The X-Files Page #14

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MULDER:

How was it contracted?

SCULLY:

That I don't know. But if it's through

simple contact of blood to blood, and

if it doesn't respond to conventional

treatments, it could be a serious

health threat.

Mulder's reaction is postponed, or at least subdued by

the reappearance of the field agent.

FIELD AGENT:

Like I said, these are fossils, and

they weren't near the blast center, so

they aren't going to tell you much.

SCULLY:

May I?

He offers Scully the small glass vials in which the bone

fragments have been separated. She takes them, looking

at them on her way over to the microscope. Tapping out a

tiny fragment onto the viewing bed. She puts her eyes

down to the stereoscope eyepieces, then almost

immediately looks up at Mulder who translates this look

almost instantly.

MULDER:

You said you knew the location of the

archeological site where these were

found.

FIELD AGENT:

Show you right on a map.

Off Mulder and Scully's traded looks:

CUT TO:

EXT. SMALL PUBLIC PARK - WEST TEXAS - DAY

The domed white tent is still in place, the fleet of

trucks and equipment surrounding it unmanned. Several

large sound-dampened generators still hum away, but the

work being done here would be a mystery to anyone who

didn't have access to the tent.

CUT TO:

INT. DOMED TENT - DAY

An electric Bobcat-like bulldozer maneuvers a very high

tech-looking CLEAR CONTAINER to the edge of the earthen

hole. The container has monitors and gauges on it,

oxygen tanks and what looks like a circulation

refrigeration unit. A self-contained life support

system. The inside of the container is covered with a

thin layer of frost.

When the small bulldozer gets the container over near

the hole, several technicians lift it down off the

shovel, hand carrying it toward the hole opening. As Dr.

Bronschweig APPEARS, moving to a ladder that leads down

into the hole. He's dressed in a haz-mat suit, with the

hood off.

DR. BRONSCHWEIG

I need to have those settings checked

and re-set. I need a steady minus two

Celsius through the transfer of the

body, after I administer the vaccine.

The men nod to Bronschweig, begin checking the settings

as Bronschweig puts his hood on, starts down into the

hole, through the clear hatch.

INT. SMALLER ICE CAVE - DAY

The refrigeration vents are still pumping in arctic air

when Dr. Bronschweig appears descending a fixed ladder.

It is dark in here, save for the ice blue glow of light

coming from the plastic draped area where we saw the

fireman acting as an incubator/host for some kind of

organism growing inside him.

Bronschweig steps over to this area, moves aside the

plastic drapery to enter.

ANGLE INSIDE, PLASTIC LINED AREA

Where the body of the fireman is still inside the

quarantine bubble litter in f.g. Bronschweig takes out of

his pocket a SYRINGE and an AMPULE. Turning now to the

body. Stepping to it. Moving a work light, as he had

done for the Cigarette Smoking Man, so that it shines on

the face of the fireman. But when he does this,

Bronschweig nearly JUMPS, his breath stolen away.

Reacting to:

ANGLE ON FIREMAN'S BODY

The chest and torso have imploded. It has been turned

into a muddy mass of blood-stained jelly; bone and

tissue melted into an oozing mass which has sunken due

to the fact that the creature which was inside is now

gone.

CAMERA WHIPS from Bronschweig to the wall. To the

temperature gauge which reads about 6 degrees Celsius.

WHIPPING BACK to Bronschweig who is now panicked.

INTERCUT WITH:

INT. DOMED TENT - DAY

ANGLE DOWN ON EARTHEN HOLE, where the Technicians

Bronschweig was speaking to minutes ago react to

Bronschweig's MUFFLED VOICE. He's down below them in the

cave, looking up.

Pulling his haz-mat hood off. Yelling up to them.

DR. BRONSCHWEIG

It's gone!

TECHNICIAN:

It's what?

OVER THE TECHNICIANS TO BRONSCHWEIG DOWN BELOW

DR. BRONSCHWEIG

It's left the body. I think it's

gestated --

Bronschweig is starting up the ladder when something

stops him.

RESUME INT. ICE CAVE

CREATURE'S POV OF BRONSCHWEIG

He stands frozen on the ladder, squinting into the

darkness.

DR. BRONSCHWEIG

Wait -- I see it --

BRONSCHWEIG'S POV

In the shadows there is movement, the creature edging

into the light cast from the draped area. We see it is

fully formed -- a replica of the Creature we saw at the

opening of our story. Though it does not make any kind

of aggressive move. As if, newborn, it is tentative.

RESUME BRONSCHWEIG - CREATURE'S POV

He remains standing on a rung of the ladder for a

moment, then takes a gentle step back down to the

ground.

DR. BRONSCHWEIG

(nervous wonder)

Oh my god. Oh my god.

TECHNICIAN:

You see it?

DR. BRONSCHWEIG

Yes. It's...amazing. You want to get

down here --

(sotto to himself)

Jesus Lord...so much for little green

men.

Dr. Bronschweig moves shakily to put the syringe in the

ampule again...when, suddenly, the Creature STRIKES.

CAMERA RUSHING FORWARD TO BRONSCHWEIG.

MATCH CUT TO:

OVERHEAD ANGLE - OVER THE TECHNICIANS

As the Creature slams into Bronschweig, knocking him out

of the line of sight from the top of the earthen hole.

There are SCREAMS OF PAIN from Bronschweig, then they

abate.

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