Special Agent Chesty Short: Gas, expenses . . . the motel rooms alone. By FBI standards these numbers are out of control.
Mulder: We could start sharing rooms.
Short: Investigating your sister's abduction and the government conspiracy around it. Both of which have been resolved, correct?
Mulder: Nothing has been resolved exactly.
Short: In this case report here it's concluded your sister is dead as well as the men who took her. This is your handwriting here on the report, Agent Mulder?
Mulder: Yeah.
Short: So, what exactly is left to investigate?
Marita Covarrubias: Your release has been arranged.
Krycek: Marita Covarrubias. The last time I saw you, I left you for dead.
Marita: Alex, if it was strictly up to me, I'd leave you here to rot, too.
Short: But you don't believe in aliens?
Scully: I've seen things that I cannot deny.
Mulder: I can't do my job from an office, I promise you.
Short: Nowadays, the most advanced space exploration is done sitting in an office, Agent Mulder. Why? It's just too damn expensive putting men in outer space.
Mulder: I'm not looking in outer space.
Short: Bringing us to the point. If you spend so much time and money looking for aliens, responsibly, you should narrow your search.
Mulder: To where?
Short: Wherever they are. It's not unreasonable. It's just a matter of reducing your vision.
Mulder: I think I'm in big trouble.
Scully: Oh, Mulder, how many times have they tried to shut us down?
Mulder: Yeah, but I never actually assaulted an auditor before.
Scully: Did you hurt him?
Mulder: I reduced his vision a little bit.
Billy Miles: Agent Fox Mulder?
Mulder: Speaking.
Billy: My name is Billy Miles. I don't know if you remember me.
(The kid from the Pilot, seven years ago.)
Mulder: Oregon, seven years ago. You had multiple abduction experiences. I'm here with Agent Scully.
Scully: Billy, are you all right?
Billy: Yeah. This may seem weird, me calling like this, but, um, I don't know where else to turn.
Mulder: It happening again, Billy?
Billy: Yeah, but not to me this time.
Mulder: More alien abductions, Scully.
Scully: I don't know how we could possibly justify the expense.
Mulder: We'd probably turn up nothing.
Scully: Let's go waste some money.
CSM: I was worried about you, Alex.
Krycek: Cut the crap, old man.
CSM: I heard about your incarceration.
Krycek: You had me thrown in that hellhole.
(In the background, Nurse Greta lights a cigarette and gives it to CSM. He inhales the smoke thru the little box in his throat. Ewwww. Marita and Krycek are also disgusted.)
(Mulder and Scully pull up in front of Miles' residence. They get out of the car as Billy comes to greet them warmly, shaking each of their hands.)
Billy: Agent Mulder and Agent Scully.
Mulder: Look who's wearing a badge.
(Mulder and Scully follow Detective Miles and Billy to the crash site. They get out of their cars and look down at the road. A faded orange "X" is painted on the pavement. This is the same "X" that Mulder painted seven years ago in the Pilot. *sniff*)
Mulder: Deja vu all over again.
Det. Miles: That was there already in case you're wondering at all about it.
Scully: I watched Agent Mulder paint that there seven years ago.
Det. Miles: What for?
Mulder: To mark an anomalous electrical disturbance -- the kind where time gets bent or goes missing or where your car loses power and dies in the middle of the road.
Det. Miles: What was he shooting at?
Mulder: Probably nothing.
Det. Miles: Nothing?
Mulder: Nothing's all you seem to find out here, Detective.
Mulder: You're Teresa? Teresa Nemman?
Teresa Hoese: Yes.
Mulder: Seven years ago you came to Agent Scully and I for help. You were afraid of being abducted.
(She recognizes them.)
Teresa: Oh, my God.
(Teresa hands the baby to Scully. Scully glances at Mulder, then cuddles the child on her lap. Mulder watches her wistfully as she begins talking to the baby.
Mulder: Who is it?
Scully: It's me.
Mulder: What's wrong, Scully? You look sick.
Scully: I don't know what's wrong.
Mulder: Come in.
(Mulder draws Scully into the room and she sits huddled, shivering, on the bed. Mulder closes the door and goes to her.)
Scully: I, um . . . I was starting to get ready for bed and I started to feel really dizzy -- vertigo or something -- and then I just . . . I started to get chills.
(Mulder turns down the sheets and blankets on his bed.)
Mulder: You want me to call a doctor?
Scully: No, I just . . . I just want to get warm.
(Scully climbs onto the bed, pausing as Mulder takes off her shoes and drops them to the floor. She gets under the covers and Mulder tucks her in, then lies behind her and embraces her in a classic warm spooning cuddle. There is no shyness or hesitation. Both are very comfortable.)
Scully: Thank you.
(Pause. Mulder holds Scully.)
Mulder: It's not worth it, Scully.
(Long pause.)
Scully: What?
Mulder: I want you to go home.
Scully: Oh, Mulder, I'm going to be fine.
Mulder: No, I've been thinking about it. Looking at you tonight, holding that baby . . . knowing everything that's been taken away from you. A chance for motherhood and your health and that baby. I think that . . . I don't know, maybe they're right.
Scully: Who's right?
Mulder: The FBI. Maybe what they say is true, though for all the wrong reasons. It's the personal costs that are too high.
(Scully begins to cry silently. Mulder whispers gently into her ear.)
Mulder: There so much more you need to do with your life. There's so much more than this.
(He gently strokes her face as she cries.)
Mulder: (whisper) There has to be an end, Scully.
(He softly kisses her cheek and leans his head on her shoulder. Scully clasps his hand and holds it near her mouth.)
CSM: It's there, Alex. I'm certain of it. Hidden in plain sight.
Krycek: You listen to me. If you're going to play games, the two of them, Mulder and Scully, they're going to beat me to it.
