The X-Files (1993–…): Season 4, Episode 18 - Max - full transcript

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(shouting)

(Scully) Get down!

Get down. Stay down!

You're gonna keep breathing.
Do you hear me?

(gasps in pain)

(woman) He's getting away!

I'll be right back.

Back away. Back aw...

(sirens)

I need an EMT in here now.



Car 39 requesting EMT.

Come on, now. Let her through.
Let her through.

Help me with this table.
Give her some room.

We've got paramedics on the way.
You're going to the hospital.

You're going to be OK.

We still haven't celebrated my birthday.

I'm not going to let you off the hook
like this.

Let 'em through. Let 'em through, please.

This man has a puncture wound to his right
lung. He needs to be intubated immediately.

He's an FBI agent,...

_.and he's not gonna die.

Sit down.

I'm sorry.

How did they know?



When you talked to your girlfriend,
what did you say?

- Did you tell her you were in DC?
- No.

Then there's someone inside.

- What happened? Who shot Pendrell?
- I don't know.

I got a call about a federal-witness transfer.

Sergeant Louis Frish_
He was the intended target.

A federal marshal was supposed
to put him into protective custody.

- That order was countermanded.
- By whom?

He's being put under military arrest.

Military arrest?

For suspicion of murder
and providing false testimony.

He has testimony damaging to the military.

His life is in danger.
He is not going anywhere.

The order to arrest him came
from the Joint Chiefs of Staff,.._

_.who have also issued
a recommendation on Agent Mulder.

For what?

He's been put under military arrest

for interference
with the military investigation...

_.into the crash of an airliner.

Sir, the military is responsible
for the downing of that plane.

They are admitting as much. But Sergeant
Frisn's story is not the one they're telling.

What is their story?

I have a responsibility for the safety
of the agents under my supervision.

I'm not going to put another agent's life
in jeopardy just to keep her out in the field.

I'm fine.

I suggest you make sure of that when
you go to the hospital with Agent Pendrell_

Mulder.

You come to spring me from the joint?

- I came to talk to you.
- About what?

A big ol' misunderstanding?

According to the military,
there was no misunderstanding.

Suddenly they just decide to take
responsibility for the crash of Flight 549?

They had no choice. Not in light
of all the facts that have come out.

Facts? Have you heard their cover story?

That the tower gave bad coordinates
to a fighter pilot,___

_.causing it to collide with Flight 549
over military airspace?

They allowed me to listen to the recordings.

If you believe in the coordinates
that Sgt Frish gave to the fighter pilot...

_.were the exact path that 549 was on,___

_.they would indicate that he could not have
seen 549 in the airspace

until it was too late.

So the tower put those jets
on a collision course?

Yes. And they were
the only two aircraft on the radar screen.

Realising his guilt, Sergeant Frish's
fellow officer put a gun to his head.

According to the Air Force,
Frish lied to save himself.

When he found his fellow officer
had committed suicide,_..

_.he blamed the military. That's why
they pursued him -to bring him to justice.

And they could lay the blame
on a dead man.

YSS.

This, uh, second plane?
They say it's a military fighter?

It was an F-'I 5 Eagle,
according to an Air Force spokesman.

You believe that story, Scully?

I don't know what to believe.

Do you believe I got this
from an F-15 Eagle?

Those look like radiation burns.
Where did you get that?

At the second crash site, in 50 feet of water
at the bottom of Sacandaga Lake.

- You found it?
- I followed a trail of bubbles...

_.to a wreckage that looked like nothing
that takes off from an Air Force base.

What was it?

What collided with Flight 549 was a UFO,...

_.shot down by the military, taking
the passenger plane along with it.

Except it can't be proven.

Why not?

Because they haven't found any evidence
that Flight 549 was involved in a collision.

According to who?

Mike IVlalar, the IIC man
running the investigation.

- How do you know he's not lying?
- I don't.

He's the one man who wants to find out
what downed that plane,.__

_.and who came to me with information
he had no reason to share.

What information?

He found Sharon Grafia at the crash site
the night we left,

after seeing lights over the area.

