Radio Dispatcher
This is sector station to unit one. Unit one, please report.
Season 9 · Episode 9
Provenance
Character-labelled dialogue prepared from the official DVD subtitle track.
Production code9ABX10Original airdate · March 3, 2002
232 dialogue entries
Scene 01
Opening scene
[ police radio: indistinct ]
Scene 02
U.S. - CANADIAN BORDER
Driver Agent
Unit one reporting. No traffic or unusual activity, sector station.
Passenger Agent
Tell her my ass is freezing off and I need someone out here to get the blood circulating.
Driver Agent
Sector station, agent daley here has a very special request. The mike's off, man.
Passenger Agent
Don't scare me like that, man.
Driver Agent
Aw, come on. Keeps you awake, don't it?
Passenger Agent
Yeah. Something moving.
Driver Agent
Where?
Passenger Agent
Coming right through the trees. Straight ahead. See it?
Driver Agent
Got it!
Passenger Agent
Unit one to sector station we are in pursuit... In pursuit of an illegal border crossing. Rabbit's running for the hole. End of the road, buddy.
Scene 03
Scene 03
Dana Scully
Agent Scully. He's expecting me.
Kersh’s Assistant
Go right in, agent Scully. They're all waiting for you.
Dana Scully
"they"?
Kersh’s Assistant
Mm-hmm.
Dana Scully
Sorry to keep you waiting.
Alvin Kersh
Have a seat, please, agent Scully.
Dana Scully
May I ask what this is about?
Alvin Kersh
You can take a seat, please.
Brad Follmer
Deputy director Kersh has called you here today to ask you a few questions, agent Scully. All right, just a few... Routine questions.
Alvin Kersh
Do you know what this is?
Dana Scully
Should I?
Brad Follmer
It's a simple question, agent Scully. Do you know what this is?
Dana Scully
I'm not sure.
Alvin Kersh
But you've seen it before.
Dana Scully
Am I under suspicion here?
Brad Follmer
Assistant director Skinner led us to believe that you'd be able to identify this piece of evidence.
Dana Scully
And why is that?
Brad Follmer
Well, you once worked on the X-Files.
Dana Scully
Well, if this is an X-File then why don't you ask somebody who's working on the X-Files?
Brad Follmer
Because we're asking you.
Dana Scully
Where did you get these?
Alvin Kersh
They were found during an illegal border crossing in north dakota. Canada to the u.s.
Dana Scully
An illegal border crossing by whom?
Brad Follmer
As I said, we're asking the questions here today, agent Scully.
Alvin Kersh
What a.d. Follmer is saying is your cooperation is important to this investigation, agent Scully.
Dana Scully
I'd like to cooperate. I-I'd be happy to cooperate. I just wish that you would tell me who or what you are investigating.
( elevator bell rings )
Scene 04
Scene 04
Dana Scully
Were you called about this? Has a.d. Follmer been down here?
Monica Reyes
Brad Follmer?
Dana Scully
Yeah. Going through the X-Files.
John Doggett
I doubt agent Follmer even knows where we are down here, agent Scully.
Monica Reyes
Why? What are you looking for?
Dana Scully
These.
Monica Reyes
What are they?
Dana Scully
Rubbings. Taken from the surface structure of a craft.
John Doggett
A craft?
Dana Scully
A spacecraft. Agent Doggett if you can wrap your brain around that.
[ sighs ]
Dana Scully
They were found by fishermen off the western coast of africa. Two years ago, I traveled there to study it and I took these.
John Doggett
What does this have to do with Follmer?
Dana Scully
This morning I was called into the deputy director's office and I was shown an exact copy of that rubbing. I was asked by senior staff to identify it for them.
Monica Reyes
And where did they get them?
Dana Scully
A guy running the north dakota border from canada. Or so they say.
Monica Reyes
What did you tell them about these?
Dana Scully
Nothing.
Monica Reyes
And what aren't you telling us?
Dana Scully
That they're powerful.
John Doggett
We're talking about pieces of paper with marks on it.
Dana Scully
They're not just marks, agent Doggett. It's writing. Words. Powerful words. And if the FBI has them and they're keeping their investigation of them a secret then they have a sense of their power as well.
Scene 05
U.S. ' CANADIAN BORDER
John Doggett
Special agent John Doggett out of Washington. I'm looking for the agent in charge out here. Anybody point me to the asic?
Brad Follmer
Agent Doggett...
John Doggett
Assistant director.
Brad Follmer
I don't recall asking for your help or assistance on this case.
John Doggett
Well, the way it looks I'm the only agent outside of D.C. You didn't ask. What's the big attraction?
