The X-Files Fight The Future

Chris Carter: "The idea was to do a story that was a kind of combination of five years of the show and to try to make an event of it which became the movie... The movie is important to the series, all important, you will gain not only bigger appreciation for the series as it goes forward but the series as you look back."

The X-Files "Fight The Future"   

(The classic fanfare from Alfred Newman plays as the 20th CENTURY FOX

logo is shown all over the the big screen. Fade to black - Silence.

(DW NOTE: Enough time to 'Take your greatest fear and multiply it by X:)

NOW, Mark Snow's thrilling new movie-version of The X-Files theme song

begins to play. Seas of blackoil fill the screen then text in white letters runs in.)

TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX

presents

(A wave of blackoil pushes it away.)

a TEN THIRTEEN production

(Another wave cleans the screen.)

THE (X) FILES

(The screen fades to white.)
　

NORTH TEXAS, 35,000 BC

(We open in a snow storm. Two heavily bundled humans are running

through the snow, following strange looking tracks which lead into a

cave. They enter and, once inside, we see sparks fly as they whack

a couple of rocks together and light torches with the fire. Like all good

horror movie duos, they split up to continue their search. Soon after,

one of them hears a strange shriek-type noise in the distance, but

ignores it and moves on. He then encounters an ice wall, which holds

a frozen human. Suddenly, the tracker is attacked by a creature we

can't quite see, due to fast camera cuts. The creature and human

roll around in combat, the creature slashing the man until he kills him.

The man's friend appears and stabs the creature with something

(looks like a stake, maybe his comrade's torch?) and the creature

disappears into the darkness of the cave. The man looks down at his

friend's lifeless form, then starts to look around for the creature. They

find each other, a battle ensues, the man stabs the creature several

times and finally kills it. From out of its wounds seeps a black oil which

takes on a life of its own as it changes direction and begins to flow

towards the man. It enters his body, crawling under his skin from his

feet on up to his eyes. The man starts to moan and cry out in pain

as the camera pans upwards leaving us in darkness.)

NORTH TEXAS, PRESENT DAY

(The darkness is now the view from underneath a boy, Stevie, as he

falls through the earth, landing in an underground cavern. His three

friends look down upon him.)

KID 1: Hey, Stevie, you ok?

(DW NOTE: Kid 1 is called Jeremy, and Jason is the name of Kid 2)

STEVIE: I got... I got... (coughs) I got the wind knocked out of me.

KID 2: Looks like a cave or something.

(Stevie looks around and then wanders deeper into the cavern.)

KID 1: Stevie? What's going on?

(Stevie reappears with something in his hands, which he holds up for

the others to see.)

STEVIE: It's a human skull!

KID 2: Toss it up here, dude!

STEVIE: No way butt-wipe, this is mine. Anyway, there's bones all

over the place, man.

(Stevie admires the skull, then he looks down and sees a puddle of

black oil under his right shoe.)

STEVIE: What the...?

(Suddenly, he drops the skull and grabs his stomach, looking ill.

The black oil begins to crawl up his body and onto his face,

creeping underneath his skin.)

KID 1: Stevie?

KID 2: Hey, Stevie, you okay?

(As he looks up, we see his eyes cloud over with the oil.)

KID 2: Hey man, let's get out of here.

(The boys run away from the hole. The camera pans back to show

that the scene is happening in a suburban area outside a large town.

Fade to later the same day as fire trucks, marked as "Blackwood

County Fire Dept.", pull up to the scene.)

FIRE CHIEF: (looking down hole) Give me a fourteen footer!

(A ladder slams down onto the bottom of the hole.)

FIRE CHIEF: (on his radio) Captain Miles Cooles, got a rescue

situation in progress. I'll be the whole town HC. Rope's in the hole,

(to his men) let's go, two down.

(Two men climb down into the hole and crouch by Stevie, who is

lying down in the dirt in the cavern.)

FIRE CHIEF: (talking to radio) What ya got, TC? Talk to me. (static on

radio) Do ya see the boy? Talk to me. (static) Come back, TC, do ya

see the kid? (static) Jerry, check TC's radio. (he whacks the radio)

TC? (static) Glen, South, in the hole.

(A black helicopter flies in and lands at the scene as some of the

firemen watch and wonder. Four men in biohazard suits exit and

carry a person-sized container towards the hole. The fire chief

starts to walk towards the helicopter as a man, Bronschweig,

exits the chopper.)

BRONSCHWEIG (to the fire chief, indicating the crowd that has

gathered to watch the proceedings) Get those people out of here!

(The chief and one of his men yell at the crowd to "Get back!" and

they slowly move out of the way. Both the chief and Bronschweig

start to walk towards the hole.)

FIRE CHIEF: I sent four men down there for the boy. Report is, his

eyes have turned black. Now we've lost communication with my men.

(The men in suits carry the container, which now has the boy in it,

to the helicopter, Bronschweig looks at the boy then follows the men

to the helicopter, standing and watching them load him on.)

FIRE CHIEF: What about my men?

(Bronschweig turns and looks at him as the copter starts to take off.)

FIRE CHIEF: What about my men??

(Several tanker trucks and semi-trucks pull up to the scene.)

FIRE CHIEF: What the hell is this?

(Bronschweig watches, and then walks behind one of the trucks where

no one else can hear. He dials a number on his cell phone.)

BRONSCHWEIG (in phone) It's Bronschweig. Sir, the impossible

scenerio that we never planned for? Well, we better come up with a plan.