Max Fennig's sister.

That's another thing. She's not Max's sister.

- Then who is she?
- An unemployed aeronautical engineer...

_.who spent time in and out of mental
institutions. That's where she met Max.

- Why would she lie?
- I don't know.

All I know is that this plane seems to be
killing people as it sits there on the ground.

Mulder, Agent Pendrell is dead.

How?

Shot, in an attempt
on Sergeant Frish in Washington.

He saved his life, Mulder, and maybe mine.

All right, Scully. Scully...

Mulder, what are these people dying for?

- Is it for the truth or for the lies?
- It's gotta be for the truth.

If we owe them anything,
it's to make sure of that.

Excuse me, sir. Max Fennig?

- He's over there.
- Thank you.

Remember this place?

I remember being amazed
at what some people will call home.

You have to admit,
the man had an enduring sense of style.

Only Max Fennig and you
would appreciate living like this.

_.unmarked helicopters hovering

I think you were actually kindred spirits
in some deep, strange way.

What do you mean?

"IVIen with spartan lives,
simple in their creature comforts,

if only to allow for the complexity
of their passions."

l\/Im, beans and weenies.

What exactly are we looking for here?

Something to explain why Max was
on that plane.

What he was coming to show me.

What makes you think
that he was coming to see you?

Max is the key to this. He knew that plane
was in danger before it took off,.__

_.before it entered military airspace.
Now, how would he know that?

And what would be worth taking that risk?

Hi. Max here.

But of course.

This is, uh, quite obviously my story...

_.since I'm telling it.

Anyway um, for those of you
who know me already...

_.this will be ancient history.
But for the rest of you, this is -

__well, what can I say? - the stoly of my life.

Actually all I ever wanted in life
was to be left alone.

(scoffs) Don't we all!

So, just my luck that I 'd eventually
become an alien abductee.

Now I'm never alone.
Any minute, when I'm least expecting it...

And the worst part is... no one believes you.

Oh, well, almost no one.

So, I've devoted my life
to providing all you disbelievers with proof

Proof that there are extraterrestrial
biological entities right now...

_.visiting our planet
for purposes of a troubling agenda...

_.known only to certain members
of the government, the FBI...

_.and certain high-ranking members
of the military industrial community...

_.who have recovered
some of these very craft.

Not that they'd ever admit to it publicly
of course.

Nor would they admit they have
salvaged some of this alien technology...

_.and are using it in military applications.
No, that would be un-American.

And they won't admit it until someone
confronts them with undeniable proof

Someone like me.

And I should probably mention
that I do this at great risk to my own safety.

But, hey, when every day's
just another da y,---

..you're gonna get kidnapped
by a bunch of little grey dudes ,...

__what's a few CIA spooks to worry about?

(man) Careful.

(gagging)

- (QHSPS)
- We found it.

(Malao Ladies and gentlemen,___

_.recovery and identification of the deceased
victims of Flight 549 is at 76 per cent.

Which is far better than anticipated, given
the kind of destruction that we've all seen.

We've got a total of nearly 3,000 man-hours
logged in this first wave of investigation.

And I wish I could tell you folks that we've
come up with something more concrete.

But the evidence...

_.just doesn't support anything more than
the Air Force's assertion that the cause...

_.was a midair collision
or a catastrophic near miss.

I'm gonna ask you all
to wrap up your reports

and then to go home to your families.

You've done a good and thorough job here.

You'll be in touch with me or someone
from the NTSB on anything further.

I just wanted to thank you all personally.
Thank you.

I'd wondered what happened to you.
I put in a call.

- You had something you wanted to tell us?
- No. Just... just wanted to touch base.

Thank you for leading us
to the fact of the military's involvement.

I think the facts
are still a matter of speculation.

Listening to what you just said,
I think you do too.

The military's public claim of fault...

_.and their actions to promote that claim
have raised some suspicions.

Suspicions? Of what?

That the story the military
is now promoting

is a convenience deflection and cover-up.

Of What?

