Redux II

CbBS&M: Conversation between Bill Scully and Mulder, Redux II

Bill Scully: Has it been worth it? To you, I mean. You found what you've been looking for?
Mulder: No.
Bill Scully: No. You know how that makes me feel?
Mulder: In a way I think I do. I lost someone very close to me. I lost a sister, I lost my father. All because of this thing I'm looking for.
Bill Scully: It's what? Little green aliens?"
Mulder: Yeah. Little green aliens.
Bill Scully: You're one sorry son of a bitch.

Detour

CITH: Conversation in the Hotel - Detour

(Scully knocks on the door)
Mulder: It's open. (Scully walks in with tray of cheese and wine) Who cut the cheese?
Scully: Since you won't be making it to the conference. (Gives him a half-smile, with slightly raised eyebrow)
Mulder: Par-tay!
Scully: However I must remind you, this goes against the bureau policy of male and female agents consorting in the same motel room while on assignment. (She looks like she's trying to suppress a smile.)
Mulder: Try any of that Tailhook crap on me Scully, I'll kick your ass! Pop quiz. What animal will attack the strongest leaving the weakest to escape? The answer is none. Not one of the over 4,000 species native to North America will attack the strongest when the weak is vulnerable.
Scully: And what does that have to do with anything? (Brow is furrowed. Uh-oh.)
Mulder: It makes me think that what we're dealing with here is no ordinary predator.
Scully: (hands Mulder glass of wine) I thought this was just a ploy to get out of the conference.
Mulder: I think what we've stumbled on here is something more than the local authorities realize. The scenario described with that boy, sounds like a primitive culling technique.
Scully: Mulder, we're in western Florida. The closest thing to primitive down here is living in a beach front retirement condo.
Mulder: Those woods are as old as anything in the south. And there's 800 square miles of 'em. There's no telling what's alive out there. (gets up to leave)
Scully: Where are you going?
Mulder: (puts on coat) I gotta check something out.
Scully: You know Mulder, sometimes I think some work on your communication skills wouldn't be such a bad idea.
Mulder: I'll be back soon and we can build a tower of furniture, okay?
(Scully has this look of- "I don't believe he's just ditched me again." on her face)

Comments: Being the first episode after Redux, the cancer Scully has just survived is very much in her thoughts. I think that that fact alone explains why Scully makes this blatant (for her this is as blatant as it gets!) overture to Mulder. She believes that he faked an interest in the missing person's case because he wanted to ditch the conference.  What else is there to do, in the middle of nowhere, in a Hotel room for the weekend? She is looking for a little intimacy (for those non-romos - it is not necessarily of a romantic bent) from Mulder, and believes that he is also in the mood for that as well. After all, they both survived the cancer ordeal, and she's feeling closer to him than she ever has. I believe that she's ready to break the rules and some of the barriers they've erected between the two of them over the last five years. The shipper in me, however, chooses to view this in the light of romance and IMHO she wants him (Hoo boy- wants him bad- check out that sly grin she gives him as she walks in the door!), but he's too wrapped up in the 'case' to see this.
 

COTL: Conversation on the Log - Detour

Scully: (Scully is trying to light a fire on sticks by banging two stones together) You're an Indian guide, help me out here.
Mulder: Indian guide says maybe you should run to the store and get some matches.
Scully: I would but I left my wallet in the car.
Mulder:What are you doing?
Scully: Trying to open my gun. If I can separate the shell from the casing, maybe I can get the powder to ignite.
Mulder: Mmm.And maybe it'll start raining weenies and marshmallows.
Scully:Do I detect a hint of negativity?
Mulder:No...Yes...Actually, yeah.
Scully: Mulder, you need to keep warm, your body's still in shock.
Mulder:I was told once that the best way to regenerate body heat is to crawl naked into a sleeping bag with somebody else who's already naked.
Scully: Maybe if it rains sleeping bags you'll get lucky. Have you ever thought seriously about dying?
Mulder: Yeah, once when I was at the Ice Capades.
Scully: (smiles) When I was fighting my cancer, I was angry at the injustice of it, at it's meaninglessness. Then I realized that was the struggle, to give it meaning, make sense of it. Like life
Mulder: I think nature is supremely indifferent to whether we live or die. I mean if you're lucky you'll get to 75 years and if you're really lucky you'll get 80 years and if you're extraordinarily lucky you'll get to have 50 of those years with a decent head of hair.
Scully: It's like Las Vegas. The house always wins. (She finally gets bullet open) Ta-dah.
Mulder: Go girl! Hey. Who did you identify with when you were a kid? Betty or Wilma?
Scully: I identified with Betty's bustline.
Mulder: Yes! me too.
Scully: I could never have been married to Barney though. The kids were cute.
Mulder: Yeah, but where are they today? (Scully is hitting rocks together again. Sticks spark then go out. Scully nervously looks to Mulder.)
Scully: Mothmen? Really?
Mulder: Yeah, but there seem to have been only two of them. (She tries to pull Mulder into her lap) I don't wanna wrestle.
Scully: Get over here. I'm gonna try and keep you warm.
Mulder: (Scully touches his wound) Ah.
Scully: Sorry.
Mulder: One of us has to stay awake.
Scully: You sleep Mulder.
Mulder: You get tired, you wake me.
Scully: I'm not going to get tired.
Mulder: Why don't you sing something.
Scully: No, Mulder.
Mulder: But if you sing something, I'll know you're awake.
Scully: Mulder, you don't want me to sing, I can't carry a tune.
Mulder:Doesn't matter. Just sing anything.
Scully: (pause) Jeramiah was a bullfrog. Was a good friend of mine. Never understood a single word he said, but I helped him drink his wine...
Mulder: Chorus.
Scully: Joy to the world. All the boys and girls. Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea. Joy to you and me.

