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The dialogue is kinda hard for me. I do not have Closed Captioning. My sister does but she's a heathen and she will NOT let me watch X-Files or any other Sci-Fi related show at her house. <Sigh> I do have the novelization of the movie which helps some but I think that there are some differences. I shall try to be as accurate with the dialogue as possible considering my less than perfect hearing.
The X-Files: Fight The Future (2): Skullduggery
Okay, Skullduggery is not really an apt description (well not for this scene anyway) but I just had to get the skull reference in somehow. So I'm using it. Webster's be damned!
Abbreviations so far:
Caveman 1: CM1
Caveman 2: CM2
North Texas
Present day
The Earth opens up and a boy drops in. He lands kinda hard. The shovel he had with him barely misses his head. His three friends appear in the hole's opening.
Boy 1 (B1): Hey Stevie you okay?
Boy 2 AKA Stevie (ST): I got [softly] -I got [louder]-I got the wind knocked out of me. <Frankly, I'm surprised he didn't break his back or something. That was one hell of a fall.>
Boy 3 (B3): Looks like a cave or something. <Duh! To quote Duncan MacLeod "Thank you master of the bloody obvious.">
ST looks around his landing place. <For what I don't know. Buried treasure perhaps?> [He spits]
B1: Stevie what's going on?
ST: It's a human skull! [He holds up the skull for his friends to see.]
The skull appears to be translucent. Definitely not the way a skull ought to look <At least not from the pictures and the stuff on HBO specials I've seen.>
B3: Toss it up here dude!
ST: No way buttwipe it's mine. <Does he kiss his mother with that mouth?> Anyway there's bones all over the place man. [Gleefully] <A little too gleefully if you ask me.> [He inspects his find.]
Upon closer inspection you can really see how thin the skull is. You can actually see ST's hands through it. <Nice detail!> While he's doing his inspection his face changes from that "look what I found" look to a "what did I step in?" look. When he looks down at his feet one sees that he has indeed stepped in something and it ain't bubble gum.
ST: What the…?
He drops his prized skull as little oilien worms travel through his skin and up his body. He can only watch in horror as this occurs. <It's kinda gross>
B1: Stevie? You okay?
ST looks up with a rather vacant look in his eyes. <Well as vacant as one can look with one's eyes filled with black oilien goo.> The oiliens have taken up residence and can be seen swimming in his eyes.
B3: Hey man, let's get out of here! <With friends like these…>
The boys run off. At least B1 has the decency to look back once or twice as he runs away. <The fourth boy (B4) doesn't even open his mouth. What was he there for anyway? Sinkhole dressing?>
Where do I begin?
This scene basically ties in the prehistoric goo with what our heroes will encounter evidence of later on. (I know, I know, they haven't even appeared yet and here it is post 2. I'm getting to them. Eventually.) Anyway…. I suppose we are to presume that the cave into which ST dropped is the one that CM1 and CM2 lost their lives. So, what did the oil do while it was trapped underground anyway? I guess it's a good thing some speculator hasn't come across the oilien while trying to hit the motherlode can you imagine thinking you struck oil and having the oil strike you? (In a matter of speaking.)
Am I the only one who finds it a little odd that these boys think of this skull as some kind of plaything? What were they going to do tie it on a string and turn it into a yo-yo?
Okay, granted a polymerized human head may make a pretty cool paperweight but I think for the most part when I think of human skulls, I think crime scene. Personally, I think I would teach my kids that if they find a human skull they should leave it alone and find the cops. If they want to dig around in human bones, they can wait until they become archeologists.
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