I Have to Believe.

I got to believe that I did 

everything I could to Save Him, 

to get him back safe, 

to not let him down. 

I got to believe that I did everything humanly possible 'cause if I can't believe that  then these other possibilities that you talk about, that Mulder talks about, that Agent Scully talks about... 

If they're real... if they're real, then... 

That's Something Else 

I could have done to Save My Son.

I Believe that when you truly grow to 

Know and Trust a person, 

you cannot help but like him. 

-- Caesar, 

Battle for The Planet of The Apes

SCENE 10

(SCULLY is lying in the bed in her hospital room. Clock reads 8:30. AM, probably. DOGGETT stands beside her bed watching her. SCULLY wakes. She is surprised to see DOGGETT.)

SCULLY: 

What are you doing, Agent Doggett?

DOGGETT: 

I was, um... 

I just came by to see how you're doing.

SCULLY: 

I'm, uh... I feel all druggy. 

Do you mind?

(She points to the bed table. DOGGETT pours a glass of water and hands it to her.)

SCULLY: 

Thank you.

DOGGETT: 

They say you're stabilized but we've been worried about you.

SCULLY: 

Who's we?

DOGGETT: 

You know... me and Agent Mulder ...

SCULLY: 

What's wrong, Agent Doggett? 

You don't seem too good yourself.

DOGGETT: 

You worked with Agent Mulder for how long? 

A long time.

SCULLY: 

Mm-hmm.

(Her eyes briefly flutter closed as if reliving the exhaustion of the last eight years in 2/3rds of a second.)

DOGGETT: 

You never believed in any of this stuff. 

This paranormal or whatever you call it. 

So, what changed your mind?

(SCULLY is very sleepy.)

SCULLY: 

I realized it was me, that I was afraid. 

Afraid to believe.

(DOGGETT starts to leave the room, then turns back. Again, he is in the wooded area. He is standing a few yards away from the police and FBI agents who are standing in a small circle around something on the ground. As he watches, REYES, in a brown trenchcoat, slowly turns and looks at him. SCULLY's voice brings DOGGETT back into the hospital room.)

SCULLY: 

Why do you ask?

(DOGGETT is silent.)

SCULLY: 

Agent Doggett, why do you ask?

DOGGETT: 

Some other time.

(DOGGETT leaves. SCULLY closes her eyes.)

SCENE 14

(Night. Clock says 3:20. MULDER enters SCULLY's hospital room. She is asleep. He calls softly from the doorway.)

MULDER: 

You awake?

(SCULLY wakes up and looks at MULDER.)

SCULLY: Yeah.

(MULDER closes the door as he walks to the bed. SCULLY is resting her hands on her abdomen.)

MULDER: 

What did the doctor say?

SCULLY: 

That I had a partial abruption. Which means that my placenta started to tear away from the uterine wall. They're going to need to monitor me for awhile.

(MULDER smiles a little.)

MULDER: 

But you're going to be fine?

SCULLY: 

Yeah.

(MULDER reaches out and rests his hand on her swollen belly for a moment. His expression is one of wonder, awe, and joy. He and SCULLY smile at each other.)

SCULLY: 

Where have you been?

(Almost reluctantly, MULDER slides his hand off of her stomach.)

MULDER: 

I've actually been out in the field with Agent Doggett 

and this, um, female Agent from New Orleans.

SCULLY: 

Agent Reyes.

MULDER: 

Yeah.

SCULLY: 

I like her.

(MULDER laughs softly.)

MULDER: 

You're nothing at all alike.

SCULLY: 

Well, then neither are you and I. 

So this is a case you're working on?

MULDER: 

Yeah. Actually, one that involves Agent Doggett's son, 

the son who died.

SCULLY: 

Yeah, he's never talked to me about him, 

but I know something. 

Are you able to help him at all?

(SCULLY is getting sleepy again.)

MULDER: 

You can't help a man who can't help himself.

SCULLY: 

He's worth the effort, Mulder.

(They look at each other. MULDER considers.)

SCENE 16

(DOGGETT is sitting at the X-Files desk. He is on the phone.)

