The X-Files Page #12

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KURTZWEIL:

See this bullshit...? Somebody knows

I'm talking to you.

MULDER:

Not according to the men in blue.

KURTZWEIL:

What is it? Kiddie porn again? Sexual

battery of a patient? I've had my

license taken away in three states.

MULDER:

They want to discredit you -- for

what?

KURTZWEIL:

For what? Because I'm a dangerous man.

Because I know too much about the

truth.

MULDER:

You mean that apocalyptic trash you

write? I knew your name was familiar.

I just didn't know why.

KURTZWEIL:

You know my work?

MULDER:

(pointedly)

Dr. Kurtzweil, I'm not interested in

bigoted ideas about race or genocide.

I don't believe in the Elders of Zion,

the Knights Templar, the Bilderburg

Group or in a oneworld Jew run

government --

KURTZWEIL:

I don't either, but it sure sells

books.

He says it with an ironic smile. Causing Mulder to turn

and start off. But Kurtzweil hurries to grab him, to

prevent this.

KURTZWEIL:

I was right about Dallas. Wasn't I,

Agent Mulder?

MULDER:

How?

KURTZWEIL:

I picked up the historical document of

the venality and hypocrisy of the

American government. The daily

newspaper.

MULDER:

You said the firemen and the boy were

found in the temporary offices of the

Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Why?

KURTZWEIL:

According to the newspaper, FEMA had

been called out to manage an outbreak

of the Hanta virus. Are you familiar

with the Hanta virus, Agent Mulder?

MULDER:

It was a deadly virus spread by field

mice in the Southwest U.S. several

years ago.

KURTZWEIL:

And are you familiar with FEMA? What

the Federal Emergency Management

Agency's real power is? FEMA allows

the White House to suspend

constitutional government upon

declaration of a national emergency.

To create a non-elected government.

Think about that.

(beat)

What is an agency with such broad

sweeping power doing managing a small

viral outbreak in suburban Texas?

MULDER:

Are you saying it wasn't such a small

outbreak?

Kurtzweil is getting intense now.

KURTZWEIL:

I'm saying it wasn't the Hanta virus.

They are both given a start when a POLICE CRUISER rolls

by on the street, giving a burp of its siren. It rolls

past as the two men tuck in tighter.

MULDER:

What was it?

KURTZWEIL:

When we were young men in the

military, your father and I were

recruited for a project. They told us

it was biological warfare. A virus.

There were rumors about its origins.

MULDER:

What killed those men?

KURTZWEIL:

What killed them I won't even write

about. I tell you, they'd do more than

just harass me. They have the future

to protect.

MULDER:

I'll know soon enough.

KURTZWEIL:

(worked up)

What killed those men can't be

identified in simple medical terms. My

god, we can't even wrap our minds

around something as obvious as HIV.

We have no context for what killed

those men, or any appreciation of the

scale in which it will be unleashed in

the future. Of how it will be

transmitted; of the environmental

factors involved.

MULDER:

A plague?

KURTZWEIL:

The plague to end all plagues, Agent

Mulder. A silent weapon for a quiet

war. The systematic release of an

indiscriminate organism for which the

men who will bring it on still have no

cure. They've been working on this for

fifty years. While the rest of the

world was fighting gooks and commies

these men have been secretly

negotiating a planned Armageddon.

MULDER:

Negotiating with whom?

KURTZWEIL:

I think you know. The timetable has

been set. It will happen on a holiday,

when people are away from their homes.

When our elected officials are at

their resorts or out of the country.

The President will declare a state of

emergency, at which time all federal

agencies, all government will come

under the power of the Federal

Emergency Management Agency. FEMA,

Agent Mulder. The secret government.

MULDER:

And they tell me I'm paranoid.

KURTZWEIL:

Something's gone wrong -- something

unanticipated. Go back to Dallas and

dig. Or you're only going to find out

like the rest of the country, Agent

Mulder. When it's too late.

Kurtzweil turns, starts off. Mulder stares after him.

Then:

MULDER:

How can I reach you?

KURTZWEIL:

You can't.

Mulder moves to catch up to Kurtzweil, pulling out his

cell phone. Kurtzweil stops, turns. Truly and intensely

paranoid. Mulder makes him take the cell phone.

MULDER:

No calling Hawaii.

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