The X-Files (1993–…): Season 5, Episode 14 - The Red and the Black - full transcript

Thanks, mister.
I'll mail it right off.

[ Door closes ] "federal
bureau of investigation"?

The X-Files: Season 5
Episode 14 - The Red And The Black

[ Man on radio, indistinct ]

[ Man on radio ] all units
responding to Ruskin dam:

We have numerous bodies.
Repeat, numerous bodies.

We're coming in
for a closer look.

[ Man continues, indistinct ]

We're looking for survivors.

[ Siren wailing ]

[ Sirens wailing ] [ people
shouting, radio chatter ]



Agent Mulder!

Was she here?
Is she here?

- Yes, and the medics are all over her.
- She's alive.

They're working
on her now. Come on.

An S.A.R. Chopper pilot found her
huddled in the woods this morning...

With about
50 other survivors.

She has minor burns, but her fluids and
electrolytes were abnormally depleted.

Scully? She's in vasogenic shock.

Unless you gents are doctors,
you're in the way.

This woman needs to get
to a hospital. On three.

One, two, three.

What happened here,
agent Mulder?

The answer just got
loaded onto that chopper.

Can I talk to you, please?



Is she here? Was she found? Who?

- Agent Spender?
- My mother.

I'm fairly certain
it's not a question of dosage.

We've administered three intramuscular
injections over the past 20 hours...

Since we found her
on the roadside.

And you've seen no effect?
No.

It doesn't look good at all.

Mmm.

- Mm, what time is it?
- "What time is it?"

It's time to thank
your lucky stars.

- Why are you laughing?
- I'm not laughing at you.

I'm just very happy to be standing
here talking to you, that's all.

Mulder, what am I doing here?
You were airlifted here...

In vasogenic shock.

From what? You've got some first
- Degree burns...

And scorching on
your hands and face.

From what?

You don't remember?

Mulder--

- Is any of this coming back to you?
- I was there?

- Well, doing what?
- I was hoping you were going to answer that question for me.

[ Door opening ] you shouldn't
be elevated, Miss Scully.

Not until we can get your blood pressure
back up. She really needs her rest.

- I'll come back.
- Well, Mulder--

They didn't find her. She wasn't among the
victims. They only found her wheelchair.

I'm sorry.

What were you doing with her?
What was I doing with her?

What makes you think we have
anything to do with this?

My mom's a cripple. She hasn't driven
a car for I don't know how long.

They found her wheelchair
130 miles from the hospital,

Where I'm now told agent Scully was
meeting with her privately. Look.

No, you look!

She's my mother. She's not
some test subject of yours.

Your mother will be found.

All I want is for you
to leave it alone.

Is that too much to ask?

[ Footsteps ]
[ gasps ]

You're probably thirsty.

[ Coughing ]

Remind me to complain to the
captain about the service.

You may have that
opportunity. [ Coughing ]

This ship is bound back
to Vladivostok tomorrow.

I gather there will be quite
an enthusiastic homecoming.

[ Spits ]

Do you have the boy?

No. Miss Covarrubias took him.

Your alliance with her
was as misguided as ours,

But it appears she was unaware of
the consequences of her deception.

You were clever.

Infect the boy to insure
infection of anyone...

Who tried to learn what he
knows, who would cheat you.

- And where's the boy?
- Dead.

Victim of another
mysterious holocaust.

Unable now to tell
what he knew or saw.

Then you got no choice
but to deal with me.

I'm afraid there's no deal to be made.

I'm the only one who knows
what those incidents are,

What they mean.

I know what that boy saw.

- You've as much as told me what I need to know.
- You know nothing.

If the boy
was your trump card,

Why infect him unless you
could also cure him...

With a vaccine
developed by the Russians?

One that works.

It would mean that the resistance to
the alien colonists is now possible.

- You're dreaming.
- Do you have the vaccine?

- You need what I know.
- Do you have the vaccine?

Give you the means to save
Covarrubias after what she did?

