The X-Files Fight The Future

MULDER: Why are you whispering?

SCULLY: (whispering): Mulder, I can't really talk right now.

MULDER: What did you find?

SCULLY: Evidence of a massive infection.

MULDER: What kind of infection?

SCULLY: I don't know.

MULDER: All right, listen to me. I'm going home and then I'm booking

myself on a flight to Dallas. I'm going to get you a ticket too.

SCULLY: Mulder ....

MULDER: I need you there with me. I need your expertise.

SCULLY: Mulder, I have a hearing tomorrow...

MULDER: I can get you back in time for that hearing, maybe with

evidence that will blow it away.

SCULLY: Mulder, I can't! I'm way past the point of common sense here.

MULDER: This has nothing to do with common sense. Scully?

Are you there? Scully? (she has hung up on him. He slams the

phone down in anger, opens the door to the phone booth and the

scene cuts to the soldier opening the door to the refrigerated room

where Scully is. He walks in, the sound of his boots echoing off the

walls, and the camera pans down to show us Scully's hiding place:

on the floor under one of the gurneys. A substance drips down from

above, ewwwww.)

DALLAS, TEXAS

11:21 AM

FBI FIELD OFFICE

(The scene cuts to an airplane landing. Next we see Mulder walking

down a hallway with the Field Agent.)

FIELD AGENT: I'm afraid what you're looking for amounts to a needle in

a haystack. This explosion was so devastating there hasn't been much

that we've been able to put together just yet.

(They've now entered the lab area, specimens lie on the tables and men

in lab coats are working on them.)

MULDER: Well, I'm looking for anything out of the ordinary really. Maybe

something from the FEMA offices where those bodies where found?

FIELD AGENT: Well, we weren't expecting to find those remains,

of course, and we sent 'em off to Washington.

MULDER: Well, anything from those offices that you haven't send off

to D.C. yet?

FIELD AGENT: Some bone fragments turned up in the sift this morning.

We thought we had another fatality but we found out FEMA recovered

them from an archeological site out of town.

MULDER: Have you examined them?

FIELD AGENT: No, they're just fossils, as far as we know.

(Scully enters and stands by the doorway, Mulder sees her.

He points at her and says to the field agent .... )

MULDER: I'd like you to let this person take a look at them,

if you don't mind.

(The field agent turns around, sees Scully and turns back to Mulder)

FIELD AGENT: (sighs) Just let me see if I can lay my hands on what

you're looking for. (he walks off)

(While the field agent is collecting the samples, Scully walks over to

where Mulder is standing and they talk quietly.)

MULDER: I thought you said you weren't coming.

SCULLY: I wasn't planning on it. Particularly not after spending a half

an hour in cold storage this morning. But I got a better look at the

blood and tissue samples I took from the fireman.

MULDER: And what did you find?

SCULLY: Something I couldn't show to anybody else. Not without

causing the kind of attention I'd just as soon avoid right now.

(She looks over Mulder's shoulder at the field agent, seeing if he's on

his way back before continuing.)

SCULLY: But, what those men were infected with contains a protein code

that I've never seen before. What it did to them, it did extremely fast.

MULDER: How was it contracted?

SCULLY: That I don't know. But, unless it can respond to conventional

treatment, it could be a serious health threat.

(The field agent returns with the fossils.)

FIELD AGENT: Like I said, these are just fossils, but they weren't near

the blast center so they're not going to tell you much.

MULDER: (handing Scully a vial containing some bone fragments)

Right, right, why don't you check this out.

(Scully looks through the microscope, ominous music swells in the

background and she looks up at Mulder, her eyes wide. Mulder turns

to the field agent.)

MULDER: You said you knew the location where these were found?

FIELD AGENT: Show you right on the map.

(He walks off towards the map, we presume, as Scully and Mulder

look at each other. Mulder's lip curls slightly in a yeah-sure-it-was

an-archeological-dig sneer.)

NORTH TEXAS (BLACKWOOD)

(The camera pans up with a child as he climbs a slide and stands at

the top, looking over a fence. The music swells again as we see the

other side of the fence. Three large white domes stand in what appears

to be endless desert. Next we see under one of the domes as someone

removes a silvery tube from a hole (oxygen pump, I believe) as a

person-sized container is swung over the hole via a winch. Bronschweig

appears in a bio-hazard suit and looks at some gauges at the top

of the container. He speaks to the men moving the container.)

