OUT

The Company :

I'd just like to go back to this point about 

the override destruct order. 

Is it in the file?

Ripley, The Witch :

I don't understand this. 

We have been here for 

three and a half hours. 

Now, how many different ways do you 

want me to tell the same story? 

The Company :

Look at it from our perspective, please. Please? 

Now, you freely admit to detonating the engines of,

and thereby destroying, an M-class starfreighter,

a rather expensive piece of hardware. 

$42 million in adjusted dollars. 

That's minus payload, of course. 

The lifeboat's flight recorder corroborates some elements of your account in that, for reasons unknown, the Nostromo set down on LV-426 an unsurveyed planet at that time, that it resumed its course and was subsequently set for self-destruct by you for reasons unknown. 

Ripley, The Witch :

Not for reasons unknown. 

I told you. 

We set down there on Company orders to get this thing, 

which destroyed my crew and your expensive ship. 

The Company :

The analysis team, which went over the lifeboat 

centimetre by centimetre found no physical evidence 

of the creature you describe. 

Ripley, The Witch :

Good. That's because I blew it out of 

the goddamn air lock. Like I said. 

Are there any species like this 

hostile organism on LV-426? 

The Company :

(Blows smoke) No. It's a rock. 

No indigenous life. 

Ripley, The Witch :

Did IQ's just drop sharply while I was away? 

Ma'am, I already said it was not indigenous. 

It was a derelict spacecraft. It was an alien ship. 

It was not from there. Do you get it? 

We homed in on its beacon. 

And found something never recorded once in over 300 surveyed worlds. "A creature that gestates inside a living human host." Yes. These are your words. "And has concentrated acid for blood." That's right. Look. I can see where this is going but I'm telling you that those things exist. 

Thank you, Officer Ripley. That will be all. Please. You're not listening to me. Kane, the crew member... Kane, who went into that ship, said he saw thousands of eggs there. 

Thousands.

Thank you. That will be all. Goddamn it, that's not all. Because if one of those things gets down here, then that will be all. Then all of this... this bullshit that you think is so important... You can just kiss all of that goodbye. It is the finding of this court of inquiry that warrant officer E. Ripley, NOC14472 has acted with questionable judgement and is unfit to hold an I.C.C. licence as a commercial flight officer. Said licence is hereby suspended indefinitely. Now, no criminal charges will be filed against you at this time and you are released on your own recognisance for a six-month period of psychometric probation to include monthly review by an I.C.C. psychiatric technician. These proceedings are closed. That could have been better. - Look, I think the... Ripley? - Van Leuwen... Why don't you just check out IV-426? Because I don't have to. There have been people there for over 20 years and they never complained about any hostile organism. What do you mean? What people? Terraformers. Planet engineers. They go in, set up these big atmosphere processors to make the air breathable. Takes decades. It's what we call a "Shake 'N Bake" colony. How many are there? How many colonists? I don't know... 60, maybe 70 families. Do you mind? Families. Jesus

No. Not Even THEY Want to Claim Nixon.

SCENE 4 

X-FILES OFFICE; 

FBI HEADQUARTERS 

WASHINGTON, D.C.

Mulder shows Scully a slide of Gary's back 

with the words clearly written on it.

" HE IS ONE "

MULDER: 

Gary Kane, 16 years old, High School Junior. 

"C" student, first-string varsity football, 

member of the local 4-H club. 

Not one of Wisconsin's more remarkable kids 

but still the apple of his mother's eye.

SCULLY: 

What does that mean?

MULDER: 

Nobody knows.

SCULLY: 

What does The Police report say?

Scully walks over to Mulder and sits on the desk next to him as he shows her the file.

MULDER: 

The victim received a phone call and left his home. 

He was discovered in the woods in his underwear twelve hours later. 

He's been unable to give a coherent statement.

SCULLY: 

Any evidence of sexual assault?

MULDER: 

No.

SCULLY: 

Does it seem like it might have been a schoolboy prank?

MULDER: 

The other victims have had to be sedated and hospitalized since their ordeals. 

They were reportedly hysterical with fear.

(He stands up.)

SCULLY: 

Victims? You mean there've been others?

(Mulder nods and switches the slide to another person with the same writing.)

MULDER: 

One in eastern Wisconsin, one three towns away.

(He flips to another slide, then another.)

Both with the same black words written in black magic marker.

SCULLY: 

What's your interest in this?

MULDER: 

The local sheriff in Delta Glen, Wisconsin thinks he knows what's been happening to these kids.

SCULLY: 

What's that?

MULDER: 

He thinks they've been possessed.