The means
to save yourself.

[ Sirens blaring ]

I don't know what to say.

I mean, I don't have
the first clue.

There's nothing here.

[ Sighs ] well, at
least you're not alone.

None of the other survivors have been
able to give a cogent account either.

Mulder,
I have never been here.

I couldn't tell you
how to get here,

Let alone drive it.

- Do you remember when you last saw Cassandra Spender?
- She was there too?

I ran more x rays. I haven't told
anybody yet what I found, though.

You found more implants?

That would explain how you were directed
to the site and why you can't remember.

That would explain the sensation
Cassandra Spender was describing,

Her abduction fantasies, it
would explain Skyland mountain.

But it wouldn't explain
why they would want to kill me.

And it doesn't explain
why I survived.

It all comes down to a question,
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.

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.

I don't trust
those memories now.

Whether you trust them or not,
they led you here...

And me.

But I have no memories
to either trust or 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.

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--

Is that what you really want?

The facial scarrings appear
to be self-Mutilation,

Done as protection.

Protection against what?

Infection by the black oil.

He was the lone survivor
of a crashed spacecraft...

At a military base
in west Virginia.

What the hell is he?

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.

What good
was that knowledge?

Without the vaccine against the
black oil, no one can survive.

We have a vaccine--

Developed by the Russians,
stolen by Krycek, given to me.

You see what this means?

Resistance is possible.

We have the weapons
and the magic in hand.

We don't know
the vaccine works.

It will,
and if it doesn't,

We have a new alliance
to be made.

- Side with the resistance?
- Suicide.

They'll squash us as they do
them. We must turn the rebel over.

But first, wait till we know
the vaccine works.

[ Knocks on glass ]

Hi, Dana. It's nice
to meet you again.

Are you okay with this?

I'm okay. There are a few things...

I want to say I didn't
touch on over the phone.

I'm sure agent Mulder told you about how
this works. Have you ever been hypnotized?

Uh, once.

But I have to be honest with
you. I didn't have much luck.

Well, I hope
we can do better today.

I'm going to be using
something a little different.

You may have heard
of hypnagogic trance,

Which is just
a light trance state...

Where we relax some
of the filtering processes.

Okay?

I'm going to ask you to go back to
the place we talked about on the phone.

Just close
your eyes...

And take long,
deep breaths,

Relaxing all parts
of your body.

Long, deep breaths.

Relaxing your hands
and your feet.

Relaxing your jaw,
your pelvis.

Long, deep breaths.

Back to the "night place."

[ Scully ]
I don't think this is working.

Oh, my God!

Oh, my God!

- Oh, my God!
- Where are you, Dana?

Oh--

I'm, uh-- [ Panting
] I'm with the others.

- Are you in the "night place"?
- Yes.

[ Rumbling ]

And then--
And then it was gone.

Oh--

Oh! Oh--

[ Dr. Werber ]
what is it, Dana?

It's, uh--

- They're back.
- Who?

Oh, no, th-They're on fire!

Oh, God.

They're setting them on fire.
I can't--

Who?
Who's doing this?

Their faces-- I can't--

They have no faces. I--

They have no eyes.
Oh, God, they're coming at us.

[ People screaming ]

They're surrounding us.

They won't stop.
They won't stop it.

Oh.

There's--
There's another one.

There's another ship.

They see it.

- They were attacking them.
- [ Werber ] who were they attacking, Dana?

The faceless men. They're--

- My God, I can't--
- Do you want to stop, Dana?

No.

Now it's coming at us.

Oh, my God!

- No. Cassandra!
- Where is Cassandra?

They're-- They're taking her.

They're-- Oh, my God.

I can't--
Dana?

Dana, I'm going to
stop now.

- I want you to open your eyes.
- No, I--

I want you to open your eyes,
Dana, and come on back.

Dana, I want you to open
your eyes and come back to us.

Okay.

Oh, God.

We've been here
the whole time?