DOGGETT: 

Jeb Dukes, middle name, Larold. No, Larold. Okay, thanks, anyway.

(He hangs up as REYES enters and hears part of the conversation.)

REYES: 

What are you doing, John?

DOGGETT: 

I'm looking into this case.

REYES: 

You're looking in the wrong way. 

There are a hundred agents in this building who can phone canvass.

DOGGETT: 

Ah, but there's only two who can solve crimes with mental telepathy-- you and me. 

So we'll just read the tea leaves on this one 

and there it is, right? Case closed?

REYES: 

John...

DOGGETT: 

Damn it, Monica, you want to find this guy. 

I'm trying to find him. 

What do you want from me?

REYES: 

I want you to be honest with yourself 

about what you saw that day. 

Honest about what your feelings tell you.

DOGGETT: 

Feelings don't solve crimes. 

What the hell does it matter what my feelings are? 

How the hell's that going to get the job done?

REYES: 

I'm not talking about The Job, John. 

What are you scared of? 

Why does it scare you?

DOGGETT:

 I got to believe that 

I did everything I could to find my son.

REYES: (reassuring) 

You did do everything to find your son.

DOGGETT: 

I got to believe that I did everything I could to save him, 

to get him back safe, to not let him down. 

I got to believe that I did everything humanly possible 

'cause if I can't believe that 

then these other possibilities that you talk about, 

that Mulder talks about, that Agent Scully talks about... 

if they're real... if they're real, then... 

that's something else I could have done to save my son.

(Pause. REYES' cell phone rings.)

REYES: (on phone) 

Monica Reyes. 

Katha? Katha, wait.

(She hangs up.)

REYES: 

Jeb Dukes' sister. 

He's there at the house with her.

DOGGETT: 

This guy somehow has some link to my son and I'm damn sure going to find out what it is.

(DOGGETT grabs his coat and precedes REYES out of the office.)

BROTHER SUN : Fight The Future

 If We stop breathing, 

We Die —

If We stop fighting Our Enemies, 

THE WORLD Will Die.

So Point The Finger,

Say, “No More!”

Where it Touches :

UltraWar!

  

...As he goes to touch the now dead tube and pull it from Scully's mouth, 

a violent shaking takes over The Ship, 

a reaction to The Vaccine's •unwanted• intrusion. )

Cut to Old Smokey in a room full of equipment and monitors. 

A Man is seated in front of a monitor showing a graph of some kind.

MAN LOOKING AT GRAPH: 

There is 

A CONTAMINANT 

in The System!

Cancer Man looks at The Graph in HORROR.

CSM: 

Mulder has 

The Vaccine!

 "Survival is The Ultimate Ideology."

Your Father wisely refused to believe this.

END GAME 

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SCENE 18 

WASHINGTON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL

(DOGGETT is leaving a hospital room. He looks back through the window. MULDER and SCULLY approaching the corridor.)

SCULLY: 

Agent Doggett.

DOGGETT: 

Is this it? 

(pointing towards SCULLY's abdomen)

(MULDER and SCULLY look at each other, smiling.)

SCULLY: 

No. No.

MULDER: 

We just came by to visit 

Agent Harrison.

SCULLY: 

How is she?

DOGGETT: 

She's on the same anti-venom treatment I got. 

Her eyesight's pretty much back, the doctors say she's gonna be fine physically.

SCULLY: 

Skinner said she won't be returning to the X-Files.

DOGGETT: 

That was her choice. 

So it's gonna be me for a while.

(SCULLY looks thoughtful.)

MULDER: 

I want to return something to you that I think you deserve to keep.

DOGGETT: 

I appreciate the gesture but if it's all the same to you, 

there's someone else who should have it.

(Cut to HARRISON, smiling, holding the Apollo medallion.)

HARRISON: 

No way. This means, 

I can't tell you what this means to me.

(MULDER looks a little awkward.)

HARRISON: 

Can I ask you something?

(SCULLY looks impassive, perhaps not sure what's coming.)

MULDER: 

Sure.

HARRISON: 

When you went to Antarctica to save Agent Scully from being taken by that spaceship and you ran out of gas in your Sno-cat. 

