SCENE 23
TEXAS-NEW MEXICO BORDER
5:07 AM
The SUV driven by MULDER makes it was down the road.
TEXAS-NEW MEXICO BORDER
5:07 AM
The SUV driven by MULDER makes it was down the road.
It pulls off to the side.
MULDER cuts the engine, leans toward SCULLY who is sleeping and gently kisses her cheek. He gets out of the car.)
MULDER unzips his pants and relieves himself, when ...
FROHIKE'S GHOST :
MULDER cuts the engine, leans toward SCULLY who is sleeping and gently kisses her cheek. He gets out of the car.)
MULDER unzips his pants and relieves himself, when ...
FROHIKE'S GHOST :
Hey, hot shot! You might have the common courtesy
of doing Your Business there downwind.
MULDER:
MULDER:
Oh, boy.
LANGLY'S GHOST:
LANGLY'S GHOST:
Why don't you just finish draining the little lizard
and then we'll talk?
BYER'S GHOST:
BYER'S GHOST:
We're very worried about you.
FROHIKE'S GHOST:
FROHIKE'S GHOST:
It's craziness, man. Turn around.
LANGLEY'S GHOST:
LANGLEY'S GHOST:
Just hang a big U-ie and never look back.
MULDER:
MULDER:
I can't.
BYER'S GHOST:
BYER'S GHOST:
Why risk Perfect Happiness, Mulder?
Why risk your lives?
MULDER:
MULDER:
Because I need to
Know The Truth.
BYER'S GHOST:
BYER'S GHOST:
You already know The Truth.
MULDER thinks about that one for a moment.
MULDER thinks about that one for a moment.
When he responds, its with complete honesty
at what he's really doing there.
MULDER:
MULDER:
I need to know if I can change it.
LANGLY'S GHOST:
LANGLY'S GHOST:
Change it?
FROHIKE'S GHOST:
FROHIKE'S GHOST:
For crying out loud --
All you're going to do is get yourself killed.
From behind him, SCULLY got out of the car to look for MULDER.
SCULLY:
From behind him, SCULLY got out of the car to look for MULDER.
SCULLY:
Mulder! What are you doing?
MULDER:
MULDER:
I'll be right with you, Scully.
They both get back into the car.
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Day. The road they're driving on will soon end at a hidden pueblo carved into the side of a mountain.
MULDER stops the car.
They both get back into the car.
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Day. The road they're driving on will soon end at a hidden pueblo carved into the side of a mountain.
MULDER stops the car.
They both get out.
SCULLY looks around.
SCULLY:
SCULLY:
What are they?
MULDER:
MULDER:
Pueblos. Anasazi Indian.
Abandoned 2,000 years ago.
Nobody knows why.
SCULLY:
SCULLY:
Yeah, Mulder, but what are we doing here?
MULDER points high to the window of a ruin along the way. There's smoking coming out from the window. Someone is there.
MULDER heads off in that direction. SCULLY follows.
MULDER points high to the window of a ruin along the way. There's smoking coming out from the window. Someone is there.
MULDER heads off in that direction. SCULLY follows.
They both begin to climb up to meet the Keeper of the Truth.
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Inside on of the pueblos. An old Indian woman tends to the fire. MULDER and SCULLY enter the area where she lives.
MULDER:
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Inside on of the pueblos. An old Indian woman tends to the fire. MULDER and SCULLY enter the area where she lives.
MULDER:
Hello. My name is Fox Mulder.
Do you understand me?
The old woman looks at MULDER. Without a word, she rises from her chair and pushes the cloth curtain back and disappears behind it.
SCULLY moves up from behind MULDER and passes him bringing her closer to the curtain.
The old woman looks at MULDER. Without a word, she rises from her chair and pushes the cloth curtain back and disappears behind it.
SCULLY moves up from behind MULDER and passes him bringing her closer to the curtain.
She turns around to look at MULDER.
SCULLY:
SCULLY:
Mulder, what is it?
MULDER:
MULDER:
I was sent A Message
and
A Key to The Government Facility at Mount Weather.
The Indians said it was from
A Wise Man Who Lived in The Ruins:
A Keeper of the Truth.
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(REYES and DOGGETT are traveling by helicopter above, doing a visual search for MULDER and SCULLY based upon the information given to them by GIBSON PRAISE.)
REYES:
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(REYES and DOGGETT are traveling by helicopter above, doing a visual search for MULDER and SCULLY based upon the information given to them by GIBSON PRAISE.)
