Why I Follow You

The X-Files Movie - Crossroads Scene (Alt. Music) Mark Snow

BLACKWOOD, TEXAS

Scully turns to face Mulder. 

We see houses behind him.

SCULLY: 

I don't know, Mulder. 

I don't see any evidence of an archeological 

or any other kind of a dig site.

MULDER:

This is where he marked on The Map. 

Where he said those fossils were unearthed. 

The camera pulls back to show our heroes as tiny figures in the left corner of the screen, the sky above huge and cloudy, the houses dwarfing them. 

You're sure those fossils were infected 

with the same virus you saw at the morgue?

SCULLY: 

Both sets of bones were porous, as if The Virus 

or the causative microbe were decomposing it.

MULDER: 

And you've never seen that virus before.

SCULLY: 

No.

He looks down, dejected, then his gaze wanders to the side.

MULDER: 

Look at that.

They walk over to an oasis in the surrounding desert, 

a brand new playground.

MULDER: 

That look like new grass to you?

SCULLY: 

Looks pretty green for this climate.

MULDER: 

Uh huh.

They reach the playground, 

Mulder bends down and picks up a piece of the sod.

MULDER: 

Ground's dry about an inch down. 

This was laid recently.

SCULLY: 

The equipment looks brand new too.

MULDER: 

No irrigation system. 

Somebody's covering their tracks.

They both look around for any kind of clue and see 3 kids riding towards them on bikes.

MULDER: 

Hey! Hey!

(Mulder and Scully walk towards the kids and they stop their bikes.)

SCULLY: 

Do you boys live around here?

KID: 

Yeah.

MULDER: 

You see anybody diggin' over there?

KID: 

We're not supposed to talk about it.

SCULLY: 

You're not supposed to talk about it? 

Who told you that?

KID 2:

Nobody.

MULDER:

Nobody? The same nobody that built that playground? 

Nobody buy you those new bikes, too?

SCULLY: 

I think you better tell us.

KID: 

We don't even know you.

SCULLY: 

Well, we're FBI Agents.

KID: 

You're not FBI Agents.

MULDER: 

How do you know?

KID: 

Cause ya'll look like door-to-door salesmen. 

(laughs)

MULDER: 

(he pulls out his badge) 

Hey, you wanna buy a badge?

The kids all look at his impressive badge and spill the beans.

KID: 

They left about an hour ago, going that way.

He points, then the other two kids point in the same direction.

SCENE 17

TEXAS

The camera pans stylishly alongside Mulder and Scully's brand new Oldsmobile Intrigue. 

Next we see inside as they chat.

MULDER: 

Unmarked tanker trucks. 

What are archeologists hauling out in tanker trucks?

SCULLY: 

I don't know, Mulder.

MULDER: 

And where are They going with it?

(Scully's consulting her map.)

SCULLY: 

That's The First Question to answer 

if we're going to find them.

(The stylish Intrigue screeches to a halt at a Stop sign.)

MULDER:

What are My Choices?

SCULLY: 

About a hundred miles of nothing in both directions.

MULDER:

Well, which way do you think they went?

(Scully puts down the obviously useless map.)

SCULLY: 

We've got two choices :

One of them's wrong.

Mulder looks left down the long highway.

MULDER: 

I think They went Left.

Scully looks to her right.

SCULLY: 

I don't know why, 

I think They went Right.

They look at each other, Mulder looks to the Right-Side highway then begins drumming his fingers on the steering wheel as he stares straight ahead. 

The car takes off with a squeal. 

As usual, Mulder's taking a leap of faith 

and forging straight ahead. 

The road's unpaved and they leave a cloud of dust as they bump along.

MULDER: 

Five years together, Scully. 

How many times I been wrong? 

(she rolls her eyes, thinking, do you want a list?!) 

Never. 

(she looks at him in shock and mild humour.) 

Not driving, anyway.

The car races ahead, towards we know-not-where. 

Miles and miles of nothingness. 

Soon, time has passed and nighttime has settled. 

The crickets chirp and the car suddenly stops. 

They've reached what appears to be a dead end. 

Scully undoes her seat belt, 

shoots Mulder a disgusted look, 

exits the car and slams the door shut. 

Ouch, be nice to that Intrigue, Scully, 

cost The Big Boys a lot of dough! 

Mulder gently closes his door as he exits. 

Scully stands in the beams of the car's headlights 

and turns around to properly berate him.