SCENE 5 

DELTA GLEN, WISCONSIN

Mulder, Scully and Sheriff Mazeroski drive down a road in the sheriff's car. 

Mulder is in the back seat.)

MAZEROSKI: 

There's something I think you ought to see first. 

They call themselves the Church of the Red Museum. 

They're followers of a guy named Odin that moved out here from California three years ago and bought a ranch.

SCULLY: 

What's the significance of the name "Red Museum?"

MAZEROSKI: 

Well, Odin and the rest of them are a bunch of vegetarians. 

They drove the ranch right into the ground, 

turned 500 head of beef cattle into pets. 

Calls it a monument to barbarism.

MULDER: 

Probably went over big with the local ranchers.

(Mazeroski laughs.)

MAZEROSKI: 

Well, you gotta admit, it takes some big ones to set down in the middle of cow country and start a church like his.

SCENE 6 

CHURCH OF THE RED MUSEUM 

DELTA GLEN, WISCONSIN

They pull up to the church as three worshippers walk by and towards a barn. They are dressed in white except for a red turban. Mulder, Scully and Mazeroski get out of the car and watch them. Mulder takes out an umbrella and holds it over his and Scully's head.

MAZEROSKI: 

Kinda stick out like a sore thumb, don't they?

SCULLY: 

You know sheriff, from what little we've seen, what, what little you've told us, they seem rather unlikely to be involved in the kind of activities that you described.

MAZEROSKI: 

Well, I, I won't say another word. 

You can just see for yourself.

(They walk into the barn and stand in the back. In front of them is a whole congregation of fifty or so people, with a giant viewscreen in the front of the room. A man gets up onto the platform in front, puts his hand together and bows lightly.)

CONGREGATION: 

Ommm...

MAZEROSKI: 

That's Odin.

Odin sits down at a computer and starts typing rapidly. A woman in back of him reads off the screen into a microphone as the words come up on the screen in back of her.

WOMAN: 

Today is a blessing from our lord and master, who awaits his flock in this time, the dawning of the Age of Aquarius. 

Eighteen earth years from the beginning of the new kingdom. 

The guides speak through me today as messengers of word that we may be free from death and the passage into spirit. 

As the acceleration continues, we, the enlightened, must bring our teachings of the skills for survival to mankind. 

Repeat in prayer...

MULDER: 

They're walk-ins.

SCULLY: 

What are walk-ins?

WOMAN: 

We, the second souls of the first bodies...

CONGREGATION: 

We, the second souls of the first bodies...

WOMAN: 

Bearers of the word and keepers of the sacraments of a new enlightenment...

MULDER: 

They're believers in soul transference, 

enlightened spirits who have taken possession of other peoples bodies.

CONGREGATION: 

Bearers of the word and keepers of the sacraments of a new enlightenment...

WOMAN: 

Blessed mission and toil.

CONGREGATION: 

Blessed mission and toil.

WOMAN: 

Our struggle is transcendent, and your guidance, our guides...

CONGREGATION: 

Our struggle is transcendent, and your guidance, our guides...

Odin finishes typing and looks to the back of the room at the three visitors.

WOMAN: 

...will carry us toward the dawning of a new age.

CONGREGATION: 

...will carry us toward the dawning of a new age.

(Odin starts typing again.)

WOMAN: 

Today, we bear witness to three who do not believe.

The congregation, one by one, slowly turn and look back at the agents.

We encourage them to open their hearts and minds to our teachings that they who slaughter the flesh slaughter their own souls and must be taught the way.

Mulder looks at Mazeroski.

SCENE 7 

BETH KANE'S HOUSE

(Gary and Beth are sitting down. Mazeroski is as well, but Mulder and Scully are standing.)

GARY KANE: 

I only remember parts of it.

MULDER: 

Which parts are those?

GARY KANE: 

I was in the woods and... I felt... a spirit enter me.

(Mulder walks over and sits down next to him.)

MULDER: 

When you say spirit, Gary, 

I'm not sure what you mean.

GARY KANE: 

It... it might have been an animal spirit. 

I can't explain it. Something... just came over me.

MULDER: 

And you don't remember who called you?

(Gary shakes his head no. Scully, standing in the doorway, looks back down the hallway.)

Anything at all about what happened immediately after you left home that night?

(

Scully walks down the hallway, looking at various pictures.)

Have you ever had any dealings with anyone from the Church of the Red Museum?

GARY KANE: I've seen them around.

MULDER: Do you have any reason to believe that they may be involved with what happened to you?

(The pictures are of Beth, Gary, Stevie and the whole family.)

MAZEROSKI: Now tell him what you told me, Gary.

(Gary talks in the background. Stevie walks up to Scully.)

