BLEVINS: Come in. Agent Scully, thank you for coming on such short notice. Please... We see you've been with us just over two years.
SCULLY: Yes, sir.
BLEVINS: You went to medical school but you chose not to
practice. How'd you come to work for the F.B.I.?
SCULLY: Well, sir, I was recruited out of medical school.
Uh, my parents still think it was an act of rebellion, but
I saw the FBI as a place where I could distinguish myself.
MAN: Are you familiar with an agent named Fox Mulder?
SCULLY: Yes, I am.
MAN: How so?
SCULLY: By reputation. He's an Oxford educated Psychologist, who
wrote a monograph on serial killers and the occult, that helped to catch
Monty Props in 1988. Generally thought of as the best analyst in the
violent crimes section. He had a nickname at the academy ...Spooky Mulder.
BLEVINS: What I'll also tell you is that Agent Mulder has
developed a consuming devotion to an unassigned project outside
the bureau mainstream. Are you familiar with the so-called X-Files?
SCULLY: I believe they have to do with unexplained phenomena.
BLEVINS: More or less. The reason you're here, Agent Scully,
is we want you to assist Mulder on these X-Files. You will write field
reports on your activites, along with your observations on the validity
of the work.
SCULLY: Am I to understand that you want me to debunk the X-Files project, sir?
BLEVINS: Agent Scully, we trust you'll make the proper scientific
analysis. You'll want to contact Agent Mulder shortly. We look forward to
seeing your reports.
SCULLY: Agent Mulder? I'm Dana Scully. I've been assigned to work with you.
AGENT MULDER: Oh, isn't it nice to be suddenly so highly regarded?
So, who did you tick off to get stuck with this detail, Scully?
SCULLY: Actually, I'm looking forward to working with you.
I've heard a lot about you.
MULDER: Oh, really?
I was under the impression that you were sent to spy on me.
MULDER: You're a medical doctor, you teach at the academy.
You did your undergraduate degree in physics.
"Einstein's Twin Paradox: A New Interpretation. Dana Scully Senior Thesis."
Now that's a credential, rewriting Einstein.
SCULLY: Did you bother to read it?
MULDER: I did. I liked it.
SCULLY: Do you have a theory?
MULDER: I have plenty of theories.
Maybe what you can explain to me is why it's bureau policy to label
these cases as "unexplained phenomenon" and ignore them.
Do you believe in the existence of extraterrestrials?
SCULLY: Logically, I would have to say no.
Given the distances needed to travel from the far reaches of space,
the energy requirements would exceed a spacecraft's capabilties...
MULDER: Coventional wisdom. You know this Oregon female?
She's the fourth person in her graduating class to die under mysterious
circumstances. Now, when convention and science offer us no answers,
might we not finally turn to the fantastic as a plausibility?
SCULLY: The girl obviously died of something. If it was natural causes,
it's plausible that there was something missed in the post-mortem.
If she was murdered, it's plausible there was a sloppy investigation.
What I find fantastic is any notion that there are answers beyond the
realm of science. The answers are there. You just have to know where to look.
MULDER: That's why they put the "I" in "FBI" See you tomorrow morning,
Scully, bright and early.
SCULLY: You didn't mention yesterday, this case has already beeninvestigated.
MULDER: Yeah, the FBI got involved after the first three deaths when
local authorities failed to turn up any evidence. Our boys came out here,
spent a week, enjoyed the local salmon which, with a little lemon twist,
is just to die for, if you'll pardon the expression. Without explanation,
they were called back in. The case was reclassified and buried in the
X-Files, till I dug it up last week.
MULDER: That's pretty good, Scully.
SCULLY: Better than you expected or better than you hoped?
MULDER: Well... I'll let you know when we get past the easy part.
MULDER: This is amazing, Scully. You know what this could mean?
It's almost too big to even comprehend.
SCULLY: Subject is a hundred and fifty-six centimeters in length,
weighing fifty-two pounds in extremis. Corpse is in advance stages
of decay and desiccation. Distinguishing features include large ocular
cavities, oblate cranium... indicates subject is not human.
Could you point that flash away from me, please?
MULDER: If it's not human, what is it?
SCULLY: It's mammalian. My guess is it's a chimpanzee or something
from the ape family, possibly an orangutan.
MULDER: Buried in the city cemetery in Ray Soames' grave?
Try telling that to the good townsfolk or to Ray Soames' family.
I want tissue samples and x-rays. I'd like blood type and toxicology
and a full genetic work-up.
SCULLY: You're serious?
MULDER: What we can't do here, we'll order to go.
SCULLY: You don't honestly believe this is some kind of an
extraterrestrial? This is somebody's sick joke.
MULDER: We can do those x-rays here, can't we? Is there any reason
we can't do them right now? I'm not crazy, Scully. I have the same doubts you do.
SCULLY: Official laboratory inspection of the
body and x-ray analysis confirms homologous but possibly mutated
mammalian physiology. However, does not account for small unidentified
object found in subject's nasal cavity. A grey metallic implant form...
