The X-Files Fight The Future

SKINNER: You leave here unprotected, how far will you get? How

far will they let you get? Because they抣l know the minute you walk

out of here!

LANGLY: What can we do?

(Mulder half-looks around at Langly, thinks a minute then formulates

a plan.)

MULDER: You can strip Byers naked?

BYERS: What?!

(Mulder reassures him they haven't slipped into a gizzie-penned

fanfic! Newsgroup joke, ask if you need explaining.)

MULDER: I need your clothes.

(Mulder begins to tenderly remove his head bandage, winching again.

Next we see Langly, Frohike, and Mulder, disguised as Byers, exit

the room. The guard outside the room looks in and sees "Mulder"

lying on the hospital bed and Skinner pacing beside him talking into

his cell phone. The three men walk down a hallway, Mulder's suit

just a teeny bit too small for him and he picks up his cell phone.)

MULDER: (into phone) It抯 Mulder?

(Langly closes the exit door behind Mulder. Next we see Mulder

running down a nighttime street, ditching his jacket as he runs.

The scene changes to an alleyway as Kurtzweil walks along, his

senses alert to any footsteps behind him. He goes to open what

we assume is the alleyway door to Casey's Bar and is shocked to

be confronted by .... The Well-Manicured Man!)

WMM: Dr. Kurtzweil, isn't it? Dr. Alvin Kurtzweil?

(Kurtzweil backs away, turns around and begins walking quickly

down the alley. A black car pulls into the other end of the alley,

trapping him. The driver gets out, Kurtzweil stares in shock and

concern and we cut to inside Casey's Bar as Mulder bursts in the

door. He looks around the bar for Kurtzweil, but doesn't see him.

Mulder leaves through the back door, entering the alleyway. He

sees WMM and his driver slamming the trunk of their car closed.

WMM turns to face Mulder.)

WMM: Mr. Mulder.

MULDER: What happened to Kurtzweil?

WMM: He's come and gone.

MULDER: I want to know where Scully is.

WMM: (holds up a small pouch) The location of Agent Scully and

the means to save her life. (gesturing to the car) Please....

(Mulder contemplates this offer for a minute, then figuring he has

nothing more to lose, he walks to the car as he and WMM never

take their eyes off each other. They each open their own doors

and enter the car. It takes off immediately. As they cruise past

The White House, WMM hands Mulder the pouch.)

MULDER: What is it?

(As WMM speaks, Mulder opens the pouch and pulls out a small

bottle of green liquid and a piece of paper with this written on it:

BASE 1

SOUTH 83?0 LAT

EAST 63?0 LONG

326 FT.

WMM: A weak vaccine against the virus Agent Scully has been

infected with. It must be administered within 96 hours. That leaves

you little time to reach those coordinates.

MULDER: You're lying.

WMM: No. Though I have no means to prove otherwise.The virus is

extraterriestrial. We know very little about it except that it was the

original inhabitant of this planet.

MULDER: (unbelieving) A virus...

WMM: What is a virus, but a colonizing force that cannot be defeated?

Living in a cave, underground, until it mutates ... and attacks.

MULDER: This is what you've been conspiring to conceal?

A disease?

WMM: No. For God's sake, you've got it all backwards! AIDS, the

Ebola virus, on an evolutionary scale they are newborns. This

virus walked the planet long before the dinosaurs.

MULDER: (smiling in disbelief) What do you mean walked?

WMM: Your aliens, Agent Mulder. Your little green men arrived here

millions of years ago. Those that didn't leave have been lying dormant

underground since the last ice age in the form of an evolved pathogen,

waiting to be reconstituted by the alien race when it comes to

colonize the planet -- using us as hosts. Against this we have no

defense, nothing but a weak vaccine. Do you see why it was kept

secret? Why even the best men, men like your father, could not let

the truth be known. Until Dallas we believed the virus would simply

control us, that mass infection would make us a slave race.

Imagine our surprise when they began to gestate.

(CC NOTE: "There was a scene written for the movie. And it had to do with

Mulder's sister, who was he belives abducted when she was eight years old.

There was an answer given to that - a bigger and more complete answer

than we ever gotten before. We realized that it was just too much

information. And so we cut it out. By putting it back into the movie

[video edition], I think we're adding something back into that place to

the original spirit and intent of that scene which was to give a big

answer to a big question." DW NOTE: This scene was cut from the movie,

on the grounds that the new viewer, who'd not seen the show, wouldn't

understand it. It does, though, appear in the video.)..

WMM: My group has been working cooperatively with the alien colonists,

facilitating programs like the one you saw. To give us access to the virus,

in hope that we might be able secretly to develop a cure.

Mulder: (breaking in) To save your own asses.

(DW NOTE: Hmm, this line was not even in the video, don't ask me why:

The Well-Manicured Man: (shrugs) When war is futile, victory consists

of merely staying alive.)

WMM: Survival is the ultimate ideology. (he hesitates)

Your father wisely refused to believe this.

Mulder: (cries angrily) But he sacrificed my sister!

He let them take Samantha --.

WMM: No. (looking almost sorrowful) Without a vaccination, the only

true survivors of the viral holocaust would be those immune to it:

human/alien clones. He "allowed" your sister to be abducted, to be

taken to a cloning program. For one reason.

Mulder: (breathes in sudden understanding) So she'd survive.

As a genetic hybrid...

(The Well-Manicured Man nods, well a little bit.)

WMM: Your father chose hope over selfishness. Hope in the only future

he had: his children. His hope for you, was that you would uncover the

truth about the Project. That you would stop it -- That you would

fight the future.

(He falls silent. On the other side of the backseat, Mulder sits

stunned, feeling as though all at once his destiny had been validated,

or maybe simply justified.) [end of video only scene.]

(Mulder lets it all sink in, the driver eyes look at him through the

rear-view mirror. Darn good driver if he ain't watching the road!)

MULDER: Why are you telling me this?

WMM: For the sake of my own children. Once it's learned what I

have told you, my life will be over.

(WMM looks ahead, possibly at the driver.

Mulder looks at the driver.)

MULDER: Where's Dr. Kurtzweil? (no response) I'd like to get

out of the car now. (to the driver) Stop the car!

WMM: Driver. (the car pulls to a stop in yet another alleyway.)

The men I work with will stop at nothing to clear the way for what

they believe is their stake in the inevitable future. I was ordered to

kill Dr. Kurtzweil, as I was ordered to kill you.

(Suddenly, WMM grabs a gun (from his lap?) and shoots the

driver in the back of the head, BLAMMO! Mulder recoils.)

MULDER: Ow!

WMM: Trust no one, Mr. Mulder.

(WMM opens his own door and exits, holding the door open.)

WMM: Get out of the car.

MULDER: Why? The upholstery is already ruined.

WMM: Get out of the car! (Mulder scoots over to WMM's door and

exits the car.) You have precious little time. (Mulder slams the door

shut angrily.) What I've given you the alien colonists don't yet know

exists. The vaccine you hold is the only defense against the virus.

Its introduction into an alien environment may have the power to

destroy the delicate plans we have so assiduously protected for

the last 50 years!