SCULLY: Hi.

STEVIE KANE: Hi.

SCULLY: Who are you?

STEVIE KANE: Stevie.

SCULLY: Oh, you're in all the pictures. You must be Gary's younger brother.

(Stevie nods.)

I'm Dana. Stevie... do you remember who your brother might have gone out to see the other night?

(Stevie shakes his head "no.")

Did he say anything?

Through the peephole in the bathroom mirror, the man watches Scully. 

Scully hears footsteps in that direction and looks towards the mirror, but does not see anything. 

The man is gone from behind it. 

Mulder walks up to Scully.

MULDER: 

Scully, we'll meet you outside.

He and Mazeroski leave. Scully turns back to Stevie.

SCULLY: 

Well, thank you for your time.

Mulder and Mazeroski start down the front steps.

MULDER: 

Has this boy ever been in any trouble?

MAZEROSKI: 

Gary?

MULDER: 

Yeah.

MAZEROSKI: 

No, I've known him since he was a kid. Same age as my son. 

Now, he's done some beer drinking, but he's just your basic sixteen-year-old. Least he was.

MULDER: 

You see a noticeable difference in him?

MAZEROSKI: 

Yeah, yeah. Gary Kane lived for football. He's a damn good athlete too. Now he won't even suit up.

MULDER: 

The Red Museum... 

how are they treated by the local citizens?

Scully walks over.

MAZEROSKI: 

Nobody much cares for them.

MULDER:

Well, are they ever singled out? 

Shop owners refusing to sell to them, stuff like that?

MAZEROSKI: 

Well, there's a reasonable amount of tension 

but most folks are happy to just try to avoid them.

MULDER: 

Uh, can you recommend a good motel in the area?

MAZEROSKI: 

Sure. That means you're going to stay on for a bit. 

You think there might be something to this?

MULDER: 

Well, I, I want to run a background check 

on the church and this guy

MAZEROSKI: 

You've come to the right place for that.

SCENE 8 

CLAY'S BBQ

Scully sits with plates upon plates of food in front of her. 

She has a bib with the store logo on it, and it is covered with sauce. 

She finishes off a rib and puts down the bone, leaving some more sauce on her cheek by her lip. 

Mulder is sitting across from her with a bib on as well.

SCULLY: 

You know, Mulder... ribs like these, 

I'd say the Church of the Red Museum 

has its work cut out for it.

He wipes off the sauce on her face.

Thanks.

So, you started to tell me about walk-ins 

but I'm not sure if I grasped the finer points.

MULDER: 

Well, it, it's kind of a new age religion based on an old idea. 

That if you, uh, 

lose hope or despair 

and 

want to leave this mortal coil, 

you become 

open and vulnerable.

SCULLY: 

To inhabitation by a new spirit.

MULDER: 

A new enlightened spirit. 

According to the literature, 

Abe Lincoln was a walk-in. 

And Mikhail Gorbachev 

and Charles Colson, 

Nixon's advisor.

SCULLY: 

But not Nixon?

MULDER: 

No. Not even they want to claim Nixon.

I Do.

You're Too Human to Be Human

"In order for Life to have appeared spontaneously on Earth, 

there first had to be 

hundreds of millions 

of protein molecules 

of The Ninth Configuration.

But given the size of The Planet Earth, 

do you know how long it would have taken 

for just one of these protein molecules to appear entirely by Chance?

 Roughly ten to the two hundred 

and forty-third power 

billions of years. 

And I find that far, far more fantastic 

than simply Believing in a God."

Col. Vincent Kane

Colonel, what are you holding...?

Colonel, what are you...? Jesus! it is...

Maj. Groper :

Colonel, why do I have to wear this?

Under orders, he - Groper - and the whole staff of the U.S. Military mental asylum are wearing perfect replica Waffen-S.S. Uniforms.

Col. Kane :

What?

Maj. Groper :

I said why do I have to wear this?

Col. Kane :

Its psychodrama, Major.

Roleplay. A standard tool for Therapy.

The inmates are playing the role of Allied Prisoners of War, attempting to tunnel their way through to Freedom.

We are Their Captors.

Maj. Groper :

Bullshit, we're their prisoners!

A bunch of yellow-bellied goof-offs out there havin' a ball.

Why should I have to help their fun, I'm not a psychiatrist!

Its a goddam chicken-shit crazy idea.

Col. Kane :

Jesus! Jesus Christ, man!

Why don't you LOVE somebody just a little!

Why don't you HELP somebody! HELP them! HELP! For the love of Christ!!

You green-soaked caterpillar-torturing bastard!

You're going to wear that uniform, sleep in it, bathe in it.