Post Modern Prometheus

Frying pan Scene, Post Modern Prometheus

Mulder: (holds a frying pan) Scully?
Pollidori: What … what is that?
Mulder: The other victims, they had their frying pans … violated. (Indicates residue on bottom of frying pan. Scully examines it.) Do you know what that is? (Mulder stumbles back against the garbage can.)
Pollidori: (pause) No, I don’t. (Mulder opens the garbage can and pulls out a large, empty container of peanut butter.)
Mulder: (dramatically) I think we found our smoking gun. (Scully closes her eyes.)

Christmas Carol

Courier Scene, Christmas Carol

Courier: FBI Courier. Package for Agent Dana Scully.
Bill: I'll sign for it.
Courier: No, no. I need Agent Scully's signature, Sir.
Bill: Oh, all right. (Scully gets to the door.)
Courier: I need you to sign for this. (Scully does as Bill goes back to the living room.) Merry Christmas. (He goes out the door. Scully is more interested in what's in the package.)
Scully: Merry Christmas.  (She opens the package and stumbles to the living room. The others look at her.)
Mrs. Scully: What is it?
Scully: It's the DNA test on Emily Sim's blood.
Bill: What does it say?
Scully: It says, definitely, that Melissa is not Emily's mother, but that they found striking genetic similarities between Emily and Melissa, so many that they ran a test against another sample that they already had.
Mrs. Scully: What sample?
Bill: What are you trying to say?
Scully: According to this... I am Emily's mother.

Emily

Opening dream sequence, Emily

Scully: It begins where it ends... in nothingness, A nightmare born from deepest fears coming to me unguarded Whispering images unlocked from time and distance. A soul unbound, touched by others but never held, on a course charted by some unseen hand. The journey ahead promising no more than my past reflected back upon me until at last I reach the end, Facing a truth I can no longer deny. Alone... as ever.

Comments: OK, so maybe I was actually one of the few people who liked Emily... This doesn't translate well, as the aspect I enjoyed the most was her face dissolving into sand. Very cool effect (which is a foreshadowing of the bags of sand in the coffin.)
 

Scully and the Social Worker, Emily

Chambliss: I want to say something to you and I don't want you to take this the wrong way, but I don't think that you are capable right now of responding with any clinical ability.
Scully: Do you think I don't want what's best for this child? Do you think that I'm not trying to save her life?
Chambliss: I'm saying I'm getting wildly differing reports. I have a job to do. I'm not the ultimate authority here, but you don't have the authority, either over this child or her future.
Scully: You can get a court order and you can try to enforce it, but I suggest that if you're going to do what's best for this child, then you do everything in your power to tell the authorities that if they take Emily out of this hospital, they are going to hasten her illness. And I'll let it be known that all of you are responsible.

Chinga

The Proposal, Chinga

Mulder: Huh, … it sounds to me like that’s witchcraft or maybe some sorcery that you’re looking for there.
Scully: No, I don’t think it’s witchcraft, Mulder, or sorcery. I’ve had a look around and I don’t see any evidence that warrants that kind of suspicion.
Mulder: Maybe you don’t know what you’re looking for.
Scully: Like evidence of conjury or the black arts or shamanism, divination, Wicca or any kind of pagan or neo-Pagan practice. Charms, cards …(Mulder is listening, spellbound.)… familiars, bloodstones, or hex signs or any of the ritual tableaux associated with the occult, Santeria, Voudoun, Macumba, or any high or low magic?
Mulder: Scully?
Scully: Yes?
Mulder: Marry me.
Scully: I was hoping for something a little more helpful.
Mulder: Well, you know, short of looking for a lady wearing a pointy hat riding a broomstick, I think you pretty much got it covered there.
Scully: Thanks anyway.