REYES:
Do you see anything at all?
(DOGGETT shakes his head and continues to scan the grounds below.)
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SCENE 24
Cave entrance. MULDER and SCULLY make their way through the narrow passageway at the mouth of the cave.
(DOGGETT shakes his head and continues to scan the grounds below.)
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SCENE 24
Cave entrance. MULDER and SCULLY make their way through the narrow passageway at the mouth of the cave.
They're led there by the old Indian Woman.
At the end where it opens up into a living space, a
n old white-haired man sits there waiting for them.
MULDER enters first followed by SCULLY.
CSM:
MULDER enters first followed by SCULLY.
CSM:
What's the matter, Agent Mulder?
CSM / C.G.B. SPENDER takes a drag of the cigarette through the hole in his trachea.
CSM:
CSM / C.G.B. SPENDER takes a drag of the cigarette through the hole in his trachea.
CSM:
You come to see The Wise Man
but you look as if you've seen A Ghost.
MULDER:
MULDER:
You're no Wise Man.
You're a Dead Man.
Just like Krycek and X.
CSM:
CSM:
You see A Dead Man, Agent Scully?
SCULLY:
SCULLY:
I hoped and prayed you were dead
you chain-smoking, son of a bitch.
MULDER looks more than a little shocked to see CSM still alive.
CSM:
MULDER looks more than a little shocked to see CSM still alive.
CSM:
You waste your time. Ask Mulder.
He knows the futility of Hopes and Prayers.
He knows The Truth now.
SCULLY looks confused at what CSM'S saying.
SCULLY looks confused at what CSM'S saying.
CSM zeroes in on this immediately and begins to exploit it as he's done so many times before.
CSM:
CSM:
You have told her The Truth haven't you, Fox?
I helped you find it.
MULDER:
MULDER:
You didn't help me.
You sent me to that Government Facility
knowing exactly What I'd Find.
CSM:
CSM:
And now you refuse to Speak It.
Not to Scully, not to anyone.
You've even refused to testify
What You Learned ...
Even though it would have
Saved Your Life.
You damned me for My Secrets ...
But you're afraid to Speak The Truth.
CSM takes another drag from his cigarette.
MULDER:
CSM takes another drag from his cigarette.
MULDER:
You call me afraid?
Look at you sitting here Alone in The Dark like a fossil.
CSM exhales a puff of smoke around him.
CSM:
CSM exhales a puff of smoke around him.
CSM:
It's The Final Refuge.
The last place to hide from
Those Who are Insidiously Taking Power Now.
SCULLY:
SCULLY:
Who?
CSM:
CSM:
The Aliens....!
They fear This Place ... its Geology. Magnetite.
Like that which brought down
The Original UFO in Roswell.
Indian wise men realised this
over 2,000 years ago.
They hid here and
watched Their Own Culture die.
The Original Shadow Government.
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SCENE 26
Back inside the pueblo, CSM takes a drag from his cigarette.
CSM:
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SCENE 26
Back inside the pueblo, CSM takes a drag from his cigarette.
CSM:
It leaves me to tell you
What Mulder's Afraid to, Agent Scully.
MULDER:
MULDER:
Come on, let's go.
SCULLY doesn't budge
CSM:
SCULLY doesn't budge
CSM:
It's a Scary Story.
You want to come sit on my lap?
SCULLY:
SCULLY:
You don't scare me.
CSM:
CSM:
My Story's scared every President
since Truman in '47.
( Old Smokey fans The Flames of Conflict )
MULDER:
( Old Smokey fans The Flames of Conflict )
MULDER:
(Trying, with one hand to usher her out)
You don't have to hear this.
SCULLY:
SCULLY:
(resolute)
No, I want to hear it, Mulder.
CSM:
CSM:
Ten centuries ago The Mayans
were so afraid that their calendar stopped
on the exact date that My Story begins.
December 22,
The Year 2012.
The Date of
The Final Alien Invasion.
Mulder can confirm the date.
He saw it at Mount Weather ...
...where our own "Secret Government" will be,
hiding when it all comes down.
SCULLY looks at MULDER.
SCULLY looks at MULDER.
He doesn't take his eyes off of CSM.
CSM has a wild glint in his eye - almost a crazed look.
MULDER:
MULDER:
Yeah, you smile ... feeling Drunk with Power.
The Power to Do Nothing.
CSM:
CSM:
My Power comes from Telling You.
Seeing Your Powerlessness, Hearing it.