Scully and I agree on some of the motives
but not on the facts.

- Do you have facts that I don't?
- No.

But I do have a story,
if you're willing to hear it.

Tell me it's bull, as Agent Scully has, but
it's as believable as any story I've heard.

At least it's the only one
that can't be refuted by the facts.

Au right.

There was one man who knew
what brought this plane down.

He knew it even before he got on
the plane, but he got on anyway.

He sat right here in this seat, 13-F.

His name was Max Fennig_

There are a number of possibilities
for Max's suspicions,.__

_.but I believe he'd been followed
for some time before he boarded Flight 549.

And I believe
he was followed onto this plane...

_.by someone who wanted whatever it is
Max had carried on board with him.

The object that ultimately brought down
this plane, the cause which has alluded you.

And what was this object?

Physical proof of the existence
of extraterrestrial life and intelligence.

The person who followed Max
may have been prepared to kill

to obtain this object.

Its value greater than one human life,___

_.greater than the lives
of the 134 people on that plane.

Whether that plan was executed,
we may never know.

Because Flight 549 was intercepted
by a second aircraft,"

-_ which did not appear on the military's
or anyone else's radar screen-

What the hell is this?

Max Fennig knew immediately
what this craft was,-.-

_.and that he would not be completing
the rest of the flight as scheduled.

Max would have recognised immediately
all the signs of an abduction scenario.

The craft taking control of the plane
and all its systems,"

_.preparing to take Max.

But something happened. Something went
terribly wrong. Something unimaginable.

OK.

A third aircraft, probably an F-15 Eagle,
was given the coordinates for Flight 549.

Heading one-zero-zero
and two-niner thousand feet.

The controllers watched the Hghter

enter Flight 549's airspace
on an intercept pattern,---

_.not knowing what they'd set in motion.

No way of knowing there was a third craft
which was not on their screen.

Not knowing that for the next nine minutes,
time would stand still on Flight 549.

- (beeping)
- I've got something. An intercept.

My God! My God!

Mayday! Mayday! Mayday!

(screaming)

(clicks)

Are you saying the man who was sitting
in 13-F was abducted, mid-flight,.._

_.without any depressurization of the cabin,
without any effect on the plane?

If not for factors unforeseen,
I believe Max would have been abducted...

_.and returned to Flight 549
without any loss of life, without a trace.

Then what happened?

Flight 549 and the alien craft which
had taken control of it were intercepted...

_-by the military Hghter which had been
given a specif c set of orders:

_.to take down the UFO.

The missing nine minutes,

nine minutes that would have been
erased from the memories...

_.of the 134 passengers on board,...

_.would prove to be
the Hnal minutes of their lives.

(screaming)

(shouting)

You're saying, in effect, that Flight 549__.

_.was in the grip of
a sort of UFO tractor beam?

That's a Hollywood term, but yes.

And the Air Force shot down the UFO,_..

_.sending 549 out of control
when the beam went off?

YSS.

Well, where I come from,
that's what we call a whopper_

Even if it were true, I could never sell that
to Washington, and neither could you.

Not without the object Max was carrying.

I had the same reaction to the story
as you,...

_.but there is one area
that has yet to be explained.

That is that the seats and the door
did show traces of radioactivity.

Now, you found nothing in the wreckage,
no source of any emitter?

I did find something.

I think you should look at it.

After you'd found the first traces, my team
tried to link the radioactivity to a cause.

They found no other evidence.

Except for this.

- That's it?
- That's all there was.

I'm gonna have to make my report.
I'll include this if it makes any difference.

- But not as a causal factor.
- it's a good story.

Maybe you can sell it to the movies.

I don't know what else
you expect him to do.

Yeah, I know.

Look, it is a good story, but it's a house
of cards built on a shaky foundation.

We may never know
what Max was carrying.

And we may never know
who killed Agent Pendrell.

If we don't find out, what meaning
do their deaths or lives have?

Max will be remembered as a...

_.disappointing rummage sale
or some kook on a home video.

- Where do we even start?
- How about Sharon Grafia?