I, uh, reviewed the tape
of the session as you requested.

I have to say I wasn't prepared
for what I heard on this.

No, sir, neither was I.
Agent Mulder?

I'm familiar with the regression
process in Dr. Werber's work.

I've heard hundreds of those
types of abduction scenarios.

What do you make
of this one?

The imagery is startling
but not atypical.

Bright lights, weightlessness,
stolen memory, lost time...

Expressed as a close encounter, an abduction,
religious rapture as a dark night of the soul.

"Expressed"?

[ Mulder ] described and then
interpreted into a linear narrative.

A gestalt impression of a
subjective nonlinear experience.

- And your interpretation?
- That agent Scully witnessed a very powerful event...

Not unlike the one I described
on my regression tape...

Of the false memory
of my sister's abduction.

Agent Scully?

I've listened to the tape
several times,

And I don't have a clear recollection
of what I hear myself saying,

But I also don't see
any reason why I'd be saying it.

I've got a problem.

The problem is I have to head up
the investigation into this incident.

I don't have the luxury
of interpretation.

I have to make a report, and that report
must state a reason or cite a fact...

Or at least make an assumption.

As I sit here right now,
I'm unable to do that.

- I need to know what happened.
- It was staged--

- To?
- To test a classified military project, or to cover it up.

Then what happened
to Cassandra Spender?

Cassandra Spender was taken aboard a
military aircraft as part of the staging.

Over the past five years,
I've doubted you,

Only to be persuaded
by the power of your belief...

In extraterrestrial
phenomena.

And I'm doubting you now not
because of that belief but...

Because extraterrestrial phenomena is,
frankly, the more plausible explanation.

Then I suggest you put that
in your report.

The vaccine
has no effect.

- We must give it time.
- We must survive first.

Survival means collaboration.

Turn over the alien rebel...

And you turn over
any chance of resistance.

It's already been done.

I heard about this office.

It really is
in the basement.

I'm here about my mother.

Well, we, we don't know
anything more.

I spoke with Dr. Werber. He
said you'd been to his office.

- Did he say why?
- No. Didn't have to.

I'm assuming, knowing the facts
I do, that you're wondering...

About the possibility
of alien abduction.

I'm sure you know enough about it.
Agent Mulder surely pushed the idea.

No, actually,
agent Mulder hasn't.

I find that hard to believe.

I thought you were here
about your mother.

You went to see her.

I'd like to know
what you talked about.

We talked about how she was feeling.
We talked about a lot of things.

You talked about abduction,
about her experiences?

- Did you talk about me?
- In what way?

I have something here that
might explain a lot for you.

And there's a bright light.

There's people
standing around.

That's me.
I'm eleven years old.

I'm looking up in the sky
where the bright light is.

I'm starting to cry.

I'm really, really scared,
and I wanna get back in the car,

But I can't find my mom.

And then I see her.

There's something in the sky,
and it's got flashing lights...

And it's so bright
it hurts my eyes.

And then she's going
up in the sky,

And I'm yelling,
"mommy. Mommy, mommy."

And then I feel my feet, and they
aren't on the ground. I'm floating up.

- Seen enough?
- Is that what you're afraid people are gonna find out?

Yes, but not because
it's true.

None of this happened.

I don't understand.

I made it up.
Or, I should say, my mom did.

- She told you to say those things?
- Essentially.

She told me that story so many
times that I believed it. Absolutely.

It became a kind of truth...

And it was really
just a substitute.

- For what?
- For the fact that my dad had left his family,

And it drove my mom insane.

Only I was eleven,
and I didn't know it.

Why are you here?
Why did you show this to me?

Because I think
the process is bogus.

Dr. Werber and his whole
regression of memory is B.S.

It's like having a dream
and then pretending it's real.

I think that Dr. Werber
would beg to differ.

He indulged and infantilized
my mother for his own purposes.

I think he's dangerous, and I
think his methods are unsound.

