X FILES LYCEUM

309 NISEI

by Jo and John

"Whatever was there seemed so monstrously ugly, so filthy and dark and sinister.
Of course they were demons. They had to be.
And they were here and I couldn't get away."

Transformation Whitley Strieber

SYNOPSIS

KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE
FBI HEADQUARTERS - WASHINGTON D.C.
SUBSTATION C - ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA
PARKING LOT
THE LONE GUNMEN'S OFFICE - WASHINGTON, D.C.
JAPANESE EMBASSY - WASHINGTON, D.C.
BETSY HAGOPIAN'S HOUSE
U.S. COAST GUARD HEADQUARTERS - NEWPORT NEWS, VA
DEPT. OF ONCOLOGY - ALLENTOWN MEDICAL CENTER
MULDER'S APARTMENT
OFFICE OF SENATOR RICHARD MATHESON - WASHINGTON, D.C.
QUINNIMONT, WV
EDWARDS TERMINAL - QUEENSGATE, OH
Scully encounters a group of people who reveal information about her abduction as an alien autopsy video and a Japanese diplomat's murder have Mulder occupied.

SCULLYVISION

Scully starts out funny and skeptical, then winds up worried but still skeptical. She starts out bashing the Foxes (her partner and the network) about the alien autopsy video even though her detective interest is piqued. DetectiveScully wonders who's distributing the video and sets out to get to the bottom of this. The bottom, however, is a lot deeper than she bargains for. She unwittingly stumbles upon an Abductees Anonymous group. They know all about her experience on the 'ship,' but she is not about to stand up and announce that she is Dana, an abductee, and accept what they tell her and what she remembers. If there is a twelve step program for this group, Scully isn't ready to take the first step. Sadly, when Scully tries to talk to Mulder about it, he seems less than supportive.

When X comes calling, ToughScully confronts him basically letting him know that she doesn't trust him. Of course, she's not totally sure she shouldn't.

MULDERVISION

Faster than a speeding locomotive, more powerful than a Kung Fu master (well, only when he has his gun or guns). He leaps tall fences, he runs, he jumps, he climbs, he jogs, he sprints, he dives (well... belly flops), he loses his gun (no problem, he's got another), he's pursued by specially trained Black Ops (no problem, he's super sneaky). He's Super freaky. He's Super spooky. Fox Mulder, action figure.

NOT NAUGHTY MULDER

When Agent Scully said, "This isn't your usual kind of entertainment," clearly she meant that it wasn't sports or grainy Big Foot films, right?

WRITER
Chris Carter, Howard Gordon, and Frank Spotnitz

The three who lord over the mythology of the series have brought in a spooky aspect to Scully's abduction: namely other woman who have the exact same scars from having their chips removed. Not only was Scully overwhelmed and quite jarred from this news and that one of them was sick with cancer, but we are as well, even though Mulder didn't seem too fazed. Not ever liking episodes where the leads are separated, this one wasn't able to overcome the feeling of disjointedness, even though each lead had an interesting storyline.

DIRECTOR
Rob Bowman

A man who has established himself as a master X Files director, he does his best here with what he had to work with. Mulder's quest was made more visual than maybe it would in others' hands, and the Scully's visit to the Hagopian house was mystical and mysterious.

RUNNING TALLIES
Guns
Cell phones
"Scully, it's me."
Bathroom where the Japanese doctor is killed
Mulder Ditches Scully
Scully Drives! because Mulder ditched her
MUFON sticker
Mulder Breaks a Law, by breaking into the ship
Mulder Sees an Alien Craft
Mulder's Apartment Is Ransacked
Mulder's Office
Mulder Loses His Gun but planned on it this time
Scully Takes Mulder's Orders
Mulder Ignores Scully's Order
Mulder Gets His Ass Kung-fooed
Mulder Wears Glasses
Mulder's Porn Fixation

RECURRING CHARACTERS
Byers
Langly
Frohike
Actress Gillian Barber
Agent Pendrell
Senator Matheson
X

Notes
Nisei means second generation in Japanese, or any person born in North America to Japanese parents who were born in Japan.

Gillian Barber, who played Penny Northern, also played the mother in Red Museum. Her first words in Nisei is "She's one," which is a variation of the catchphrase of Red Museum, "He/She is one."

