The X-Files Fight The Future

MULDER: What do you mean, "may" have?

WMM: Find Agent Scully. Only then will you realize the scope and

grandeur of the project. Go. Go now!

(WMM points his gun in Mulder's face. Mulder starts to walk away,

WMM opens his door again, a rat scuttles past (Hi, Krycek!), WMM

reenters the limo, closes the door and it explodes, knocking Mulder

off his feet. He sits on the ground watching the flames burn, then pulls

out the pouch and checks to see that the bottle is still intact. It is.

He puts it back in the pouch, gets up and after one last look at the

burning car, begins to run for his life.)

WILKES LAND, ANTARCTICA

48 HOURS LATER

(Through the vast whiteness of the snow-covered land we see a small

black dot. It's Mulder driving a Sno-Cat. He wipes away the condensation

forming on the inside of his window and squints his eyes to see where

he's going. The camera shows his vehicle leaving tracks in the virgin

snow. He whacks his gas gauge and it keeps flipping back to empty.

He checks the coordinates again, stops the Sno-Cat and holds up a

hand-held thingy which tells him he's at the exact place he's supposed

to be. He looks out the window at a hillside, sighs and we next see

him struggling up the hill. He reaches the top, slips a little, then

hunkers down and looks at a base of some kind in the distance.

He whips out a pair of binoculars and looks through to see more

Sno-Cats lined up, one of them moving. It stops, he adjusts the

power to see closer and spots Cancer Man in the vehicle. He puts

the binoculars away and starts to walk towards the base. It soon

turns into a jog as he gets closer, but he suddenly falls through the

ice as it collapses beneath his feet. He falls quite a way through a

snowy tunnel, then lands in an icy crevice. He takes a minute to

catch his breath, stands up slowly and peers down a hole leading

off from the crevice, steam rising from it. He positions himself so

he can crawl down this hole and turns around at the end so he drops

feet-first onto a huge metallic structure. It's a type of hallway and on

either side of him are containers of some sort. He whips out his

flashlight to investigate further. Wiping the snow away from one of

the containers, a cryopod, he spots a prehistoric man encased in ice.)

(Meanwhile, back on the surface, a Sno-Cat drives up, Cancer Man

seated inside, and it stops. Cancer Man looks at Mulder's abandoned

Sno-Cat and takes a slow puff of his ciggie.)

(Back under the ice, Mulder finds stacks and stacks of these

coffin-like cryopods, piled row upon row. He walks further into the

structure and finds an area opened up, somewhat like a hospital's

operating theatre. He stands in the middle and looks in awe at the

huge structure before his eyes. Hundreds, more than likely thousands

of these rows stand before him. Where to begin looking for Scully?

A movement catches his eye near the bottom of the rows. A rack

of these cryopods are moving as if on a conveyer belt. He looks

through his binoculars, but I can't tell you what he sees, it's very

vague! Must have seen something though as he springs into action.

He begins to maneuver his way down to the moving cryopods,

hanging by his hands, his feet dangling over the edge. Suddenly,

he loses his grip and shouts ...)

MULDER: Oh, shit!

(... as he begins to fall helplessly. He falls down the side of a wall,

sliding out of control until he lands harshly on a ledge, hanging by

one hand as he teeters over the edge. A bottomless well of metal

lies below, the belly of the beast-ship. Using his legs and feet to

anchor himself, he makes his way around the edge-corner and

ends up sitting, catching his breath. The flashlight in use again,

he slides gently over a huge cylinder, landing on a walkway. At

the end, he finds an empty cryopod ... containing Scully's clothes

and her cross necklace. He grips the necklace in one hand and

sets off determined to find her. He comes upon a rack of the

cryopods, shining his flashlight from one to another, a frozen face

in each caught by his beams. The eyes on each one are open in

shock, their mouths held open by a tube, a picture of silent horror.

Finally, the flashlight lands on his quarry .... Scully! Using his hand

and then the butt of his flashlight, he begins to hammer at the ice

keeping her captive.)

(Back above the ice, we see a Sno-Cat driving, then we cut to

somewhere else inside the base, a flurry of activity as soldiers

scurry about and Cancer Man barks instructions.)

CSM: Secure the station! I want everyone else down below!

If you're not armed, arm yourselves! We have a breach!

(Cut back to Mulder who has now hauled off a piece of a nearby

cryopod and is pounding on the ice as he desperately tries to save

her from her ice-coffin.)

(Cut to Cancer Man hustling his men down some ladders.)

CSM: Let's go, let's go!

(Back to Mulder as he finally breaks through the ice releasing an

ocean of goo which encased her naked body. He pulls away the

few remaining shards of ice and stares at her face. Is he too late?

Mulder unwraps the bottle of vaccine and fills the needle. He injects

the vaccine into Scully and it's effect is immediate. Within the tube

connected to her mouth a liquid appears to retreat from her body,

the tube begins to shrivel and die.)

MULDER: Scully?

(As he goes to touch the now dead tube and pull it from Scully's mouth,

a violent shaking takes over the ship, a reaction to the vaccine's

unwanted intrusion.)

(Cut to Cancer Man in a room full of equipment and monitors.

A man is seated in front of a monitor showing a graph of some kind.)

MAN LOOKING AT GRAPH: There's a contaminate in the sytem!

(Cancer Man looks at the graph in shock.)

CSM: Mulder has the vaccine!

(Back to Mulder. The cryopod hallway he's in begins to fill with steam

as it shoots out from the floor and ceiling. Mulder turns back to Scully

and sees her move. He grabs the tube and begins to drag it out of her

throat. Once it's all removed, and it's a long sucker, so it takes a sec

or two, Mulder stares at her, waiting for a sign of some kind.)

MULDER: Breathe! Scully, can you breathe?!

(Scully begins to cough, spitting out what's left of the slimy goo.

Finally she starts breathing on her own, gasping for each sweet

taste of oxygen. She tries to speak (DW NOTE: Tell me I'm crazy,

but I heard Dana whispering the words "I -- Love -- You" those

Mulder couldn't discern - then he leans into her tenderly, putting

his ear against her mouth!) and barely manages a weak ..)

SCULLY: Cold ... I'm cold.

MULDER: I'm going to get you out of there.

(He starts to whack away at the ice with a metallic cylinder next to

him, probably shaken loose by the rocking and rolling the ship is

still experiencing.)

(Cut to the graph/monitor room, sparks flying from various machines

as the men are tossed like ragdolls. It's time to give up the ship, boys.)

CSM: Abandon your posts! Evacuate!

(Cancer Man walks towards one of the ladders the men are now

scrambling down. Another man stops and says ..)

MAN: What's happened?!