MAGGIE SCULLY: Once, when [Dana] was a girl... a very little girl... Dana was in the woods. It was autumn. She had always been a tomboy, unlike her sister Melissa. For her birthday, Dana’s brothers had given her a B.B. gun and were showing her how to use it. Their father had told them only to shoot cans... But in a patch of grass, Bill Jr. found a garter snake. And they began shooting. Wanting to fit in with her brothers, Dana also shot at the snake. It squirmed wildly, desperately fighting for life, but as the boys continued to shoot, the snake began to bleed. When she realized what she had done... Dana began to cry with irrevocable guilt. Through her tears, she was saying that... something was missing from the snake. She had taken something that was not hers to take. And although deathly afraid of snakes, Dana held the animal as if sheer human will could keep it alive. The snake, its blood on her hands, died. There was nothing she could do to bring it back.
MULDER: It’s too soon, Mrs. Scully. We can’t give up.
MAGGIE: That day in the woods, I felt for my daughter. But at this moment, I know how my daughter felt.
Dana Katherine Scully
1964 - 1994
Loving Daughter & Friend
The spirit is the truth.
John 5:07
MULDER: Who brought her here? How did she get here?
NURSE: Sir, will you please---
MULDER: How did she get here?
NURSE: Miss Scully was in this condition when I arrived for the evening shift. If you'll step outside, perhaps Dr. Daly--
MULDER: Is that Daly? Are you Dr. Daly? What's going on? How the hell did she get here?
DR. DALY: Would you settle down---
MULDER: Was it paramedics, FBI, military? Answer me right now!
DR. DALY:> I--
MULDER: What, you're telling me she just appeared?
DR. DALY: Sir...
MULDER: Who did this to her?
DR. DALY: Sir...
MULDER: I want to see her admission forms. Who did this to her? I want to see what else they've done.Listen, if you're hiding anything, I swear, I will do anything, whatever it takes, I will find out what they did to her!
MULDER: I’d like her examined for trace evidence.
DR. DALY: She has been bathed and cleaned since her admittance. Also, there is a situation which I don’t know if you’re aware of. The FBI has notified us of the terms of Dana’s living will.
MAGGIE SCULLY: What is it, what did she say?
DR. DALY: Well, Dana is a doctor. Her criteria for terminating life support is quite specific. She states that, um... if her glasgow outcome scale lists her...
MULDER: She doesn't want to live in this condition.
DR. DALY: (to MULDER) You signed the will as her witness.
MELISSA SCULLY: I was told not to call you Fox.
MULDER: By who?
MELISSA: Dana, just now.
MULDER: Dana talked to you just now? If she talked, the EEG would have moved.
MELISSA: (she laughs) Her soul is here. (MAGGIE SCULLY walks in) Hi Mom.
MAGGIE: I'm glad you could come Melissa.
MULDER: You're Scully's sister?
MELISSA: Dana's choosing whether... whether to remain or move on. You can feel her, here. Here.
MULDER: She's not here.
MELISSA: No, your anger... your fear's blocking any positive emotions she needs to feel.
NURSE: May I help you?
FROHIKE: (with flowers) Dana Scully, please.
MULDER: Frohike?
BYERS: Good work sneakin' out [Scully's medical] charts.
FROHIKE: Snuck 'em in my pants.
MULDER: There's plenty of room down there.
LANGLY: You look down, Mulder. Tell you what, you're welcome to come over Saturday night. We're all hoppin' on the internet to nit-pick the scientific inaccuracies of Earth 2.
MULDER: I'm doing my laundry.
BYERS: The charts show abnormal protein chains in the blood. The amino acids sequences are in combinations I've never seen before. I've downloaded Scully's medical data to the newest Lone Gunman.
FROHIKE: He goes by the name "The Thinker."
BYERS: The guy's a hacking genius.
MULDER: What?
BYERS: The Thinker reports the protein chains are a result of branched DNA.
MULDER: Branched DNA?
LANGLY: The cutting edge of genetic engineering.
BYERS: A biological equivalent of a silicon microchip.
LANGLY: This is way beyond cutting edge. This is technology 50 years down the line.