The number of the boxcar is 82594, Gillian Anderson's daughter, Piper, was born on that date.

ATHENAEUM

Scully entered the old grand library, which appeared eerily empty. No Curator today? she wondered. Perhaps that was fitting since she was here to research unspeakable crimes. She scanned hundreds of book titles before she found what she was looking for: a book titled "Here Be Monsters." She took the huge volume off the shelf and began to read:

In 1936, Japan's Emperor, Hirohito, ordered the development of a Unit called the Epidemic Prevention and Water Purification Department of the Kuantung Army. In 1941, it's name changed to Unit 731.

It was the site of gruesome experiments on Chinese, Russian and American POW's during WWII. Much of the work of Unit 731was about advancing biological weaponry. Experiments included the use of Anthrax and Bubonic Plague. When the war ended, many of the Japanese scientist who participated in the atrocities were not brought to justice.

They were shielded by America in exchange for their knowledge. Many of them returned to medical schools and pharmaceutical companies after the war. Published reports of their experiments claimed that their victims were "monkeys."

Scully skimmed through the gruesome pictures and read on looking for any clues that might connect these atrocities to her own abduction. She was so engrossed in the book that when a voice spoke behind her she literally jumped.

"I didn't mean to startle you."

"And you are?" Scully turned to see who had crept up behind her.

"I've been known by many names through the ages."

"Would Beelzebub be one of them?" Scully asked, not bothering to hide her sarcasm.

"It would."

"I don't see horns and a tail."

"That's because I don't really exist."

"They say that the Devil's greatest trick was to convince people he doesn't exist."

"Who thinks I don't exist? Hey, I'm more popular than Jesus and John Lennon combined these days, or rather the "thought" of me is. You see, Dana, if I may call you that, it's easier for people to believe that I'm some outside force that makes good people do bad things than to realize that all people have evil in them, and some, like the scientists in Unit 731, do very evil things. Believe me Dana, there are "Units" that exist today that would make 731 look like kindergarten."

Scully looked away briefly to consider that nasty idea and when she looked back "Satan" was gone or maybe he was never there. Maybe she'd been reading too long. Maybe she should go home.

QUOTES

SCULLY: What are you watching?
MULDER: Something that just came in the mail.
SCULLY: That's not your usual brand of entertainment. What is it?
MULDER: According to the magazine ad I answered, it's an alien autopsy. Guaranteed authentic.
SCULLY: You spent money for this?
MULDER: Twenty-nine ninety-five, plus shipping.
SCULLY: Mulder, this is even hokier than the one they aired on the Fox network. You can't even see what they're operating on!
MULDER: But it, it does look authentic. I mean, the setting and the procedures. I mean, it does look as if an actual autopsy is being performed, doesn't it?
SCULLY: Well, technically, I don't know why they would be wearing gas masks.
MULDER: Well, maybe it's this green substance they seem to be extracting from the subject. Can you identify that?
SCULLY: Olive oil? Snake oil? I suppose you think it's alien blood.
MULDER: It's widely held that aliens don't have blood, Scully.
SCULLY: I guess that begs the question, if this is an alien autopsy...
MULDER: Where's the alien? But what's so intriguing to me is the striking lack of detail here.
SCULLY: Well, what do you want for 29.95?
MULDER: No, that autopsy you saw on TV was so fake precisely because it tried to show too much.
SCULLY: And this is real because it doesn't?

SCULLY: Who's selling these tapes?
MULDER: Some guy in Allentown, PA. Claims he pulled it off the satellite dish at two in the morning.

SCULLY: Either they can't locate an interpreter, or the interpreter they located didn't interpret the instructions and got lost somewhere. I don't know which.
MULDER: Did you try the FBI field office?
SCULLY: Somehow, this is a tall request in Allentown this time of night.
MULDER: Well, look at this... a beacon in the night.
Skinner walks up the hall to them.