All Souls

Confessional Scene 1, All Souls

Scully: Mrs. Kernof was talking about her husband, but she might as well have been talking about me.
Priest: You, too, were angry at God?
Scully: I felt drawn to these people, Father … in a very personal way. I was determined to help them understand why their daughter had been taken.
Priest: And did you?
Scully: As much as I have my faith, Father, I am a scientist trained to weigh evidence but science only teaches us how … not why.

Comments: I adore Scully in a confessional. She's so emotionally exposed. This whole episode pleased me since CC finally came back to the issue of Emily and her death, and how that impacted on Scully's life.
 

Confessional Scene 2, All Souls

Priest: You believed you were releasing her soul to Heaven.
Scully: I felt sure of it.
Priest: But you still can’t reconcile this belief with the physical fact of her death?
Scully: No. I thought I could, Father, but I can’t.
Priest: Do you believe there is a life after this one?
Scully: Yes.
Priest: Are you sure? (Scully tries to answer, but cannot.) Has it occurred to you that maybe this, too, is part of what you were meant to understand?
Scully: You mean, accepting my loss?
Priest: Can you accept it?
Scully: Maybe that’s what faith is.

The End

Hallway / Car Scene, The End

(Diana takes Mulder’s hand as they look at one another. Outside in the hall, Scully, carrying Gibson’s file, approaches the door. Through the door window she sees Mulder and Diana holding hands and smiling. Surprised, Scully keeps walking a few steps down the hall. She pauses, then turns and walks back the way she came without looking in the room again where Mulder and Diana are still holding hands. Scully goes down to the parking deck and gets in her car. She sits quietly for about 15 seconds just thinking, lets out a little sigh, then breathes deeply and pulls out her cell phone. She dials and exhales slowly. Before Mulder answer's another small sigh escapes.)

Comments: No words. As they are superfluous. Who doesn't know exactly what Scully is thinking as she sits and ponders in her car? If you don't- you can't be a true Scullyist.
 

The Fire, The End

(FBI building, later. Firemen everywhere. Skinner speaking to some agents in the hall. Mulder enters in T shirt and jeans, Scully (also dressed casually) follows him looking very concerned.)

Skinner: Mulder

(Mulder ignores him and goes to elevator.  It is full of firemen and equipment. Mulder goes to the stairs. Downstairs he passes another fireman as he enters the X-Files office. And stops in the middle of the room in shock. Everything is destroyed. "I Want to Believe" is just barely visible on the charred poster, the desk is destroyed, the file cabinets black.  His nameplate has melted on the door. Water drips from the walls and ceiling. Scully enters and looks around at the damage. She looks back at Mulder. He just stares at the destruction. Scully walks toward him and puts her hands on his upper arms. No response. She lays her head on his chest, holding him. They stand there as the camera pulls back. Lights from the emergency vehicles outside flash through the windows above. Fade to black.)

The X-Files Movie, Fight the Future

Hallway Scene, FTF

MULDER'S APARTMENT: Mulder goes right to his desk and pulls open a drawer. He fumbles around for something, then pulls out a family photo album we've never seen before. When did this dysfunctional family ever take the time to capture a Kodak moment?! Apparently quite often as Mulder thumbs through a few pages and finds what he's looking for .... a picture taken at a family picnic ... a young Kurtzweil stands with a grin on his face and a drink in his hand. Mulder stares at the proof in his hand. Kurtzweil DID know his father, he told him the truth. Mulder sits and stares for a moment, there's a knock on his door, Scully doesn't wait for an answer and opens the door. She stands there looking like she's been figuratively and literally put through the wringer. Her jacket is undone and her shirt is untucked.

Mulder: What's wrong?
Scully: Salt Lake City, Utah. Transfer effective immediately. I already gave Skinner my letter of resignation.
Mulder: You can't quit now, Scully.
Scully: I can, Mulder. I debated whether or not to even tell you in person...
Mulder: We are close to something here! We are on the verge!
Scully: You're on the verge, Mulder. Please don't do this to me.
Mulder: After what you saw last night, after all you've seen, you can just walk away?
Scully: I have, I did, it's done.
Mulder: I need you on this, Scully.
Scully: You don't need me, Mulder. You never have. I've just held you back. [pause] I gotta go. [Scully goes out into the hall and Mulder follows her.]
Mulder: You wanna tell yourself that so you can quit with a clear conscience, you can, but you're wrong.
Scully: Why did they assign me to you in the first place, Mulder? To debunk your work, to rein you in, to shut you down
Mulder: But you saved me. As difficult and as frustrating as it's been sometimes, your goddamned strict rationalism and science have saved me a thousand times over. You've kept me honest ... made me a whole person. I owe you everything, Scully, and you owe me nothing . (Through this speech, Scully looks at him in shock as his honesty flows out. Her eyes begin to fill with tears. Yeah, okay, mine did too.) I don't know if I wanna do this alone... I don't even know if I can ... and if I quit now, they win.