How did you get back?

(SCULLY looks enquiringly at MULDER, 

who is looking perplexed. 

Throughout the following dialogue, 

MULDER and SCULLY talk across each other, 

SCULLY is being Scientific, 

MULDER is being MULDER, 

HARRISON is enjoying the banter. 

The whole scene is *very* enjoyable to watch.)

SCULLY: 

Um, well, first of all, 

it was never (coughs) 

actually proven that it was 

A Spaceship ...

MULDER: 

It wasn't?

SCULLY: 

Well, no, What Happened Was 

that we fell off of something that ...

MULDER: 

Something?

SCULLY: 

... that rose out of The Ice.

MULDER: 

Well what do you think that was?

SCULLY: 

Well, I don't know What it Was. 

But we never got, 

we didn't actually get to 

see A Spaceship.

MULDER: 

I can't believe that you're saying 

it's not A Spaceship.

SCULLY: 

Well, it couldn't have been A Spaceship.

MULDER: 

‘Course it was A Spaceship!

SCULLY: 

Well, we don't know it was A Spaceship. 

But you don't have A Picture of it or anything.

MULDER: 

You know it was a spaceship. 

You saw it.

SCULLY: 

No, no, no, no, remember, 

I was unconscious 

and when I woke up 

there was no spaceship.

MULDER: 

Now, come on, Scully. 

It was A Spaceship.

SCULLY: 

Mulder, n-n-n-no.

SCULLY: 

And you were frozen, and I hugged you .... 

(Their voices trail off.)

( Camera pans out to corridor. DOGGETT is standing looking in as MULDER and SCULLY continue their debate. He looks sad and walks away down the corridor. Alone. )

[THE END] 

Back to Mulder. 

The cryopod hallway he's in begins to fill with steam 

as it shoots out from the floor and ceiling. 

Mulder turns back to Scully and sees her move. 

He grabs the tube and begins to drag it out of her throat. 

Once it's all removed, and it's a long sucker, 

so it takes a sec or two, Mulder stares at her, 

waiting for A Sign of some kind.

MULDER: 

Breathe! Scully, can you breathe?!

Scully begins to cough, 

spitting out what's left of the slimy goo. 

Finally she starts breathing on her own, 

gasping for each sweet taste of oxygen. 

She tries to speak and barely manages a weak ..

SCULLY: 

Cold ... I'm cold.

MULDER: 

I'm going to get you Out of There.

He starts to whack away at the ice with a metallic cylinder next to him, 

probably shaken loose by the rocking and rolling 

The Ship is still experiencing.

Cut to the graph/monitor room, sparks flying from various machines as the men are tossed like ragdolls. 

It's time to give up The Ship, boys.

CSM: 

Abandon your posts! 

Evacuate!

Cancer Man walks towards one of the ladders the men are now scrambling down. Another man stops and says ..

MAN: 

What's happened?!

CSM:

It's all gone to hell!

MAN: 

But, what about Mulder?!

CSM: 

He'll never make it!

Cut back to Mulder as he gently lifts 

a naked Scully out of the cryopod, 

her body glistening with goo, 

and lays her down on the floor. 

Next we see him carrying her. 

She's now wearing some of Mulder's clothing, 

right down to a pair of boots, 

don't ask me where THEY came from! 

He reaches the bottom of a metallic shaft, 

sunlight beaming down upon them.

Cut to outside as an alarm sounds and men race out from the domes, running for the various Sno-Cats. 

Cancer Man gets into one, his mouth dangling open in shock as it "all falls apart". 

The vehicles drive off.

Back to Mulder and Scully as he drags her up a ladder. 

Far below them, the defrosting has begun and water drips down the walls.

From above, we see the Sno-Cats leaving, one passing within inches of the top of a shaft leading to our heroes.

Cut to inside where Mulder and Scully have found a momentary resting place. 

Scully is coughing and weak. 

Mulder urges her on.

MULDER: 

We gotta keep moving. 

Come on!

SCULLY: 

I can't.

MULDER: 

Yeah, you can.