Brad Follmer
Last night, a man made an illegal border crossing from canada. A chase ensued; ended here.
John Doggett
You know anything about him? About what he might have been doing?
Brad Follmer
We're endeavoring to learn as much as we can, agent Doggett.
John Doggett
Was he carrying anything interesting?
Brad Follmer
Like what, for example?
John Doggett
I don't know. Like, uh... Maybe something you'd find in an X-File.
Brad Follmer
If that's what you came looking for you came a long way for nothing.
John Doggett
Then what's with the cavalry?
Brad Follmer
Excuse me?
John Doggett
Lot of good shoes out here looking for what's got to be a dead man. Guy was killed, right?
Brad Follmer
Man survives a fall like this, on fire? Not very likely.
John Doggett
You got a body?
Brad Follmer
We will, agent Doggett. Like you say, I got the cavalry out here. You find that funny?
John Doggett
Dead man up and disappearing? Happens every day, right? At least it does on the X-Files.
Brad Follmer
Trust me, mr. Doggett. This has nothing to do with you. Nothing to do with you or the X-Files. Stick your nose in this case I promise you, you'll live to regret it.
[ coughs ]
[ grunting ]
[ grunting ]
Scene 06
Scene 06
Dana Scully
Hi.
Monica Reyes
Thanks for coming. I needed to talk to you about this in person.
Dana Scully
Well, what is it?
Monica Reyes
What I'm reading in your field report on these rubbings, Dana-- there's something I didn't understand. You say these were taken off a spacecraft. You determined they were words-- writings. You didn't tell us you knew what they said.
Dana Scully
What little I read was through the help of an interpreter.
Monica Reyes
But you interpreted them as text from the bible, from the koran... Scripture from religions around the world. And science, too. The periodic table of elements.
Dana Scully
Yes.
Monica Reyes
And you wrote in your report they were millions of years old.
Dana Scully
Based on radiometric readings from fossils that were encrusted on the surface of the ship.
Monica Reyes
Agent Scully, I know you've become more open-minded about these things... But do you know what it is you're saying here? If it were true these symbols wouldn't just be words... They'd be the very word of god on the surface of an alien spacecraft.
Dana Scully
It'd mean that everything mankind believes in... Is in question.
Monica Reyes
And you believe this?
Dana Scully
I didn't. I mean, I-I refused to believe it. But now I think... I think there may be answers there.
Monica Reyes
Answers to what?
Dana Scully
Answers about my son. I know how that sounds. I have no one else to say it to. That I was meant to find these... Somehow. These were meant for me.
Monica Reyes
But why would the FBI keep that from you? From us? And what exactly do they want with them?
Dana Scully
Those are questions I can't answer.
Scene 07
FBI HEADQUARTERS
John Doggett
You forget our extension? Or you just can't be bothered?
Walter Skinner
Excuse me?
John Doggett
Returning calls. Agent Reyes's, mine. What the hell's that about?
Walter Skinner
Well, I've been tied up, agent Doggett. I just haven't had a chance.
John Doggett
That's not what your phone log says. Your log says you've returned everyone's calls but ours.
Walter Skinner
Agent Doggett, let me remind you who answers to whom here.
John Doggett
Oh, I think you owe me an answer, sir-- and if you don't owe it to me, you owe it to agent Scully-- on this X-File case the FBI's got. The one they're working so hard to keep us from investigating.
Walter Skinner
You ready for my answer, agent Doggett? It's not an X-File case.
John Doggett
That's why you have 40 agents combing the canadian border for a dead man that ain't dead.
Walter Skinner
You don't know what you're talking about.
John Doggett
I was out there.
Walter Skinner
Without any authorization!
John Doggett
I don't understand-- none of us do-- why you're keeping their secrets why you're keeping quiet.
Walter Skinner
Because I know things you don't, John. And it's for your own good.
[ knock on door ]
Scene 11
Scene 11
Monica Reyes
Yeah. Who's there?
John Doggett
It's me. Open up, Monica. I got it.
Monica Reyes
Got what?
John Doggett
What they've been keeping a secret. What they won't tell Scully. What they wouldn't tell us.
Monica Reyes
What am I looking at?
John Doggett
A file on a guy crossing the canadian border last night.
Monica Reyes
Special agent robert comer.
John Doggett
He's FBI.
Monica Reyes
I know this guy. I worked a case with him once in new orleans. Company man-- straight as a ruler.
John Doggett
Well, according to his file last six months he's been deep undercover.
Monica Reyes
Undercover doing what?
John Doggett
We got a pile of reading to do. What's not blacked out. Oh, and, uh... Picked these up in the bargain.
