The X-Files Page #18

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After a moment, the driver's door opens and Mulder

exits.

MULDER:

Hey, I was right about the bomb,

wasn't I?

SCULLY:

This is great. This is fitting.

REVERSE ON SCENE

On the fence sign, painted in crude letters, are the

words:
SOME HAVE TRIED, SOME HAVE DIED. TURN BACK -- NO

TRESPASSING.

MULDER:

What?

SCULLY:

I've got to be in Washington D.C. in

eleven hours for a hearing -- the

outcome of which might possibly affect

one of the biggest decisions of my

life. And here I am standing out in

the middle of nowhere Texas, chasing

phantom tanker trucks.

MULDER:

We're not chasing trucks, we're

chasing evidence --

SCULLY:

-- of what exactly?!

MULDER:

That bomb in Dallas was allowed to go

off, to hide something: bodies

infected with a virus you detected

yourself.

SCULLY:

They haul gas in tanker trucks, they

haul oil in tanker trucks -- they

don't haul viruses in tanker trucks.

MULDER:

Yeah, well they may this one.

SCULLY:

What do you mean by haul?

(off his reaction)

What are you not telling me here?

MULDER:

This virus -- it...

(afraid to say)

SCULLY:

Mulder --

MULDER:

It may be extraterrestrial.

SCULLY:

I don't believe this. I don't f***ing

believe this.

(reaching her limit of

impatience)

Y'know, I've been here... I've been

here one too many times with you,

Mulder.

MULDER:

Been where?

SCULLY:

Pounding down some dirt road in the

middle of the night. Chasing some

elusive truth on a dim hope, only to

find myself standing right where I am

right now:
at another dead end --

As she says this A BELL starts to sound. A flashing

light hits Mulder and Scully. They both turn to see:

HIGH ANGLE OVER A RAILROAD CROSSING SIGN

Sitting all by its lonely self. No swinging arms or

gate. Just one little sign between Mulder and Scully and

their car.

CAMERA PANNING to the light of a locomotive speeding

toward us.

WIDE ANGLE OVER TRACKS TO MULDER AND SCULLY

They move toward their car, but the train is coming

fast. Mulder and Scully stop and wait, watching the

train. As the engine breaks frame, eclipsing Mulder and

Scully from view. And as it passes by we see TWO VERY

FAMILIAR WHITE TANKERS loaded piggyback atop flat bed

cars.

The train, which is not much longer than this, passes.

And Mulder and Scully make a mad dash for their car. The

lights come on and Mulder swings the vehicle into a hard

accelerating turn, taking the spoke of the intersection

that parallels the tracks. As the car hauls ass after

the train, we:

DISSOLVE TO:

EXT. OPPOSITE END OF MOUNTAIN PASS - NIGHT

The rails come up a grade where they appear out of a

long bending turn. Exiting the mountain pass near the

summit of the mountain. And now HEADLIGHTS appear,

bouncing toward us. It's Mulder and Scully's rental

chugging up the grade.

And now pulling to a stop as it REACHES CAMERA. Then the

car doors open and Mulder and Scully exit. Putting

jackets against the cold desert night. Running over the

gravel on the rail bed into sharp f.g.

SCULLY:

What do you think it is?

MULDER:

I have no idea.

They start out toward it anyway, whatever it is. But the

image that we see next might cause us to ask the same

question.

REVERSE ANGLE -- MULDER AND SCULLY'S FORMER POV

The Agents are moving off the tracks now, picking their

way toward the horizon where, at the edge of the great

plateau that lays out before them, there are TWO GIANT

GLOWING WHITE DOMES.

It is otherwise pitch dark out, almost giving the

impression that the domes are floating.

It would give the distinct impression of

otherworldliness, if we hadn't seen a similar, smaller

glowing dome over the dirt field where the boys found

the skull. And if we could not see the lights of the

TRAIN rolling to a stop near the mysterious domes.

CUT TO:

EXT. GREAT PLATEAU - NIGHT - HIGH WIDE ANGLE

SLOWLY CRANING DOWN as Mulder and Scully move through

the low scrub of the high desert. Moving towards us as

CAMERA CONTINUES ITS SLOW CRANE DOWN, REVEALING in f.g.

the tops of CORN STALKS (yes, corn stalks.) What is the

perimeter edge of:

REVERSE CRANE DOWN (TO MATCH)

Acres and acres of corn fields, laying out before us in

the dark night. Running all the way to the WHITE DOMED

TENTS in the b.g.

Mulder and Scully enter the perimeter edge, disappearing

into:

EXT. ACRES OF CORN - NIGHT

TRACKING WITH Mulder and Scully as they move through the

field.

SCULLY:

This is weird, Mulder.

MULDER:

Very weird.

SCULLY:

Any thoughts on why anybody'd be

growing corn in the middle of the

desert?

MULDER:

Not unless those are giant Jiffy Pop

containers out there.

CONTINUE TRACKING as they move through the tall uniform

rows.

ANGLE BEHIND THE AGENTS

Shooting down the long straight rows. CRANING UP to

REVEAL DOMES once again. Like space ships that have

landed.

CUT TO:

OPPOSITE PERIMETER OF THE FIELD OF CORN

The Agents exit the edge of the crop field. They have

come upon the glowing tents now. Tall and pillowy

against the dark sky.

There is no evidence of anyone about. No sound, no

signs.

Mulder and Scully stand at the edge of the field for a

moment. Then move cautiously across an open area to one

of the domes.

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