Mulder picks her up and carries her in a fireman's lift, over his shoulders. 

He walks down a row of crypods, all ominously dripping with water from the defrosting ice. 

He spots a vent.

MULDER: 

Scully, reach up and grab that vent!

Suddenly, he spots movement in one of the pods. 

The creatures within have begun to stir. 

The vaccine has affected the whole structure, as the bodies were all obviously attached to the one creature.

MULDER: 

Scully, grab the vent! 

(no response) 

Scully?

He looks at her face on his shoulder, she's passed out. 

Mulder slides her off his shoulders, placing her on the floor and checks for a pulse. 

The creatures nearby, still encased in the swiftly melting ice are now violently thrashing about and emitting their high-pitched screams. 

With one eye on the creatures and one eye on Scully, 

Mulder begins performing a mean version of CPR.

MULDER: 

Please, breathe. 

Breathe ... breathe .... BREATHE!

(Scully begins to cough and splutter as she regains consciousness.)

MULDER: 

Breathe in, breathe in, breathe!

She begins to try and Speak, 

he has to place his ear almost on her mouth to hear.

SCULLY: 

I had you big time.

She smiles at him. 

No time for jokes, Scully, the aliens are coming! 

As Mulder pulls her to her feet, the ice-encased cryopods around them start to crack open as the creatures within begin to break free. 

He holds her up to the vent above her.

MULDER: 

Grab the vent. 

Pull! PULL!

Scully grabs the vent and pulls herself up. 

Mulder starts to climb up. 

One of the aliens breaks the pod and reaches out with its hand for Mulder. 

It grabs Mulder's leg. 

Scully stops and turns his head.

SCULLY: 

Mulder!

MULDER: 

Keep moving, Scully!

Mulder kicks it away and pulls himself up. They both climb through the tunnel, Mulder yelling encouragement from behind.

MULDER: 

Go! Go! Come on!

He keeps checking behind him as the alien screams continue, looking for any which may be chasing them. The light at the end of the proverbial tunnel gets brighter as they climb on.

MULDER: 

Almost there, keep going!

They pull themselves up to where Mulder first stopped after he fell through the ice, a slight turn in the vent. 

Just as Mulder clears the turn, an alien lashes out from behind but is cut off by the twist in the tunnel. 

They step over the part where Mulder first fell all the way down and make their way out the hole he originally made. 

Scully falls onto the snow, exhausted and Mulder perches next to her on one knee. 

He hears a sound and looks around for the origin. 

It's the ice ... 

it's cracking under their feet! 

He grabs Scully and throws one of her arms over his shoulder as they begin to run away. 

He stops for some ungodly reason and looks back seeing vents of steam starting to shoot out of the ice. 

They begin to run again as the ice begins cracking and falling away causing a huge crater to form. 

Suddenly the crater overtakes them and they disappear into the hole, but next we see them shoot into the air and slide off of the surface of the rising ship. 

They land on the edge of the crater. 

Mulder watches the spaceship as it flies overhead, his face glows with a heart-melting grin of childlike wonder and awe. 

Scully's face is turned towards the snow, too tired to move, 

as Mulder says, almost along with the audience ...

MULDER: 

Scully, ya gotta see this! Scully!

It's quiet, it's barely a mutter above a whisper, 

but we hear ...

SCULLY: 

I see it.

Spent from exhaustion, Mulder drops his head into the snow. 

Scully, finding the strength God gave 20 hearty men, 

scoots her body over to cover him from the freezing cold. 

She lifts his into her arms and cradles him as the camera pans back to show 

two lone figures perched 

alone on the edge of the bottomless crater 

left by the departing spaceship. 

Cut to Washington and don't start with me on 

How They Got Out of The Antarctic, 

there was extra gas can in the Sno-Cat, 

I don't know!

The Gunmen

 

SCENE 6

Back at Gunmen HQ. LANGLY, wearing a Joey Ramone t-shirt, is sat at a computer. FROHIKE and BYERS lean beside him.

 

LANGLY: 

Airline reservation database. 

What name do we look under?

 

BYERS: 

Try her old stand-by. 

