Badlaa

Open Mind Scene, Badlaa

(Later that evening. Doggett watches as police escort Quinton and Trevor into the back of a patrol car. Doggett goes to SCULLY who is standing by herself. She is upset.)

Doggett: You going to be okay, Agent Scully? (She nods slightly.) I got a drift of what happened in there... to you. I mean, sort of. (Long pause. Close up on Scully. She doesn't look at Doggett.)
Scully: (voice breaking) I shot a young boy.
Doggett: The good news is, you're wrong.
Scully: But it's what I saw. With my eyes, anyway. Do you know what it's like not to be able to trust your own eyes?
Doggett: Then why'd you shoot him? (Scully searches her soul for a moment.)
Scully: Because it's what the boy saw. And in an instant I realized that it's what Mulder would have seen or understood. (She begins to cry.) Because that's just how he came at things... without judgment and without prejudice and with an open mind that I am just not capable of. (Tears run down her face.)
Doggett: It's been a long night. Give yourself a break. (Scully sighs.) This whole thing doesn't make any sense.
Scully: No... it did. In some way, it did.

Per Manum

End Scene, Per Manum

Flashback. Scully enters her dark apartment. Mulder wakes up from where he has been sleeping on her couch.

Mulder: Scully? I must have dozed off. I was waiting for you to get back. (He looks at her sad face.) It didn't take, did it? (She doesn't correct him.)
Scully: I guess it was too much to hope for. (He opens his arms for her. She walks into them and lets him hold her. She sobs.) It was my last chance. (He holds her tightly, then kisses her on the forehead. He presses his forehead against hers.)
Mulder: Never give up on a miracle. (She kisses his cheek and neck, then embraces him again. CUT TO: Scully still in the hospital holding her pillow. Her hand drifts down to her belly.)

Comments: Coming Soon.

This Is Not Happening

Hotel Parking Lot Scene, This Is Not Happening

(Unknown location. Lights come on in a nasty, dark room. Mulder is lying on the same chair/table thing we saw in Within/Without. Blood drips from his impaled wrists and feet. Each side of his face is held in three clamps. He is unconscious and very pale. In her hotel room, Scully wakes up, gasping. Short time later. Knock at a door. Skinner, in a white t-shirt answers. Scully, dressed all in black, stands shivering in the doorway.)

Scully: (weakly) What if he's dead? (Skinner doesn't know what to say. Scully is embarrassed.) I'm sorry. I just had a bad dream.
Skinner: Let me get some clothes on.

(Scully nods as he closes the door. He joins her out in the chilly parking lot. The stars are bright overhead. Musical score is a sad version of Scully's theme.)

Scully: I once had a talk with Mulder about starlight. How it's billions of years old. (They look up at the stars.) Stars that are now long dead whose light is still traveling through time. It won't die, that light. (Skinner watches Scully watch the stars.) Maybe that's the only thing that never does. He said that's where souls reside. I hope he's right. (Long pause. He puts his arm around her shoulders.)
Skinner: If you're trying to prepare yourself I want you to stop. Nothing says that we're going to stumble over him in some field. Nothing says he won't be fine. (Scully nods. Then her face falls and she turns into his chest and sobs quietly. He holds her and stokes her hair gently.)

Comments: Coming Soon

Gary's Autopsy, This Is Not Happening

(Scully is preparing to autopsy the body that Reyes found in the field. It is a young male. Skinner and Doggett observe.)

Scully: (speaking with difficulty into recorder) Examination of victim, Gary Edward Cory, reveals cuts and abrasions from ligature or binding devices accompanied by distal and proximal bruising radiating in a symmetrical pattern around the ankles, the wrists... and the face.

(The door to the examination room opens and Richie enters with a Policeman. Scully has donned her mask of professionalism for the moment. Richie stares at the body in shock.)

Richie: Oh, my god, Gary.
Scully: You can go now, Richie. They just need you to sign a form.

(Richie looks sadly at his friend, and stumbles out of the room. He has lost his best friend. Scully begins to cry silently. Thinking of the possibility that Mulder might be found in just this manner.)

Skinner: Dana...
Scully: I'm okay. There's work to do here.