MULDER: 

I was right about the bomb, wasn't I?

SCULLY: 

This is great, this is fitting.

MULDER: 

What? 

(he pulls out the map.)

SCULLY: 

I have to be in Washington, D.C. in eleven hours for a hearing, 

the outcome of which might possibly effect one of the biggest decisions of my life, 

and here I am in the middle of Nowhere, Texas 

chasing phantom tanker trucks!

MULDER: 

We're not chasing tanker trucks, Scully, 

we're chasing evidence. 

(still consulting the useless map.)

SCULLY: 

Evidence of what exactly?

MULDER: 

That bomb in Dallas was allowed to go off, to hide something. Bodies infected with a virus you yourself detected!

SCULLY: 

Mulder, they haul oil in tanker trucks, 

they haul gas in tanker trucks, 

they do not haul viruses in tanker trucks!

MULDER: 

Well, They may be hauling A Virus 

in these tanker trucks.

She looks at him quizzically.

SCULLY:

What do you mean? .... Mulder? 

.... What are you not telling me? 

he is folding the map elaborately, avoiding her stare and her question.

Mulder?

MULDER: 

(hesitant) 

The Virus may be extraterrestrial.

She stares at him with her mouth open, he gives a small grin, 

looking like a little kid about to be yelled at by his mommy.

SCULLY:

rolls her eyes and turns her head 

I don't b ... Mulder, I don't ...

Her words are cut off by the sound of a train crossing's warning bell, 

which is a good thing for young ears out there in Movieland. 

Ask me by email what she actually said before the movie's rating was changed, hoo boy! 

Anyway, as the train approaches, they both turn to look and then Mulder walks towards the tracks.

SCULLY: 

What? 

she holds her arms out by her sides, 

asking what the heck he's getting worked up about 

Mulder, what?!

She stands behind him as they both watch the train go by. 

Its cargo includes white unmarked tanker trucks. 

He turns to face her, their eyes meet and together 

they race back to the car and hop in, 

a team again and off in pursuit of The Truth once more. 

The car follows next to the train as it races towards its destination. 

Soon, the car stops and Mulder and Scully get out, 

looking at something we can't see yet.

SCULLY: 

What do you think they are?

MULDER: 

I have no idea.

They continue to stare at the unseen sight, 

then begin to walk towards it. 

The camera now pans over the crest of the hill 

Mulder and Scully have begun to walk down 

and we see white domes appearing to glow 

in the middle of a desert, surrounded by a cornfield. 

Out of The Darkness of The Night, 

they arrive at the cornfield and walk through it.

SCULLY:

This is weird, Mulder.

MULDER: 

Very weird.

SCULLY:

Any thoughts as to why anybody would be 

growing corn in the middle of The Desert...?

MULDER: 

Well, those could be giant Jiffy-Pop Poppers.

Freeze Cain

The X Files (1/5) Movie CLIP - Underground Poison (1998) HD

"Harry Dean Stanton and Yaphet Koto are The Two Most Working-Class Guys on The Ship.

And they -- unwittingly, maybe, but maybe intuitively -- KNOW, 

That if They can Just FREEZE CAIN : 

Everything's going to be okay."

And NOBODY Listens to Them.

The Boss :

My God.

What The Hell is that?

Parker :

Jesus Christ.

What is that, man?

Hey, how the hell is he breathing?

Is he still alive or what?

Why don't you guys freeze him?

How come they don't freeze him?

What's going on in there?

What the fuck is going on?

How come they don't freeze him?

Hey, how come you guys don't freeze him?

The Robot :

All right, you can 

Take Your Mask off.

The Crew Boss :

What's it got down his throat?

The Robot :

I would suggest it's feeding him oxygen.

The Crew Boss :

Paralyses him 

Puts him in a coma

Then keeps him alive.

Now what The Hell is that?

We gotta get it off him.

The Robot :

Just a minute.

Just a minute.

I mean, let's not be too hasty.

We don't know anything about...

it.

Now, we're assuming 

it's feeding him oxygen -- 

If we remove it --

It could kill him --

The Crew Boss :

-- I'm willing to take that chance.

Let's cut it off him now.

The Robot :

You'll Take Responsibility?

The Crew Boss :

Yes, yes, yes, 

I'll Take Responsibility.

Get him out of there.

Parker :

She's great. Beautiful.

Walk in The Park! 

When We Fix Something, We Stay Fixed.