SCULLY: How did you know that girl was going to have the marks?
MULDER: I don't know, lucky guess?
SCULLY: Damn it, Mulder, cut the crap. What is going on here?
What do you know about those marks? What are they?
MULDER: Why? So you can put it down in your little report?
I don't think you're ready for what I think.
SCULLY: I'm here to solve this case, Mulder, I want the truth.
MULDER: The truth? I think those kids have been abducted.
SCULLY: By who?
MULDER: By what.
SCULLY: You don't really believe that.
MULDER: Do you have a better explanation?
SCULLY: I'll buy that girl is suffering some kind of pronounced psychosis.
Whether it's organic or the result of those marks, I can't say. But to say
that they've been riding around in flying saucers, it's crazy, Mulder,
there is nothing to support that.
MULDER: Nothing scientific, you mean.
SCULLY: There has got to be an explaination. You've got four victims.
All of them died in or near the woods. They found Karen Swenson's body
in the forest in her pajamas, ten miles from her house. How did she get
there? What were those kids doing in the forest?
SCULLY: What are you looking for?
(A bright light flashes.)
What happened?
MULDER: We lost power, brakes, steering, everything. We lost nine minutes.
SCULLY: We lost what?
MULDER: Nine minutes. I looked at my watch just before the flash and
it was 9:03. It just turned 9:13. Look! Look!
(They see the pink "X" that Mulder marked in the road previously) Oh-ho, yes! Abductees... people who have made UFO sightings,
they've reported unexplained time loss.
SCULLY: Come on.
MULDER: Gone! Just like that.
SCULLY: No, wait a minute. You're saying that, that time disappeared?
Time can't just disappear, it's... it's, it's a universal invariant!
MULDER: Not in this zipcode.
MULDER: Hi.
SCULLY: I want you to look at something.
MULDER: Come on in.
(Scully takes off her robe an Mulder sees three bumps on her lower back)
SCULLY: What are they?
Mulder, what are they?
MULDER: Mosquito bites.
SCULLY: Are you sure?
MULDER: Yeah. I got eaten alive myself out there.
SCULLY:Oh, Mulder! (collapses in his arms)
MULDER:You okay?
SCULLY: Yes.
MULDER: You're shaking.
SCULLY: I need to sit down.
MULDER:I was twelve when it happened. My sister was eight. She just disappeared
out of her bed one night. Just gone, vanished. No note, no phone calls,
no evidence of anything.
SCULLY: You never found her.
MULDER: Tore the family apart. No one would talk about it.
There were no facts to confirm, nothing to offer any hope.
SCULLY: What did you do?
MULDER: Eventually, I went off to school in England, I came back,
got recruited by the bureau. Seems I had a natural aptitude for applying
behavioural models to criminal cases.
My success allowed me a certain freedom to pursue my own interests.
And that's when I came across the X-Files.
SCULLY: By accident?
MULDER: At first, it looked like a garbage dump for UFO sightings,
alien abduction reports, the kind of stuff that most people laugh at as
being ridiculous. But I was fascinated. I read all the cases I could get
my hands on, hundreds of them. I read everything I could about
paranormal phenomenon, about the occult and...
SCULLY: What?
MULDER: There's classified government information I've being trying to
access, but someone has been blocking my attempts to get at it.
SCULLY: Who? I don't understand.
MULDER: Someone at a higher level of power. The only reason I've been
allowed to continue with my work is because I've made connections in Congress.
SCULLY: And they're afraid of what? That you'll leak this information?
MULDER: You're a part of that agenda, you know that.
SCULLY: I'm not a part of any agenda. You've got to trust me.
I'm here just like you, to solve this.
THERESA NEMMAN: This is the way it happens, I don't know how I get
out there. I'll just find myself out in the woods.
MULDER: How long has it been happening?
THERESA: Ever since the summer we graduated.
It's happened to my friends too. That's why I need you to protect me.
I'm scared I might... die like the others, like... Peggy did tonight.
MULDER: Do you have the marks, Theresa?
THERESA: Yes. I'm going to die, aren't I? I'm going to be next?
SCULLY: No, you're not going to die.
SCULLY: Peggy O'Dell's watch stopped a couple of minutes after nine.
I made a note of it when I saw the body.
MULDER: That's the reason the kids come to the forest, because the
forest controls them and summons them there. And, and, and the
marks are from, from some kind of test that's being done on them.
And, and that may be causing some kind of genetic mutation which
would explain the body that we dug up.
SCULLY: And the force summoned Theresa Nemman's body into thewoods tonight.
MULDER: Yes, but it was Billy Miles who took her there, summoned by
some alien impulse. That's it!
(Scully laughs)
SCULLY: That kid may have killed Peggy O'Dell, I don't believe this.
MULDER: Scully...
SCULLY: It's crazy! He was in the woods.
MULDER: You're sure?
SCULLY: This is the same stuff that I took a handful of in the forest.