BRONSCHWEIG: I want all of these settings checked and recalibrated.

I want a steady, negative two degrees celcius throughout the transfer

of the body after I've administered the vaccine.

(Bronschweig's hood is pulled up. Next we see him with his head fully

covered by a see-through helmet at the bottom of the ladder leading

into the hole. He walks down the stairs he led Cancer Man down, picks

up the vaccine and turns to face the fireman's body. The chest area is

empty, the alien entity once encased there is gone! Bronschweig's eyes

swell to twice normal size and the music alerts us to his horror. He looks

anxiously around the room for the alien, then whips off his headgear to

get a better view. Finding nothing, he races towards the ladder and yells

up to the men at the top.)

BRONSCHWEIG: It's gone!

ONE OF THE MEN AT THE TOP: What?!

(Bronschweig begins climbing the ladder.)

BRONSCHWEIG: It's left the body, I think it's gestated!

(He stops climbing as he hears a noise and looks off to the side.)

ONE OF THE MEN AT THE TOP: What's the matter?

BRONSCHWEIG: Wait ... I can see it. (he climbs back down and

stands at the bottom. We can see a figure glistening in the darkness.)

Oh ... Jesus .... Lord ....

ONE OF THE MEN AT THE TOP: Ya, ya see it?!

BRONSCHWEIG: So much for little green men. (he begins to fumble

with a pouch on his hip, taking out the needle and a small bottle with

the green liquid vaccine.) I need you down here!

(The two men at the top of the ladder look at each other, one nods

and the other races away from the hole, we assume he's going for a

bio-hazard suit. Down in the hole, Bronschweig fills the needle with

the vaccine and stands looking for the alien, but he keeps hearing

noises and is not sure where they're coming from. He twists his head

from side to side, trying to narrow it down. Suddenly we see a clear

view of the alien, behind him, straight out of a '50's B-movie, looking

like a guy in a cheap suit, missing only the zipper up its back. Personal

opinion, natch. Its claws appear from out of its hand, somewhat like a cat.

Bronschweig sees him, he hears the alien's blood-curdling and hair-raising

screech and in a flash the alien is all over him like a cheap suit, slicing

his face with his claws. Bronschweig manages to stab the alien with the

needle, it screams again and then Bronschweig drags himself back to

the ladder and holds onto to it for dear life. A group of the men have now

gathered at the top of the hole, one in a bio-hazard suit.)

BRONSCHWEIG: Help! I need help!

(Suddenly the top part of the ladder is pulled aside, the cover is placed

on and Bronschweig, who has begun climbing his end of the ladder,

looks up.)

BRONSCHWEIG: What are you doing?!

(The hole starts to be covered with dirt.)

BRONSCHWEIG: What are you doing?! Ohhh ....

(From the darkness, the alien grabs him and pulls him down.

We hear a scream ....)

SOMERSET, ENGLAND

(The scream was the playful yell of a small child playing in a lovely

British garden with his friends. They run around for a moment or two

then a woman, possibly the nanny, claps her hands as they run off.

The camera pans to a man seated on the terrace of what appears to

be a huge mansion, watching with a smile. It's the Well-Manicured Man

(WMM). He sips his tea and gives a small chuckle at the goings-on.

A servant appears from out of the mansion.)

SERVANT: Sir, you have a call.

(WMM looks disappointed. He walks inside and picks up a phone.)

WMM: Yes?

CSM (voice on the phone): We have a situation. The members are

assembling.

WMM: Is it an emergency?

CSM: Yes. A meeting has been set, tonight in London to determine

a course.

WMM: Who called this meeting?

CSM: Strughold. He just got on a plane in Tunis.

(From the garden comes a child's yell, not a playful one and WMM

turns towards the window to look. He hangs up the phone and runs

over to the window. One of the children is lying down and holding his

leg. Concern on his face, WMM begins to quickly go outside to see

what has happened.)

LONDON, ENGLAND

(We see the outside of a building, Albert's Hall in the background,

I believe. A black car pulls up in front and WMM gets out. A servant

holds the car door open for him.)

WMM: Has Strughold arrived?

SERVANT Yes, they're waiting in the library, sir.

(They enter the building and walk into a room where a group of men,

usually known as The Consortium but now called The Syndicate

since the movie's release, are gathered. In front of them, a monitor

is showing a frozen image of Mulder and Scully as they entered the

morgue. Strughold stands up.)