Don't we, Brett baby?

Brett :

Right.

Parker :

What I think we should do is just freeze 'im.

He's got A Disease, 

why don't we Stop it Where It Is?

He can always get to A Doctor

when we get back Home.

Brett :

Right.

The (Only) One Who Will Survive This :

Whenever He Says anything, 

You Say "Right.", Brett. You know that?

Brett :

Right.

The (Only) One Who Will Survive This :

Parker, what do you think? 

Your Staff just follows you

around, and Says "Right."

Just like a regular parrot.

Parker :

Yeah. Shape up.

What are you, some kind of parrot?

Brett :

Right.

The Crew Boss :

Come on. Knock it off. 

Kane's gonna have to go into Quarantine.

That's it.

Yes, and so will we.

Doc : 

Damn! It blew the fuel injection manifold. Strong stuff all right. 

(holds up the broken part to show Marty.) 

It'll take me a month to rebuild it.

Horus : 

A month?! 

Doc, you're gonna get shot on Monday!

Doc: 

(moves over to his desk by the window) 

I know, I know, I know! 

I wish...wait. I've got it! 

We can simply roll it down a steep hill!

No, we'd never find a smooth enough surface. 

Unless...of course..!

Ice! We'll wait until Winter...

When The Lake freezes over...

Horus : 

Winter?! Doc, what're you talking about? 

Monday! It's three days away!

WMM: 

What is A Virus, but a colonizing force that cannot be defeated? 

Living in a cave, underground, until it mutates ... and attacks.

 

 

MULDER: 

This is what you've been conspiring to conceal? 

A Disease?

 

WMM: 

No! For God's sake, 

you've got it all backwards! 

 

AIDS, the Ebola virus, on an evolutionary scale they are newborns. 

This Virus Walked The Planet long before The dinosaurs.

 

MULDER: 

(smiling in disbelief) 

What do you mean “walked"?

 

WMM: 

Your aliens, Agent Mulder. 

Your little green men arrived here millions of years ago. 

 

Those that didn't leave have been lying dormant 

underground since the last ice age

in the form of an evolved pathogen, 

waiting to be reconstituted by the alien race

when it comes to colonize the planet -- using us as hosts.

 

 Against this we have 

no defense, 

nothing but a weak vaccine. 

 

Do you see why it was kept secret? 

 

Why even The Best Men, 

Men like Your Father, 

could not let The Truth be known. 

 

Until Dallas we believed The Virus would simply controlus, 

that mass infection would make us a slave race. 

 

Imagine our surprise when They began to gestate. 

 

My group has been working cooperatively with the alien colonists, 

facilitating programs like the one you saw, 

to give us access to the virus

in The Hope that we might be able to secretly develop A Cure.

 

MULDER: 

To save your own asses.

 

WMM: 

"Survival is The Ultimate Ideology" 

Your Father wisely refused to believe this.

 

MULDER: 

But he sacrificed My Sister. 

He let them take Samantha.

 

WMM: 

Without a vaccination, the only true survivors of the viral holocaust 

will be those immune to it - human-alien clones. 

 

He allowed your sister to be abducted, 

to be taken to a cloning program, for one reason...

 

MULDER: 

So she would survive. 

As a genetic hybrid.

 

WMM: 

Your Father chose Hope over Selfishness. 

Hope in the only future he had, his children.

 

His Hope for you was that you would uncover 

The Truth about The Project. 

 

That you would stop it, 

that you would 

Fight The Future.

Papa Spooky

If you release Eugene Tooms, he will kill again. 

It's in his genetic make-up.

He needs to kill, he'll do it the first chance he can. 

If he makes an attempt, 

I'll be there to stop him.

FOWLEY: (smiling) You just need some coffee.

MULDER: No. I'm serious. I have commitments-- to the X-Files, to Scully, to my sister...

DIANA FOWLEY: (sighs) You think you know what that means... commitment. It's all just childish, Fox.

MULDER: (staring at her) "Childish"?

DIANA FOWLEY: Yes. You've been a child... with only the responsibility of a child to your own dreams and fantasies but you won't know the true joy of responsibility until you plant your feet in the world... and become a father.

MULDER: Wow... (sighs and laughs nervously) Diana, if... you lay all this on me after I sleep with you one time what's it going to be like tomorrow?

DIANA FOWLEY: You have to let go, Fox.