She's a disturbed person.
She wasn't even who she claimed to be.

She knew Max well enough
for him to write her letters.

Well enough for him to call her
and tell her he was gonna die.

- Do you know where she is?
- In a mental institution.

I'd go with ya,
but I'm afraid they'd lock me up.

IVle too.

(rock music)

_.unmarked helicopters hovering

(man) Hello.

Are you a friend of Max's?

(music off)

No. My name is, uh, Mulder.
I'm with the FBI.

- You're kiddin', right?
- No. Why?

Well, I manage the park.

I know Max had some weird friends.

I don't believe the FBI sends men out
'cause somebody trashed a trailer.

- Any idea who did this?
- N... no.

Is Max in trouble or something?

No. Max is dead.
He died in a plane crash a few days ago.

Oh, Lord. I am sorry to hear that.

Uh, did he ever mention
why he would leave or where he would go?

No, but he disappeared sometimes.

Had stories.

- Sure that's not what happened to him?
- Yeah. Yeah, I'm sure.

Have you any idea who's going
to be taking care of his estate?

- Where I should forward his mail?
- He has mail?

Yeah, a small stack of it.

- I'll run and get it, if you want it.
- Please.

Here you go.

Sure feel sorry about Max.

So do I.

- Sharon?
- Hello.

How are you feeling?

You up to answering some questions?

I'm not Max's sister.

I know.

We're not quite sure
why you lied to us though, Sharon.

Or what else you might be lying about.

- Doesn't matter anymore.
- Yes, it does.

If you know something -
anything about what Max was doing,.__

_.about what he was carrying on that plane -
it could matter a lot.

- To who?
- To IVIax_

- I can't.
- Why not?

Because I could be in big, big trouble.

Max had those same blisters.

You both were exposed to something,
Sharon. What was it?

It was something I stole.

From whom?

Max was trying to find physical evidence
to prove his abduction stories were true.

You worked
as an aeronautical systems engineer.

You stole something
from your employer, didn't you?

Something radioactive.

Only because I believed in Max.

What was it?

Max said it was alien technology.
It was three interlocking parts.

We divided it into sections. I had one part.

Max had another on board that flight.

But they were taken from us.

There was a third part.
What happened to it?

I left a bag here.

- Big bag, little bag?
- Short bag, tall bag. I don't remember.

Little bag, I think.

He's at the baggage claim.

IS this it?

I'm a federal officer.
I need a security entrance to the terminal.

Right this way.

(cell phone ringing)

Mulder.

Mulder, it's me. Where are you?

I'm at the airport in Syracuse.
Whatever it is that Max had, I have it now.

- How did you find it?
- Luck.

What you're carrying was stolen from a
military contractor, Cummins Aerospace.

- Well, what is it?
- I don't know.

Well, I'll let you know in a minute.

It is important that you do not
take it out of its container.

What's that? I'm having trouble
hearing you on the phone.

Did you hear me?

No. I'll tell you what it looks like.

No. Mulder, listen to me. Do not handle it.
Whatever it is,___

_.it is highly radioactive.

Hold on a second.

- (static)
- Mulder?

(beeping)

It looks like a small superstructure
with three circular pieces inside.

It's hard to tell on an x-ray. Hold on.

I think what we've got here, Mulder,
is high-tech industrial espionage.

Many people are trying
to get their hands on this thing.

- I'm getting on a flight.
- What flight?

I think i'L'S 501.

Yeah. I'll need a ride when I get there.

I don't think that'll be a problem.

Thanks.

Excuse me.

You look like you've got some room here.
Do you mind?

No, go ahead.

Didn't mean to disturb you.

It's all right.

You travelling by yourself?

Do you live in DC?

There's a weapon pointed at you right now.

I'm sure at this range
it wouldn'tjust hit you in the leg.

If you so much as raise your arms off
your armrest, I'll test that theory.

What if you miss?

I won't.

Do you know what happens when a plane
depressurises at 30,000 feet, IVIr Mulder?