MULDER: You don't, uh, speak Japanese by any chance, do you?
SKINNER: I wish I could, it might save us all some embarrassment.
SCULLY: What do you mean?
SKINNER: I'm up here with a federal attorney trying to sort out a little international mess. He said you made an arrest tonight.
MULDER: A murder suspect, yeah.
SKINNER: Yeah, I'm afraid you're gonna have to release him.
MULDER: What are you talking about?
SKINNER: According to the Japanese Diplomatic Corps, the man you arrested is a high-ranking diplomat.
MULDER: This man, sitting in here?
SKINNER: That's Kazuo Sakurai.
MULDER: Oh, I didn't get his name. I was too busy getting my ass kicked.
SCULLY: What about the murder victim or the paperwork?
SKINNER: It's all gonna be handled by some other agency. What are you two doing out here, anyway?
MULDER: Tracking down a video piracy thing.
SKINNER: I suggest you keep your nose clean and head back to Washington, Agent Mulder, before someone takes another swipe at it.

SCULLY: I don't know, Mulder, it just doesn't track. What would a Japanese diplomat be doing in that house with a dead man with his head stuffed in a pillowcase?
MULDER: Obviously not strengthening the international relations.
SCULLY: Well, what do you want to do now, drop it?
MULDER: No, I paid my 29.95, Scully. I think I'm entitled to a few more answers, don't you think?

SCULLY: What would he be doing with a list of Mutual UFO Network members in the greater Allentown area with the name Betsy Hagopian circled?
MULDER: Maybe he was going to fit her for a pillowcase, too. Why don't you stick around, get a motel room and check it out in the morning?
SCULLY: What are you going to do?
MULDER: I'm going to go back to DC like a good boy, like Skinner told me to do, and show these to a few friends of ours.

LANGLY: The name of the boat is the Talapus. Just got to love those German optics.
MULDER: So you're saying that's from a German satellite?
BYERS: No, the optics are German. The technology is probably ours, but the satellite is most likely Japanese.
FROHIKE: Launched from South America.
MULDER: Got to love that global economy, huh?

SCULLY: My name is Dana Scully.
LOTTIE: I know you.
SCULLY: No, I think you must be mistaken.
LOTTIE: We saw you. Penny? Penny, come here.
SCULLY: I'm afraid I'm not who you think I am.
PENNY: Oh, my God. She's one.
SCULLY: One what?
LOTTIE: One of us.

SCULLY: There must be some kind of mistake. I work for the FBI, and I'm here conducting a murder investigation.

SCULLY: A man named Steven Zinnzser was murdered about two miles from here.
LOTTIE: Penny, do you hear that?
PENNY: Steve Zinnzser was murdered?
SCULLY: Did you know him?
LOTTIE: He was a member of our chapter.
SCULLY: But you understand, I'm not a member; I'm an FBI agent.
LOTTIE: That's what you said.
SCULLY: But at the door, you said that I was one of you.
LOTTIE: Did you have an unexplained event in your life last year? Were you missing for a period of time that can't be accounted for?
SCULLY: Why did you ask me that?
PENNY: I think you better sit down, Miss Scully. I think there are some people you're going to want to meet.

SCULLY: I've never met any of you. I've never seen any of you before in my life.
LOTTIE: You may not remember. You've only had one experience.
PENNY: Most of us here have been taken many times.
SCULLY: Taken? Taken where?
LOTTIE: The bright white place.
DIANE: You remember it, don't you?
SCULLY: I don't know.
DIANE: There are men there performing tests.
SCULLY: What men?
LOTTIE: They don't reveal themselves. They take our memories away, but somehow, they start to seep back.
PENNY: Some may have come back to you, but they didn't make sense.
LOTTIE: Do you know about regression hypnosis?
SCULLY: Yes, I'm...
LOTTIE: Have you ever considered it?
SCULLY: I'm sorry. I don't think I'm ready to discuss this.
DIANE: You're afraid to remember, aren't you? It's okay. We were all afraid at first.

LOTTIE: I don't know, when I opened that door and saw you standing there? It was like a revelation. The image of your face was so clear to me.
SCULLY: But why is it that I don't remember you?
PENNY: All you remember in the beginning is the light, and then sometimes the faces of the men who perform the tests.

SCULLY: How do you know that you're not mistaking me for somebody else?
DIANE: You have the mark, don't you?
SCULLY: What mark?
DIANE: Here.
She reveals a small scar.
DIANE: On the back of your neck.
LOTTIE: We all have them. It's where they put the implants.
SCULLY: I really have to go. I just came...
LOTTIE: To see Betsy.
SCULLY: Yes. To see Betsy Hagopian. Why are you all at her house, where is she?