MULDER: Just like that? I'm just supposed to slip into domestic bliss even after I was dropped off here by a man I have every reason to believe left here to carry on his dirty work.

DIANA FOWLEY: (soothing) Hey ... he lives the next block over.

Do you swear that The Testimony 

you are about to deliver 

is The Truth, 

The Whole Truth, 

and 

Nothing but The Truth?

MULDER: 

I Do.

(He is seated. The prosecution attorney stands up and walks towards Mulder.)

PROSECUTION COUNSEL MYERS: 

Mr. Mulder, as An Expert Witness 

for The State of Maryland, 

can you list your qualifications?

MULDER: 

I'm a Special Agent 

with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, 

I worked for three years 

at the F.B.I.'s Behavioural Science Unit 

profiling Serial Killers.

DEFENSE COUNSEL NELSON: 

Your Honour, I know where he's going with this -- 

May I remind The Court that Mr. Tooms was placed in psychiatric care 

solely for the previous assault on Agent Scully. 

He has never been charged, 

nor has any evidence linked him to another crime.

JUDGE KANN: 

You may proceed... with caution.

(Mulder sees Scully walk in and take a seat in the back.)

PROSECUTION COUNSEL MYERS: 

Agent Mulder, I understand that you've drawn upon your experience 

and developed a profile on Mr. Tooms.

MULDER: 

Yes, I have.

PROSECUTION COUNSEL MYERS: Please.

(He motions for Mulder to show it. Mulder starts a slideshow. The first picture is of a woman, face down.)

MULDER: These murders span nearly a century. Nineteen homicides, five occuring every thirty years since 1903, all in the Baltimore area. In each case, the liver was extracted and presumably eaten.

(The slides cycle through, showing various people lying face down. The judges are disturbed by the pictures. The pictures change to knick-knacks with a tag marked "Evidence" next to them.)

A trophy was taken, many of which were found in the living quarters of Eugene Tooms at 66 Exeter Street. Records show that a Eugene Tooms has resided at that same address since 1903, the same year a man was murdered in that building.

(Scully looks down, knowing the testimony seems incredulous. The judge looks at Mulder warily.)

Besides the liver extraction, the most notable element connecting these cases is the undetermined point of entry. Many of the victims were found with their windows and doors locked from the inside.

(Various fingerprints are shown in the slides.)

These elongated fingerprints found at seven of the nineteen crime sites match Eugene Victor Tooms.

(Mulder motions to Tooms.)

JUDGE KANN: 

Agent Mulder! Look at his fingers. 

Look at him! 100 years old?

MULDER: 

I contend that perhaps through genetic mutation, 

Eugene Tooms is capable of contorting and elongating his body in order to gain access to victims so that he may extract the livers which provide him with sustenance for the hibernation period of 30 years. 

He needs one more liver to complete this cycle.

Everybody finds this testimony incredulous, and slight murmuring can be heard from the back.

DEFENSE COUNSEL NELSON: 

Your Honor...

MULDER: 

A preliminary examination done at the time of Tooms' arrest revealed abnormalities in his striated muscles and axial bones. His attorney blocked further study...

PROSECTION COUNSEL MYERS: 

Thank you, Agent Mulder!

MULDER: 

I must ask that you place the safety of...

JUDGE KANN: 

Counsel?

MULDER: 

...The People first and foremost...

DEFENSE COUNSEL NELSON: 

No further questions, your honor.

MULDER: 

This is a rare and unusual human creature...

JUDGE KANN: Agent Mulder!

MULDER: 

...who should not be released, 

but should be retained for further study.

JUDGE KANN: 

You may step down!

MULDER: 

If you release Eugene Tooms, he will kill again. 

It's in his genetic make-up.

(The judge bangs her gavel. Cut to Mulder, sitting on a bench in the hallway outside the courtroom. Scully walks out and over to Mulder.)

You think they would have taken me more seriously if I wore the grey suit?

(She sits down next to him.)

SCULLY: 

Mulder, your testimony, you sounded so...

MULDER: 

I don't care How it Sounded 

as long as it was 

The Truth.

(Scully sighs.)

And where were you? 

Your Testimony was important.

SCULLY: 

I was called into a meeting by 

Assistant Director Skinner.

MULDER: 

What did he want?

SCULLY: Just wanted to reel me in.

(The door opens and Prosecution Council Myers walks out.)

PROSECUTION COUNSEL MYERS: They're ready.

