...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!
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!
