Doggett: John Doggett. I'm an FBI Agent. This is Agent Scully, Assistant Director Skinner, our boss. You mind if we come in?
(Doggett steps into the room.)
Richie Szalay: Dude, you're, you're already in.
Richie: My buddy, Gary, right? He was abducted. (looks at Scully)
Right before your partner. I, I came looking for him.
Doggett: So, you just came out here on a lark?
Richie: No. I was following the news.
Doggett: The news?
Richie: (pointing at the pictures on the wall) All, all that's in the last two weeks. Yeah, I go on these Internet chat rooms to talk about sightings and junk. After Oregon there wasn't a whole lot but then all of a sudden in Montana . . . I, I never... I, I never thought I'd find Mrs. Hoese like that. Not in a million years.
(Linda Note: Man what a guy that Richie is. He is just beyond dedicated looking for his bud Gary. That's what I call friendship. Maybe Scully and Doggett should of hooked up with Richie to find Mulder. Hey, but I'm not bitter ;))
Doggett: It's not worth arguing about. The point here is to find Mulder.
Scully: And for months, we have been looking for a break, which is what we've got here.
(Linda Note: "Months?" "Break?" Bwaaahahahaha!! Oh, my tummy hurts from laughing so hard! Really, I'm not bitter ;)
Scully: I once had a talk with Mulder about starlight. How it's billions of years old. (They look up at the stars.) Stars that are now long dead whose light is still traveling through time. It won't die, that light. Maybe that's the only thing that never does. He said that's where souls reside. I hope he's right.
Skinner: If you're trying to prepare yourself I want you to stop. Nothing says that we're going to stumble over him in some field. Nothing says he won't be fine.
Reyes: Oh, I have my own thoughts. It's just, what we think happened and what actually happened aren't always the same thing but not altogether insignificant, either.
Scully: I'm sorry, this feels like therapy.
Doggett: I know where you're going with this, Agent Scully but if you're going to tell me this is another alien bounty hunter this is where we part company.
Scully: Enjoy your new company.
(Scully enters her dark motel room and flicks the light switch. No light. Frustrated, she flicks it up and down a few times and looks into the room. She freezes. Mulder is standing in front of the window. There is a blue-light ethereal quality to him. He says nothing, just looks at her. She stares back at him.)
Reyes: Agent Scully?
(Scully turns and sees Reyes in the doorway. When she turns back to the window, there is no one there.)
Reyes: What? (Scully runs to the closed window. Nothing.) What is it?
Scully: (wistfully) I saw him. (pauses) I saw something.
Scully: What is it?
Skinner: It's Mulder.
(Field. There's a group of agents standing around a body. Scully, accompanied by Skinner come running up. Doggett intercepts Scully and physically restrains her from going to the body.)
Scully: Where is he?
Doggett: Agent Scully, he's over there.
Scully: How bad is he? (She struggles in Doggett's arms.) How bad is he? (Doggett still restrains her.) How bad is he hurt?
(She breaks free and runs to Mulder's side. She kneels down beside him. He is covered in a blanket. His cheeks are horribly scarred and bruised. She gently touches his face.)
Scully: (hysterical) No. No. No. No. He needs help.
(Doggett pulls her away form Mulder's body. Scully is frantic.)
Doggett: It's too late.
Scully: He needs help!
(She breaks away from him.)
Doggett: Agent Scully.
(Scully runs as fast as she can through the woods back to the compound. As she gets there, she pauses in shock at the sight of a brightly lit object over the compound.
Scully sees a UFO. She runs toward the building. Too late. As she and the other members of the compound watch, glass shatters and the light disappears. Jeremiah Smith is gone. His room is empty.)
Scully: Jeremiah.
(Scully falls to her knees.)
Scully: No . . . no. This is not happening! (she screams) No!
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