MULDER: What's it used for?
FROHIKE: Could be a tracking system.
BYERS: Developmental stages of a biological marker.
MULDER: You mean a high tech identity card?
LANGLY: Or something as insidious as grafting a human to something ...inhuman.
BYERS: Good theories, gentlemen, but all for naught. This branched DNA is inactive. Waste product. Whoever was experimenting with Scully is finished. Now it's nothing more than a biological poison.
MULDER: Will she live?
BYERS: Um, her immune system has been decimated, and uh... I doubt even a healthy human body has the ability to fight this. Mulder, there's nothing you can do.
X: You got [Deep Throat] killed. You got her killed. That's not going to happen to me. You're my tool, do you understand? I come to you when I need you. Right now you're heading in a direction that can lead them right here.
MULDER: What the hell are you talking about?
X: You're not supposed to know. That's the point.
MULDER: I owe her more than just sitting around doing nothing.
X: She was a good soldier, Mulder, but there's nothing you can do to bring her back.
MULDER: She's not dead.
X: Listen to you. Listen. You're a damn schoolboy, Mulder. You have no idea. No idea!
MULDER: Okay, then tell me. Tell me!
X: I used to be you. I was where you are now. But you're not me, Mulder. I don't think you have the heart. Walk away. Grieve for Scully. And then never look back. You will be able to live with yourself , Mulder. On the day you die.
MULDER: It's possible branched DNA can be treated with designer antibiotics.
DR. DALY: Agent Mulder, I don't know where you developed this bizarre theory, but I do believe you are in no position to continue.
MULDER: You've never provided an answer as to why she's here and what's wrong with her. We need to study her.
MELISSA: She's not a piece of evidence.
MULDER: She's here because of unnatural circumstances.
MELISSA: She's dying. That's perfectly natural. We hide people in these rooms because we don’t want to look at death. We have machines prolong a life that should, that should end. That’s a much more unnatural circumstance than any cause of her death.
MULDER: That's very politically correct.
MELISSA: That's very human. I love her. This is right.
SKINNER: Yeah, come in. Sit down. I called you right up here because of rumors about an incident at the hospital last night.
MULDER: Is this about the tooth that was found in the cafeteria Jell-O?
SKINNER: The rumor has it that you were involved. In the laundry room.
MULDER: Sir?
SKINNER: A man was executed, Agent Mulder.
MULDER: I was with Scully.
SKINNER: Traces of her blood were found at the scene.
MULDER: May I see the police report?
SKINNER: There is no police report of this incident, Agent Mulder, and there is no body. You know that.
MULDER: Since I am unfamiliar with any such incident, sir, no, how would I know that?
SKINNER: Knock it off!
MULDER: How does it feel? Constant denial of everything. Questions answered with a question?
SKINNER: I want to know what happened, dammit!
MULDER: Him! That's what happened. Cancer Man! He's responsible for what's happened to Scully.
SKINNER: How do you know that?
MULDER: It's a rumor... Who is he?
SKINNER:: It's not your---
MULDER: Oh, you can have it all, my badge, you can have the X-Files. Just tell me where he is.
SKINNER: And then what? He sleeps with the fishes? We're not the Mafia, Agent Mulder. I know it's easy to forget it, but we work for the Department of Justice.
MULDER: That's what I want.
SKINNER: Agent Scully was a fine officer. More than that, I liked her. I respected her. We all know the field we play on and we all know what can happen in the course of the game. If you were unprepared for all the potentials, then you shouldn't step on the field.
MULDER: What if ... I knew the potential consequences but I never told her?
SKINNER: Then you're as much to blame for her condition as... The Cancer Man.
WILLIAM SCULLY: (dream sequence) Hello Starbuck. It's Ahab. People would say to me, "Life is short. Kids, they grow up fast. Before you know it, it's over." I never listened. To me, life went at a proper pace. There were many rewards until the moment that I knew, I understood, I would never see you again, my little girl. And my life felt as if it had been the length of one breath, one heartbeat. I never knew how much I loved my daughter until I could never tell her. At that moment, I would have traded every medal, every commendation, every promotion, for one more second with you. We'll be together again, Starbuck. But not now. Soon.