SCULLY: What's wrong with her?
LOTTIE: Betsy's in the advanced stages of an undiagnosed cancer ailment. Her body's full of tumors that won't respond to any kind of treatment.
SCULLY: And you think this is the result of her abduction experiences?
PENNY: They've been taking Betsy since she was in her teens. This is what's going to happen to all of us.
SCULLY: What do you mean?
LOTTIE: I don't know if you understand this or not, Dana ... but we're all going to end up like Betsy.
PENNY: We're all dying ... because of what they do to us.

SKINNER: Think they found what they were looking for?
MULDER: I don't remember giving you a key.
SKINNER: I came to see you. Obviously, I was late for the party.
MULDER: Yeah, I guess I should really fire my maid, shouldn't I?
SKINNER: Put the gun down, Mulder. Somebody else might get hurt.
MULDER: What are you talking about?
SKINNER: Kazuro Sakurai, the diplomat that you detained yesterday?
MULDER: Our murder suspect.
SKINNER: He didn't make his flight last night. This morning, his body was found floating face-down in the Seano canal. I think we can assume he wasn't diving for pearls. The Japanese government believes that he was murdered for the contents of a briefcase that he was carrying, a piece of evidence that wasn't logged in the time of his arrest.
MULDER: What do they think was in it?
SKINNER: I've got the state department breathing down my neck, Mulder. The Japanese are set to prosecute this outside of diplomatic channels, so let's cut the crap.
MULDER: Am I being accused of murder?
SKINNER: Where's the briefcase?
MULDER: Agent Scully has it. She has it in the trunk of her rental car.
SKINNER: And where is she?
MULDER: I don't know, I haven't spoken to her since I left her in Allentown.
SKINNER: Then you better find her, because whatever you stepped in on, this case is being tracked into my office, and I don't like the smell of it.
MULDER: Mind if I tidy up a bit in here first?
SKINNER: This is bigger than me, you, or the FBI, Agent Mulder. I hope you've got other names in your phone book, because I'm taking myself off the hook on this one. You're on your own.

MATHESON: I understand you're in a difficult position. Don't look so stunned. I'm on the intelligence committee. Secrets are the only real currency we deal in.
MULDER: Then you already know what I'm up against.
MATHESON: Perhaps better than you do, which I assume is why you've come here.
MULDER: I need your advice on how to proceed.
MATHESON: Return the satellite photos.
MULDER: I'd be implicating myself.
MATHESON: A good chess player knows which pieces to sacrifice... and when.
MULDER: But I can't afford to become entangled in a murder investigation. Not now.
MATHESON: Why?
MULDER: Because of what I've seen. Because it would give them time to bury it all where I might not find it again.
MATHESON: Do you trust me, Fox? (Pause) Then let me earn your trust with the truth.
MULDER: I'm listening.
MATHESON: Several weeks ago in Knoxville, TN, four Japanese nationals were murdered. All prominent doctors apparently engaged in a highly classified project.
MULDER: What kind of project? (Pause) The autopsy of an extraterrestrial life form. Was that part of it?
MATHESON: I can't tell you. Some secrets do remain secret, Fox, even to me. I was only just now given the names of the murdered scientists. Their credentials, however, are a matter of public record. Past deeds which may illuminate present treacheries. Your time is limited... before you become, as you say... entangled in this past the point of being about to fully understand or expose it.
MULDER: What am I onto here?
MATHESON: Monsters begetting monsters.

SCULLY: Why is the door locked?
MULDER: I got something to show you.
SCULLY: Do you have any idea where I've been?
MULDER: Allentown?
SCULLY: I went to go see those MUFON members to find out about that woman, Betsy Hagopian.
MULDER: Oh, what'd you find?
SCULLY: I found out that she's dying along with a lot of other women who claim to be dying, too. All of them who say that they have these implanted in them. It's the same thing I had removed from my own neck.
MULDER: But you're fine, aren't you, Scully?
SCULLY: Am I? I don't know, Mulder. They said that they know me, that they've seen me before. It was freaky. They know things about me, about my disappearance.
MULDER: That is disturbing. But I don't think you should freak out until we find out what this thing is.