Try to Take it off and You'll DIE in it! IS THAT CLEAR?!?

Astronaut Cutshaw enters The Commandant's office, wearing a Frankenstein's Monster Mask 

and plants His Flag.

Astronaut Capt. Billy Cutshaw :

I claim This Swamp for Poland!

Col. Kane :

Major Groper, please get out of here.

Immediately! 

And keep that uniform clean.

Astronaut Capt. Billy Cutshaw :

The man has a flag-fetish.

Now, then Major Strasser. 

Tomorrow night we're switching roles.

You'll be The Inmates and We'll be The Guards.

Here, study your part for tomorrow night's interrogation.

Notice, incidentally, that you'll crack on page 3.

Col. Kane :

Yes.

Astronaut Capt. Billy Cutshaw :

Who are you?

Who are you?

You're too Human 

to be human.

Col. Kane :

I don't know.

Astronaut Capt. Billy Cutshaw :

Maybe you're P.T. Barnum.

P.T. Barnum slaughtered lambs.

He put up a cage of side shows...

...and he stuck in A Panther and A Lamb together.

And there was never any Trouble.

Huddy, the public just went lollipops.

"Look, a panther and a lamb and they don't even argue!

They don't even discuss!"

But Hud, what the public never knew...

was that it was never the same lamb.

That fucking panther ate up a lamb every single day 

at intermission for three hundred days, 

and then they shot him for asking for mint sauce.

Animals are Innocent. 

Why should they suffer?

Why should children suffer? 

Will you tell me?

Why should any baby have to suffer and die?

Col. Kane :

Why should Men?

Astronaut Capt. Billy Cutshaw :

Oh, come on now. 

Don't try that thing on me.

You've got Answers for it.

Like: "Pain makes people noble"

And, “How could Man be more than a talking, tennis playing panda bear if there weren't at least the possibility of Suffering?”

But what about animals, Hud?

Does pain make turkeys noble?

Why is all of Creation based on dog eat dog, 

and the little fish are eaten by the big fish?

Animals screaming in Pain.

Our Creation an open wound, 

a fucking slaughterhouse!

Col. Kane :

We've talked about that. 

Astronaut Capt. Billy Cutshaw :

Not enough!

We said 'The original sin' might be the cause.

Astronaut Capt. Billy Cutshaw :

Then why doesn't the Foot 

just come down and tell us?

Is Foot running short of tablets of stone?

My Uncle Eddie owns a quarry; 

I can get them for Him wholesale.

Col. Kane :

You're asking for Miracles.

Astronaut Capt. Billy Cutshaw :

I'm asking Foot to either 

shit or get off the pot.

Diarrhetic strange Gods have been waiting in the line!

Col. Kane :

Maybe God cannot interfere in our affairs.

Astronaut Capt. Billy Cutshaw :

So I noticed.

Col. Kane :

Maybe He can't because to do so 

will spoil His Plans for The Future.

Some Evolution of Man and The World 

that's so unthinkably beautiful...

that its's worth all the pain 

of every suffering thing that ever lived.

Astronaut Capt. Billy Cutshaw :

I say it's spinach and to hell with it.

Col. Kane :

You're convinced that God is Dead 

because there's Evil in The World.

Astronaut Capt. Billy Cutshaw :

Correct.

Col. Kane :

Then why don't you think He's Alive 

because of The Goodness in The World?

Astronaut Capt. Billy Cutshaw :

What Goodness? 

Col. Kane :

Everywhere! In Man.

Astronaut Capt. Billy Cutshaw :

You're commendable. 

Col. Kane :

If we're nothing but atoms... 

molecular structures no different 

in kind from this desk or that pen, 

then we ought to always be rushing irresestibly blindly...

...to our own selfish ends?

So how is it that there is Love in This World?

I mean Love as A God might Love.

And A Man will give 

His Life for another. 

Astronaut Capt. Billy Cutshaw :

Never happened.

Col. Kane :

Of course it's happened.

Astronaut Capt. Billy Cutshaw :

Give me an example. 

Col. Kane :

Happens all the time.

Astronaut Capt. Billy Cutshaw :

Name one example!

Col. Kane :

A Soldier throws himself on top of a live grenade to prevent The Other Men in His Squad from being hit.

Astronaut Capt. Billy Cutshaw :

That's reflex action.

Col. Kane :

A Shipwreck Survivor 

in The Middle of An Ocean,

 finds out that he has Typhoid,

and deliberately goes over The Side of The Lifeboat to keep The Others in The Boat from contracting The Disease.

Now, what do you call that? 

Reflex action?

Astronaut Capt. Billy Cutshaw :

No, I call that Suicide.