Monica Reyes
A.d. Skinner gave you these?
John Doggett
I sort of got it on loan.
Monica Reyes
We better call agent Scully.
John Doggett
I already did.
Scene 12
JESSUP, MARYLAND
Driver
Hey, need a hand there, bro? How about I just help you out, huh? Ohh!
[ engine starts ]
Scene 13
Scene 13
Dana Scully
I'm on my way. That was agent Doggett again. They're waiting. Mom, I've got to go. It's the middle of the night, Dana. I just don't understand what can't wait till tomorrow. Mom, it's important. I wouldn't go if it weren't. Yes, I know, Dana. You say it's about getting answers. Answers about William, mom. I know you're worried about him... That there are things about him that you just can't explain-- but even if you were to get those answers what would it change? Mom, he's my child. And you have to love him and raise him in spite of everything. Dana, god has given you a miracle. A child that wasn't supposed to be. Maybe it's not to question-- just to be taken as a matter of faith. Mom, I can't take this on faith. I need to know. I need to know if it's really god I have to thank.
Scene 14
Scene 14
Dana Scully
Where did you get those?
John Doggett
I got 'em. And the FBI's file on the man that was carrying them. He's one of ours-- working deep undercover. Infiltrating a religious group. Some kind of wacked-out UFO cult. A case they never told us about.
Dana Scully
Where's this cult supposed to be?
John Doggett
North dakota. And at some point, they up and disappear into canada. Agent goes right along with them. FBI loses all contact with him.
Dana Scully
What did they think this guy was doing running across the u.s. Border carrying these rubbings on him?
John Doggett
The FBI thinks he went over to the dark side. Became wacked-out himself. And that's the secret they've been trying to keep from everybody.
Dana Scully
That's it? That's the big secret?
John Doggett
That and... They can't seem to find him the best I can figure.
Dana Scully
I was questioned this morning by the senior staff of the FBI. Not about an FBI agent but about these rubbings. There's got to be something more. There has to be.
Monica Reyes
There may be, agent Scully. But I'm not sure even the FBI is aware of it. How could they be without access to your files?
Dana Scully
What are you talking about?
Monica Reyes
The set of rubbings the man smuggled over the border doesn't match the rubbings you took.
Dana Scully
Wait a second. How can that be?
Monica Reyes
It could only be that this wacked UFO cult found a second spacecraft.
[ gasps ]
[ car alarm chirps ]
Scene 15
Scene 15
Dana Scully
Mom? He wants to kill the baby!
[ blow smacking ]
[ baby crying ]
Dana Scully
No! No! Don't! Please! Don't!
[ grunting ]
[ grunts ]
[ loud grunt ]
Dana Scully
I'll kill you! I'll kill you if you touch my baby!
Margaret Scully
Dana!
[ baby crying ]
[ crying ]
[ panting ]
Scene 16
Scene 16
Monica Reyes
Oh, my god.
John Doggett
Mrs. Scully, are you okay? What the hell happened here?
Dana Scully
I need your help, okay? Agent Reyes, I need you to take my mom and the baby. Can you do that, Monica?
Monica Reyes
Of course.
Dana Scully
Thank you.
[ man moaning ]
John Doggett
Who is that? Is somebody here? You gonna tell me what this is who the hell this is, Dana?
Dana Scully
That man-- that FBI agent-- came here to kill my baby.
John Doggett
You gotta help this man.
Dana Scully
No, not until he tells me why.
John Doggett
He's not gonna tell anybody anything unless you get him to a hospital. This man is losing blood fast.
Dana Scully
I am not gonna turn him over to the FBI! I am not gonna let them cover their tracks on this one! Why? [ groans softly ] why do you want to hurt my son?! Agent Doggett, put down the phone! He has to answer me!
Agent Comer
He ha-has...
Dana Scully
What? Say it!
[ gulps ]
Agent Comer
Your son...
Dana Scully
Say it!!
Agent Comer
...has to die.
Dana Scully
Why?! Who told you that?!
[ panting ]
Dana Scully
He's my son! He's my son!!
John Doggett
I've got a medical emergency, a man in critical condition. This man have any kind of a weapon?
Dana Scully
A pillow.
John Doggett
Whatever brought him here I hope to god we figure it out.
[ sniffles ]
[ metallic clang ]
Scene 18
Scene 18
Josepho
What is it?
[ sighs ]
Josepho
This changes everything.
Overcoat Woman
He can expose all this. He's got proof he can show them. What do you want to do?
[ sighs ]
Josepho
There's only one thing to do.
Scene 19
FBI HEADQUARTERS
Brad Follmer
Agent Scully, agent Doggett. You can both have a seat.
