The X-Files Fight The Future

(Scully stands up and walks over to the board, positioning herself

directly in front of A.D. Cassidy. She places the vial containing the

bee found in Mulder's hallway on the table, Cassidy picks it up and

looks closely at it.)

SCULLY: I don't believe the FBI currently has an investigative unit

qualified to pursue the evidence in hand.

(Scully then turns and leaves the room. Skinner looks at Cassidy,

then the entire panel turns to stare at him. What are ya gonna do

about THIS, Skinner?)

THE CAPITAL MALL

(Mulder is sitting on a bench by the reflecting pool reading a

newspaper. He stares at a headline: "Fatal Hanta Virus Outbreak

In Northern Texas Contained", looks up and sees Scully walking

toward him. When she arrives, he hands her the paper.)

MULDER: There's an interesting work of fiction on page 24.

Mysteriously, our names have been omitted. They're burying this

thing, Scully. They're just going to dig a new hole and cover it up.

SCULLY: I told OPR everything I know. What I experienced, the virus,

how it's spread by the bees from pollen in transgenic crops.

(He gets up and starts to walk away. She joins him.)

MULDER: You're wasting your time, Scully. They'll never believe you,

not unless your story can be programmed, categorized, or easily

referenced.

SCULLY: Well, then we'll go over their heads.

(He stops and turns to her.)

MULDER: No. No. How many times have we been here before, Scully?

Right here. So close to the truth and now with what we've seen and

what we know to be right back at the beginning with nothing.

SCULLY: This is different, Mulder.

MULDER: No it isn't! You were right to want to quit! You were right

to want to leave me! You should get as far away from me as you can!

I'm not going to watch you die, Scully, because of some hollow

personal cause of mine. Go be a doctor. Go be a doctor while you

still can.

SCULLY: I can't. I won't. Mulder, I'll be a doctor, but my work is here

with you now. That virus that I was exposed to, whatever it is, it has

a cure. You held it in your hand. How many other lives can we save?

Look ... (she clasps his hand) ... If I quit now, they win.

(Hand in hand they walk off into the sunset .... sort of anyway.

DW NOTE: There is another scene which is not in the movie:

In distance, the Cigarette-Smoking Man sits in a nondescript car,

his grim, dread stare focuses on them. He takes a last puff on his

Morley and flicks it onto the street. The car's electric window

rolls up, and he drives off...)

FOUM TATAOUINE, TUNISIA

(A helicopter flies over the vast desert. We then see CSM walking

next to a cornfield, a native man yelling something in Tunisian into

the crop. From out of the corn comes Strughold. He walks over to

CSM.)

STRUGHOLD: You look hot and miserable. Why have you traveled

all this way?

CSM: We have business to discuss.

STRUGHOLD: We have regular channels.

CSM: This involves Mulder.

STRUGHOLD: Ah. That name, again and again.

CSM: He's seen more than he should have.

STRUGHOLD: What has he seen? Of the whole he has seen but

pieces.

CSM: He's determined now. Reinvested.

STRUGHOLD: He is but one man. One man alone cannot fight

the future.

CSM: Yesterday, I received this.

(From out of his pocket, he pulls a telegram and hands it to Strughold.

He reads it then drops it to the ground and walks away. CSM looks

down at the telegram, it reads:

"X-FILES RE-OPENED. STOP. PLEASE ADVISE. STOP."

CSM looks up, then walks away. The camera pans above the scene

to show the huge cornfield in the middle of the desert ...

(DW NOTE: ... with lots more, at least ten, white domes on the horizon!!!

The telegram also reads:

SEP. 6, 1998 FROM DATA CHECK WASHINGTON D.C. TO TUNIS

The screen fades to black. The song "Teotihuacan" by Noel Gallagher

starts playing followed by "Walking After You" by Foo Fighters.

Take a deep breathe - and say it with me: "That was totally the best

film out there ever":)

[THE END]

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The X-Files

US Release Date: June 19, 1998

Screenplay: Chris Carter

Story by Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz

Director: Rob Bowman

A 20th Century Fox release of a Ten Thirteen Production

Produced by Chris Carter and Daniel Sackheim

Executive Producer: Lata Ryan

Coproducer: Frank Spotnitz

Associate producer: Mary Astadounian

Assistant Director: Josh McLaglen