(Scully's tears begin to silently flow. Her lovely bottom lip quivering with emotion, she falls into him, holding him tightly as his arms enfold her. She closes her eyes as her tears fall onto his shoulder. She pulls back and kisses him on his forehead, then gently rests her own forehead on his, still crying. Mulder slowly pulls her face back so he can look at her, his hands resting on the back of her neck. She looks into his eyes, her hands resting on the back of his head as well. Her tears flow, her lip quivers, she sees something in his eyes which tells her they're both thinking the same thing, at least to me, anyway. They both lean in for The Kiss ... lips do touch for a brief, shining second ... then she suddenly grabs the back of her own neck and says ...)

Scully: Ow! Jesus.
Mulder: (thinking he's done something wrong) I'm sorry.
Scully: No, something stung me. (Scully reaches down and plucks out the bee, holding it in her fingers, its little legs squirming in the air.)
Mulder: Must've gotten in your shirt.
Scully: Mulder ... something's wrong.
Mulder: What?
Scully: I'm having lacinating pain in ...
Mulder: What?
Scully: ... my chest.
Mulder: Scully ...
Scully: My motor functions are being affected. (She begins to fall into Mulder and he grabs her.)
Mulder: Scully ... (He gently but quickly lays her down upon the hallway floor)
Scully: My pulse is thready ... a funny taste in the back of my throat.
Mulder: I think you're going into anaphylactic shock.
Scully: No ... I have no allergy.

(Mulder runs into his apartment and grabs the phone. He dials 911 with the emergency button.)

Mulder: (on phone): This is Special Agent Fox Mulder, I have an emergency! I have an agent down!

Comments: The original comments in this piece belong to Tiny Dancer- check out her site for any transcript you might be looking for. I left them in, because I basically agree with them. I'm annoyed at CC because he didn't allow our heroes to kiss and I'm somewhat at a loss to understand what he was hoping to accomplish, by stopping them. I suppose he didn't want to alienate the non-romos, but even they admit that the 'intent' to kiss was there, so why not let them? I can't rave about GA's facial expresions enough. And I for one LOVE the fact that Scully rattles off all of those symptoms- a very doctorly thing to do. Even DD made me proud the way his voice quivers as he's talking on the phone to that 911 operator.
 

Mulder and Scully on the Mall, FTF

THE CAPITAL MALL- Mulder is sitting on a bench by the reflecting pool reading a newspaper. He stares at a headline: "Local Hanta Virus Outbreak In Northern Texas Contained", looks up and sees Scully walking toward him. When she arrives, he hands her the paper.)

Mulder: There's an interesting work of fiction on page 24. Mysteriously, our names have been omitted. They're burying this thing, Scully. They're just going to dig a new hole and cover it up.
Scully: I told OPR everything I know. What I experienced, the virus, how it's spread by the bees from pollen in transgenic crops. (He gets up and starts to walk away. She joins him.)
Mulder: You're wasting your time, Scully. They'll never believe you, not unless your story can be programmed, categorized, or easily referenced.
Scully: Well, then we'll go over their heads. (He stops and turns to her.)
Mulder: No. No. How many times have we been here before, Scully? Right here. So close to the truth and now with what we've seen and what we know to be right back at the beginning with nothing.
Scully: This is different, Mulder.
Mulder: No it isn't. You were right to want to quit. You were right to want to leave me. You should get as far away from me as you can! I'm not going to watch you die, Scully, because of some hollow personal cause of mine. Go be a doctor. Go be a doctor while you still can.
Scully: I can't. I won't. Mulder, I'll be a doctor, but my work is here with you now. That virus I was exposed to, whatever it is, it has a cure. You held it in your hand. How many other lives can we save? Look. If I quit now, they win.

Comments: Nice wrap up. Although the doctor line is a little odd, since the dialog that refers to it was cut, you understand that Mulder doesn't want to endanger Scully anymore than he has. Scully is having none of this, as she is her own woman and makes her own decisions. It's been a long time coming. This is her quest as much as it is Mulder's and this experience has truly re-invested her. I liked the, "I can't. I won't" line which was originally spoken in The Red and The Black, under very different circumstances (ie. her stubborn refusal to go along with Mulder's latest theory.) And in the final sentence, she echoes his line from the hallway scene right back at him. They are a team, and together they will fight the future.