Scully: I will continue here as long as I can . . . as long as you are beset by the haunting illness which I saw consume your beautiful mind. What is this discovery I've made? How can I reconcile what I see with what I know? I feel this was meant not for me to find but for you . . .
Amina Ngebe: They'll take this as a sign to leave what you have found alone, a bad omen.
Scully: Caused by the ship out there?
Amina: Mmm. Caused by God . . . who will be much less helpful than those men if we are to continue this work.
Scully: I feel you slipping away from me with every minute I fail here. What are the elusive meanings I cannot see that are hidden here? If I could understand it, know how it affected you, learn how to use its power to save you.
Dr. Barnes: This craft that's come ashore? Its extraterrestrial origins?
Scully: You don't even believe in that.
Dr. Barnes: Nor do you. But here we are.
Scully: I'm here only to help my partner.
Kritschgau: You know, I had a job . . . with a government pension coming and two years ago, Fox Mulder asked me to do him a favor -- blow the whistle on Uncle Sam's UFO propaganda mill. And all it got me was this swanky address. (lives in a dump)
Skinner: I don't know how long we can keep him out of that unit. We can be held responsible.
Kritschgau: You asked me to come down here. You better be prepared to accept the responsibility, Mr. Skinner.
(Skinner slowly takes the syringe which is REALLY full, and injects it into Mulder's IV line. Immediately, Mulder's expression relaxes and he becomes more aware.)
Mulder: (gritting his teeth, in a raspy voice) They're coming.
Mulder: She knows. (Fowley)
Skinner: You can read her mind?
Mulder: Yeah. We got to act fast.
Skinner: The doctor's on his way.
Mulder: No doctors. Get me Scully.
Skinner: I don't know where she is.
Mulder: What's causing this is alien. That's why my doctors can't help me.
Kritschgau: I don't believe in aliens, Agent Mulder. I think you know that.
Mulder: I do. That's why I need you.
Scully: I'm only here to help my friend.
Dr. Barnes: You can't help him. You're wasting your time reading it.
Scully: It has power.
Dr. Barnes: It IS power . . . the ultimate power. Your friend just got too close.
Kritschgau: We developed this to test remote-viewing capabilities. It works much like a card trick. You tap the monitor where the saucer image appears when it appears or when you think it does. Okay?
Mulder: (half-hearted attempt at making a joke) Who ya gonna call?
Mulder: You don't want to believe. You're not looking hard enough.
(Kritschgau reaches to turn off the monitors, but Skinner stops him.)
Skinner: One more time, faster.
(Kritschgau reluctantly starts the test again, this time increasing the speed of the images. Mulder begins tapping rapidly, with perfect accuracy.)
Kritschgau: He's ahead of the images. He's anticipating.
Primitive African Man: (to Scully) Some truths are not for you.
Scully: You slammed on the brakes. There was a man.
Amina: That's right-- in the road.
Scully: No. He was right there-- sitting right where you are in your seat.
Amina: The men were right. This is a bad sign. A sign to give up.
Scully: Turn us around.
Amina: Not back to the beach.
Scully: No . . . I'm going home.
Skinner: I know what you're doing.
Kritschgau: I'm trying to help him.
Skinner: No, this isn't about him -- it's about you, it's about revenge against the government for trying to destroy your life.
Kritschgau: I was destroyed to protect what Mulder knew all along. Now he's the proof-- he's the X-File.
Skinner: We can't just keep shooting him full of drugs. It's gone too far!
Kritschgau: How far should it go?! How far would Mulder go?!
Scully: Where is he? Is he still in the hospital?
Skinner: Where have you been?
Scully: Is he still at Georgetown Memorial?
Skinner: You can't get to him.
Scully: Do you know where he is or don't you?!
Skinner: He's in the neuro-psych ward but it's no good, Agent Scully. (Scully starts to leave.) Agent Scully!
Scully: I have been on a plane for 22 hours. I have to see him.
Skinner: He can't even communicate, Agent Scully. They won't treat him because they don't know what's wrong with him! They said he was dying. I had to do something.
Scully: He's not dying.
Skinner: I'm afraid it's true.
Scully: He's not dying. He is more alive than he has ever been. He's more alive than his body can withstand and what's causing it may be extraterrestrial in origin.
Skinner: I know. But there's nothing to be done about it. (Scully starts to leave again.) They're going to deny you access.
Scully: Maybe as his partner . . . but not as his doctor.
(Mulder's hospital room. Mulder is staring straight ahead, unseeing. Through the babble of voices that we are hearing in his head, one voice comes through clearly, though as if from a distance. Mulder weakly turns his head in the direction of the voice.)
Scully: Please. I need to see him. I'm begging you, please. Thank you.
(She's standing in the doorway to his room talking with Dr. Harriman and two security guards. They let her pass and close the door as she approaches Mulder's bed.)
Scully: Mulder, it's me. I know that you can hear me. If you can just give me some sign. I want you to know where I've been . . . what I found. I think that, if you know, that you could find a way to hold on. I need you to hold on. I found a key . . . the key . . . to every question that has ever been asked. It's a puzzle . . . but the pieces are there for us to put together and I know that they can save you if you can just hold on. (She is almost crying as she pleads with him, gripping his hand tightly, staring into his blank face.) Mulder . . . please. Hold on.
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