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William
Hospital Scene, William
Comments: This small snippet is hard to quantify and the real kudos belong to Duchovny and /or the writer who wrote the directions for this scene. Reyes has turned into a very good friend of Scully's in the short time that she's been on the show. She shows her solidarity to Dana by keeping vigil with her, but Scully's grief at the pain her child is going through is palpable. Her inability to move underscores the fear every mother has when their child is sick. Impressive and deeply moving.
Scully and Reyes are sitting in an Emergency Room waiting area. Scully is ridged. Her back is hunched over with her elbows on her knees, William's hat is in her hands. She's staring at it. Monica sits down next to her. Time passes. Reyes is reading a magazine, then she shuffles in her seat. Meanwhile, Scully hasn't moved an inch. When the doctor arrives, both women hurry over to her.
Mulder's Holding Cell (second visit), The Truth
(The Guard opens the cell door for Scully and Skinner. This is a different cell. A darker cell. There's a small window at the very top of it. Mulder is standing in front of that window stretching upward and facing the light. He has his back to the door.The Guard closes the door. He remains outside.)
Scully: Mulder.
(Mulder turns around slowly. He moves away from the light and a little closer to Scully and Skinner. He has a strange look on his face.)
Scully: Mulder!
(Mulder sniffs the air around him. He fixes his stare only at Scully and says ...)
Mulder: I smelled you coming, Clarice.
(Sclly and Skinner look a little stunned. Scully throws an uncertain glance to Skinner. Mulder releases a chuckle and a smile. Scully takes a deep breath at being once again exposed to Mulder's exquisite sense of humor.)
Scully: Oh, my ...
(Scully doesn't appear to be amused. She also hasn't moved closer to Mulder. She remains where she is since she came into the cell, quite a length away from Mulder with Skinner between them.)
Scully: Damn it, Mulder. It's not funny to see you putting on that act.
Mulder: No, that is funny.
(Mulder fixes Scully with a look and begins to walk toward her.)
Mulder: What's not funny is what they do to you in here if you don't put on that act.
(Mulder finally sounds like his old self. He reaches for Scully, cups the back of her head with both hands, and draws her to him. Mulder kisses Scully leisurely taking his time, his thumbs gently caressing her cheek. Scully reaches up and touches Mulder. This is the reunion they both need. He wraps his arms around her, drawing her nearer to him without breaking the kiss. They embrace each other in their passion. For one moment now and after, they simply hold each other. Skinner is standing close to them, averts his eyes allowing them what little privacy he can.)
Courtroom Scene, The Truth
Kallenbrunner: You claim Scully gave birth to one of these alien babies. How can you be sure of this, Agent Reyes?
[Clip Sequence shown while Reyes speaks: from Provenance (9X10): Scully opens the drawer and the metal piece of ship taken from Agent Comer flies through the air, out of the room and directly toward William who is lying in his crib. The piece of metal breaks through the wooden frame and stop in front of William. Scully and Reyes run into the room to see the metal piece leisurely floating and slowly turning above the baby.]
Reyes: I saw her child do things that could be explained no other way. I saw him display amazing powers. He'd move objects with his mind.
Kallenbrunner: Really? Do you think we could arrange a demonstration for the court? That we could see that ourselves?
Reyes: No. The child was given up for adoption to an anonymous family.
Kallenbrunner: She gave up the miracle child? The proof of everything that she and Mulder claim that they've risked their lives for over the last nine years -- she just sent it off to some strangers?
Reyes: Yes, to protect him!
Kallenbrunner: Thank you, Agent Reyes. That's all.
(Kallenbrunner sits down, dismissing her. Reyes, however, will not go quietly. She looks at Kallenbrunner, stands and calls the hand of the faux court proceedings that makes a mockery of justice, fairness and decency. Reyes moves in toward Kallenbrunner. He simply looks up at her.)
Reyes:You don't care about that child or what Scully had to sacrifice. You're only too happy she had to give it up so there's no proof.
Kersh: Agent Reyes.
(Reyes swings around and pins Kersh with a look, slowly advancing toward him, anger and contempt dripping from every word she says.)
Reyes: You don't care what these people have sacrificed over the last nine years -- what's been lost to their cause. You make a mockery of it, gladdened it proves your point.
Kersh: Agent Reyes, that's enough!
Reyes: What is the point of all of this? To destroy a man who seeks the truth or to destroy the truth so no man can seek it? Either way, you lose.
(Her contempt for the man who sits before her evident. Just before she leaves, Reyes turns to look at Mulder, who sits up straighter in his chair, a look of respect on his face for the woman who just told the FBI, the Military and the Toothpick Man to go to hell. The door closes shut behind her. Skinner looks over at Kersh, who now looks uncomfortable.)
Comments: Coming Soon
Hotel Scene, The Truth
ROSWELL, NEW MEXICO
Mulder: (whispers) Maybe there's hope.
FADE TO BLACK.
Comments: Coming Soon
(Night. Outside a motel room, it's raining. Thunder rumbles. ) CUT TO: (Inside, Mulder is sitting on the floor, leaning back against the bed and his head resting back.)
Scully: (o.s.) What are you thinking? (Mulder is silent. Thoughtful.) Mulder?
Mulder: I'm thinking ... I'm a guilty man. I've failed in every respect. I deserve the harshest punishment for my crimes.
Scully: (softly) You don't believe that. (Mulder sighs.)
Mulder: I believe that I sat in a motel room like this with you when we first
met and I tried to convince you of the truth. And in that respect, I succeeded, but ... in every other way ... (He turns to look at her) ... I've failed.
Scully: You don't believe that, either.
Mulder: Mm. I've been chasing after monsters with a butterfly net. You heard the man -- the date's set. I can't change that.
Scully: You wouldn't tell me. Not because you were afraid or broken .... but because you didn't want to accept defeat.
Mulder: Well, I was afraid of what knowing would do to you. (Mulder turns to look at Scully and confesses one of his greatest fears.) I was afraid that it would crush your spirit.
Scully: Why would I accept defeat? Why would I accept it, if you won't? Mulder, you say that you've failed but you only fail if you give up. And I know you -- you can't give up. It's what I saw in you when we first met. It's what made me follow you ... why I'd do it all over again.
Mulder: And look what it's gotten you.
Scully: And what has it gotten you? Not your sister. Nothing that you've set out for. But you won't give up, even now. (She reaches out and takes a-hold of his hand in a firm grip.) You've always said that you want to believe. But believe in what Mulder? If this is the truth that you've been looking for then what is left to believe in?
Mulder: I want to believe that the dead are not lost to us. That they speak to us as part of something greater than us-- greater than any alien force. And if you and I are powerless now, I want to believe that if we listen to what's speaking, it can give us the power to save ourselves.
Scully: Then we believe the same thing.
(Scully watches Mulder intently. He looks like he Believes. Scully smiles at Mulder. Mulder reaches over and lightly picks up Scully's cross. He reaches up and caresses her lips. He gets off of the floor and settles himself in bed next to Scully. He wraps himself around her. Each holding the other.)
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