After the cabin fills with fog,
all light objects, anything not tied down,.__

_.including your weapon,
go flying toward the breach.

The pretty lady comes around
with the honey-roasted peanuts?

Presuming the pilot is even able
to keep control of the plane,...

_.I put on a lightweight parachute I stowed
overhead and go out the emergency exit...

_.with the knapsack you're holding.

What if the pilot can't get control
of the plane? Then you die too.

A man knows he must be ready to sacrifice
himself to that which is greater than he.

I'm sure all the other passengers would
appreciate dying for your noble philosophy.

Look out your window, Agent Mulder.
You see the lights?

Now, imagine
if one of those lights flickered off.

You'd hardly notice, would you?

A dozen, two dozen lights extinguished.

Is it worth sacrificing the future,___

_.the lives of millions,
to keep a few lights on?

What is this?

Stolen property.

It's an alien energy source, isn't it?
What is it, cold fusion, over-unity energy?

What could be worth killing
all those passengers on Flight 549?

The cause of that crash
has been determined as human error.

I'm gonna see you pay for that error,___

_.along with you and your employer and
the government that finances its contracts.

I want you to stand up
and move to the back of the plane.

We're gonna go to the bathroom.

IVlove.

(cell phone ringing)

Scully.

- Scully it's me.
- Mulder, where are you?

Outside an airplane bathroom

where I've got the man
who shot Pendrell locked up.

What?

It looks like I'll miss the in-flight movie -
something with Steve Guttenberg_

Did you get on the flight...

- _.you said you were getting on?
- Yeah.

Everything's OK. Alert Skinner anyway.

I don't want to take any chances
getting this guy off the plane.

- I don't think you do either:
- Right.

Hey, Scully. My watch just stopped.

What? Mulder? Mulder?

Excuse me. I'm a federal agent.

I want you to listen to me.
This plane is about to be intercepted.

- Intercepted?
- Engaged and boarded.

I want you to tell the captain
to initiate evasive manoeuvres.

Put the bag down!

(passengers screaming)

Put it down on the floor.

(screaming)

Drop the bag!

Drop the bag. Drop it!

Hey, let it go!

Let it go!

Mulder, where is he?

- He's not here.
- What do you mean?

You said you had him on this plane.

You said you had
what Max had -the stolen part.

What time do you have?

10.56.

Would you like to tell me
what's going on here, Agent Mulder?

I don't think you want to know the answer.

(sighs) Is this man on the plane?

I think he got the connecting flight.

(Max) But nobody ever Ends out about it.

There are scientists
who say they have detected anti-gravity...

_.over the surface
of a spinning superconducting disc.

Technology that is supposedly
20 or 30 years down the road ,...

_.like over-unity energy.

Um, massless displacement current from
cold fusion that we need for space travel.

I know, thanks to my inside sources,
that this technology, in fact, exists-

I've seen military aircraft that use it
hovering right over my trailer

Why is the US government
keeping all this a secret?

I intend to expose these facts to the people.

I mean, I'm just one man.

These tapes, you mind if I keep them?

No. I think you should consider yourself
the sole curator...

_.of the Max Fennig
rolling multimedia library and archive.

And get tax-exempt status
as soon as you can.

This stuff could be
worth something someday.

Thank you for helping me out,
for all you've done.

Max would have wanted it that way.

You lost somebody very close to you.

So did you.

You thinking about Pendrell?

I realised I didn't even know his first name.

I actually was thinking about, uh,...

_.this gift that you gave me for my birthday.

You never got to tell me
why you gave it to me or what it means.

But I think I know.

I think that you appreciate that there are
extraordinary men and women,.._

_.and extraordinary moments...

_.when history leaps forward
on the backs of these individuals.

That what can be imagined can be achieved.

That you must dare to dream.

But that there's no substitute
for perseverance and hard work...

_.and teamwork.

Because no one gets there alone.

And that while we commemorate
the greatness of these events...

_.and the individuals who achieve them,
we cannot forget the sacrifice of those...

_.who make these achievements
and leaps possible.

I just thought it was a pretty cool key chain.

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