Comments: Coming Soon

Mulder's Apparition, This Is Not Happening

(Scully enters her dark motel room and flicks the light switch. No light. Frustrated, she flicks it up and down a few times and looks into the room. She freezes. Mulder is standing in front of the window. There is a blue-light ethereal quality to him. He says nothing, just looks at her. She stares back at him.)

Reyes: Agent Scully? (Scully turns and sees Reyes in the doorway. When she turns back to the window, there is no one there,) What? (Scully runs to the closed window. Nothing.) What is it?
Scully: (wistfully) I saw him. (Scully's wall comes up. She turns to Reyes, calm and collected.) I saw something. (Not understanding completely, Reyes looks at her in confusion.)

Comments: Coming Soon

Finding Mulder, This Is Not Happening

(Field. There is a group of Agents standing around a body. Scully, accompanied by Skinner come running up. Doggett intercepts Scully and physically restrains her from going to the body.)

Scully: Where is he? (She is breathing rapidly.)
Doggett: Agent Scully, he's over there.
Scully: How bad is he? (She struggles in Doggett's arms.) How bad is he? (Doggett still restrains her.) How bad is he hurt?

(She breaks free and runs to Mulder's side. She kneels down beside him. He is covered in a blanket. His cheeks are horribly scarred and bruised. She gently touches his face.)

Scully: (hysterical) No. No. No. No. He needs help. (Doggett pulls her away form Mulder's body. Scully is frantic.)
Doggett: It's too late.
Scully: He needs help! (She breaks away from him.)
Doggett: Agent Scully.

(Scully runs as fast as she can through the woods back to the compound. Her hair is flying. As she gets there, she pauses in shock and wonder at the sight of a brightly lit object over the compound. It's a UFO. She runs toward the building. Too late. As she and the other members of the compound watch, glass shatters. There is much screaming and thrashing about. The light disappears. Scully flings open the door to Jeremiah's room. He is nowhere to be found.)

Scully: Jeremiah? (A sickening realization sinks in. Scully falls to her knees.) No... no. This is not happening! (She screams an anguished cry to anyone who will listen.) Noooooooooooooooooooooo!

Comments: Coming Soon

Dead Alive

Bed Side Scene, Dead Alive

(Mulder is in his hospital room, still unconscious. His color looks better, but his face and probably the rest of his body are still scarred. Scully is sitting next to him, holding his hand, rubbing his fingers. She looks tired. She looks up as his hand twitches. His head moves slightly.)

Scully: Mulder... (Mulder slowly opens his eyes and looks over at her. Scully is on the verge of tears or laughter or both. Her lips quiver as she searches for the right words to say. What comes out is: ) Hi. (She smiles at him. Mulder stares at her without recognition. His voice is scratchy.)
Mulder: Who are you?

(Scully's face falls, her second worst nightmare coming true. Then Mulder gives her a small smile, his eyes warm. He is teasing her. Scully sobs in relief, tears streaming down her face.)

Scully: Oh, my god. Don't do that to me. (They look at each other. He smiles gently.) Do you know...? Do you have any idea what you've been through?
Mulder: Only what I see in your face. (She strokes his hair, then presses her face to his chest and lays her head down on his shoulder and holds him.) Anybody miss me?

(Scully laughs through her tears and kisses his shoulder.. Mulder gazes down over the top of her head, his face away from the door. The door opens and Doggett enters silently. Without moving her head from its place on Mulder's chest, Scully looks up at him. There is nothing to say. Doggett looks at the two of them for a moment, then leaves the room. Mulder closes his eyes again, resting his head near Scully's. Scully closes her eyes also, her head tucked into Mulder's shoulder.)

Alone

Hospital Scene, Alone

Mulder and Scully are at the foot of Agent Harrison's bed. They have just given her the Apollo 11 keychain which was first seen in Tempus Fugit (season 4) and revisted in All Souls and earlier this episode.