Col. Kane :

Suicide and Giving up Your Life 

are not the same.

Astronaut Capt. Billy Cutshaw :

You're so dumb you're adorable.

Col. Kane :

The Essence of Suicide is Despair.

Astronaut Capt. Billy Cutshaw :

The Essence of Suicide is 

You Don't Collect The Insurance.

Listen, who doesn't know 

what all these examples 

we keep on hearing about aren't bullshit?

And don't have some basically 

bullshit selfish explanation?

Col. Kane :

I know. 

Astronaut Capt. Billy Cutshaw :

I don't.

Now give me just one example - just one - 

that you know of personally.

Personally, just one!

Col. Kane :

....

Astronaut Capt. Billy Cutshaw :

I thought as much.

Tomorrow's Sunday. 

Take me to Mass.

Cut to Church, The Next Morning --

Astronaut Cutshaw is dressed like a Little Girl.

Astronaut Capt. Billy Cutshaw :

Would Foot give a shit about what I'm wearing?

The Priest stands up in The Pulpit.

Astronaut Capt. Billy Cutshaw :

Is that Edgar Cayce?

Priest :

If anyone enters by Me, He Will be Saved.

The Thief comes only to Steal, to Kill, and Destroy.

But I have come that 

They may have Life, 

Life in all its Fullness.

That The Father knows Me, 

and I know The Father, 

in the same way 

I Know My Sheep, and They Know me, 

and I am Willing to Die for Them.

I have given YOU An Example

I am The Good Shepherd. 

The Good Shepherd gives His Life for His Sheep.

Astronaut Capt. Billy Cutshaw :

standing up in Church, interupting The Sermon --

Infinite Goodness is Creating A Being

that You Know in Advance is going to Complain.

"To be or not to be"

Thanks, I dug it.

Later, outside --

Astronaut Capt. Billy Cutshaw :

If You Die First and There's Life after Death, 

will you give me A Sign?

Col. Kane :

I'll try. 

Astronaut Capt. Billy Cutshaw :

You're terrific.

Kane

Rabbi...

Private property cannot be confiscated.

How long are the schools going to be closed?

I do not know.

"Article 47, pillage is formally prohibited."

You don't know anything!

I am familiar with the Hague Convention.

Religious...

They come into our house and tell

us we don't live there anymore.

It now belongs to a certain SS officer.

Please. I only know What They Tell Me.

And What They Tell Me changes from day to day.

Aren't you supposed to be able to help?

I mean, what if I just took this thing off?

What are They going to do about it?

They will shoot you.

Why don't you stop this silly talk?

Itzhak Stern!

I'm looking for Itzhak Stern.

Are you Itzhak Stern or not?

I am. 

 

Where can we talk?

There's A Company you did the

books for on Lipowa Street.

Made what? Pots and pans?

STERN :

By Law, I have to tell you sir, 

I am a Jew.

OSKAR SCHINDLER :

Well, I'm a German. 

So there we are.

 

( of-interest is the fact that he does not, at this stage (openly) conceed that you can be both -- although, Stern is Polish, in any case)

A good Company, you think?

STERN :

Modestly successful.

I know nothing about enamelware. 

Do you?

STERN :

I was just The Accountant.

Simple engineering though, wouldn't you think?

Change the machines around, whatever you do...

You could make other things, couldn't you?

Field kits, mess kits. Army contracts.

Once The War ends, forget it

but for now it's great.

You can make A Fortune, don't you think?

STERN :

I think Most People right now

have other priorities.

Like what?

STERN :

I'm sure you'll do just fine once you get the contracts.

In fact, the worse things get,

the better you'll do.

Well, I can get The Signatures I need.

That's the easy part.

Finding The Money to buy

The Company, that's hard.

STERN :

You don't have any money?

Not that kind of money.

You know anybody?

Jews, yeah. Investors.

You must have contacts in

The Jewish Business Community, working here.

STERN :

What Community? 

Jews can no longer own Businesses.

That's why this one's in Receivership.

But they wouldn't own it. I'd own it. 

I'd pay them back in Product, pots and pans.

Pots and pans.

Something they can use.

Something they can

feel in their hands.

They can trade it

on the black market,

do whatever they want.

Everybody's happy.

If you want, you could

run the company for me.

Let me understand.

They'd put up

all the money,

I'd do all the work.

What, if you don't mind

my asking, would you do?

I'd make sure it's known

the company's in business.

I'd see that it had

a certain panache.

That's what I'm good at, not the work.

Not The Work.

The Presentation.

I'm sure I don't know anybody

who'll be interested in this.

Well, They should be, Itzhak Stern.

Tell them they should be.