Different anagrams of Lee Harvey Oswald.

 

(MORRIS appears from the back of the room, reading an old issue of The Lone Gunman.)

 

MORRIS: 

"Area 51 Exposé!" 

Ooo! Where's your new issue? 

This one's a year old.

 

FROHIKE:

 Back off, Skeezick.

 

MORRIS: 

You'll never find her that way.

 

LANGLY: 

He's right. 

No anagrams for Yves Adele Harlow.

 

(The search software running on LANGLY'S computer fails to give any results.)

 

MORRIS: 

So, who's Joey?

 

(MORRIS has noticed LANGLY'S t-shirt.)

 

LANGLY: 

What? Joey Ramone? 

Leader of The Greatest Punk Rock Band in Human History. 

Now shut up!

 

LANGLY notices MORRIS taking a little too much interest in him.

 

LANGLY: 

What?

 

MORRIS: (Sigh) 

What are you, 34, 35? 

Why don't you cut your hair and grow up, huh?

 

LANGLY: 

I need to remind you, Fletcher, that Doggett and Reyes

aren't here to save you.

 

MORRIS: 

Get yourself a real Hero, anyway. 

Not some dead teeny bopper.

 

LANGLY throws down his keyboard and gets up,

walking over to where MORRIS is sitting.

 

LANGLY: 

You want to know why

Joey Ramone's My Hero? 

 

'Cause people like you

never managed to grind him down. 

 

They never stole His Spirit. 

He never gave in, never gave up,

and never sold out. 

Right till his last breath. 

 

And He's Not Dead. 

Guys Like That? 

They Live Forever.

 

BYERS:

From the background

Langly? Just ignore him.

 

MORRIS sighs again.

 

 

 

 

 

 

SCENE 19

ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY

We fade in to a beautiful blue, cloudless sky overhead.

The camera slowly pans down, to reveal row upon row of perfectly aligned headstones,

commemorating those laid to rest in the Cemetery.

An old man is slowly folding away the chairs that have just been used during the funeral service.

 

Three identical coffins rest on the ground in front of the remaining chairs.

KIMMY stands next to them, paying his final respects to his fallen heroes.

He stares down at the coffins in silence.

 

KIMMY: 

(in Spanish) 

Vayo con dios, amigos.

 

He walks over to the coffins,

and touches each of them in turn, before heading off.

 

AGENTS DOGGETT, REYES, and SKINNER

are standing in a line opposite where KIMMY was standing.

DOGGETT looks over to SKINNER.

 

DOGGETT: 

Arlington. 

You must have pulled some big strings to get those guys in here.

 

SKINNER: 

It's The Least I Could Do.

 

SKINNER turns and leaves.

REYES turns to DOGGETT.

 

REYES: 

Are you ready?

 

DOGGETT: 

Yeah.

 

SCULLY is standing with YVES and JIMMY,

who is holding three folder American flags,

one for each of our fallen heroes.

 

SKINNER pauses as he passes SCULLY.

 

SKINNER: 

Dana?

 

SCULLY: 

I'll catch up. 

SKINNER heads off, following REYES and DOGGETT.

They meant so much to me. 

I'm not sure if they ever really knew.

 

JIMMY: 

Nobody knew...

What Heroes They Were.

 

YVES still can't believe how things have turned out.

 

YVES: 

It's not Right. It's not.

 

MORRIS approaches from the background.

He remembers what LANGLY had told him about JOEY RAMONE earlier in the episode.

 

MORRIS: 

No, it's not. Langly said to me, 

"The Ones Who Never Give Up,

They Never Die."

 

MORRIS pauses.

 

MORRIS: 

I still don't know What That Means.

 

SCULLY: 

It means that, like everyone buried Here, 

The World is a Better Place for Them Having Been In It. 

(She pauses.) 

It means that they're gone... 

But They Live On Through Us All.

 

JIMMY is noticeably moved by SCULLY'S tribute to the GUNMEN.

He comforts YVES, putting his arm around her.

The four of them stand there in silence, as the camera pans up and away.

 

[Fade to black]

 

[THE END]