NURSE OWENS: Dana, I know death is at arm's reach tonight, but Dana, your time is not over.
MULDER: Sit down!
CSM: How'd you find me?
MULDER: Shut up! Tonight, I ask the questions! You’re going to answer me, you son of a bitch!
CSM: Don't try and threaten me, Mulder. I've watched presidents die.
MULDER: Why her? Why her and not me? Answer me!
CSM: I like you. I like her too. That's why she was returned to you.
MULDER: You should be the one to die.
CSM: Why? Look at me-- no wife, no family, some power. I'm in the game because I believe what I'm doing is right.
MULDER: Right? Who are you to decide what's right?
CSM: Who are you? If people were to know of the things I know, it would all fall apart. I told Skinner you shot the man in the hospital, but I didn't really believe it. And here you are with a gun to my head. I have more respect for you Mulder. You're becoming a player. You can kill me now but you'll never know the truth... and that's why I'll win. Don't worry. This will be our little secret. We wouldn't want others to start rumors.
SKINNER: When I was 18, I went to Vietnam. I wasn't drafted, Mulder, I enlisted in the Marine Corps the day of my 18th birthday. I did it out of blind faith. I did it because I believed that it was the right thing to do. I don't know, maybe I still do. Three months into my tour, a 10 year old North Vietnamese boy walked into camp, covered with grenades. And I blew his head off from a distance of ten yards. I lost my faith. Not in my country or in myself, but in everything. There was just no point to anything anymore. One night on patrol we were caught, and everyone, everyone fell, I mean everyone. I looked down at my body, from outside of it. I didn't recognize it at first. I watched the V.C strip my uniform, take my weapon, and I remained, in this thick jungle. Peaceful, unafraid. Watching my dead friends, watching myself. In the morning the corpsmen arrived and put me in a body bag in Talmad, I guess they found a pulse, I don't know. I awoke in a Saigon hospital two weeks later. I'm afraid to look any further beyond that experience. You? You are not. Your resignation is unacceptable.
MULDER: You. You gave me Cancer Man’s location. You put your life in danger.
SKINNER: Agent Mulder, every life, every day is in danger. That’s just life.
MELISSA: Why is it so dark in here?
MULDER: Because the lights aren't on.
MELISSA: Okay. I just came from the hospital. Dr. Daly says... she’s weakening. It could be anytime. So I figured you’d want to come down and see her.
MULDER: No, I can’t.
MELISSA: Well, I’d think that you would.
MULDER: Yeah, I would. I can’t, not right now.
MELISSA: Listen. I don’t have to be psychic to see that you’re in a very dark place...much darker than where my sister is. Willingly walking deeper into darkness cannot help her at all. Only the light...
MULDER: Enough with the harmonic convergence crap, okay? You’re not saying anything to me.
MELISSA: Why don’t you just drop your cynicism and your paranoia and your defeat. You know, just because it’s positive and good doesn’t make it silly or trite! Why is it so much easier for you to run around trying to get even than just expressing to her how you feel? I expect more from you. Dana expects more. Even if it doesn’t bring her back, at least she’ll know. And so will you.
MAGGIE SCULLY: Hello, Fox.
SCULLY: (laughs) Not Fox, Mulder.
MULDER: How are you feeling?
SCULLY: Mulder, I don’t remember anything... after Duane Barry...
MULDER: Doesn’t... doesn’t matter. Brought you a present, Superstars of the Super Bowl.
SCULLY: I knew there was a reason to live.
MULDER: I know you want to get some rest, I... just came by to see... how you were doing and say hi.
SCULLY: Mulder? I had the strength of your beliefs.
MULDER: I was holding [your cross] for you.
SCULLY: Thanks.
SCULLY: (to a NURSE) Could I see Nurse Owens? I’ve got something I’d like her to have.
NURSE: Nurse who?
SCULLY: Owens. Short with straight light brown hair? She watched over me in intensive care and I’d like to thank her.
NURSE: Dana, I’ve worked here for ten years and there’s no Nurse Owens at this hospital.
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