The Geometry of Mass Infection

 
The Geometry of Mass Infection presents certain 
Conceptual Reevaluations for us 
about Our Place in the Colonisation.

"Until Dallas we believed The Virus would simply control Us, 

that Mass Infection would 

make Us a Slave Race. 

Imagine our surprise 
when They began to gestate. 

Survival is The Ultimate Ideology. 

Your Father Wisely 
Refused to Believe This...."


SCENE 13
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 Celsius 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 ....)



SCENE 14
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.)



SCENE 15
LONDON, ENGLAND
(We see the outside of a building, The Royal Albert Hall, in the background. 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.)
STRUGHOLD: 
We began to worry. 
Some of us have travelled so far and you are the last to arrive.
WMM: 
I'm sorry. 
My Grandson fell and broke his leg.
(Pregnant pause while nobody answers "Gee, sorry to hear that.")
While we have been made to wait, we watched surveillance tapes which have raised more concerns.
WMM: 
STRUGHOLD: 
We have been forced to reassess our role in Colonisation by New Effects in Biology which have .... 
....presented themselves.
FIRST ELDER: 
The Virus has Mutated.
WMM: 
Into what?
STRUGHOLD: 
A new Extraterrestrial Biological Entity.
WMM: 
My God!
STRUGHOLD: 
The Geometry of Mass Infection presents certain Conceptual Reevaluations for us about Our Place in the Colonisation.
(WMM begins to walk towards Strughold, barely containing his anger and amazement at their foolishness. Well, just a guess there!)
WMM: This isn't Colonization, this is spontaneous repopulation! All our work! .... If it's true, they've been using us all along! We've been labouring under a lie!
BARNEY MILLER GUY: It could be an isolated case.
WMM: How can we know?!
STRUGHOLD: We're going to tell them what we've found, what we've learned by turning over a body infected with the gestating organism.
WMM: In hope of what? Learning that it's true? That we are nothing but digestives for the creation of a new race of alien life-forms?! By cooperating now, we are but beggars to our own demise.
STRUGHOLD: 
Cooperation is the only chance of saving ourselves.
CSM: 
They still need us to carry out their preparations.
STRUGHOLD: 
We'll continue to use Them as They do Us. 
If only to play for more time, 
to continue work on our vaccine.
WMM: (shakes his head) 
My lateness might just as well have been absence. 
A course has already been taken!
CSM: 
There are complications. 
(he looks at the surveillance video and WMM looks as well)
 Mulder saw one of the infected bodies that we destroyed in Dallas. 
He's gone back there again. 
Someone has tipped him.
WMM: 
Who?
CSM: 
Kurtzweil, we think.
WMM: 
No one believes Kurztweil or his books. 
He's a toiler, a crank.
FIRST ELDER: 
Mulder Believes.
CSM: 
Then Kurtzweil must be removed.
STRUGHOLD: 
As must Mulder.
WMM: 
Kill Mulder, we take the risk of turning one man's quest into a crusade.
STRUGHOLD: 
Then you must take away what he holds most valuable. That with which he can't live without.
(The scene cuts to Scully, looking out on a vast desert.)

STRUGHOLD: 

More concerns on what?