They wanted to kill you, Fox.
I protected you all these years ...
Waiting for This Moment ...
To see you broken. Afraid.
(MULDER lifts his head and schools his features to reveal nothing.)
CSM:
Now you can Die.
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SCENE 27
Two heavily armed black ops helicopters are flying low along the roadway head to the Anasazi Pueblos.
MULDER:
(MULDER lifts his head and schools his features to reveal nothing.)
CSM:
Now you can Die.
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SCENE 27
Two heavily armed black ops helicopters are flying low along the roadway head to the Anasazi Pueblos.
MULDER:
Agent Doggett!
Both MULDER and SCULLY appear outside the second level doorway.
DOGGETT:
Both MULDER and SCULLY appear outside the second level doorway.
DOGGETT:
Mulder, get out of there!
REYES:
REYES:
They know where you are!
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The two black helicopters continue their path to the ruins.
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The two black helicopters continue their path to the ruins.
We see they are both very heavily armed.
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DOGGETT and REYES climb into MULDER and SCULLY'S vehicle and drive it closer to MULDER and SCULLY as they make their way down the ruins.
MULDER runs alongside their vehicle as they approach. DOGGETT stops the car.
MULDER:
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DOGGETT and REYES climb into MULDER and SCULLY'S vehicle and drive it closer to MULDER and SCULLY as they make their way down the ruins.
MULDER runs alongside their vehicle as they approach. DOGGETT stops the car.
MULDER:
Get out of here!
DOGGETT:
DOGGETT:
Get in the car.
MULDER:
MULDER:
No!
DOGGETT looks a little confused. They don't have much time. MULDER tells them again to leave.
MULDER: (insistent)
DOGGETT looks a little confused. They don't have much time. MULDER tells them again to leave.
MULDER: (insistent)
Go! Go!
MULDER and SCULLY both run to the other vehicle at the site.
MULDER and SCULLY both run to the other vehicle at the site.
The vehicle left behind by KNOWLE ROHRER.
DOGGETT takes off.
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The Helicopters are rapidly approaching the site. They're still not in view of the ruins.
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MULDER and SCULLY get in the abandoned vehicle and take off in a different direction from DOGGETT and REYES.
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The Helicopters are rapidly approaching the site. They're still not in view of the ruins.
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MULDER and SCULLY get in the abandoned vehicle and take off in a different direction from DOGGETT and REYES.
They disappear from their view around the hill.
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The Helicopters round the mountain side. MULDER and SCULLY barely escape detection. The helicopters position themselves across the ruins.
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The old Indian Woman inside the pueblo panics as her pots and pans rattle at the disturbance. The helicopters hover just outside her window.
They fire missile after missile aimed at the ruins, destroying them whole sections at a time in fiery explosions.
The Old Indian Woman screams.
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CSM sits inside his final "refuge", a cigarette in his hand.
The pueblos explode with each missile fired.
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The Helicopters round the mountain side. MULDER and SCULLY barely escape detection. The helicopters position themselves across the ruins.
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The old Indian Woman inside the pueblo panics as her pots and pans rattle at the disturbance. The helicopters hover just outside her window.
They fire missile after missile aimed at the ruins, destroying them whole sections at a time in fiery explosions.
The Old Indian Woman screams.
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CSM sits inside his final "refuge", a cigarette in his hand.
The pueblos explode with each missile fired.
The ancient stones crumble to the ground.
Fire burns what little there is to burn.
The black helicopters swing around and hover just outside the old Indian Woman's windows.
The black helicopters swing around and hover just outside the old Indian Woman's windows.
A dreamcatcher hangs from the window with the black helicopter in its sites.
Another missile is fired and another portion of the ruins destroyed.
Inside, CSM takes a last drag from his cigarette.
Another missile is fired and another portion of the ruins destroyed.
Inside, CSM takes a last drag from his cigarette.
He throws the remainder on the ground.
Outside, in perfect positions, the black helicopter hovers. A final missile is fired finding its intended target. The corridor and the cave fill with fire consuming the once-powerful man within.
The pueblos explode. Missiles upon missiles are fired until the entire mountainside is decimated. Their mission complete, the helicopters turn around and fly off into the horizon.
Outside, in perfect positions, the black helicopter hovers. A final missile is fired finding its intended target. The corridor and the cave fill with fire consuming the once-powerful man within.
The pueblos explode. Missiles upon missiles are fired until the entire mountainside is decimated. Their mission complete, the helicopters turn around and fly off into the horizon.
