland.

Monica Reyes

Encrypted data on what?

Richard Langly

Don't know. But whatever it is, may have gotten both these men killed.

Walter Skinner

There are no nameplates.

Scene 27

John Doggett

Yeah, I see that.

Walter Skinner

This is madness. Even if you're right and this guy connects to your investigation we don't know we're in the right area.

John Doggett

This has got to be mcfarland's area.

Walter Skinner

This might be his desk. Let's just grab the computer hard drive and get out of here.

John Doggett

We're not sure if it's his.

Unidentified speaker

Somebody's going to come walking through

Walter Skinner

One of these doors any minute and it's not going to matter.

John Doggett

Just keep an eye out. What's chloramine?

Walter Skinner

What? Why are you asking me about chloramine?

John Doggett

Because this is mcfarland's desk and he's got tons of files on chloramine in it.

Unidentified speaker

I'm betting it figures into all this somehow.

Walter Skinner

Agent Doggett. Grab the files and go.

Unidentified speaker

Shh.

[ yells ]

John Doggett

Assistant director!

Brad Follmer

Looks like you and I are chasing the same man. Agent Doggett?

About this transcript

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.