Dana Scully
If this is just going to be another interrogation I prefer to stand.
[ sighs ]
Alvin Kersh
Agent Scully, a man was shot in your apartment. An FBI agent.
Dana Scully
Trying to kill my son.
Alvin Kersh
That is not in question here. There'll be an investigation.
Dana Scully
Another secret investigation or one where I'm given advance warning that my family's life is in danger?
Brad Follmer
It would help us to help you if you could tell us anything this man might have communicated to you.
John Doggett
I wouldn't tell him anything, not until they explain why all the hush-hush over this case why the doublespeak the mincing words from mr. Follmer 'cause I want answers myself.
Alvin Kersh
The man you shot had been undercover. Which you've already found out through whatever unethical means. His assignment was to infiltrate a religious cult. A cult led by a former military officer. A very dangerous man by all accounts and who also believed in very dangerous ideas about aliens.
Dana Scully
And why wasn't I told? Why not agent Doggett? Why not agent Reyes? Why wasn't this an X-File?
Walter Skinner
I asked them to put somebody else on the case because I was afraid after all that you'd been through it just might break you.
Dana Scully
What are you talking about?
Alvin Kersh
Agent comer-- our undercover man-- was sent to infiltrate the cult... Based on a series of... Threats.
Dana Scully
What threats? Threats to who? To me, to my child...
Brad Follmer
Threats... On agent Mulder's life.
Dana Scully
That's what this is about? Then why pull me in here and show me those rubbings? I don't understand.
Brad Follmer
Before losing all contact with our undercover agent he sent us a communication. A communication we've been trying to confirm that, uh......that Mulder was already dead.
[ door opens ]
[ door closes ]
Scene 20
Scene 20
Monica Reyes
Here's your mommy.
Dana Scully
Hi, honey.
Monica Reyes
Dana, what's wrong? What's happened?
Dana Scully
It's okay.
Monica Reyes
Just tell me what it is.
Dana Scully
It's Mulder.
[ continuous rattling noise ]
[ rattling grows louder ]
Monica Reyes
What is it?
Dana Scully
An artifact. I got it from the man who was trying to kill William.
Monica Reyes
Okay, but what the hell is it?
Dana Scully
It's a piece of the spacecraft.
Scene 21
Scene 21
John Doggett
Where's agent Scully?
Monica Reyes
She's still upstairs. I want to talk to you before you see her to explain what's happened.
John Doggett
You said it had something to do with the kid. A piece of metal these rubbings were taken from.
Monica Reyes
A piece of that ship in canada.
John Doggett
Oh, come on, Monica. You're making an outrageous leap. You're just guessing there's any such thing.
Monica Reyes
It flew through the air at the baby. I saw it.
John Doggett
Just tell me the boy's okay.
Monica Reyes
I don't think you understand. The boy has some connection with this thing-- this piece of metal.
John Doggett
You saying this kid's an alien or something?
Monica Reyes
You can believe or not but the man who tried to kill Scully's baby believed it. So must this cult he got involved with who are obviously more than willing to kill for their belief.
John Doggett
Where are we going?
Dana Scully
I'll tell you on the way.
John Doggett
You drive.
Monica Reyes
What is it?
John Doggett
I'm right behind you guys.
Dana Scully
What is it?
John Doggett
Probably nothing.
[ slaps door ]
[ engine starts ]
[ tires screeching ]
John Doggett
Federal agent! Stop the car!
[ gunshots ]
Scene 22
Scene 22
Monica Reyes
Who are we meeting?
Dana Scully
The only ones left we can trust.
[ crying ]
Melvin Frohike
Hey, little man. It's okay.
Richard Langly
Your baby's in good hands.
Dana Scully
I need to know that you're taking him to a safe place. I need to know that you're... That you're taking every precaution.
John Fitzgerald Byers
We understand. Langly.
Dana Scully
Now, there's a good chance that my phone lines have been tapped and if they're tapped, they can trace you.
Melvin Frohike
We thought about that.
Richard Langly
Six cell phones their signals scrambled. Use each one once and then throw it away.
Dana Scully
[ whispering ] hey. It's going to be okay.
Melvin Frohike
Whatever you do, don't worry.
Scene 23
Scene 23
Dana Scully
What's going on here?
Monica Reyes
I don't know. What happened? Is it John?
Walter Skinner
Agent Scully! Scully!
Dana Scully
My baby! They're after my baby! I have to get back!
[ tires screeching ]
Scene 24
Scene 24
Melvin Frohike
What the hell is this?
John Fitzgerald Byers
What the hell is what?
[ crying ]
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