Agent Harrison: (fingering the keychain) No way. This means... I can't tell you what this means to me. (She's choked up. After a minute...) Can I ask you something?
Mulder: Sure.
Agent Harrison: When you went to Antarctica, to save Agent Scully from being taken by that spaceship, and you ran out of gas in your Snowcat, how did you get back? (Mulder has the look of a dazed duck)
Scully: Umm well, first of all it was never actually proven that it was a spaceship.
Mulder: (shaking off his stupor- he eyes Scully incredulously) It wasn't?
Scully: No...
Mulder: It wasn't?
Scully: Wha- what happened was that we fell off of something...
Mulder: Something.
Scully: ... that rose out of the ice.
Mulder: What do you think that was?
Scully: Well, I don't know what it was, but we never- we didn't actually see...
Mulder: It was a spaceship
Scully: (makes finger motion: underline) ... a spaceship.
Mulder: I can't believe you're saying it's not a spaceship...
Scully: (Scully makes a funny face- as she is talking out of the side of her mouth) I mean it could...
Mulder: ... when you saw it.
Scully: ... have been a space ship, Mulder.
Mulder: Of course it was a space ship.
Scully: Well, we don't know that it was a space ship you don't have a picture of it or anything.
Mulder: You knew it was a space ship
Scully: (becoming animated) No I did not -- No, no, no, no, remember I was unconscious and I woke up there was no space ship.
Mulder: Apparently you're still unconscious.
Scully:Mulder, (scene cuts to Doggett outside of Leyla's room looking in. V.O.)
Mulder: (with certainty) You saw a space ship.
Scully:No, no, no,
Mulder: You were half frozen (ed.- I think this is what he said)
Scully:Then you were frozen, then I remember I hugged you until you weren't frozen anymore. (Doggett walks down the hallway)

Existence

End : Scully's Apartment, Existence

(Mulder has used his key to enter Scully's apartment. He looks around the living room as he fingers the key thoughtfully. He walks toward the bedroom and stands near the doorway. The Lone Gunmen are there, looking at something in the bedroom. They are all holding gifts. As one, they look up at Mulder. Frohike looks back into the room.

Frohike: (to Scully) Get some rest. (The Gunmen join Mulder in the living room. Everyone is speaking softly.) We didn't hear you come in.
Langly: We were just dropping off gifts.
Byers: We just wanted to...
Mulder: See it with your own eyes.
Frohike: It's incredible, you know? You arriving in time to save Scully. Getting her to a hospital.
Byers: We still don't know how you did it. Speaking with Agent Doggett he said they never reached you with specific coordinates. (Pause. Mulder has a small smile.)
Mulder: There was a light. I followed it. (The Gunmen set their presents on a table.)
Langly: Guess we got our next headline.

(The Gumen leave. Mulder waits a moment, then enters the bedroom, smiling. Scully is sitting on the edge of the bed against the headboard. She is wearing white satin pajamas and a loose blue robe. She is holding a small bundle of blanket, patting the baby's behind.)

Mulder: How's everybody doing?
Scully: We're doing just fine. (Smiling, Scully rises from the bed and carries the baby to Mulder He gently pushes the blanket away from the baby's face.)
Mulder: Hey, now. (The baby begins fussing softly.) (with tender authority) None of that.

(Scully smiles, looks up at Mulder Oh my! what a look! and then gently transfers the baby to Mulder's arms. He is nervous but awed and delighted. The baby calms in his arms. Mulder is beaming. He glances from the baby to Scully.)

Mulder: (breathlessly) Hi. (He hums softly. He looks up at Scully again.) What are you going to call him?
Scully: William. (He looks at her.) After your father.

(They gaze at each other for a long moment. She smiles warmly. He looks back down at the baby.)

Mulder: Well, I don't know. He's... he's got your coloring and your eyes. But he looks suspiciously like Assistant Director Skinner. (Mulder and Scully laugh, then Scully frowns in confusion.)
Scully: I don't understand, Mulder-- they came to take him from us-- why they didn't. (Scully's theme begins playing.)
Mulder: I don't quite understand that either. Except that maybe he isn't what they thought he was. That doesn't make him any less of a miracle though, does it?
Scully: From the moment I became pregnant, I feared the truth... about how... and why. And I know that you feared it, too.
Mulder: I think what we feared were the possibilities. The truth we both know.
Scully: Which is what?

(Still holding the baby between them, Mulder leans down and kisses Scully on the lips. And keeps kissing her. Scully reaches out to hold Mulder's arms and returns the lover's kiss. The Triangle kiss was passionate, but it wasn't really her. The Millennium kiss was sweet, but could be interpreted as friendly. This is the one. No questions left. The kiss continues as the screen fades to credits 10 seconds later. Thank you, David and Gillian.)