CSM: Are you saying that Mulder and Scully are there looking for the UFO?
Krycek: They're looking for a missing deputy.
CSM: Well, they're looking for the right thing but in the wrong place.
Krycek: You sent me looking for a ship.
CSM: Find the deputy. Find the ship.
Scully: Why is this happening to me?
Mulder: It's okay. It's okay.
Scully: What the hell's going on, Mulder?
Mulder: I don't know. But these aren't just random abductions, Scully. We've got to warn Billy Miles of that.
Scully: Warn him of what?
Mulder: These abductees aren't just systematically being taken. They're not coming back.
Mulder: What's our punishment this time? Thumbscrews or 40 lashes? Come on in, Walter. Sit a spell. This could be the last time you take a trip down to these offices.
Mulder: Oh well yeah, stick to a budget they say your making a contribution, but push the limits of your profession, and they say you're out of control.
Skinner: You could bring home a flying saucer and have an alien shake hands with the President . . . what it comes down to Agent Mulder is . . . they don't like you.
Mulder: Well, we didn't bring home a flying saucer . . . or an alien.
Skinner: Yeah . . . so I've been told.
(Skinner waves in Krycek and Marita. Mulder waits about 1.263 seconds and starts for Krycek. Skinner stops him, holding his arms forcefully. Mulder backs off.)
Skinner: Agent Mulder! I think you should listen to him.
Krycek: You've got every reason to want to see me dead. (Skinner restrains Mulder again) But you've got to listen to me now. You have the singular opportunity.
Mulder: Here or you want to step outside.
Krycek: I'm giving you the chance to change that, to hold the proof.
Mulder: Why me and why now
Krycek: I want to damn the soul of that Cigarette Smoking Son-of-a-Bitch.
Scully: Mulder, if any of this is true . . .
Mulder: If it is, or if it isn't I want you to forget about it, Scully.
Scully: Forget about it?
Mulder: You're not going back out there. I'm not going to let you go back out there.
Scully: What are you talking about?
Mulder: It has to end sometime. That time is now.
Scully: Mulder . . .
Mulder: Scully, you have to understand that they're taking abductees. You're an abductee. I'm not going to risk . . . (He looks at her sadly, meaningfully, his voice breaking a little.) . . . losing you.
(She walks slowly into his embrace. They cling tightly to each other.)
Scully: I won't let you go alone.
Skinner: This is starting to feel like the snipe hunt I was afraid of.
Mulder: There's no such thing as a snipe, sir.
Scully: This just can't be.
Frohike: What are you looking at?
Scully: Medical records -- Billy Miles and other known abductees in Bellefleur, Oregon. They all experienced anomalous brain activity.
Byers: Electro-encephalitic trauma.
Scully: Which is exactly what Mulder experienced earlier this year.
Langly: I don't understand.
Scully: There was something out there in that field. It knocked me back. Because it didn't want me. Mulder thinks that it's me that's in danger of being taken.
Frohike: When it's Mulder who's in danger . . . Scully?
(Scully faints. The Gunmen catch her as she falls.)
Gunmen: Scully! Whoa! You okay? Oh, gee.
(Mulder and Skinner in the woods. Mulder is setting out a system of portable red lasers surrounding the clearing.)
Skinner: How's it supposed to work?
Mulder: Not exactly sure, sir. But, uh . . . budgetarily, I'd say we're looking pretty good.
(While Skinner is occupied setting up a laser, Mulder goes into the enter of the clearing. The lasers all end in red dots against something invisible. Mulder cautiously sticks his hand into the invisibility. It begins shaking impossibly fast.)
Skinner: Agent Mulder?!
(Skinner looks up. There is no sign of Mulder in the clearing.)
Skinner: Mulder!
(Mulder is motionless in the clearing. Behind him, Skinner is calling for him in a distorted voice.)
Skinner: Mulder! Mulder . . .
(Mulder is standing just outside a pool of very white light. Inside the circle are all the Oregon abductees, Deputy Ray Hoese, Teresa Hoese, Billy Miles, Det. Miles, et al. Mulder hesitates a moment, then steps into the circle also. They welcome him warmly. He looks up at he bright light above. He is wearing Scully's gold cross. From the woods, the Alien Bounty Hunter also steps confidently into the circle. He and Mulder look at each other, perhaps with recognition of what they are to do. The white light gets brighter and the screen goes white.)
(From Skinner's point of view, a bright white light is coming out of the sky, then fades enough for him to see that it is coming from the belly of a triangle shaped ship that turns and soars off into the night sky. Skinner's face is awed and anguished.)
Skinner: Mulder.
Nurse Greta: What are you doing?
Krycek: Sending the Devil back to Hell.
CSM: As you do to Mulder and to me . . . you do to all of mankind, Alex.
(Krycek holds for a moment, then decisively pushes the man in his wheelchair down the stairs. CSM lies in a motionless, crumpled head at the foot of the stairs. Krycek and Marita descend the stairs and step over CSM on their way out of the building. Hello! Ever think of checking his pulse?)
Skinner: Agent Scully.
Scully: Hi.
Skinner: Hi. How you feeling?
Scully: I'm feeling fine. They're just running some tests on me.
Skinner: Well . . . um . . .
(Skinner's face twists in pain. He can't say it. Scully also looks about ready to cry.)
Scully: I already heard.
Skinner: I lost him. I don't know what else I can say. I lost him. I'll be asked . . . what I saw. And what I saw, I can't deny. I won't.
Scully: (crying) We will find him. I *have* to.
Scully: Sir, um . . . there's something else I need to tell you. Something that I need for you to keep to yourself. I'm having a hard time explaining it. Or believing it. But, um . . . (A small inward smile of joy mixed with pain.) I'm pregnant.
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