If you went through it, I hope
you'd question what came out of it.

I appreciate your opinion,
agent Spender,

But I don't have a mother
feeding me abduction stories.

You've got agent Mulder,
don't you?

How many times have you heard
the stories he's told?

How about the one
about his own sister?

Don't let yourself be used.

You must be losing it, Mulder.
I can beat you with one hand.

Isn't that how
you like to beat yourself?

If those are my last words,
I can do better.

- I'm not here to kill you, Mulder. I'm here to help you.
- Hey, thanks.

If it wasn't in my best interests, I
would just as soon squeeze this trigger.

What's stopping you?

Hear this, agent Mulder.

Listen very carefully, because what
I'm telling you is deadly serious.

There is a war raging, and unless
you pull your head out of the sand,

You and I and about five billion other
people are gonna go the way of the dinosaur.

I'm talking planned invasion--

The colonization of this planet
by an extraterrestrial race.

[ Laughing ]
I thought you were serious.

Kazakhstan, Skyland mountain,
the site in Pennsylvania,

They're all alien lighthouses
where the colonization will begin,

But where now
a battle's being waged--

A struggle for heaven and earth
where there is one law: fight or die.

And one rule:

Resist or serve.

- Serve who?
- No, not who.

What.

Krycek, you're a murderer,
a liar and a coward.

Just because you stick a gun in my chest,
I'm supposed to believe you're my friend?

Get up.

I was sent by a man,

A man who knows, as I do, that
resistance is in our grasp...

And in yours.

The mass incinerations were
strikes by an alien rebellion...

To upset plans for occupation.

One of these rebels
is being held captive.

And if he dies,
so does the resistance.

[ Door opening,
slamming ]

[ Knocking ]

Come in.

Mulder?
Huh.

What are you doing
sitting here in the dark?

Thinking.

Thinking about what?
Well, the usual.

Destiny, fate,
how to throw a curveball.

The inextricable relationships
in our lives...

That are
neither accidental nor...

Somehow in our control either.

I've just taken a long walk,
and I've reconsidered...

That I may have been wrong about
what I believed happened to me.

I've been doing
some reconsidering of my own.

- What is this?
- Maybe an answer...

To a question you and I seem
to have been destined to ask.

Yes, sir?

We're federal agents requesting
permission to enter the base.

Do you have any paperwork to go
with that, agent "Muldar"?

It's Mulder. I wasn't aware that any
special authorization was needed to enter.

Due to the nature of our facility
and the hazardous chemicals on site,

I can only allow precleared civilian
and military personnel on base.

Are you aware that there's been
a leak and contamination...

In one of the lab facilities and that the
personnel inside need immediate medical attention?

- No, sir, I wasn't.
- Why don't you check on that, son?

I'd hate for somebody to die
because you were uninformed.

Buckle up, Scully.

Mulder, he's armed and well
within his jurisdiction.

- I know this man.
- Who?

That driver.

I know his face.

Yes, sir.

[ Man on phone ] they do not
have any authority to be here.

- Place them under arrest immediately!
- Yes, sir.

Stop that truck!

Get out of the car.
You're under arrest.

This is west gate. I've
got a breach of security...

And a possible hijacking
of a military vehicle.

[ Brakes squeaking ]

[ Engine stopping ]

[ Low rumbling ]

[ Rumbling grows louder ]

No-o-o!

[ Gunshot ]

What happened?

I don't know.

Agent Spender.

Sir.

I'm sorry. There's been
no news about your mother.

I appreciate you wanting
to keep this discreet.

I'll try and do that.

But you should know agent Mulder has opened an X-File on this case.

This hasn't reflected on you
in any way, agent Spender.

- Thank you, sir.
- You'll do fine.

It seems you have a patron outside
this office who thinks highly of you.

- Who's that?
- I don't know.

Someone working
with a high level of influence.

Oh, agent Spender.
Got a letter for you.

Sorry about that, mister.

[ Child ]
I made this!