(Back in the courtroom, Tooms and Defense Counsel Nelson are standing. Mulder and Scully sit in the back of the room.)

JUDGE KANN: It is the opinion of this court that Eugene Victor Tooms shall on this daybe released from Druid Hill Sanitarium.

(Tooms smiles. Mulder sighs a heavy breath.)

The court also attaches these conditions. One, that Mr. Tooms remain in counseling under the care of Dr. Aaron Monte; that he retain his job at the Baltimore Regulations Animal Shelter; and last, that he take residence in the house of Mr. and Mrs. Arlan Green...

(Mr. and Mrs. Green stand. Tooms looks back at them.)

... trained in a program to assist patients released from Druid Hill in their transition to society.

(They nod at him.)

Mr. Tooms?

(He looks back at her.)

Do you understand and accept these conditions?

EUGENE TOOMS: Yes, your honor.

(He nods.)

JUDGE KANN: 

Very well. You're free to go.

(She bangs her gavel again. Mulder and Scully walk out of the courtroom.)

MULDER: I'm not taking my eyes off him.

SCULLY: 

Mulder, wait...

MULDER: 

He needs to kill, 

he'll do it the first chance he can but he won't kill the old couple. 

He won't be that obvious. 

Tooms didn't remain a secret for a hundred years by not being careful. 

Think of him as An Animal. 

He'll only kill 

out of necessity or self-defense. 

If he makes an attempt, 

I'll be there to stop him.

(They stop walking.)

SCULLY: Okay, well then I'll keep surveillance with you.

MULDER: No, I'll watch him. If he can't be tied to the most recent evidence, you'll have to go back to the earlier murders to prove it was him.

SCULLY: That was thirty or sixty years ago.

MULDER: There's no statute of limitation on murder.

SCULLY: 

Mulder, that's going to entail unorthodox methods of investigation.

MULDER: 

Look, Scully, 

if you're resistant because You Don't Believe, I'll respect that. 

But if you're resistant because of some bureaucratic pressure, 

They've not only reeled you in --

They've already skinned you.

(Tooms walks out of the courtroom followed by Mr. and Mrs. Green. Tooms slows down a bit as he passes Mulder and Scully and smiles at them. They keep walking, turning the next corner.

ARLAN GREEN: I hope you'll be comfortable, Eugene. The room in the back is small, but I'm sure you'll be able to squeeze in.

EUGENE TOOMS: I'm sure. 

Fox Mulder : 

Do you have that sandwich I asked you to bring?

Dana Scully : 

It's liverwurst.

Dana Scully : 

Mulder, you know that proper surveillance requires  

Two Pairs of Agents, 

one pair relieving the other after 12 hours.

Fox Mulder : 

Article 30, paragraph 8.7?

Dana Scully : 

This isn't about Doing it by The Book. 

This is about you not having slept for three days. 

Mulder, you're gonna get sloppy and you're gonna get hurt. 

It's inevitable at this point.

Fox Mulder : 

A request for Other Agents 

to stake out Tooms would be denied. 

'Til then, we have no grounds.

Dana Scully : 

Well then, I'll stay here. 

You go home.

Fox Mulder : 

They're out to put an end to the X-Files, Scully. 

I don't know why, but any excuse will do. 

I don't really care about My Record, 

but you'd be in Trouble just sitting in this car. 

And I'd hate to see you carry an Official Reprimand 

in your career file because of me.

Dana Scully : 

Fox...

Fox Mulder : 

[Rueful laughing]  

I... I... even made My Parents 

call me 'Mulder'. 

So... 

‘Mulder’.

Dana Scully : 

Mulder, I wouldn't put myself on The Line 

for anybody but you.

Fox Mulder : 

    If there's an iced tea in that bag, 

it could be Love.

Dana Scully : 

Must be Fate, Mulder -- 

Root Beer.

"There really are 

Four Quarters of a Whole. 

And I think that maybe threw some people at the beginning of last season, 

and even at the end of last season. 

But I think that you see, 

as you have seen, that they were puzzle pieces, 

Four Puzzle Pieces to A Circle.

I wanted to tell 

Mulder’s Story — Mulder's Struggle.

I wanted to tell 

Scully's Struggle.

I wanted to tell 

The Cigarette Smoking Man's Struggle,

and I wanted to tell 

William's Struggle.

For me, 

The Four Characters 

who are central to The Mythology.”

— Chris Carter.