MULDER: That's a group of Japanese medical officers taken during World War II.
SCULLY: I've seen this man before.
MULDER: No, I don't think so. Not unless you were in Japan in the last fifty years.
SCULLY: No, I... I've seen him before.
MULDER: His name is Doctor Takeo Ishimaru, he's been dead since 1965. He was the commander of an elite section of the Japanese medical corps known as "731," a unit now known to have experimented on human subjects. They performed vivisections without anesthesia, tested frostbite tolerance levels on infants, exposed innocent prisoners of war to diseases, the plague. Like their Nazi counterparts, they were never brought to justice.
SCULLY: What are you doing with this?
MULDER: Four of the doctors you see in this photo were on that videotape I showed you, performing that autopsy.
SCULLY: Yeah, but they were in full surgical dress, you couldn't tell one from the other.
MULDER: Somebody could, because those same four men were murdered yesterday, found here right on US soil.
SCULLY: Murdered for what?
MULDER: That's what I'd like to know.
SCULLY: Well, murdered by whom?
MULDER: Possibly our government.
SCULLY: Our government? For what possible reason?
MULDER: For continuing their work. The work the Nazis were doing, trying to create an alien-human hybrid.
SCULLY: Mulder, that is still a fantasy.
MULDER: Scully, after all you've seen, after all you've told me you've seen. The tunnel with medical files, the, the beings moving past you, the implant in your neck. Why do you refuse to believe?
SCULLY: Believing's the easy part, Mulder. I just need more than you; I need proof.
MULDER: You think that believing is easy?

MULDER: I identified what those five photos were tracking. A ship that pulled a UFO off the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. A UFO that's in a warehouse right now being guarded by military US personnel. A UFO that was probably carrying that EBE we saw in that autopsy tape.
SCULLY: What am I looking at?
MULDER: Part of our government's secret railroad. Train cars used to carry test subjects. Used to conduct that autopsy we saw being performed.
SCULLY: Where did you get this?
MULDER: From someone like you who wants proof, who's also willing to believe.

PENDRELL: Looks like some kind of microprocessor.
SCULLY: So you're saying that this is manmade?
PENDRELL: What else would it be? I mean, it's definitely state of the art. The microlithology's extremely complex. I've never seen anything even close to this density.
SCULLY: Any way of finding out who manufactures it?
PENDRELL: There are a few companies out in San Jose, couple in Boston. Could be any one of them.
SCULLY: What are these chips used for?
PENDRELL: Video games, brake systems, they're finding new apps every day. I just read about one being designed to help the severely disabled operate computers using brainwaves.
SCULLY: How?
PENDRELL: Through direct electrochemical interface with the cerebral cortex. Pretty incredible, huh?
SCULLY: Yeah.

MULDER: Hey, Scully, it's me.
SCULLY: Where are you?
MULDER: A trainyard in Quinnimont, WV. A group of Japanese men just put someone in one of those boxcars we saw in the satellite photos.
SCULLY: I thought you said that it was our government's railroad.
MULDER: Something serious is going down here, Scully.
SCULLY: What do you mean?
MULDER: The thing they put in the train? It was alive.
SCULLY: Mulder.
MULDER: I got to get on that train. It's hooking up with a Canadian passenger train outside Cincinnati.
SCULLY: Mulder. I was right about Doctor Ishimaru. He's not dead. In fact, he's on your videotape.
MULDER: Well, that's where you know him from, then.
SCULLY: No, that's not where I know him from at all.

SCULLY: What are you doing here?
X: Have you spoken to Agent Mulder?
SCULLY: No, why?
X: He's in danger.
SCULLY: How do you know?
X: He's tracking a train. You can't let him get on it.
SCULLY: I don't know what you're talking about.
X: You've got to get word to him.
SCULLY: Why should I trust you? You've lied to us before.
X: You're wasting time. Do you understand?

SCULLY: Mulder, don't get on the train.
MULDER: Why not?
SCULLY: Because they know where you are. They know what you're doing.
MULDER: Who told you that?
SCULLY: Look, Mulder, it's just too dangerous.
MULDER: Who told you, Scully? It's coming, Scully.
SCULLY: Let it go.
MULDER: I can't.
SCULLY: Mulder, don't get on the train.

SCULLY: Mulder. Mulder!

CONTINUED IN 731