SCENE 6
Cut to a sign on a wire fence which reads:
WIEKAMP AIRFORCE BASE
NO TRESPASSING
BEYOND THIS POINT
BY AUTHORITY OF
THE U.S. GOVERNMENT
Moving over the fence, topped with barbed wire, we hear the steady whooshing of an aircraft, and suddenly, a huge fireball plummets into the ground and erupts in a gigantic explosion which illuminates the entire area.
The aircraft is a UFO, now set ablaze, burning.
After a while, we see a man dragging another man from the wreckage, and we hear the faint wailing of army trucks in the background.
Four or five of them.
From the trucks emerge men with guns, and they point them straight at the man dragging the body - a FACELESS MAN,
with another faceless man lying dead on the ground.
Cut to pictures of the Ruskin Dam.
They are being held by Scully,
who is still laying in her hospital bed.
Mulder is by her bedside.
SCENE 7
SCULLY'S HOSPITAL ROOM
SCULLY:
I don't know what to say. I mean, I -
I don't have the first clue. There's nothing here.
MULDER:
Well, at least you're not alone.
None of the other survivors have been able
to give a cogent account, either.
SCULLY:
Mulder, I have never been here.
I couldn't tell you how to get here, let alone drive it.
MULDER:
Do you remember when you last saw Cassandra Spender?
SCULLY:
She was there, too?
Mulder nods.
MULDER:
I ran more x-rays.
I haven't told anybody yet what I found, though.
SCULLY:
You found more implants?
Again, Mulder nods.
MULDER:
That would explain How you were directed to the site,
and Why you can't remember.
It would explain the sensation
Cassandra Spender was describing,
her abduction fantasies.
It would explain Skyland Mountain.
SCULLY:
Yeah, but it wouldn't explain why They would want to kill me. And it doesn't explain why I survived.
MULDER:
It all comes down to A Question, Scully.
One that hasn't been answered
or I don't even think honestly addressed.
Who made that chip in your neck?
That chip was found in a military research facility.
Our Government made that chip,
implanted it in your neck
as part of a secret military project
to develop a biochemical weapon,
to monitor your immunity,
or to destroy you like a lab rat,
if The Truth were to be exposed.
Your Cancer ... Your Cure ...
Everything that's happening to you now -
it all points to that chip.
The Truth I've been searching for?
That Truth is in you.
SCULLY:
Mulder, when I met you five years ago,
you told me that Your Sister had been abducted
... by aliens.
That that event had marked you so deeply,
that nothing else mattered.
I didn't believe you, but I followed you,
on nothing more than Your Faith
that The Truth was Out There,
based not on Facts, not on Science,
but on Your Memories
that Your Sister had been taken from you.
Your memories were all that you had.
MULDER:
I Don't Trust those memories now.
SCULLY:
Well, whether you Trust them or Not,
they've led you here. And me.
But I have no memories to either Trust nor Distrust,
and if you ask me now to follow you again,
to stand behind you in What You Now Believe,
without knowing What Happened to Me out there,
without those memories, I can't. I won't.
[Mulder stands and looks out the window.]
MULDER:
If I could give you those memories,
if I could prove that I Was Right
and that What I Believed for so long was wrong ...
SCULLY:
Is that what you really want?
From his expression,
we know that he's not sure.
We then cut to a black and white photo of the captured faceless man, along with two military officers
(one who looks amazingly like Adolf Hitler!)
The photo is being held by the First Elder,
who then passes it along to the Second Elder.
The members of the Syndicate (ie. the "Elders") are standing around a circular table, through which they can see the comatose Marita Covarrubias.
SCENE 8
MEDICAL FACILITY
FIRST ELDER:
The facial scarrings appear to be
self-mutilation done as protection.
THIRD ELDER:
Protection against what?
FIRST ELDER:
Infection by The Black Oil.
He was the lone survivor of a crashed spacecraft
at a military base in West Virginia.
THIRD ELDER:
What the hell is he?
WMM:
An alien Rebel. This is what the boy saw in Russia.
The last face The Dead saw at Skyland Mountain,
and most surely who killed Our Man at the dam in Pennsylvania.
He's a resistance fighter against the alien colonists.
This is what Alex Krycek knew -
That a War had begun.
FIRST ELDER:
What good was that knowledge?
Without The Vaccine against The Black Oil,
no one can survive.
WMM:
We have A Vaccine.
Developed by the Russians,
stolen by Krycek, given to me.
They watch as, below, Marita's doctor
prepares The Vaccine for injection.
WMM:
Do you see what this means?
Resistance is Possible.
We have The Weapons and The Magic in hand.
FIRST ELDER:
We don't know The Vaccine works.
WMM:
It will. And if it doesn't,
we have a new alliance to be made.
FIRST ELDER:
Side with The Resistance?
THIRD ELDER:
Suicide.
FIRST ELDER:
They'll squash us as They do Them.
We must turn The Rebel over.
WMM:
But first,
wait till we know The Vaccine works.
The Well Manicured Man taps on the glass, indicating for the doctor to open Marita's eyes to see The Black Oil.
It is still in her, and The Doctor carefully injects the vaccine.
